Codie SanchezFounder @ Contrarian Thinking

Become Great at ANYTHING

18 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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Codie Sanchez argues that greatness comes from relentless repetition and focused work. Taylor Swift has toured and made albums continuously since age 16. Picasso created roughly 200,000 works. The question is whether you can sustain hundreds of thousands of deliberate reps.

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If you look at Taylor Swift, she was like back and forth between being on tour or creating an album for the entirety of her career since she's been 16 years old. Picasso has something like 200,000 prints and paintings that he did to become the most prolific artist of all time. I do think there's balance between quantity, eventually becoming, with relentless focus, quality.
Absolutely. How can you create quality without the reps? People talk about when they went to college? They don't get shit on for that. I didn't go to college. I didn't have any formal studies. I went and worked in a brutalist environment and I worked in fucking restaurants. Number one lesson that I learned was you can become great at anything if you are willing to perform the relentless amount of repetition that it requires to become great at it. And it may be 500 times, it may be 5,000, it may be 10,000, it may be 100,000. But I do believe that anyone can be great at almost anything. It's just, how many reps is it going to take? Are you going to be able to do all those reps?