Thread by @behaviorhack

@naval on what separates the "successful" from the unsuccessful

[Clubhouse 3-10-21]

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"I think that in general in life, we spend a lot of time procrastinating by learning.

And it's by reading books, it's by reading tweets, it's by asking people. Because we're sort of kind of deciding how committed we want to be to something."

"But when we're finally committed, then we take action.

There’s nothing with trying to get the data to decide whether you want to commit to something or not."

"But I think most accomplishment comes from making a commitment, an internal commitment, that this is something that I cannot do without. It is unacceptable to me if I don't get this thing."

"And when you finally get to that stage, then you just act. And most learning is in acting."

"The only way to solve a problem is to act on it.

That’s where the greatest learning comes. It comes through failure. It comes through action. It comes through repetition."

"Malcolm Gladwell famously said to become an expert in anything you have to put in the 10,000 hours.

The tweak I put on it, and it’s a little glib because I think Gladwell would agree, it’s really 10,000 iterations, not 10,000 hours."

"Iterations are where you do something, and then you examine the outcome, you take the feedback, and then you do it again but in a slightly different way with the learning from a previous time applied."

"And that’s how we as humans accomplish anything, it’s always by doing lots and lots of iterations."

"So when we're asking for advice, when we're asking for help, when we're asking for mentorship, we're looking for books, we're watching videos, what we're really doing is we're deciding."

"And when you commit to do this thing, you’re going to just start the process of doing the thing.

You’re going to do the iterations. And I think that’s what separates the “successful" from the unsuccessful."

Thanks @naval for explaining the 'learning as procrastination' plague so well.

I definitely struggle with it. If you're reading this, you probably do as well.

There are infinite problems to learn about.

But, action is the only way those problems will ever get solved.