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through Bruce Lee, said if you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done and Michael Jordan said sometimes things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night My guest today is james, alter a good friend of mine, who has run more than twenty companies and is currently an investor or an advisory in over thirty companies. But at one point James lost everything in a matter of months when from having fifteen million dollars to one hundred forty three dollars in his bank. He pretty much lost it. All overnight and he realized today's standard. View of success comes with a lot of conditions and the only effective way be successful is to choose yourself he's written. A new book called skip the line, the tenth I was in experiments, rule and other surprising advice for reaching your goals and this episode we discuss why James hates the tenth

and our role in what he believes you should do. Instead of that how you can become, the top one percent in the world of what you like and monetize your dream. How James was able to overcome embarrassment and practice stand up comedy how to develop a rich? mindset and, if your enjoying this in any moment make sure the shows with a friend that you think would be inspired by the story in these lessons as well. Just use the lake louis house, dot com, slash one ones, euro four or copy and paste this link where everyone listening to this podcast. Ok in just a moment of the one and only james I'll, teach her We deserve to know what we're putting in our bodies and why, especially. it comes as something we take every day. That's why I've been taking essential vitamins for men from ritual for the past couple of months and they make it a breeze to fill the gaps. In my diet, without any of the sugars, gmos, major allergens, synthetic fillers, artificial coloreds and other shady stuff, and I

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I share this many times before, where you ve made ten fifty in twenty million dollars and then lost it all down to like a hundred bucks. Ask parents for the toilet paper and things like that and made it all then lost it. All. I'm curious want to shift station for a second into mindset around poor people, verses, wealthy people, because you ve been wealthy. You ve been poor. You been both at the same time, almost essentially back to back days. What does it take to develop a rich mindset since you've been both poor fund Finally, and rich financially. What do you think it takes to develop a rich mindset? You know that such a great question, because people. Don't understand how important that question is people say to me James. I need to make a quick ten thousand dollars really what should I do this weekend? That's not the event that there that's not a reasonable question.

And there's no answer to that. But mine said and almost sounds like cliches I'll? Get it more practical, but. There's this so many aspects of mindset, but you have to realise that money is not actually put its money is not something you get so you can spend it Money is a symptom of having a good grow growth. set not a scarcity mindset so having an abundance mindset Sofra This is just an example, but I I down ideas. Everyday. I write down ten ideas a day and often right down ideas for other people. I may write down you can ten. Do As for Google and I'll, send them to google and As a result, I have I've been invited to visit, and I visited Google facebook linkedin twitter I visit all these countries. I share ideas with them

do you know who are charlemagne? The god is from the brassica gregor. So I once sent him a list during the pandemic. I said hey man. I heard this recent interview. You did with Joe Biden and there was something there that really intrigues me, and so I lied just for the fun of it. I sent him an outline of a book. I felt he should write and they said you should just ignore this note or do it. I don't care and He did it and he wanted to involve me, and I said no, no just do it. You should do this book and what circumstance happened that I ended up doing it with him, but I really Fine if he had just started and people ask me, aren't you afraid of right ideas when people steal your ideas and yes sometime, I once shared an investment idea with a billionaire guy who said he would do with me and then he didn't and he made literally hundreds of millions using this idea- and he can call me two weeks later at all. It turns out. I already did it and my kind you

many do when you didn't even hear about it- when I told you it but people- steel ideas, but I have an abundance mindset It's not like this is my only idea ever I'm going to cuss if it was, vacation. I had good ideas. The fact that he stole it and it worked so you have to have enough It's mine said about everything. Like some people say: oh, don't don't have starbucks for seven dollars when you could get around the corner for a dollar now, admittedly, some people can't afford the seven dollars, but that's you know you know A different category: they they shouldn't seven dollars, but Well, most working people can go out and buy. A heart cover book or can get economy premium when they fly instead of just economy but they're worried the extra thirty dollars and they figure. Oh no, I stave saving is the same as as making, and that's not true, because you can't you you you can make.

more than one hundred percent of your net worth, but you You can only save one hundred percent of your network, so it's very different from making money, and so money is just an energy of having good created, ideas being very Sharing your ideas widely other people execute on their ideas and and then wealth and abundance come back naturally as cliche as it sounds now, you have to have ideas you have to have, you should ideally, as you have to have a strong network, but you get us network by having an abundance mindset, so if always sharing ideas with people hey? I just read your book you, do this this in this to market the book or differences in this term monetize the book in different ways. Do a course, or do some merchandise for do this, so as long as are we sharing you're the person people call when they have an extra opportunity. I call this. I read about this in the book. Actually call is the global technique, so Google isn't

interesting website in that. When I Google and I say: google, can you tell me about what's the best more cycle. I should buy the first Google says to me implicitly is listen James, we don't know anything about motorcycles, but we've done the whole work and here are the top ten websites you should go to. If you want to find out more about motorcycles and just being honest, these three, sites paid us to say that I and and they our success by how quickly believe their website, but what website? Do you go back to when google? What does this rash mean? something I should worry about, google, the place you go so so the Google technique. This is made Google this one idea, on consumers may has made Google a trillion and a half dollar value, as opposed to. Like all we can tell you about motorcycles unless you subscribe to us or whatever so

by sharing an end, sending people away from them. That's the best way to create value. So now you can do this technique individually. If someone says hey, can you introduce me to someone who could be a cult my company, sure here's this person is a good programmer. You don't need to pay anything, don't worry about it. If you used might not be worth and a half dollars using this technique, but you'll be worth something because there's opportunities always flow back and it's not woo woo, to say this: it's not like an energy thing. It's where karma thing! It's just that's! How abundance mindsets work? What I was really depressed about all the money I thought. Oh, my gosh, I had won the lottery. I worked really hard for five or six. and I made a lot of money and then I blew it off. I I had to I had to realize that,

