A short monologue (YouTube clip) advising listeners to study what successful people do in order to build a personal "toolbox" of tactics to try. The speaker emphasizes continuously observing others' techniques, selectively adopting parts that fit, and choosing among multiple projects by following the one with the most energy. An example reference to Elon Musk illustrates that not every tactic fits everyone.
I've often said that if there was only one thing you wanted to get right from the time you're 10 years old, for the rest of your life, pay attention to what people who succeed are doing. It's not always the same thing, but you can get, like, a toolbox of things to try that may, you know, use different tools on different situations, but if you don't see the whole toolbox, you're just going to be toolless, and that's not good. I never stop looking at other people's techniques. So people like Elon Musk, you know, you look at it and you say, all right, what did he do? Okay, he bet everything he had three times. And I think, okay, that's not for me. You can't take everything everybody does and just, you know, apply it. But, you know, you can find people who tried five things, and one of them worked. And I say, I could try five things. Like, I could do that. So you just look for the parts that work, and you never turn it off. But in terms of a specific project, it really selects me. So right now, I have half a dozen things I'm working on, but some of them will drag me, and others will make me hit a plateau. And I'll say, well, I'm going to take the one that has all the energy.
