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March 3, 2024
Practice #74 - Don't Read Books, USE Them!
Taking action on books is essential to succeed.
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Seven months ago I was reading this book.
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It was called Dotcom Secrets.
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And I just read it all through.
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I was like, oh, it's good.
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And then, you know what I did?
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I read the next book, Expert Secrets.
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Read it all through.
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Oh, it's good.
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And then I read the next book, Traffic Secrets.
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Read it all through.
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Oh, nice.
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What's wrong with that?
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Well, some may argue it's actually good.
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Like, you're reading educational books that are actually
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going to help your goals.
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But the thing is that it took me seven months to take action
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on the first step on that first book, Dotcom Secrets.
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Seven months.
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Literally the simplest step identifying your dream customer.
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Seven months.
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Took me.
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Now, yes, there were some things I took action on right away,
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like in Expert Secrets.
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I took action on starting a podcast straight away.
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Actually, it took me 14 days to take action on that,
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even though I was practicing my recording before that.
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But the thing is that I kind of have this theory where I'm
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just going to tell you how it related to me.
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Because let's say when I just started my entrepreneurship
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journey, which, OK, let's just say when I first started
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taking entrepreneurship seriously and actually reading
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books about it.
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That was like seven, eight months ago.
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And I would read books like Dotcom Secrets, Expert Secrets,
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Traffic Secrets, Four Hour Workweek, The E-Mith Revisited,
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all kinds of books like that.
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And I didn't really take much action on them.
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It was all just kind of like soaking up the knowledge
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and adding it to my database, which I actually think is good.
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Because in the beginning, I didn't really
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have a very actionable mindset.
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Because that's something you develop.
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One of the early things that I realized
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is pretty much all throughout high school
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is really focusing on my physical health and my fitness
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and my physique and exercising a lot.
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And so I developed this thing that I called the,
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all right, let's do it mindset.
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It's pretty much where whenever you're
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like about to do an exercise, you're just like, all right,
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let's do it.
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So for example, I would go to the park over summer
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with my friend.
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And there was this guy who was older than us,
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who was basically training us.
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And we were doing crazy hard exercises, like bear crawls,
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backwards bear crawls, forward bear crawls, crab walks,
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like literally all the way across a soccer field
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and like many sets of each.
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And we're doing like pretty difficult exercises.
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So we just got done with this brutal workout.
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We are completely pooped.
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And then he was like, all right, to finish it off,
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full field sprint.
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And then I was just like, all right, let's do it.
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Even though I felt like literally terrible,
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like I was literally so tired already.
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But I just did it.
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So that's kind of the all right, let's do it mindset.
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And early on in my entrepreneurship journey,
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like when I first started reading books about it,
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I identified the fact that successful entrepreneurs
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have that all right, let's do it mindset,
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for entrepreneurship.
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I only had it for physical activities.
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So then I, early on I realized, okay,
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I gotta build this mindset for the entrepreneurship.
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Cause that's what allowed me to have so much success
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in my physical fitness.
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Because I literally just say, all right, let's do it.
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Like I don't really allow my mind to give it
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any extra thought, I just do it.
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And so that, I figured that it would help me a lot more
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to develop that for entrepreneurship.
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But it took me time to build that up
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in my physical abilities, like years, maybe months,
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I don't know.
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So it was not gonna happen straight away
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to build it up on entrepreneurship.
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And then I went, I just kept reading more and more books.
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I was just taking as much action as was easiest for me
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at the time.
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So literally all the action that I took
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in the beginning was recording a podcast.
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That's literally all I did.
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And I would just do like one episode a day.
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And then I did like a progressive overload
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where I would do like, I started with like 10 minute episodes
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and then 11 minutes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes.
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And then it just kept going up until I got to one hour.
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And then I did like one hour episodes for like months.
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And then eventually I kind of stopped that
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because I realized I got to change course.
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But that just like developing that habit
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of literally just sitting down for every day for an hour
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and just knowing that that's what I'm doing.
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I'm recording on an episode.
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That helped develop the, all right, let's do a mindset.