I didn't win the lottery that I didn't just get lucky that that I needed to just start but ideas again exercising my idea muscle and I was so depressed and then just a few months of work and down ideas I felt like my brain was coming alive and, like neurons were connecting and it was like magic and then and then things started to happen. I started to do Because that's the key, really is taking the ideas and then doing something with them, not all of them, because most ideas are bad. You just exercising the idea muscle but doing stuff. I just came to life again for the first. It was like years of depression and then it was like. I was a new person. just knowing this. So how do we start to become happy? Also, healthy

and also wealthy, which is kind of like the trifecta of life. I I feel, like everyone, wants his happiness, health and wealth. Yeah, and I mean these. These are ok. These are all components of what I call everybody calls it something differently for me. I call it my daily practice cause I feel like I have to improve one percent, even though it's hard to qualify, I have to improve one percent at physical health, emotional, health, creative health, spiritual health every day, so physical health, it might mean, does it mean, go to the gym and lift five hundred pounds? It might mean you know, do an extra push up, you'll do pushups today and do an extra one once a week. You know I mean you know, improve the number of pushups every week or two and then take a walk for twenty minutes is eating sleep. It also means sleep well and eat. Well, emotional house: I have a one strike and you're out policy. If someone treats me really badly. Why

and they don't really have a good reason for it, then, is there out I just I may never even call it back again, which is sometimes unfair, but that habits creative health. I practice my Actually, that's my idea. Muscle every day I write down ten ideas a day and spiritual health. That's really about not regretting things in the past and not being anxious about things in the future and, to be honest, sometimes that's hard for me was hard for me these past, three months, but I always made sure this was. This is my daily practice for a reason. It's because these are the moments when I need it to be able to bounce back. You can't bounce back without it. If you're sick in bed you're not going to have to start a business if you're fighting with your spouse all day, you're not going to grow your business you're going to be wasting so much energy fighting if you're, not creative,

can't grow your career or your wealth or your health or anything, and if you're, if you're spending so much of the energy regret. You know time. Travelling like living in the past with the rats or living in the future with anxiety is you're not gonna, be able to build the moment right now. So that's really. The key is every night I say to myself: did I do and did I try to improve and I'll answer that now with this book, am I expert doing enough expire? and so that I'm continuing to explore the world, almost like a scientist because there's so many things, I don't know about the things that I love of constantly engaged in various experiments. Have you applying this daily practice during this last three and a half four months of you know, kind of attacks and option dab, emotions, I knew I knew I was. I knew I was out. game a little bit in my mind, so I made sure physical health emotional house? It was really hard with, creative house because I feel like I was punished for being,

the right to create. Yet it was really are That's where I channeled it. I channeled it somewhat into stand up comedy cause. I still did some performances even on zoom. I did some performances and I channeled channeled it into chess in a big way, and But it was hard I've I may now, I'm I've been coming out of it bit by bit and spiritual health. I, a long time ago. I learned not to have regrets or anxieties, and I just I think I had a little anxiety going into today because What is coming out today and I haven't really done all them- getting. I would have liked, but at the end of the day, if your book is good and I'm I believe this is a good book, then then you don't need to do as much marketing word of mouth.

It is always the best marketing. I always think people like advertise their books and amazon and I'm like ok, that's good, but you don't need to advertise if everyone to any advertising. For you sure how do you write a book tat? Everyone does the advertising for you. Well that that's a good question, because you have to write something that nobody has ever written before else. They could read the other book that someone written before so again, a lot of self help books are like hey these. the next day showed acts, but then I really didn't really good. The legal advice, and I always think of persuasion books as the great example like books about call you out of blake there's all these. I have all these academic studies. If you do this, seventy percent of the people will say yes and that doesn't help me and like I'll, give you a specific technique that has helped me literally make millions

dollars which I also lost, but make millions of so like. Let's say, you're selling a the acquire you mean they acquire and he eventually asks- or she be eventually asks how much you want to sell. Your company what are you by your company at and I call this the advice technique. I say: listen. I've been head down building this company working hard and that's why you won by the company. Is I've worked so hard? My team is great. I have the network, I have the customers and I do this extra special thing. No one else does so. I've been working really hard as like the grandmaster of the goats shading buying company you bought like

What like twenty companies- and you know how to do this, so I want to work with you and be partners with you for a reason, because not only do I think we can work well together, but I, like you, I admire what you've done. So let me ask your advice: just as a friend. What would what? How would you advise me? To answer your question, how would you advise me to you know I value your advice. How would you advise me to to value my company now once you say that a hopefully it's all true, you that's why you do want a partner or somebody and be ah you're, giving them status you're, giving that you're saying look you're the person I admire enough to ask for advice on this and they're gone they're, not going to give you bad advice, they're not going to say well, you should value your company had nothing and just let me block by free, because they know that I'm going to Getting advice for lawyers and accounts, they know they can't give me bad advice and then once they give me advice

and you know I'll I'll- probably throw in there somewhere, like you know, some people told me to value my company at three hundred million ten o'clock when I'm making a year twenty five area, like so I'll I'll play around with anchoring a little bit, and so that once they give me the advice then I'm not going to ask for something or negotiate around that number and they're not going to say no Could they just gave me the advice to do that, so this technique is magic and I have like a dozen technique. Is that's in the chapter frame control where then in a high stakes situation, where they are arguing with a spouse or you're being a publics the girl you doing a sale or you're asking for a raise from your boss, one person controls the frame and the other person doesn't, and it's all about. How do you control the frame in different situations? So, if you give someone the frame, you're still kind of implicitly controlling it and-

at that's a critical technique, but again I've never read that in a self help book about persuasion, because those books don't work. This is just stuff that works specifically for me or or, let's say meant many of the people that have been on my podcast that I've interviewed about this and you've got to think. That's brilliant and you've got a couple of chapters about framing and frame control. I'm curious the the fifty one rule how to be infinitely productive. Is that even possible to be infinite reproductive and if swell what is the well ok, so you know the four out of members for our work: wake up by our friend in what areas so that for our greek is really a book the eighty twenty rule and everybody knows the eighty twenty rule spin around four hundred years, or so some guy realized and whenever he, garden. Twenty percent of the seeds grow into eighty percent of the flowers, and it's just like if you ever. If you have a business

One hundred employs the eighty twenty rule always seems to work. It's twenty of the employees create eighty percent of the revenues like that always seems to be the case in your case with fifteen employees, probably twenty percent of one three of the probably create eighty percent other revenues its it works everywhere. The thing about the aid twenty is you can apply it to itself so the eighty twenty rule? So if you take that twenty percent, which of those twenty people are creating, eighty percent of those profits so turns out for, are creating sixty four percent of the profits. I I want to get too mathematical applying it one more time. One person probably created you in this case. Your are for your business, probably create fifty percent of the revenues when I gave you the scrabble technique of learning to let her words or the monopoly technique of by the orange properties, you only need that one per cent of knowledge about the skills of monopoly to two that will result in ITALY

fifty percent of your wins just that one ten dangerous yeah right, so so with the fifty one. could take any area of life and try to find the one percent. Now people try If do the eighty twenty rule they want to make as much ghetto benefit as possible. Eighty percent, but again to be in the top one percent you just need to win fifty percent of your. You know more a little more than fifty percent of your games and you're, probably one of the best. So I you know the one percent rule if you can narrowed down to that one percent and you can through experimenting, they were is covered. Another chapter you can figure out, what's the one percent that creates fifty percent of the diet,

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and the james outage, and without a budget like a completely different topics and then he said to the audio guy. Okay, give me a rap beat, and so on it, started going and instantly he had the most insanely intelligent and fast rap, using all five of those words. and it was completely different than any other rapid ever dying, because I've seen a lot of his youtube videos, and that was the one percent he needed combined with them, stand up, comedy sketch. Where he's welcome at any. Cloudless. Didn't eastern does something different, unique that no one else can do and he is not the best comedian he's not gonna be juries. I thought his game, but he created his own game to skip the line right so any literally skip the line, and you know I do the same thing in the sense that nobody, because I haven't been doing want to use your weaknesses to your advantages, because I haven't been doing twenty years, what have I been doing? Well, I've been making money in.

