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The Skills Required For Success
There are two non-negotiable skills that are required for success—not your typical ‘hardship’ or ‘critical thinking'—but two skills that, if you go without, you can be sure and confident that you won’t make it.
Callum Carver
May 30, 2024
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“At the centre of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want”
THE SKILLS REQUIRED FOR SUCCESS
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There are two non-negotiable skills that are required for success—not your typical ‘hardship’ or ‘critical thinking'—but two skills that, if you go without, you can be sure and confident that you won’t make it.
Here are those skills:
1) creating a plan
Without a plan, you’re winging it, and winging it means you have no goals, no organisation, no risk management, no efficiency, or room for incremental improvement.
Creating a plan is imperative because you’re assuming the future, and assuming the future means you can plan for obstacles, drawbacks, hard decisions that you’re going to have to make, and changes that will have to come to fruition.
2) adapting when nothing goes according to plan
The truth is that assuming the future is not something you should bet your money on, the likelihood is that your plan will fail, the next plan you make will also fail, and so will the next.
The key here, however, is to get good at adapting your plan when nothing goes right. This isn’t only a new perspective you have to develop, but also a skill to always see what can be changed and improved.
No matter who you look up to, they didn’t succeed on the first try.
They went through a viscous cycle of going two steps forward and one step back all the way to their end goal.
Get good at both planning and adapting.
ACTIONABLE NEXT STEPS:
Step 1 is to create a plan. Even if you know there's a high likelihood of that plan failing, you need a direction to take so that you’re not ignoring it.
As you attack that plan, things will likely go wrong, which means you have to adapt to the changes.
Everyone can make a plan, but not everyone can adapt when things go wrong.
Master the skill of adapting, and you won’t give yourself a chance to fail.
TAKEAWAYS:
There are two non-negotiable skills that are required for success:
1) Creating a plan
2) Adapting when nothing goes according to plan
Get good at both.
LESSON OF THE DAY ⤵️
If you're on the unconventional path, the best thing you can do is emulate others.
If you're on the conventional path, the worst thing you can do is emulate others.
“What is a good progressive way to increase your focus levels, to the point where you can sit through an hour or so’s work like it’s nothing. Because that will skyrocket whatever you need to get done.”
Treat your brain like a muscle; just like at the gym, you would progressively overload on weight, you need to progressively overload on focus.
Start small in 10- to 15-minute intervals with small breaks in between, and gradually increase those intervals to the point where you are achieving deep focus for an hour at a time.
Focus is something you train and improve on, not something that you naturally have an acute awareness of; treat it as such.
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