Chad Silverstein (Day 170: "Learning...") delivers a short motivational talk urging viewers to invest in themselves through lifelong learning and self-knowledge. He argues there is rarely a "good time" to start personal development, insists learning compounds like compound interest, and recommends steady, small steps (not all-at-once change) toward skill mastery and self-improvement (references 10,000-hours-style mastery).
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When people are interested in built to lead and they come to us about being a one on one client, the number one reason people decide to not pursue it, at least they tell us, is going to be because of time. Because it's not a good time. As if like there is a good time, there's usually not a good time. And I can tell you right now, the time to not do it is when you're going through some tough times, that's too late. And the best investment you can make, hands down, is learning about yourself, making yourself better. That compound interest over time will serve you so much better than investing anything outside of yourself that will either be temporary or something that you could lose once you realize it. A life full of lifelong learning, constant, never ending learning, provides benefits that don't get taken away from you. And you realize that your biggest asset, it's right there. So whether you want to learn about who you are and you want to sit there and work on your core, you want to be able to hone in on a skill and you're going to focus in and learn about what's going to make you better at whatever you want to pursue, you are the best investment. So to say that you don't have time to work on yourself, it's just doesn't make sense. And you're shooting yourself in the foot and you gotta just, you gotta recognize that you are the best thing that you can invest in. You're learning your growth and it pays those dividends forever. So never. You know, the best built elite clients that they are on that path, they never stop learning. They're always honing their skills, they're always mastering their craft. They're after those 10,000 hours and they expand, they expand into new things. They play in different areas and they learn new things. They challenge the things they have learned to get better at what they already know. And that is just, it's attractive to people that you're leading. It's a way to model the way and it's a way to really just invest in yourself in a way that no one else will ever be able to do for you, like you can do for yourself. So again, take stock where you're at right now. How well do you do that, invest in yourself? How much time and energy do you do that compared to how much time and energy you're on your phone and, and just be honest with yourself and change things if you need to change things and take small steps towards those changes instead of trying to feel like you need to change everything. All at once.
