What Looks Like Luck Is Usually Skill

0:00table. Everything looks like luck to the unskilled. Ignore them. >> Yeah. >> [laughter] >> Um You have to have skill in order to perceive and recognize skill. You have to have a base level of skill. Now, you don't have to have the same level of skill as somebody else, but the greater skill you have in any domain, the more you appreciate the skill of somebody who's exceptional. So, for example, if you don't understand the rules of basketball, it's just guys passing a ball around and you don't know who scores or how it works or why they're wearing different shirts. Like, you have no understanding of what's going on.

0:42>> Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu was a great example of this. >> Yeah. >> No idea. Is that good Is he Is the guy >> winning? >> Yeah, [laughter] who's winning? >> Yeah. >> Who's winning? >> Right. And then the And then the greater your skill, the greater your appreciation for how how good someone is at that thing. >> Higher resolution, more dexterity. >> 100%. And so, like, for that reason, if if people who are around you as as you begin to walk, you know, up the ascension of beginning to get successful, you have your first signs of life. Like, oh my god, this might actually start working.

1:11Um and you get angry, um only speaking from experience here, when people attribute the success um to luck rather than effort. The reality is, one, there was probably some luck. Two, um they don't have the skill to recognize your skill. It's a question of competence, not uh malicious intent. And I think just just defining it that way has made it significantly or made it significantly easier for me to realize.

1:37It's like, oh, they they they don't have the ability to recognize what I did. Because if they did have the ability to fully comprehend the skill that it took, they would be able to do it, too. >> Mhm. Mark Manson and James Clear have got an idea that's similar to that. You only envy the lives of people whose sacrifices you cannot see. It doesn't make sense to continue wanting something if you're not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don't want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire.

2:05To crave the result but not the process is to guarantee disappointment. You only envy the lives of people whose sacrifices you cannot see. >> Yeah, I love Jimmy Carr's um people want what you have but not what you did to get it. It's just so good, you know. I I mean I think the first time I heard that I was like, [ __ ] I wish I'd written That was on this pod. >> Yeah. >> [laughter] >> So good. >> I'd written that. Um but yeah, and I think I think part of it is just like it goes back to what we started with around traits.

2:33It's like they're just price tags. And you can totally say that something costs too much. Like that is good. Like those shoes are nice, they're not worth a billion dollars or whatever that relative Yeah, to me. And so I think that being able to say like I think it is okay to say something is both good and not worth it. >> And people have a hard time with that, so they say it must be bad because I'm not willing to pay the price for it. But it's like they might be great shoes.

3:00They might not be worth it for you, but they're still good shoes. >> I think what particularly hurts is when you as a person who's put a lot of effort in see the price that you paid to acquire a skill and it appears to be dismissed by somebody that doesn't understand it. >> Or when you buy the shoes and then someone says I can't believe you bought those shoes. There's no way I would ever do that. And you're like, I know you would never do that. That's why you don't have them. And it's okay that you don't have them either. I'm not saying that as a judgment on you. It's like you don't have the shoes, I do. I thought they were worth it, you didn't. And guess what? We both are different people who live different lives and so we have stated the obvious.

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