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0:00You can get competent at nearly anything
0:01in 20 hours.
0:03The problem is most people spend a
0:04decade delaying the first 20 hours.
0:07More potential is wasted through
0:08inaction than incompetence.
0:11I saw a TED Talk years ago where a guy
0:13talked about how he learned how to play
0:15the guitar in 20 hours.
0:16And that TED Talk changed my life not
0:19because I learned to play the guitar,
0:20but all of a sudden
0:23complex tasks or seemingly complex tasks
0:27felt incre much
0:30much more attainable. I was like, "Okay,
0:32I might not be the best website
0:33developer in the world, but in 20 hours
0:35I can have a website."
0:37And that 20-hour mantra for me has just
0:39been like 2 days. Two full days. Two
0:4110-hour days fully focused. You can
0:43pretty much go from zero to not hero,
0:45but zero to confident. Um
0:48and when you string
0:50hundreds of those 20-hour days together,
0:53I think you become incredibly dangerous.
0:54We were talking earlier about Range, the
0:56book.
0:57I think
0:59being cross-departmental, being cross um
1:02what's the cross-disciplinary? Thank
1:04you, disciplinary. Multidisciplinary
1:06is is
1:10is hard to calculate how valuable it is
1:12because of the because the the first 20
1:15hours of almost every discipline is
1:16probably the biggest most meaningful
1:18concepts from that discipline.
1:19>> being able to ride a bike to being able
1:21to ride a bike.
1:22>> Yes. Being able to not read to read. Um
1:24even if you can't read Shakespeare, but
1:26you can read all of a sudden like 80%
1:28>> of Shakespeare is now opened up to you.
1:30It's just a a matter of time before you
1:31get there.
1:32>> Yeah. And even if you could never read
1:33Shakespeare, the 80% of the books that
1:35you can read as a result of a a
1:36sixth-grade reading level is basically
1:38more books than you have time to read.
1:41Um and you will get the largest returns
1:43from those first 20 hours. And so
1:44there's a very strong argument for
1:46trying to collapse the time between
1:48uh wanting something and beginning those
1:50first 20 hours. And because the the
1:5280/20 of your of the skills you gain
1:55that are
1:56that have utility. Like that your
1:58usefulness across a huge amount of
2:00domains is multiplicative not additive.
2:03So,
2:04I I I I I've I've said this example
2:05before, but like
2:07you know, Jay-Z in the very beginning
2:08it's like he might have had some rhythm
2:09or something. And then all of a sudden
2:11he, you know, learned how to rap. And
2:13then he learned how to sell. Now, some
2:14people say maybe he sold earlier than
2:16that, but I'll just leave it there. He
2:17learned how to sell. And then all of a
2:18sudden he learned how to market. And
2:19with each of these additional skills his
2:21income didn't go up by like oh, 1 + 1 =
2:232. It went you know, one Well, one's a
2:27bad number. So, two to the 10th power
2:29all of a sudden becomes significantly
2:30greater
2:31um than what you can do. And so, when
2:35when unsure about what step like when
2:38you're not sure what to do,
2:44build potential.
2:47Because
2:48when
2:49the opportunity does come, you want to
2:51be ready.
2:52And so, it does make sense in the
2:53beginning of your career to maximize
2:55optionality. It's just that you have to
2:57be willing to trade it in. And so, when
2:58you're not sure what to do, the logical
3:00thing to do is I don't know what I'm
3:02going to do tomorrow, but I'm going to
3:03get get a good night's sleep. I don't
3:05know when I'm going to meet a mate, but
3:06I'm going to start getting in shape now.
3:07I don't know what I'm going to sell, but
3:08I'm going to start building an audience
3:09and making content. There's always an
3:11argument for like you if you don't know
3:12what to do, there's still plenty of
3:13things to do.
3:14And but the goal is not necessarily to
3:16do those things forever. It's to do
3:18those things to then use them as the
3:19launchpad to get the thing you really
3:21want.
3:21>> The trap is opening up so much
3:23optionality without the
3:26concordant decisiveness that you end up
3:28being trapped. Yeah.
3:30You end up being stuck because you think
3:33I've got all of these directions that I
3:34could go in. I've spent all of this time
3:36building up
3:38uh
3:39panoply
3:40of routes that I could take my life
3:42down.
3:43And I do not have any ability to decide
3:45on which of those to take.
3:47>> Panoply.
3:47>> Panoply. You like that?
3:49>> Myriad, cornucopia, a plethora.
3:51>> Yeah. Yeah.
3:51>> [laughter]
3:53>> Two people that are obsessed with
3:54language
3:56have a war with each other.
3:57>> [laughter]
3:57>> But one is British, so he wins.
4:02You only need to get rich once, so you
4:03might as well work as hard as you can to
4:05get it done as fast as you can. The
4:07fastest way to attract what you want in
4:08life is to deserve it by doing so much
4:10work it becomes unreasonable not to
4:12achieve it.
4:13Do so much work it would be unreasonable
4:15that you fail. The seat at the table is
4:17yours if you want it.
4:19Do the hard work, build the skills no
4:21one can ignore, adjust your mindset to
4:23match where you want to go, then pull up
4:25a chair and sit down.
4:27You want to work with such relentless
4:28obsession that when people see you
4:30they're grateful they don't have to
4:31compete against you.
4:33The fastest shortcut is to stop looking
4:35for shortcuts.
4:36Do the work.
4:38>> Are those all mine?
4:40>> All one.
4:44>> Violence is the answer.
4:48There's There's two There's two quotes
4:49on the
4:50on the
4:51in the first few pages of our sales
4:53handbook at eternally acquisition.com.
4:55One is volume negates luck
4:57and violence is the answer.
