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0:00I mean, how do you figure out what you're good at? >> Yeah. Because there's volume and then there's also reflection on the volume. And how do you get better at the reflection portion? >> Yeah. So, it's volume times feedback loops. So, if you think about skill acquisition in general, now this is relatively well documented, but like you do the like if I want to learn any new skill. So, rather than saying like what am I good at? I think it's sometimes more valid to say like what do I want to get good at? Now, people have quote proclivities or they're like, oh, I'm naturally predisposed to these things.

0:27Maybe, but you can't control your genetics and maybe you don't know. Um, and maybe it was just a nurture thing that earlier on. I remember I had this and I will loop around to the answer, but um I was in college and one of my favorite professors uh he taught a class called systematic inquiry, which is basically like how do you ask questions and answer them, which is great. Um, and he he's a super nurture over nature guy in terms of like his his thought process around the world. And I tend to skew more towards the the the the nurture side as well. And he said like all the things that you guys think you're naturally good at, you're not naturally good at. You just got good at them earlier. And so I was like, I've always been really good at languages. And I was like, I don't I feel like that's something. And and he just looked at me and he was like, I mean, do you have a parent that speaks another language or there's someone in your life? And I was like, oh yeah, both my parents are bilingual and I spoke French as my first language. And he was like, why are we even talking? And it was like such an it felt so because I didn't see the I was like it was so natural to me that I didn't even think about it. But the the very first my existence was two languages. And so incorporating third or even seeing English differently was something that quote came natural to me, but it was just like I had a different skill set that was repeated earlier on.

1:33And so um to the original question in terms of skill acquisition, it's like you have a volume of activity that you're doing. So, if I want to learn how to, you know, play the trumpet, it'd be like, I'm going to play the trumpet for an hour and then I'm going to look at other people who play the trumpet and compare what my notes sound like to compare what their notes sound like. And the fastest way to do that is to have an expert tutor. Like, I'm a huge fan of tutoring. Um, it is the fastest way to learn. Uh, the second fastest is in small groups. And the third is to join a community of people who already have the same skill. And then you can basically learn through osmosis. Um, and when I say learn through osmosis, it's just learn through observation of the small skills and skills that they do on a regular basis that increase the likelihood they get what they want.

2:14But if you like if I'll say one thing, if you if you want to learn something, whatever it is, the fastest thing to do is go into a community of people who already know how to do that thing. Well, it's the barnown fastest thing. You'll get many different feedback groups from many different sources. you'll be able to tease out what are the the few truths rather than the mysticism that's kind of associated with the whole space because every space has my mysticism around in magic, but there's usually a few core truths that that are always true amongst all people for the skill.

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