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And this whole time I was reading books,
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but not really taking much action on them.
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And then something kind of switched.
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I believe that it was,
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once I really started to take YouTube seriously,
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I started editing my videos.
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And so that was something that I didn't really want to do.
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It was something that I kind of like,
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I was like, ah, I don't want to edit.
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But I did it anyways.
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And I, like initially I was really bad.
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All I could do was literally like make cuts.
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That's it.
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I didn't know how to add pictures or anything.
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And then eventually I started adding pictures
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and I started like zooming in and like adding videos
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and all kinds of things, animations.
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And that period of literally just locking in
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for less than a month, maybe even one month.
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I don't know.
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I think that me locking in and being like,
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all right, this is what I'm focusing on.
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Like before it was recording one hour podcast.
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And that built up my recording ability.
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So now I can just be like, all right,
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let's do it for recording.
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But now I had to build up this brand new skill of editing.
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I was like, I gotta do this.
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Like you know how it feels when you have to learn,
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when you want to learn a new skill,
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but you kind of like don't really want to do the work.
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Like that's what I was feeling.
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But I just did it.
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I did like every single week I was like,
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all right, I'm gonna get better and better and better.
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Until eventually I was literally spending hours every day
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editing.
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And that's what I was, that's all I was thinking of.
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Like how can I make this better?
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Edit, how can do this?
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How can do that?
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And eventually it got to the point just like the one hour
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podcast did where I kind of like realized
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I gotta change directions because now that I've developed
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this skill, I don't really want to focus too much time
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on it anymore.
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So then I completely changed directions
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and went back into recording.
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But I think that me, like the process that I took
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to develop the all right, let's do it mindset
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was simply just picking a skill and building it.
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Like the original skill that I developed was recording,
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like literally recording a podcast.
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I wasn't like right now I'm practicing recording a video
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which is different because you have to make hand motions,
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you have to like look at the camera,
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you have to walk around or in my case you have to walk around
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but like you gotta do different things.
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And then, but I didn't like complicate myself with all that.
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Like initially I just did a podcast.
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So it was complete like no visual.
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Like I would literally just,
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I could literally just look at anything.
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Oftentimes I would literally just zone out
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staring at like my water bottle or the lamp or something.
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Literally just staring like just zone out and just talk.
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That helped me build my first skill
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of literally just talking.
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And that was like the, that was the first skill
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that I used to develop the all right, let's do it mindset.
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And then I had to diversify
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because I couldn't get locked into one thing.
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So then I learned editing
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and I literally just spent hours learning how to edit.
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And then I will also another skill that I learned was
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creating thumbnails, which I'm very like that was also hours
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that I spent doing that too.
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And so like these three skills that I learned
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really helped me to develop the RL is do a mindset
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for entrepreneurship and in the beginning of this journey
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I was reading books, not really taking much action.
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I would just take action on the easiest, simplest things
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or the things that I knew would impact me the most.
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For example, when I first started recording a podcast
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even though I didn't upload the first 14 episodes
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that was really difficult for me to do.
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But I knew that was like the 20%
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like the 80, 20 rule, the podcast was like
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the most important thing for me to take action on.
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So I knew that the results far outweighed
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like the risks and the fears and all that.
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So that's what I took action on.
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So the three, like I learned these skills
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and they helped develop my all right, let's do it mindset.
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And now, now when I'm reading books
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I'm far more likely to actually take action right away.
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Like it took me seven months to take action
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on the dot com secrets thing.
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And then it took me like eight months to take action
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on one thing that I read in expert secrets
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cause I'm in the middle of rereading it right now.
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So I'm literally just taking action on everything now.
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And one more thing that helped with that is I kind of locked
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in my taking action and kind of built a positive feedback loop.
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When I first started recording the podcast, I was like
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I understood the value of the positive feedback loop
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because I remembered back to when I was starting
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going to the gym.
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Like the first couple of weeks was pretty difficult.
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Like I was like, I don't really want to do this
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but like I want the results.
