This is optimal living daily episode. Five hundred and ninety five closing your interests opens more interesting opportunities. The power of diligence in creating a remarkable life by colony, port of town, Newport, dot com and I'm just a moloch, your very own person, narrator welcome to the D podcast for blogs are read to you for free kind of like an audiobook. And this is with permission from the authors, today's author, being cow, Newport, enforcing it into a thank you to talk space for sponsoring. This episode talks This is an online therapy company that make therapy affordable, confidential and convenient for special offer. Just for you come by talks based dot com, slash old, that's talks based our com, such o l d, So let's get right to it as we optimize your life. Closing your interest opens more interesting opportunities. The power of Dillon

Hence in creating a remarkable life by Karl Newport of Cow Newport, our come the banjo pillar, Steve Martin may the comments around twenty minutes into his two thousand seminary view a Charlie rose. They are talking about how Martin learned the banjo quote in high school. I couldn't plainest I remember getting my first banjo and reading the book saying this is how you play the c chord, and I put my fingers down to play the c chord and I couldn't tell the difference, but I told myself just stick with us: just keep playing and one day you'll have been playing for forty years and at this point, you'll know how to play on quote learning banjo is not easy, especially at a time and place. Nineteen sixty California, where banjo lessons were not a possibility. Martens technique was to take Earl Scruggs Records and saw them down from thirty three hour pm.

Two sixteen rpm. He would then tune down the banjo to match the slower, speed and start picking out the notes painstakingly one by one years later, Marty. And to integrate the banjo into his act. The reason play banjo on stage he explained in an ABC interview his because that's probably good to shoulder. Audience. I can do something that looks hard, because this act looks like I'm just making it up as a kept playing in practising he better in two thousand, I mourn released his first album the crow it one a Grammy last month, he was nominated his second Grammy. This was fifty years promoting picked up his first banjo not far off from the forty years. He had predicted the teenager would take him to a quota will know how to play Martens diligence, one of the things that, always impressed me about Steve Martin is his diligence a more bore standing up. He emphasizes this theme defining diligence not just in terms of peace,

distance, but also in the body to ignore unrelated pursuits. Barn was, of course, being facetious when a patent up with the idea that would only take forty years to get good. The banjo he's playing it level in his act within five to ten years of starting as training. But this time it reflects a deeper truth, getting good as something it is not be taken lightly. Is a pursuit measure years, not weeks. This diligence defined mourns path. He spent decades focused intensely on his act, which meant to things banjo and Joe. After reaching the peak of the live kommeni world in the nineteen seventies, he turned his attention for years to making movies. Then he spent years working on fiction. Writing more recently. He returned back to his banjo. If you can smart skills into a flat lest he sounds like a renaissance man. But if you take a snapshot of any particular point of his life

counter relentless long term, focus on a very small number of things. Diligence versus the world. I'm reintroducing this idea of diligence visa, keeping countering it in the stories If it was remarkable lives, he almost never seen mentioned in the online community where study, hacks lives- and this is a problem we, created this fantasy world, where everyone is just thirty days of courage, boosting exercises and life hacks away from living and amazing life. But when you studied

like Martin who really do live remarkable lives. You almost always encounter stretches of years and years dedicated to hold and craft part of the resistance to diligence. Counseling the following two common complaints: number one. I don't love anyone thing enough to pursue it with such dedication and number two. I like to keep my options open these complaints, it's important to realize our bills on shaky ground to counter the first worry recalled at the idea: pre existing passion as of art, Many times has almost no scientific backing mark, for example, with his commitment, diligence could have created a remarkable life based on any number of different pursues. He did a plain banjo because be Seeger was big at the time and ended up in somebody, because when he was young, his prayers moved to a town. Next Disneyland, where model It job us around him by professional performers if his parents had instead move to cape However, Martin may have become an important rocket scientist if in

Laurie Side, we had boy no modern today, primarily as a novelist when it comes to passion the what is often much less important than the how the worry about keeping options open is even more groundless. I have a new book coming out in September. It's titled so good. They can't ignore. You also comes from our I'll talk more about this project later, but one of the things I discussed in the book is that when you study the evidence, if you're not likely to encounter real interesting opportunities in your life until after you're really good at something. If you ve focus, because you want to keep your options open, you likely accomplishing the opposite. Getting good is a prerequisite to encountering options worth pursuing. For these reasons I think diligence as a subject. We should explore more deaths. We just finished long series on the deliberate practice hypothesis, which turned out to be an important pattern in the grand theory of our credibility we ve been exploring here on study hacks, I'm guessing

this emerging diligence hypothesis will end up the next important pattern uncovered by this. But we have a lot of work to do to better understand how and why the strategy works, statehood, you just listen to the post. Titled closing your interests opens more interesting opportunities. The power or of diligence and creating a remarkable life by Karl New Port of call new border. Come am big thanks again to my sponsor for today's episode talks. They offer an amazing service to connect with therapists online and at a grey price. You gave a therapist ham pig just for you and for Thirty two dollars a week have you been to Airbus? I'm sure was more expensive than that. But what makes it even better is a talk. Space allows you to send your therapist text audio An video messages whenever you want or taken up a notch into a live chat things a genius idea

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We're gone in your own life, trailer other side projects go, if you can I'm not talking about family or relationships, or things like that, but just other side projects are critical to your life. If you can let those go to concentrate on what's most important to you, I think I'll make some big strides they'll. Do it for today have a happy Friday,

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