Millions of dollars and making a fool out of myself and doing all these, and I have always insane stories from that and that's my unique flavour, which allows me to skip the line pop again. All these are parts of overall picture of skipping the line, but that's that's my fifty use of the fifty one wrong and how do we know We ve all that twenty four hours in the day, but how do we borrow hours honeybee gain more time? So, let's say let's say louis you're, a public speak our right, you don't you ve done it. You ve done. Let's call ten thousand hours of public speaking, ok, between preparing and going to and arranging and and then actually doing, the speaking and then the q and a afterwards. Well, let's say now: you want Try doing stand up comedy, I'm just using this as an example, you could borrow hours from what you learned in public speaking and put them into stand up comedy, so you do that's the wine. I maybe two thousand hours

I have already been on stage you know how to prepare. You know how to interact with an audience and now learning different stuff. Yet you might not be as good at interacting with the audience as a stand up comedian, but your time percent of the way there I would say, what's interesting to me, is going in the other direction after I did stand of comedy for even just a few months, and then I had to do a regular public talk about business or investing or whatever it ten axed, my public speaking really unbelievable, yeah. I don't. Even I don't even have to prepare talk. I could just go in there and I used to be scared to death public. I was the first time you and I we will have ample time about canada. Rent yegg, jason gain yards mastermind talks noble, you probably know. There's you ya think you spoke like right before me yep. I was so scared. Five minutes before I was supposed to speak. I left conference center. I just left and I wasn't go.

and I I was going to, I called my, and I said I'm I'm gonna go into the airport. Sorry, are you better come out the talks and she was like now just come back. That's what can look I've heard in but she was ready to go, she was she was ready to go, but then it is then I had to go back and I had a fun time I remember you're, very memorable final I was so terrified man and I'm always so terrified, but now it's the comedy is more terrifying way that is As I borrowed from carbonate to do public speaking now, I've always said if I wanted to truly become like one of the bet, I'm ok, speak. I'm good! You know, I'm take, I'm not bad, but I'm not like. I watched the people, people let I'm just like they are masters their incredible speakers that captivate it's like. They know exactly the pacing timing, tonality unbelievable crouch

our audience engagement, everything and I'm like? Okay, I've worked hard to get over my fears to get to a certain level, but I'm not at that level but always said to myself. If I try, one of them ass. This I need to do improv. Are you didn't I have or comedy and do something else. It's just going to scare the crap out of me and then use that skill to apply it to public speaking. So here, here's a fifty slash one technique. So even before I was doing stand up comedy for years before I was doing it. I would before every talk I ever gave, I would watch on Youtube stand up comedians because they are the best public speakers. Slinging their faces are moving they're moving around. stage there very. They know it may the right cadence they no one to pause. They are the best public speakers and you have mirror neurons in your brain, which it's almost like an injection of. Let's say I was watching David about it was almost like I'd be in jail.

Dave chappelle into my veins for a good half hour. If I watch a youtube video of him and then I could go, do my talk and I'll have my mirror neurons? Will and some of my emotions, some of some of the ways in which I'll pause or move my eyes will mimic his motions. In the end, useful in its usual uncommonly, where they try to get a vessel reaction from people and its great and public speaking love it all this man, I'm a I'm a huge fan of experimentation in our life and being the scientists of our own life and putting ourselves through games, exercises challenges, experiments to overcome fears and insecurities? Because I believe that when we overcome those fears, we can become really much won't stop all in accomplishing our goals and becoming a top ten percent, one percent earning more money, having more courage and relationships, and overall, happy and healthy. This is like

the first time in my life I got, I got burnt out a little bit for the past three months just want to be a good thing or a bad thing is that it is certainly a bad thing, but it prevented me from doing my normal activities. Would you get burnt out from in general I diver by my activities, so I get Joy and happiness from as many activities as possible, but of course anything that's important to you and that's worth doing not always a happy activity. So suffering is say you love playing tennis. You might have a day Were you lose every tennis game? It's just a normal thing by the, but because you love doing it able to find the energy to come back. The next They say you know. I had a bad day. My forehand was, I was an old and ragged racket correctly or I wasn't is, as you know, powerful enough

I love this and I'm going to play it again today and learn to get better and maybe to even take a lesson or two, and so I am several of these activities like if investing, doesn't, go one day, then I can do writing. If writing I don't. So good about one day I could do go out, do stand comedy if worse or come up with ideas for best or do a pie, castor, play game of chess or whatever, and I had I wrote this article in August, where I was my most popular article ever like oddly, like oddly, went viral best. The is this the the article about seinfeld the article at new york, city or yeah, which I then responded to a crazy whirlwind man crazy ruin because about thirty million people read the article and that was actually several months ago. So now, maybe it's more but and and and then

a week and then I had a huge response and then ten days later, people think the next day. Cyber response days later, seinfeld entire page of new york times and placing call you an idiot, yeah and that was his home, point rather than actually like. I love and I was writing this. So people want to be island, of course, and everything and in the article has basically come true and is still coming true and it's scary, and I wanted to help people like. I spoke with I shared you it'll, just the facts. How you know violence was going up buildings which, at that time, we're allowed to be open, were only five percent. What was the reason? restaurants like eighty. Restaurants were in danger of closing and by the way, probably about eighty percent of restaurants. Now in new york city have clothes or about to close broadway was closed indefinitely which means- and I don't care about broadway. I I hate broadway. I have.