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And so I kind of just like use my willpower
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on going to the gym, making sure that I get consistent
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until I build that positive feedback loop.
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So then I don't need to actually use nearly
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as much willpower anymore.
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So I understood the value of that
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and I applied that same principle to the podcast
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because when I recorded the podcast in the beginning
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it was tough, it was difficult.
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Like I didn't want to do it, it was scary.
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And I was scared of people judging me.
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I was scared of myself.
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I was scared of all kinds of things
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and it was just work.
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Like it was like simple as that.
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It was just like something that is action.
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Like people don't want to take action on things
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because it's easier not to.
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And then, or should I say it's easier to distract yourself
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because eventually when you do nothing,
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literally nothing stare at a wall,
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it is easier to take action than to continue staring at a wall.
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But that's a different topic.
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So I got the positive feedback loop formed.
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That happened probably like 30 episodes in, 20 episodes in.
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So after a month of recording the podcast,
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I got the positive feedback loop formed.
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And I used that same principle
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by developing the positive feedback loop
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on something even more important,
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which is taking consistent action on books.
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Because you shouldn't read books.
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You should use them.
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And this is something that
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I never really took fully advantage of
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until really recently, like within the past two months.
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Because the first book that I really said,
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okay, I was gonna take action on everything in this book
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was a book called Deep Work.
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And that book I read like this year,
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the next book that I said,
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was a storytelling book.
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but that doesn't matter.
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that you're about to read,
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just remind yourself of all the discipline that you have,
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until you take action.
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say, okay, you're not gonna read until the next section
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or the next sentence.
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the Power Personal Storytelling.
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at the end of every single chapter.
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I would literally just say, okay, I'm at the end of the chapter,
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because now I know just how beneficial it is
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to take action on books.
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you know what I did?
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figured out the first thing that I needed to do
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took action on that.
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but then after that, I read another storytelling book,
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and I'm gonna take action on everything
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that's applicable to me,
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because there's some things that may not apply to me,
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but pretty much, I'm like 20 minutes into,
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or 20 to 30 pages into Expert Secrets,
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and I already identified one or two things that I didn't do.
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Like books are for reading,
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or no, books are for using and not reading.
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to read a nonfiction book over a fiction book,
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but like once you get to a certain point,
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take action on books, and don't just read it, take action.
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because when I was reading like four hour work week,
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and the e-meth revisited, a lot of that stuff
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was not really applicable at the moment,
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but it kinda built my database in my mind
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to like expand my opportunities,
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and expand my potential,
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because when you have a goal,
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and you don't really know much,
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your field of vision is just very narrow.
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even if you're not taking action,
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you kind of expand the field of vision.
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of your field of vision, so you didn't really know
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if you were going the right direction,
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and the more you read, you're like,
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oh, I gotta change course,
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and now you can move towards the goal.
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definitely take action on books.
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Seven months ago I was reading this book.
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It was called Dotcom Secrets.
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I was like, oh, it's good.
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Read it all through.
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Oh, it's good.
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And then I read the next book, Traffic Secrets.
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Read it all through.
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Oh, nice.
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What's wrong with that?
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Well, some may argue it's actually good.
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Like, you're reading educational books that are actually
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going to help your goals.
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on the first step on that first book, Dotcom Secrets.
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Seven months.
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Literally the simplest step identifying your dream customer.
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Took me.
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like in Expert Secrets.
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I took action on starting a podcast straight away.
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even though I was practicing my recording before that.
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just going to tell you how it related to me.
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journey, which, OK, let's just say when I first started
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taking entrepreneurship seriously and actually reading
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books about it.
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Traffic Secrets, Four Hour Workweek, The E-Mith Revisited,
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all kinds of books like that.
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have a very actionable mindset.
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Because that's something you develop.
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is pretty much all throughout high school
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is really focusing on my physical health and my fitness
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and my physique and exercising a lot.
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all right, let's do it mindset.
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with my friend.
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who was basically training us.
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like literally all the way across a soccer field
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like I was literally so tired already.
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have that all right, let's do it mindset,
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for entrepreneurship.