4:59And I would say that those are like
5:01credos that that the team lives by.
5:03And I
5:04>> Violent team.
5:05>> Mhm, they are. Um and violently
5:08successful.
5:09Um
5:10I think
5:11I think there's a lot of power
5:14in
5:18in knowing that you're doing
5:20every single thing you possibly can to
5:23win.
5:23>> Mhm.
5:25>> Because if you are if you can look at
5:27yourself in the mirror and say, "I have
5:28controlled the controllable."
5:31I think there's some level
5:32>> Entirely.
5:32>> Entirely. The controllable, not the
5:34uncontrollable. Those things can happen.
5:36I could do my book launch and there can
5:38be a lightning strike and there can be
5:39no power in Vegas. That can happen.
5:41But in the event that that happens, if
5:43you if you leave it all in the field,
5:45if you have nothing left in the tank,
5:48I don't think there's a feeling
5:51that's more satisfying as a man
5:53than knowing
5:55that you've given everything that you
5:56had to give to an endeavor that you
5:58deemed meaningful.
6:00And so Layla and I have this thing that
6:01we say a lot, but um
6:03a man must have a quest.
6:06And I just really really like that. It's
6:09like you need to do something. You need
6:11to go towards something. And your quest
6:12could be the best being the best father.
6:14It could be it could be being the best
6:16or the best podcaster or the best
6:17businessman or the best tire replacer or
6:19the best sweeper.
6:20Whatever it is, but like I think
6:23I think being questless,
6:25being aimless,
6:27and never being able to use the violence
6:30that you are capable of in the pursuit
6:33of an endeavor that you find meaningful
6:35is
6:36where people find themselves lost and
6:39without hope because
6:43hopelessness comes from a perceived lack
6:45of options.
6:47We don't know what to do.
6:50Anxiety comes from many options, but no
6:53priorities.
6:54And so there's many things to do, but we
6:56don't know which one.
6:57And so a quest
7:00remedies both of those because you have
7:03one path that you're clear on and
7:08you know the only thing that you have
7:10left to do is destroy everything in your
7:12path to getting to where you want to go.
7:14And I'm using strong language on purpose
7:17rather than saying that you literally
7:18need to destroy everyone, but more so
7:20the ideas, the thoughts, the doubts, the
7:23the perceived risks that aren't even
7:24really risks.
7:26Um
7:27those are the things that we have to
7:28march triumphantly be-
7:30towards. And I think um
7:32having someone in your corner
7:34uh
7:36who believes in that better version of
7:38you
7:39is one of the
7:41the rarest gifts gifts that you can have
7:42in life.
7:44And
7:45there's a line from 300 that I love. The
7:47queen says to Leonidas, she she says um
7:52"Come back with your shield or on it."
7:54And I think that we all want a spouse or
7:56a partner
7:57who can who can reward us
8:01for the good fight. Because what that
8:05queen is saying in that moment is not
8:06like I want you to win. She's like, "I
8:08want you to die trying."
8:10>> Mhm.
8:11>> So, and I think that that's that's like
8:13all we were I mean, to be fair, that's
8:14literally all we will do is die trying.
8:17All of us will die trying. And I think
8:19um or rather all of us will die. Some of
8:21us will die trying.
8:23And I think that's that's about as
8:25good of a life as I think anyone can
8:27really ask for.
8:29>> One of my least favorite groups of
8:31people are those without a quest mocking
8:32those who have one.
8:39>> Wastes of space.
8:41>> What causes doubt? This is another
8:42reason why the lonely chapter thing
8:44resonates so much that people who are in
8:46it
8:47have their certainty about wanting to
8:49get out of it diminished by people who
8:52can't see the fact that they're in it.
8:54And you go, "Fuck, uh all of my friends
8:56are saying, 'Well, why why are you
8:57staying in cuz you want to go to the gym
8:58in the morning? What does it matter if
8:59you miss
9:00What does it matter if you miss your
9:02workout?'"
9:03Doesn't matter if you It doesn't matter
9:04if you miss your workout tomorrow, dude.
9:06You go, "No, I really, really want this
9:08thing."
9:09And my wanting of this hard thing and
9:12the efforts and sacrifices and tradeoffs
9:14I'm having to make in order to get
9:15there,
9:17the doubt that already exists inside of
9:19me is being multiplied by people who are
9:21outside of it.
9:23And
9:24if I could give everybody a gift, it
9:26would be the ability to turn down the
9:28volume on people who don't understand
9:30the goals that you're trying to achieve.
9:32It shouldn't be your job to explain
9:34yourself to people who don't understand
9:36what you're trying to do.
9:38And the confusion of this person gets it
9:41and understands it,
9:42and this person doesn't,
9:45you shouldn't be listening to them at
9:46equal measure.
9:53I have a lot of live translation that I
9:54think um I've wired into being able to
9:57handle some things that were difficult,
9:59um which is like I pretty much translate
10:02all heat into you live your life against
10:04my preferences.
10:05And so whenever they're saying all of
10:07these things of like, "No, you don't
10:08have to go to the gym. We We're doing
10:09this other thing." It's just saying,
10:10"You're living your life in a way that's
10:11against my preferences. You're valuing
10:12things that I don't value." And you're
10:14like, "You're right." And so it doesn't
10:15mean like we don't need to have the same
10:17values, at least in the short term.
10:19Um
10:21and I think just accepting that that is
10:22okay and that you can still be friends
10:25at least in the short term
10:27is fine. And
10:29what they're really trying to do is get
10:30you to comply with their way of living
10:32because maybe, not always,
10:37when you live in accordance with your
10:39new values and new preferences,
10:43it brings into sharp contrast how they
10:45are not living in accordance to theirs.
10:47>> Yeah.
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