The last show I saw was I dunno beauty and the beast with my kids and I fell asleep in the middle of it. I just can't stand broadway since I was a kid and but there's hundreds or thousands, hotels and restaurants that are part of the ecosystem of broadway, plus there's tourism. taxes or sales taxes and so on. So the fact that broadway That open is dead into the city like signed by me me or one of his comments was all poor guy can't see a broadway show. I don't care about that. I care about this. Freeing that happens when all of these restaurants go out of business- and you know all these people are hurt, and so anyway, I'm defending myself here but I got so much hate your out of the thirty people read it between twenty nine million loved it. or agreed with it, or thought her interesting and moved on with our lives as they're normal people, but the one million

play lacrimosa from new york city and they wanted to sort of some kind of cognitive dissonance where it's like Even read there. There in denial, which was the reason I was writing the article, including jerry who loves the city as well, and he had good intentions and I got trashed so much. I had never I've been before for the past twenty years of writing off? Of course been you only one? right. Something that's unique if you write something that other what I've, then? Why are you writing? So I wrote something that's unique to me Add some theories that were new in the in the article. I don't have to into all of them, but and I also don't hit publish unless I'm a little bit afraid what people will think of me. So in this case little afraid because I'm usually domestic, and this was one time I really didn't know the solutions, and I spoke to congressman,

well, candidates, even sponsor the federal reserve about how new york city can get bailed out and that's how much I care. But nobody seemed to like address these things and then I just got caught lately, so I wrote this by didn't, expect it to go viral. It immediately went viral. The most viral thing, I've ever seen really for in terms of text writing and up until november december, even now, how much today, with no vampire to certain people were still tracks me in twitter on e mails and facebook every single day and and a couple of other things were going on that I just didn't feel as good about so suddenly, like all my source of dopamine remain we're. Punishing me

so like in writing is the thing I I've been writing every day since nineteen ninety- and I love writing- I love it. I love it as an art form. I love it as a way to communicate. I've studied it. I've I've really made it as an art. Science for myself and Suddenly. Writing was nation me in a way that it had never had before so every time I was without the right. My brain would say: no, no, no! No! No! This is the. for you, and I literally I almost Physically- couldn't sit down at the computer and and do it that also meant. I out social media stop twitter. I stopped facebook. I stopped emil's, I stop even taxing on my phone. I stop looking at my phone and I wasn't pressed. Everyone thought I was depressed cause. I wasn't normal, but sometimes you just now.

break where you need to say. Is this what I asked for? It is what I want in life, and you give you a chance to to re, evaluate things, I had worked really hard last year. Writing I'd written to actually and and hundreds of articles and and you know went all out on the podcast, and you know I was still doing then of coffee and suddenly I just got for the first time. Maybe teen sixteen years my body was telling me I need a break break but right the point where you know this book that I bet just came out. I feel, is my most valuable book ever like this development from my other books and I wanted to to market it, but I just I just isn't doing anything. I wasn't doing anything. I was doing podcast us to maintain, and I I have

says that I run and I and about one hundred or so people depend on on me to keep going. So I did what I needed to do. But that was about it. When you came out that article I member thinking congrats because this is blew up, and I was like wow good for you. You deserve to get the attention and, yes call four points that I was like yeah. This makes sense. However, was living in new york. City. I'd be probably reich screw you you're not defend my city, but I was like yeah he's got some great valid points. I hope everyone sees this. And then, when I saw kind of the attention in the positive, but also the attacks on you, I was like man. I really hope you're going to be taking care of your emotional health and mental health and just protecting your energy, How are you able to manage or protect that are Are you not able to because the negative million how were so painful that it finally break through yeah. I guess it finally broke through. I mean I used to think I was. I had a pretty.

an armor like I don't care what people have to say about my writing or or may because most people are strangers to me. But. I think if you truly don't care what people think then there's probably something wrong with you because of actually. This got to the point where I had. I was losing ends, and I was losing family members? Were you advance members? Would re articles trashing may now yeah and then I would see whoop who, like their articles and it would be like employees of mine from twenty years ago, painful hangs ex girlfriends. One ex girlfriend did write about me an article and everybody was just lying to and nobody was addressing the the actual issue which I did care about, new york city living not dying. I want well not to be in denial, and you know and how did I take care of myself while normally I always take care of my physical health,

my emotional health like who's, who know, surround myself with good people. My creative health, spiritual health, it was a little challenging though, at some points and here's what I decided to do? It was really just take a breath. I hadn't, taken a break in a really long time, even for one day, and but I didn't fully take a break. I so we my book, skip mine, just came out and it these techniques in at which would which we could talk about at some point. But I decided I'm going to use the techniques. I wrote about to get really great at something I love doing, but I haven't done in awhile so so as a kid is going to sound, working or whatever, but as a kid I was I still am a a ranked chess master, but I I studied the game in ninety ninety seven, like twenty four years ago, and so my ability- I always have a chess master of my abilities, actually severely gone down

I'm sure, if you haven't played you know oh you know, here, not only those age factor, but you just sickly those muscles go away and so I use the skip the line techniques and only those techniques and I'm going to better than I ever was at chess. So I used every chapter in the book which it can be applied to any field of life, go replied the business entrepreneurship Gough being a shit if whatever you want, so I applied it to get better than I ever was before? as you did you get better. I did yeah I'm at the best level I've ever been at and it took about. It- took a solid three and a half months, which is good because probably should have taken years. And which is how long it took me originally. attribute your how to become what t technique did you use to strengthen your skills to become the best

so so. I use so so I use every technique in the book. The the first thing was end again. I'll say this general enough that it applies to everything. First thing was, as I did, a plus minus equal that I write this in the book, but it was originally told to me by frank sham aclu's ten time, emmy winner world champion. He had very quickly every martial art, so so the goal is, is how do you get to be in the top one percent of any field you want and more importantly, or just as importantly, how do you monetize it because there's all these self help books about how to you gonna, learn faster whatever, but it's an it's not good enough to just be the top. One per and you have to make money to, or else you can't keep doing it So otherwise, just a hobby, yeah, yeah and and frank frank, shamrock

I me about this, but then elaborate even further on the plus minus equal and so a plus is a coach, who you get lessons from and gives you feedback on our underplay and saw the equals. Are your peers? who are just as good as you at the field or you're all rising up together and you exchange ideas, kind of like in twenty fourteen you me and a handful of others. We were. We were in podcasting we were really park and we would all call each other and exchange ideas were we were competition. We we really each other. Alas, training, your training mates, your tea, maids people that it s driving for something similar and then and the minus. Is this concept that if you explain something simply, then you don't really understand it. So I have a story. This guy, when I went to graduate school, the dean of this threw me out. I was thrown out of graduate school, I wasn't a good student and whatever so,

then after he threw me out in a weird set of circumstances. This is one thousand nine hundred and ninety two. I started giving him chess lessons. So I call he's now the dean at at georgia tech. And I said hey, do you want chess lessons again so he became my minus. and so I was taking lessons from a extremely strong player and I was teaching lessons which, which actually was almost was just as value, was taking valuables taking lessons. So that was one technique and it worked really well so that so so in life have a coach, a master you're learning from yes, that's your plus that path, people you are working with or collaborating with some level or training with or whatever, to support your growth together, and then how someone you can help lift up ray exactly because when you expect basic concepts to a student that the minuses kind of subtly import people don't always understand that. But when I explained

is a concept of why some particular move is bad. It helps We really understand that at a much deeper level- and I find myself thinking that, while I'm playing now that oh, I don't want to create a weakness here when I I might not have thought about that six month. Ago. But now I really think about these weaknesses that often you hear about that a lot where the best way to learn something and master. Something is to be able to teach it an easy way to other people and the more you teach it. The more you understand it. It is so able and the other thing about plus minus. because is that with any in life. There's this to this too areas that are important for mastery. There are learning skills, there's also and people. Mrs part, there's understanding the field let's say louis you're, the best interview. the skills and you do you- have the skills, incredible interviewer. But if you don't know the field of podcasting like how to distribute your podcast, how to market your podcast, what's the best recording equipment,

