The Secret to Getting Good at Anything

0:00You can beat most people at anything if you just stick with it for a year. You can become competent at just about any skill in 20 hours. It's just that people will wait 10 years to get the first 20 hours logged, right? Like if you want to learn how to play the first few notes of a guitar, you can learn in about 20 hours. Now, are you going to be Jimmyi Hendris, which Jenzy, who's a guitarist, Purple Haze, you can look it up. Anyways, the point is is that people have this huge delay before they begin.

0:26And what make things hard isn't complexity, it's consistency. And so as boring as it is, you just have to keep doing it before you get anything back. So one of my favorite quotes from myself is the world belongs to those who can keep doing without seeing the result of their doing. You have to delay how quick you get a reward, how fast you need a cookie in order to keep going. I've been told that I'm decent at presenting and talking on stage in front of people. And what a lot of people don't see is that for years I spoke with a microphone in front of a group of people and I did it like multiple times a day and I did that in the form of a fitness session. And so I had to literally stand on a box and shout around and tell people what they had to do. And I had to do that for years. And I remember when I had to get on stage for the first time and I had in high school been very nervous to public speak. And as I was about to get up on stage, I was like, why am I not nervous about this? Like this is weird. Like I should I was like, I should be nervous.

1:31Like why am I not nervous? And I was like, I've I've done this so many times. Like so many times. And I'm not talking about, you know, Civil War history and Abraham Lincoln. I'm talking about stuff I know. Outwork your self-doubt through repetition, not affirmations. You don't do it through belief. You do it through stimuli habituation, which is just fancy words for saying you expose yourself to the bad things. So many times they get used to it and it's no longer a bad thing anymore. It's just life. If you want to get over a fear, the way they do it is habituation. So if I wanted to get over, you know, being afraid of spiders, I'm not afraid of spiders, but some people are afraid of spiders, right? If you want to get over that fear, you literally lock yourself in a room with a bunch of spiders and all you do is you just have panic attack after a panic attack and you pass out and you wake up again. The spiders are there. You pass out. You keep doing eventually eventually your nervous system adjusts and 5 hours later, eight hours later, you walk out of the room unafraid because you have habituated.

2:33And so the point of practice for all of these things is to habituate as fast as you can. And so we're trying to microwave that period of time. And the thing is, let's say it takes let's say it takes this many reps. You can have this many reps take you a year or you can have it take you a month depending on how dedicated you are to it. Real quick, I'm going to show you the exact 10stage road map from zero to 100 million plus that less than 1% of companies finish. I've now done multiple times and so I can say with a lot of confidence that these are the stages as headcount increases that you need to get through. And I broke each of these down by eight different functions of the business. what the constraint feels like, like what are the symptoms of it when you're going through it, and then what steps we actually took to graduate.

3:11And we've done this across software, physical products, uh, service businesses, brick-andmortar, all of this, and it works. And it's my gift to you. It's absolutely free. And so the link's in the description, but you just go acquisition.comroadmap. Just enter your info and it'll spit it right back to you. Offering.