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in my physical fitness.
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any extra thought, I just do it.
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to develop that for entrepreneurship.
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in my physical abilities, like years, maybe months,
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to build it up on entrepreneurship.
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at the time.
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in the beginning was recording a podcast.
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of literally just sitting down for every day for an hour
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I believe that it was,
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once I really started to take YouTube seriously,
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and all kinds of things, animations.
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I was like, I gotta do this.
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when you want to learn a new skill,
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podcast did where I kind of like realized
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this skill, I don't really want to focus too much time
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on it anymore.
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and went back into recording.
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But I think that me, like the process that I took
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to develop the all right, let's do it mindset
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was simply just picking a skill and building it.
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Like the original skill that I developed was recording,
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like literally recording a podcast.
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I wasn't like right now I'm practicing recording a video
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which is different because you have to make hand motions,
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you have to like look at the camera,
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you have to walk around or in my case you have to walk around
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but like you gotta do different things.
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And then, but I didn't like complicate myself with all that.
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Like initially I just did a podcast.
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So it was complete like no visual.
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Like I would literally just,
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I could literally just look at anything.
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Oftentimes I would literally just zone out
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staring at like my water bottle or the lamp or something.
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Literally just staring like just zone out and just talk.
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That helped me build my first skill
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of literally just talking.
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And that was like the, that was the first skill
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that I used to develop the all right, let's do it mindset.
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And then I had to diversify
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because I couldn't get locked into one thing.
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So then I learned editing
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and I literally just spent hours learning how to edit.
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And then I will also another skill that I learned was
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creating thumbnails, which I'm very like that was also hours
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that I spent doing that too.
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And so like these three skills that I learned
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really helped me to develop the RL is do a mindset
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for entrepreneurship and in the beginning of this journey
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I was reading books, not really taking much action.
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I would just take action on the easiest, simplest things
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or the things that I knew would impact me the most.
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For example, when I first started recording a podcast
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even though I didn't upload the first 14 episodes
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that was really difficult for me to do.
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But I knew that was like the 20%
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like the 80, 20 rule, the podcast was like
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the most important thing for me to take action on.
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So I knew that the results far outweighed
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like the risks and the fears and all that.
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So that's what I took action on.
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So the three, like I learned these skills
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and they helped develop my all right, let's do it mindset.
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And now, now when I'm reading books
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I'm far more likely to actually take action right away.
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Like it took me seven months to take action
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on the dot com secrets thing.
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And then it took me like eight months to take action
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on one thing that I read in expert secrets
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cause I'm in the middle of rereading it right now.
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So I'm literally just taking action on everything now.
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And one more thing that helped with that is I kind of locked
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in my taking action and kind of built a positive feedback loop.
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When I first started recording the podcast, I was like
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I understood the value of the positive feedback loop
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because I remembered back to when I was starting
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going to the gym.
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Like the first couple of weeks was pretty difficult.
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Like I was like, I don't really want to do this
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but like I want the results.
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And so I kind of just like use my willpower
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on going to the gym, making sure that I get consistent
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until I build that positive feedback loop.
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as much willpower anymore.
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So I understood the value of that
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and I applied that same principle to the podcast
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because when I recorded the podcast in the beginning
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it was tough, it was difficult.
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Like I didn't want to do it, it was scary.
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And I was scared of people judging me.
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I was scared of myself.
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I was scared of all kinds of things
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and it was just work.
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Like it was like simple as that.
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It was just like something that is action.
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Like people don't want to take action on things
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because it's easier not to.
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And then, or should I say it's easier to distract yourself
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because eventually when you do nothing,
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literally nothing stare at a wall,
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it is easier to take action than to continue staring at a wall.
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But that's a different topic.
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So I got the positive feedback loop formed.
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That happened probably like 30 episodes in, 20 episodes in.
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So after a month of recording the podcast,
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I got the positive feedback loop formed.
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And I used that same principle
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by developing the positive feedback loop
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on something even more important,
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which is taking consistent action on books.
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Because you shouldn't read books.