If you don't know the field you're still going to be a horrible podcaster. So there's, skills and there's the field and so plus minus equals. Also helps you bike by communicating with a coach who is a great place. or a podcast or a businessman, and by They all know different parts of the field as well. So you learn more about the field while you're doing this as well. So I learned field as well. So you learn more about the field. Doing this as well. So I learned that the field of chess oddly has changed a lot. Since I last studied the game, I mean it's changed remarkably, because of computers and and and online you know, networks and so on, so so that was one technique one among many there's twenty three different chapters in the book and another technique. Ten thousand hours of deliberate practice helps you to become the top, familiar with ten thousand our rule popularized by Malcolm Gladwell, yup. So

the idea that, of course, ten thousand hours of deliberate practice helps you to become the top or it helps you master your the whether at piano or again, golf or eight. This rule, I enabled believe or whatever, and you know I hate it's raw. I and I don't believe in it it I don't think it takes to, and you you've proven to me actually It doesn't take ten thousand hours to be to master something. that would take twenty years and I've seen you pick up sports and a year later, you're like in the olympics for that right, yeah, I've learned, I mastered. Well, I mean, I wouldn't say, mastered, but I in salsa dancing. It took me three and a half months of one hundred percent, all in nis on studying it on at the same private lessons watching videos listening the music going out and in applying it four times a week to three and a half months to where I felt like our camp fluent,

the best in the world, but I can dance with the best in the world and scary all these. It was hard. It was like tons of time and energy and then I'd. It was another six months where within a four year I was like. I can dance with the greatest dancers in the world. Confidently, I'm never going to I'm not going to be, The best in the world, but I can dance the best in the world and feel good and and hat, and understand the language and know where they're going and they know where I'm going. And a year you know take ten years The times getting like live television television makes me happy all that It's what I said earlier. Anything that's really worth doing is you're. Not it's not what happiness it's worth doing, it's going to make you unhappy some of the time it's like, and I love makes me happy all the time, but I, but it it's useless. It makes no sense that that's you're not going get happy while you're trying to get better because it's

things are make you happy is different from the things that you try to get good at because they you're not, happy while you're trying to get better because it's hard and you're going to meet instance and the people who don't have like that growth mindset to handle that resistance will will never never master it. The other thing that to unpack there is you, don't have to peter top ten in the world, if you no one, could tell the difference. Probably like you just kind of referred to it. Probably a begin. I'll call him a civilian in salsa dancing civilians of salsa dancing can't tell the difference between the greatest and is this about chess again, but my Look like you're doing you have to say level ability and this was a realization for me. I was riding it have a few years ago and this chess again, but my cab driver told me he played

he was just like you, don't average player and- and I was gonna get into it and then he told me like? No, no, no really, I was the national champion of turkey like oh and then we start really getting into my what you're, what you rating- and he said this remarkably high rating. He was like a girl, and then we started really getting into I'm like. What's your what's your rating and he said this, markedly high rating. He was like a great player. He was what's called an international master and I'm a national master. He was eight another. He was two levels higher than may, which is took him like probably six more years of of work, probably six more years from the point where I was a master to this, and you know what nobody could tell the. Probably between him and me. If they saw him playing- and they saw me playing, theirs well chance. A civilian could tell the difference, little nuances that only the greatest could see like. Oh okay, I see the difference right like I. If I was playing him, I could he could probably beat me statistically it's all done statistically. He could beat me two out of three times I could tell

Why he's better than me? But no one our louis uk might be the best in the world or or Amy humor, whoever it your players and it's stand up. Comedy dave, chappelle, best in the world or louis he came, might be the best in the world or or Amy humor, whoever it is that time and languid or what area yeah. But if I'm performing to a crowd, that likes me and you only see these people to in front of crowds the like. If I'm performing a show of was laughing the entire time. No one will be able to tell at this point the difference between me and you know of the reason I know is that I performed after people online ups and no one can tell people called me and said: oh man, you were the best in the lineup. They didn't know who that it was Chris rock right before me or bill burr, or someone like that, and I I killed it even more now that sometimes I bomb sometimes I kill it, but and that's why I say being in the one percent is much faster.

and much more important than being the top ten in the world like you to get, top of the learning curve, but you don't really need to go on that slow plateau to be the ambassador in the world, because that does take ten, the five and twelve more years to be in the top, whatever twenty in the world right and so and so I just wanted to get better that I was at chest. So I know for a fact: I'm I'm in the top one percent, but I'm not in the top one hundred players, because I didn't devote thirty years of my life to it, but I know enough I can appreciate the nuances and its investing in and writing is probably what area and Pakistan stand up comedy same thing with investing and waiting is probably what area and podcasting I put in ten thousand hours, but I will get grappling with the ten thousand, our role, particularly when it came to stand of comedy like what does it mean? now our role, particularly when it came to stand of comedy like what does it mean even to do deliberate practice, instead of how do you measure it? So I called up the original

professor Anders Eric's just blair's. Actually was part of the experiments in the early nineties on the ten thousand. Our role and servants in the early nineties on the ten thousand our role, and how can we if this was comedy- and he said well, how do you judge it as it laughs per minute? Is it money? Is it what is it and I'm like I don't know, there's no real, straightforward metric, see just couldn't figure it out, and that's that other successful people. Ten thousand hour, all the I started, looking there are successful people. I started looking at all the times. I've switched careers. I switched careers like six or seven times, and I came up I say this was in saucer. Is that every time if your resume this was in salsa. Is that every time I if avoided repetition which is more about the ten thousand hour rule, just repeat, repeat, repeat and get feedback everytime, I decided at time I do comedy

