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I have a plan. I have an an idea or at least a kernel of an idea. But I've spent the last 3 months, 6 months, 12 months, 18 months, two years thinking, thinking, thinking, thinking and not doing and not doing. Yeah.
You know, I talk in mastery about something called a concept called learning by doing. And um by doing things the brain learns. But if you never do anything, you're never going to learn. So if you suddenly said, "I've been thinking about a podcast." I would say, "Get off your ass and start the podcast tomorrow." And it fails, you have learned so many things. You've learned more in those three months of failure than you have been two years thinking or five years of getting a MBA from from some school and putting yourself in massive debt. Learn by doing, learn by failing.
But the way the world works is you don't achieve anything unless you have limits. Having limits and hitting that wall and that resistance is what makes you learn is what makes you great is how the human brain functions. And what I mean by that is let's say you learning the piano, right? You can't just start out playing anything and just doing all the notes. It's very limited what you can do, right? And you have to you have to go within those limits and those walls and learn the first things first and then those walls start to expand a little bit. But you're constantly pressing against limits and and those limits make you stronger and stronger. It's like when you're swimming, the resistance in the water is what makes your muscles bigger, right? The resistance of limits is what makes your brain bigger, makes you more successful, makes you learn.
But if all you do is live in that nebulous world of possibility, you're never developing. You're never de getting any muscle. You're never getting any strength. You're not developing life skills. It's a tough world, Stephen. You know that people can be very cruel. It could be very a mean-spirited world. You have to have a thick skin in this world. You have to develop some toughness. And you develop that toughness by trying things out and by failing.
But what you really want to do in this world in the 21st century in in our decade is skills. You want to be learning skills. The more skills you have, and I mean true skills. I don't mean trying something out for a year and then going on to something else for another. I mean getting real skill at something, right? Whether it's in computers, whether it's in the arts, in any field, real skill. And then if you can develop two or three skills by the time you're in your 20s and still have some fun, the world will open up to you. Skills are the gold of the 21st century. And if you're seduced by money, if you think about money, you're doomed because that's not what matters in life.
Why is planning and procrastination that comes with the prolonged planning so tempting for people? Like why do we love to plan plan plan plan? Because you're afraid of failure quite honestly. Um I mean Freud has a word for it in German air folks anst which means fear of success. Um because this is something that afflicts a lot of adolescents because if you're successful you now have responsibility you now have a reputation. You now have succeeded and your next venture could fail. Right? this pressure that comes with trying something and putting your name out there. And if I don't ever try anything, if I don't bother, if I blame the world, I blame my parents, I blame my education system, I blame my partner, this, that, and the other, then you never have to worry. You never have to have that responsibility. You never have to have that fear of success. And that holds people back. So, it's easier to not do anything and stay in your little bubble and go, "God, if I only if only I had had money, I would have written this great novel. I would have, you know, done this, this, that, that, or the other." It's just crap. You're trying to delude yourself and you're afraid of actually putting your neck out on the line. That's what it comes down to. It's a common syndrome among adolescents.