Results Come From Our Actions, Not Aspirations

0:00Lazy people don't know how to start. Weak people don't know how to finish. Successful people don't know how to stop. People demand success, but refuse to work weekends. People want opportunity, but won't talk to strangers. People claim ambition, but sleep in every day. We are the result of our actions, not our aspirations. >> I think once you've actually learned how to try, really try, one thing for an extended period of time, every single day, and take in all of your discretionary effort, and your money, and your time, and your resources, and put it towards just doing that thing.

0:30Number one, you realize how few things you can really do well because of the amount of time that it takes. The second thing is you realize how easy it is to beat everyone else because of how few of them actually do that. Learning how to try becomes a generalizable skill across domains. So, when you do learn how to play the saxophone, and if you want to pick up tennis, you think about how many sessions you did to fix your fingers, and play a more advanced and a more advanced thing over and over again. When you realize that the domains are similar in terms of skill achievement, you're like, "Oh, this is the same thing." And then when you go like, "Oh, I need to make content now." It's like, "Oh, it's the same as hitting 500 forehands and 500 backhands, and to make 500 tweets and 400 posts." And if I do it for an extended period of time, and I take the feedback, and I don't stop, I'll probably beat most people.