I'm I play do at least one experiment in what I'm doing make end by experimenting. You learn so much more quickly, experiment, the nature of an and, fermenting, you learn so much more quickly. Cuz the nature of an experiment is, is that you're trying so but nobody's ever tried before, or at least you've never tried before so, only me are you doing this activity that you love and want to get better at, but part of what you're doing you've never done before. that is a famous lee- did try to ten thousand different filaments to make a light bulb edison famously did try ten thousand different filaments to make a light bulb a reporter asked him. How does it feel to fail? thousand different ways to not make a light, and I wonder that resonate with I learned ten thousand different ways to not make a light bulb I wonder that resonates with you and the salsa dancing. Did you kind of experiment a little bit absolutely I mean I was more just terrified because I know

is was doing and I was entering a whole new world, new culture, new language, and I was we're a dancer, so I deftly spear mounted in a try this at the night club without embarrassing myself fully, often the mere until it felt like. Ok, I understand the concept enough now. will try this at the nightclub without embarrassing myself fully and making it a horrible experience with my partner cause. It's got to be with someone else that you're interacting with, and I just didn't want to make them at least have the basics and experiment in we're by myself and then I was also a truck driver at the time, so I was making two hundred fifty dollars a week truck driving six hours a day in ohio. This was two months ago. islam, which demand myself dancing for those six hours. I had a city of the great assault seven, two thousand and eight. And- and I would

do mental rehearsal. I would just imagine myself dancing for those six hours. I had a cd of the greatest salsa hits of the time that I was listening to in the truck I would Imagine myself dancing and doing the moves, and then I would apply. I would do grow classes how classes and then practice it your at clubs like live interacting like a game, I would experiment all experiment like how pressure to give with your partner. You know how fast of until I figured out they liked spending this felt right, but it was all about experimentation and I'm doing this right now. I'm actually been doing six months of spanish lesson one on one and it's been the most probably the most painful and challenging thing I've ever done, hard, even harder than salsa, because so hard. My brain, it's just like otherwise all other language I don't know I mean I likely this man. It is it is hard on the brain, but

spirits mounting different ways on how to learn and I'd first tried classes at. Night and it was so hard to retain information cuz, I was out of work out ideal full day, a podcast and work on my team that I had no energy to think. And so then as it, when let me do in the morning so now I'm doing early morning and it's been drastically better by just check. In the time of when I'm practicing and that's been a game gender I'm also. I learned that's what I'm moving when I'm like a physical, inaction so now, I'm doing it when I'm running up put the headphones I'm listening, like I'm remembering because I'm moving my body and not just sitting stationary some experts, As you know, I have experiment so with comedy for learn and practice, but it's it's been challenging. Man yeah, like another example. Experiment might be the area of your town, which is the the most hispanic people in

good, only speak spanish. You know adds that have experiment so with comedy, for instance, in the very beginning I was having a problem if people talked back at me in from the crowd, I wasn't as good with what's called crowd, work and so I decided to do stand up comedy on a subway after do things that everybody else line is not doing so. I will go and us have to do it? If, if, if you want to skip the line, which is what the books called, you have to do things, don't be bothered again bothered all time, there's one of focus and this with the music and go on re and ass. I don't have it by definition, is a hostile audience and then it'll be bothered again bothered all the time. They just want to focus and listen to their music and go on right and also I don't have a lot of time with them too. So I it's just a way to experiment, to tighten up my jokes get to the line as fast as possible, and so every step I would switch subway punch. So I would I did this for like two hours and it really helped improve example.

You're with hostile audiences and tighten up my punchlines and also be a little bit more fearless, and so that wasn't an example Aspira I have done many experiments like that in income, everything I do experiments at any given point. I've got like five to ten experiments going on and I've I've. rule out all the ways I had been playing for the past, since I was eighteen years old in chess, for instance, these past three months, I did a huge open the game to sort of defines the game I used to. All the ways I had been playing for the past. Since I was eighteen years old, I had something called an opening. How you in the game, def defines the game, I used it is very safe conservative openings. So I that out the window and I said I do the exact opposite. I play the most greg hyper aggressive, tricky complicated openings and I,

Why is it like opened? My eyes was a whole different game and it gave me a much more holistic view of of the game and a much different style of play. Now. It's mixed with my conservative style, so so it was an experiment that was useful. Another one in comedy is, let's say, a comedian like Chris rock was performing same night no, but I've been on stage with a lot of payments can be tracy, maurice of course they gave him a spot because he's chris rock, so let's say he was performed have you been with Chris rock before or before on the same night? I have been on stage with a lot of famous comedian. Tracy Maurice all use a real example: Tracy morgan or bill burr, Tracy, morgan zocor. A great comedian. He was on thirty rock bill burr's, one of the most the greatest comedians of all time, and I've been on the stage with quite a few well known comedians the book, the manager would always say do what listen prayers going up tonight or tracy morgan.

you want to go before Tracy morgan. Aren't you wanna go up after training, more new, an end, such racing organ and then who who's this guy coming up and I'll have to listen to him. He's a tracy morgan. So I that I would always say it is like. Oh, my god that was tracy morgan at and he's so funny and they're they're they're sending photographs to their fate. Tracy morgan and then, who guy coming up. We don't have to listen to him, he's not tracy morgan. So I I I would always say I want to go up immediately after bill Burton morgan tj miller, whoever it is. I want to go immediately after that but you're gonna learn so much like this is what it's like the deal that audience. That's not focused on you and that is the way you skip the line, everyone else whose on line is when up before, I'm the one who has to it there, downside, I is what people are afraid of being no good one night learn so much like this is what

audience that's not focused on you and how do you get focus. This is a big challenge for comedian, because of that experiment of always going up after the best in controls, the frame or the audience controls them It I improved by leaps and bounds because of that experiment of always going up after the best comedian on the line up and some some comedians were hard to go up after some or not after the best comedian on the lineup and some some comedians were hard to go back there somewhere, not, but it was, but I learned every time What does it mean to skip the line at general in order to achieve your goals and dreams? Is it putting yourself through conjuring experiences and experiments in order to gain the skills that most people aren't able to gain in a quick amount of time. a little bit people, that's a one technique. So a ten thousand experiment, roll people in in general. Here's what it is it's

let's say you right now: there's two groups of people. This is for basically so right. Now, fifty five million people this past year, where I was tired of being a dental assisted. Maybe I want to be a chef, maybe I wanna corporations were not, they all were fired or laid off temporarily or whatever. It was an eight leap for unemployment, so people started thinking. Well, I was an account anywhere. I was tired of being a dental assistant. Maybe I want to be a chef, maybe I want to if they related to sports or or something You can't do that you're you're forty five years old. When I started doing, but, and then everyone says this is what everybody says and I'm sure people have said this to you throughout your career. People will say: hey james you, you can't do that you're. You're forty five years old. When I started doing comedy for your phone, five years old you Do these people been doing this for twenty years? what how you going to pay your mortgage. How well you going to take care of your kids? You can't skip the line I attic.