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You should use them.
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And this is something that
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I never really took fully advantage of
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until really recently, like within the past two months.
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Because the first book that I really said,
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okay, I was gonna take action on everything in this book
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was a book called Deep Work.
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And that book I read like this year,
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so two months ago, I realized that
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I pretty much have already done all of the things
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on that book, so I didn't really need to take action.
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So that was like kind of a bad opportunity
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for me to build that positive feedback loop.
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And then the next book was,
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the next book that I said,
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okay, I'm gonna take action on everything
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was a storytelling book.
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Because storytelling is something that I knew
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I needed to build.
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Like that's a skill that is required for influencing others
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and is required for being a great YouTuber.
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And so I was like, okay, I'm getting this storytelling book
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and I'm taking action on everything.
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And so usually, if I just read it normally,
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I could have probably gotten it done in like a week.
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It was like 200 pages maybe.
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But I took action on everything and I said,
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I am not going to move forward on the book
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until I take action.
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Because I remember back to the summer
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when I was so addicted to reading,
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I just didn't take action.
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It was so much easier to just keep reading on.
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And then I ended up just not letting myself read
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until I took action, which I failed at doing that,
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but that doesn't matter.
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And so I'm sitting at this book and I'm like, okay,
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I've built up all of this discipline.
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I take cold showers, I work out,
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I have learned how to edit,
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I learned how to build thumbnails.
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I've built up all of this discipline.
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So now it's time to use it.
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Because a lot of times people forget that they have discipline.
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So you gotta be conscious of the fact that
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when you have discipline, you can use it towards things.
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So if there's something that you want to achieve,
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for example, taking action on the book
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that you're about to read,
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just remind yourself of all the discipline that you have,
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and then say, I am gonna use all of this discipline for this.
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And then just don't let yourself read to the next chapter
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until you take action.
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Or if it's like an actual step in the middle of a chapter,
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say, okay, you're not gonna read until the next section
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or the next sentence.
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Like, I was lucky for the first book that I read,
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the Power Personal Storytelling.
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He had actionable steps, like literally an activity to do
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at the end of every single chapter.
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And I would do them.
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I would literally just say, okay, I'm at the end of the chapter,
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I'm gonna read this activity, and then I'm gonna do it.
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And then I'm not gonna read on until I'm done.
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And it took probably like two to three weeks
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to read that book instead of one week, but it was worth it.
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Because I took action and I built that positive feedback loop
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because now I know just how beneficial it is
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to take action on books.
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So then now, right after I read that book,
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you know what I did?
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I went back to Dotcom Secrets,
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figured out the first thing that I needed to do
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took action on that.
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I didn't read Dotcom Secrets again,
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but then after that, I read another storytelling book,
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I took action on everything on that.
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And then, now I'm in the middle of reading Expert Secrets,
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and I'm gonna take action on everything
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that's applicable to me,
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because there's some things that may not apply to me,
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but pretty much, I'm like 20 minutes into,
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or 20 to 30 pages into Expert Secrets,
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and I already identified one or two things that I didn't do.
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So that's the power of taking action.
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Like books are for reading,
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or no, books are for using and not reading.
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Like if you wanna read a book, I still think it's valuable
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to read a nonfiction book over a fiction book,
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but like once you get to a certain point,
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take action on books, and don't just read it, take action.
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And I still think it's valuable to read all these books,
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because when I was reading like four hour work week,
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and the e-meth revisited, a lot of that stuff
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was not really applicable at the moment,
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but it kinda built my database in my mind
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to like expand my opportunities,
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and expand my potential,
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because when you have a goal,
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and you don't really know much,
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your field of vision is just very narrow.
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But the more you read and the more you learn,
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even if you're not taking action,
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you kind of expand the field of vision.
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So now let's say the goal was just outside
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of your field of vision, so you didn't really know
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if you were going the right direction,
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and the more you read, you're like,
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oh, I gotta change course,
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and now you can move towards the goal.
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So it's good both ways, but once you get to a certain point,
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definitely take action on books.
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