Most people make this mistake every day.

28 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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This content was created by Eric Siu. This content was uploaded by Eric Siu. This is a YouTube video titled "Most people make this mistake every day." (uploaded 2023-09-28) featuring a single-speaker monologue about prioritization and personal strengths/weaknesses. The speaker contrasts urgency versus importance, references the "skill stack" concept (Scott Adams), and describes their own skill stack (acquisitions, media/content, selling a vision, simplifying) while noting weaknesses (not strong at quantitative modeling or spreadsheets, easily distracted, poor memory) and the strategy of outsourcing weaker areas. No participant names are provided in the excerpt.

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think most people, including me, you sacrifice what is important for what is urgent constantly, every single day. And urgency is so much louder than what is important. Important's quiet. It's persistent, but it's quiet. My unique skill, I think overall, usually is a stack with everybody, right? I can't remember who came up with that. I think that was Scott Adams, the skill stack. The skill stack, yeah. And so if I think about my unique skill stack, part of it is certainly that I've done acquisitions for a long time. Another part of it is media or content. Probably another part is Selling people on a vision that I have so I can get other people to come along with me. Another part is probably simplifying things and getting to the core of an issue. Now, many things I'm bad at. So I'm definitely not the most quantitative mathematically. I'm not the best at like modeling and spreadsheets. I'm not the most focused. I can be very highly distracted. I don't have a good memory, so I forget stuff a lot. And so I try to spend more time on the first and outsource a lot of the second, which I know you do the same thing.