Well, I had one time I had a comedian. Tell me James James. If you can literally said you can't skip the line, you gotta do open this fattest fattest fattest. you gotta, pay your dears. You got to show you that got europe eat crap oh, and this guy was trying to get me down right before my show and I was doing my first sixty minutes show and this guy was trying to get me down right before my show, and but People are just like jealous and insecure. They don't want you to change, they like you being below them behind them in line They don't want you to change. That's. Why you can't do it and and they do it there. They were doing it for twenty five years will drive in you know, whatever doing being a plumber while doing comedy on the side or doing on the side or whatever it is so this is really people at change. citizens? Why can't I do what I love? What can I do? What I'm past

is really here's how you do it so that all the people who say you can't do it like. I want to do it, and so this book is is really here's how you do it that super fast again. Not only are you in the top one percent in the world of something that you love doing You also understand how to monetize it. So you understand persuasion and not be as persuasion like in this academic study. We show that, if mirror how somebody moves their hands. They all agree with you on everything, like that's all bs. I just talk about control, which is basically. control the frame in high stakes situations- and I use techniques that have worked for me, money and I have a chapter on that so another mine? Is all this like twenty three different techniques, and some of them are related to the field. Some of them are related to mastering the skills here. Here's another example: micro skills, so there's no such skill as investing

met a scale, that's really made up bunch of independent micro scales so, for instance, options trading as one skill value investing as one scale this cycle money management is investing is a scale because half the you're going to make money half the days you're going to lose money, and it feels really bad to lose money. So you have to you have to deal with psychology. Money management is, is a skill that there's about twenty different micro skills to investing and so by breaking apart the micro skills and and picking the ones that you love the most. Than the ones that you feel you have a head start on. You could get much better. Psychology is a little bit of as one giant scale for anything interesting like even you know, ten tennis is about forehand backhand. The net game psychology little bit of reading europe?

and so you know oh he's, having trouble with his backhand. So you just pound the backhand and you know: there's lots of the most things worthwhile, are at our meta skills and made up of a bunch of micro skills, common. so is humor everything crowd work stage, work might work reading the audience understanding what what the bookers are looking for. So you know everything if it's worth doing is a collection, micro skills. So that's another thing: I write about and I'm only getting to a few of these techniques but they're all there Oh yeah, you recognize them when you hear them that oh yeah, that's that does work and when you think about it Greatly like this, instead of kind of a more intuitively, it allows you to apply it more directly. So for me, haphazardly figuring out. three months when I was doing this experiment with skip the line techniques to get better at chess. I directly!

use these techniques like I'm a broke chest to the micro skills cuz. There is no scale, just called chess there's ten different skip micro skills and I studied each. Had been align. There's one other thing about your saucer dancing. Then I wanna talk about with than unpack. business and negotiation and persuasion and and and so on, so that actually skipping the line. There's one other thing about your salsa dancing that I want to talk about with then unpack. You, you loved it right It's what you were doing it. That's. Why I'm almost obsessed about it and there's an important thing about loving what you do and it's not. again, it's not about happiness. It's about you! If you love doing something during those difficult moments, it doesn't require as much energy to do it the next day. If I don't love, let's say I don't love writing okay, but but I want to be a successful writer for some reason, if I don't love it, it's going to be hard to sit down

and right that's going to require energy every single day, but if you love writing you're going to eat, you going to be able to take out energy that you would have used to convince yourself to write you're going to be put the energy into the writing we a limited amount of energy each day, which is why we sleep at night. So if you have to be able whatever energy, you have and apply it let's kill, if energy is used to just convince you to sit down and do it then you're not going to be cecil as the person who loves what they're doing absolutely yeah. I'm curious. When did you learn the skill of overcoming the fear of embarrassment, because I feel it's a lot of it. The psychology of just okay, with not being lights or with being laughed at or being made fun of, or not being the best If the way did you ever learn that skill, or is that something you're constantly trying to learn? I would say: well every Everything is constant. Like an end

one of the great things again about doing an activity that that's worthwhile I bet you the more you learned about saucer, you realize the more you have to learn the as you understand the nuances, the nuances, never stop, they exponentially grow the more you learn right and I've been writing my opinions and, and stories for twenty years and every article I write because I always try to put my own unique spin on it Otherwise why? Right? It is some Eeyore. Many people laugh at me. Hate me or argue with me, when people show up at my house and argue and people call me on the phone. Constantly argue with me, but particularly recently or when I wrote about Different issues about would even I've. Never my story about going broke and then bouncing back people always made fun of me and I don't it whatsapp never fully better and better at it, and you

I never really get over completely but like what new york city article, I didn't mind: the million woohoo, we're just call me names or whatever on twitter, but it really it hurt me when I saw people I when I thought I had let's say imagine that helped. Somebody like, let's say you had lent somebody I know about I made of this- has happened to me in the past, where I've helped lots of people, then things happen, and then they come against your you see them say nasty things about you on line on people stuff for nuts. That is hard work writing stock recovery and other people. Stuff, say nigger things about me behind my back. That is hurtful it four commenting on other people, stuff saying no, your things about me behind my back. That is hurtful. It is in the end. It had never really I mean it had happened to me before, but never to this extent, like I had friends

who themselves lost friends because they defended me on this article, like literally, they were unfriended on facebook by good friends of theirs. After defending me in this article or again your family members who I had you don't have to make a lot of I gave them a job or when you family. You do some relationships and there was nothing bad that happened it just. a word ex girlfriend too you know it was. I dont want to complain about it because again, I've there was one. This positive aspect which is hey plain about it, because again I I've there was one this positive aspect, which is hey my about, but you know at the same time, I think you know even jerry seinfeld, but you know at the same time. I think my brain reacted, without me, realizing it and it said hey. My brain was basically up telling me if you write something

I was the one before macartney on stage the article is spreading into the audience, and people were commenting, so my brain reacted to that end it reading into the audience and people were commenting, so my brain reacted to that It's been about three and a half months of that, and so I decide Not I realize it's happening, I'm not I'm not going to, and I- and this has happened to me before and usually means a big change is going to happen in my life at some point, and so I recognize that and I'm back to writing again but again I decided to use this time productively the queens The tv show had just come out and I was oh, it was amazing man. I watched that was amazing. Oh yes, sixty two million people watched the first week, in in users at any given moment, and I figured you know what people are interested in this and people in users at any given moment, and so I figured you know what people

interested in this, and people are interest street, I like there are checked streamers, who have more followers the best shot I follow just like. I would not have believed that stream chest but on a put skin in the the world on youtube. But I figured okay, I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to learn this and die meant my progress at on a put skin the game on there only use the techniques in my book skip the line and it's been working so far like I am, I am by far struck? Very. I was already the top one percent of my peak but because it's all a ranking system I was struck, varies it might be. I was already in the top one percent at my peak, but I probably will in the top ten percent six months ago Now, I'm solidly top one percent again. and I enjoy the game so much more because I learned it using this this this way breaking it down into these equals experiments

skills and end the various other techniques in the book? If I was you're minus. How much do you think you could help I'm a get her to I mean I'm like play once every five years for fun, to have no idea. I understand like okay, one opening, I training, I know what they mean. I know move the chess pieces and I've won games against amateurs another game. Like me, how good could you make me? in a day how today. How could god become with from, thing essentially just like what I've learned on my own to one day of training from you one day of training I could make you again. The top twenty percent the world, but I could do that in a in a few months, but in one day I, make you as good as let's say, a tournament player. So you play people.

