When it comes to having fun and trying new things, perfectionism is a wet blanket.
As one of my Teach Yourself Anything students, Jonathan Danao, put it: "I used to approach things with the mindset that, if I'm not going to be the best, then why even bother?"
Sound familiar?
Let's go down this rabbit hole...
Q: What happens when you set "the best" as your bar for success?
A: You start to become really selective about what you're willing to do.
That's very logical.
- "I'd love to learn how to tango, but I'm a terrible dancer now. It would take a long time to become great."
- "If I try to learn something new — like how to play guitar — that's time not spent on the stuff I'm already good at — like SEO."
- "I can only be the best at one, maybe two, things. I need to focus on that."
Ask 100 people what they do for fun and 95 of them respond with their job title!
Yes, yes, some people might say "watching TV," but how many of us define ourselves by our job title? How many of us introduce ourselves by asking, "What do you do?"
This is more than a social crutch. For chronic perfectionists, this is the side effect of focusing too much on one major talent. You become, say, a world-class back-end developer … and struggle to talk about anything else.
My goal is to help you live a Rich Life — in your job and outside of it. I want you to be interesting and interested enough to have amazing hobbies. And when you talk about them, I want people to see the passion in your eyes.
Today, I want to show you the system I use to learn one new skill quickly, all while still having a life!
I put the entire system in my course: Teach Yourself Anything.
These are the tools, techniques, and mindsets I use to learn any new skill fast. If you want to stop thinking about all the cool things you want to learn and start doing them, this is for you.
Here's a sneak peek at what's included (full details here):
- How to dominate difficult learning curves by leveraging your own hidden psychological triggers
- One simple tweak that can overwrite 20 years of programming and install a brand new skill in less than 20 hours (with very minimal practice)
- Why we're lazy — and how to work around our inherent laziness
- 4 simple questions that will break apart the successes of other people and isolate winning tactics you can use in your own life
- How to get quick, easy wins from otherwise big, intimidating goals — like learning to be funny, speaking Italian, or becoming a great public speaker
- The Personality Quiz: A simple, 10-minute exercise that can rapidly accelerate your ability to learn any skill
- My "one hour" rule that helps me learn 2x faster — I spent SIX MONTHS trying to learn the drums before I started using this
- How to identify amazing teachers … and skip the not-so-amazing ones
- The Drinking Game strategy for learning new languages fast
- Why it gets easier to talk yourself out of learning new skills as you get older — and why starting from scratch actually gives you a huge advantage
- The 4-word phrase I use to turn embarrassment into a strength
- How I distill new subjects down to their core principles — without reading thousands of books
- 3 ways to get brutally honest feedback so you can accelerate your progress in any skill
- The pre-persuasion elements you can embed in your environment to persuade yourself to stay focused
- The Stacking Technique: Use this to add 10 hours of learning time per month without changing up your daily routine
Join Teach Yourself Anything today and get the master key for radically speeding up how you learn ANY skill.
As Teach Yourself Anything student Jonathan describes it:
"It's cool to be able to do a lot of things, and know a lot about different things, that fall outside of what people expect of you. It's nice to be able to say, 'I'm more than just writing code and building reports. I can make coffee, I can solve a Rubik's Cube, I can make music.' It's really cool to be able to say that."
