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Obsession transcends interest or curiosity.
It signifies an all-encompassing fascination, a relentless desire to understand, create, and innovate.
It's regarded as the driving force that compels you to invest time, effort, and energy into a particular endeavor, regardless of challenges or setbacks.
Ever heard of “hard work beats talent”?
but what if talent works hard?
What would you do then?
That’s when an obsession is needed.
Keeps your mind focused
This goes without saying. The longer your controlled consciousness is on a certain topic, project, or goal in life, the more ideas that will arise.
This constant focus also helps you to perform ‘unconscious effort’. This essentially means that your subconscious mind will work for you.
Even when you are completely detached from your work (immersed in a different field), your subconscious mind makes connections between these two. And works for you.
And my personal opinion → Obsession beats talent… by a lot.
Ikigai is a Japanese concept to help you find your reason of being.
Discovering your Ikigai involves navigating the intersections of these elements:
It's essential to recognize that finding your Ikigai is a profound journey of self-discovery and self-awareness. It might require patience, experimentation, and continuous introspection, but this process of exploration is integral to your personal growth.
The secret to success is to pursue skills that are not taught in school.
Here are the skills you need to master in the new digital economy ↓
There are two types of skills:
Meta-skills are skills that help you learn other skills faster.
Here’s 3 meta-skills you need to learn:
Now, let’s break down the actual skills you need to learn.
But first, I need you to understand that in a business, there are two main aspects: Offer and Traffic.
Offer is the product/service you are trying to sell.
Traffic is the distribution. It’s how you are going to get people to see your offer. In most cases, this will be social media content.
To master offers, you need these skills:
To master traffic, you need these skills:
Let’s move on to maintenance skills.
These are skills that can be delegated. But at the start, you need to learn them.
Some of these skills include:
Essentially, these are the skills needed to run the admin and makes sure your website, products, or the softwares you use work properly.
They require the technical aspect of your brain.
Now, all you have to do is combine this skill stack to the skills you are actually teaching.
So for example, if you teach people how to learn programming:
Modern skill stack (offers and traffic) + maintenance skills + Programming + your creative interests = Irreplaceable
Your creative interests include your curiosities. This could be nature, philosophy, neuroscience or others.
Adding these creative interests into your brand will make you unique and form your niche of one.
All successful entrepreneurs are lifelong students.
Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you will ever have is your mind and what you put into it. – Albert Einstein
Learning is a skill and one of the best ways to improve your learning process is by using the Socratic Method.
But first, who is Socrates?
Socrates was a Greek philosopher who sought to get to the foundations of his students' and colleagues' views by asking continual questions until a contradiction was exposed, thus proving the fallacy of the initial assumption. (credits https://www.law.uchicago.edu/socratic-method)
This became known as the Socratic Method.
So next time you come across a thought, suggestion, or any piece of content, ask yourself why, understand other viewpoints and ask questions.
When you first get started, the first period is the most fun, riskless, and ruleless. There is very little at stake when you first start. Try as much as you can. Take on risk when you have fewer responsibilities at stake.
Experiment. Experiment. Experiment.
I can’t stress this enough. If you don’t try new things, how would you know if they’ll work or not?
Set up an environment where the decision-making happens free of the misguiding force of persuasion - Rick Rubin
This is an opportune moment to take risks and push boundaries, unencumbered by the fear of failure.
Guiding principles are important — when you first start.
You need to know what you’re getting into.
Understand how to get to your desired outcome.
The lessons in this guide will help you. I also recommend you to download the branding checklists from the navbar (they’re free). You can use them to make sure you are on track.
Only strategy isn’t enough. Execution is needed.
A lot of people think they’re making progress when in fact, they’re just strategising.
Don’t get me wrong, strategy is important. Because poor strategy = failed execution
It’s the equivalent of building the foundation of a building.
So, what does execution mean?
Execution = Carrying out a plan
This is the period where you go full on with learning the skills you need and mastering them.
Okay, now that you are familiar with the field, and have experience + expertise in your field.
You can start to un-structure the structured.
What do I mean by ‘Un-structure The Structured’?
I mean, forgo all the guiding principles you learned.
Start from a clean slate.
“Forget” about the competition.
“Forget” about the things you built so far.
Look at your work from fresh eyes.
If you can create anything you want (if there were no skills/money limitations), what would you create?
Write it down. Figure out a way to do that.
When you are deeply immersed in your work, you tend to develop a certain kind of blindness around it — which stops you from seeing potential possibilities/improvements.
Look from fresh eyes. As if that work wasn’t yours.
Reconstruct and rebuild.
This is the end of Phase 1.
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