your friends who has won down no chess yeah yeah yeah yeah, you play your friends- are not just to be a tournament player I have a certain level of skill like you, you have to have baby studied bed and enough to want to sign up for a tournament and play other people were, are serious, so that's not You would be able to beat all gazed out. I should I should do that. We should do to experiment certain percentage. I don't know what, but I can make I would make it so that you would be able to beat any of your friends casually. Any of your Your friends, you just know the game. You would be able to beat all gazed out. I should do. I should do that. We should do to experiment one day. You teach me and I see if I can just beat all my friends who have never been trained. I could talk later that baby. I made it and you can pick up games since I was a kid games are like my thank you take the game, it could be scrabble checkers play checkers and see who's I can make it in the top yo. Is this a little?

The techniques are not as hard pebbles, one where I can email ten percent of players, I'm in a day. horrible and scrabble and monopoly It will take me five minutes. To put you are the top twenty regional players yeah, I'm the obvious as I was probably seven or eight, but for thanksgiving, they don't break out like monopoly or scrabble or whenever we play other gangs, but we were like apples. Apples are something would like the kids, yeah, but we should play monopoly to yeah. yea doubly I'll. Just tell you right now, the one secret that will make you the one of the best. What were you, if you remember the the board and stuff? Do you remember what proper? What color the properties were that are the most valuable now remember when you know which, once the blue everybody says blue, which is broadway and park place, was blue, not the answer the answer. where are the orange property,

which is ST james, place, new york avenue and I believe, tennessee avenue. Why is that so the most popular square to land on in monopoly is jail because you utilities on gmail but through the dice there's always, go to jail square and there's two community chess cards that say go to immediately. So that's the most popular square by far the people land on with two dice popular role is a seven, the it puts you right in the middle of the orange properties. So if you when the orange properties and have hotels on them every once in a while, you read all gave on so all you need to know is that the utilities at the orange properties get the orange properties and get the in the beginning, the game get the utilities, yeah there's about a hundred little more than a hundred, but like X, are the legal two letter words, nobody knows them. So if you don't like, You always went you can always.

There's not a hundred little more than a hundred, but like X, I x, you q. I care a z, hey. These are all weird two letter words and if you know them you always went, you can always have a hand. It's solid yeah because hard to get rid of an x or a q, but if you know that su and anxiety are words and then you throw them down on a triple letter, word boom, you went smart as you're learning practices to skip the line in every game or area of life. Yeah and and that's why I say hard way, so I need not only to be like a vocabulary master. I just did. I learned one strategy yet could help me. We but I'm obviously going against the vocabulary master. Who also knows those I'm not going to win but but he's top one hundred in the world. You want to be just in the top one percent, so you can beat everybody. You know everyone. I know yeah, like you don't know anybody who, in the top one hundred of the world they're they're kind of just scrabble all day in the basement.

You got it. Fifty extra points. Every time you have a seven, let her word, sir. Some people who obsessed Scrabble also has lots of micro skills. For instance, you get fifty extra points every time you have a seven letter word, sir. Some people who obsess on remembering all the seven letter words and there are techniques for doing that, but you don't have to do if you know all the two letter words you're going to just be while your friends, anyway, smart for you and that's how you got in the top one percent of the world. I can guarantee I'm in the top one percent. Does it get it's a meadow skill? You focus on the right micro skills that are important for you and that are easier for you and that's how you get in the top one percent of the world. I can guarantee I'm in the top one percent in the world in scrabble, but I'm not going to play at the highest level in a tournament. But nor do I need to, but anyone who comes over for a dinner party you could be. I've got the scrabble destruction front in center. Just say I play and if they want A casual game

induction is in their future like that through all the games for the rest of my life. It adopts pokers are good ones, The chess lesson for two hours. scrabble, polly, and we just I just master all the games for the rest of my life. It adopts a poker, is a good one to pokers a great one. I'm a big fan of this so glad to you put together this this book and package there and unique way with a lot of the different experiments that you've tried want to make sure people get the book line, the ten thousand experiments rule and other surprising advice for reaching your goals makes you Michigan pick up a copy skip the line by my friend, James altvater and james we've. Had you on a few times. shell and you've shared your three truths and definition of greatness before so I'll link up the previous episodes of people want to watch that and hear that. But what is the tat to close this up. Did you So I was on an all the media, editing. The news asked me: what would you say to jerry side belt if he was here right now

so I was on any other media and entertainment news asked me: what would you say to jerry side if he was here right now, and I said I would just turn around If some random person wrote an entire, he filled an entire page, any new york times. Just insulting me. If someone did that's your ran a person and then they like showed up at your door. You'd slam the door in their base, like you, wouldn't want to talk to them, insulting me. If someone did that to your random person and then they like showed up at your door, you'd slam the door in there, but you wouldn't want to talk to them. If someone, if someone is in my living room, I'm not going to invite them back because I'm curious, why did you do that they're out? in my house forever? So if he can be you and said hey, I want to have a conversation, Would you have a conversation with them? Wichita, no, no interest, no interest. Respect him as a comedian. Yes, I think he is at ease. I

got after the heads are looking out. His book came out. Is this anything two weeks after his article- and I really thought is one of the best books ever about the process, but he still created a theory of relativity. They go against our back his craft, but you just don't appreciate the way he reacted. I might not like that einstein wasn't the best husband but he's still created a theory of relativity. They go was charging for that period of time with a lot of criticism, but I ain't knowledge. If your courage, into a now? I know is charging for that period of time with a lot of criticism, but I ain't knowledge. If your courage, and have more criticism. I think the fact that you went back into your passions and hobby important enough for that. You need to like pushed through and write more and have more criticism. I think the fact that you went back into your passions and hobbes your creatives moving forward. Other creative endeavors, like chess, will support you

becoming a better writer moving forward side. Now you for that, and we sat a fool to get the book and thanks so much for common alma man oppression, louis. Thank you so much for inviting me. We've been friends for seven years and it's always such a pleasure hanging and always our conversations are interesting. So thank you very much you so much for listening to this conversation, if you enjoyed it and you want to dive into another similar school of greatness episode, check out the links in the podcast description. I've done more than nine hundred and fifty episodes over the past seven years, and I want to bring you more inspiration just like this Oh and one more thing: we've been choosing for lucky winners. Each week like federica from ITALY

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