Fall On Your Butt 20,000 Times :)

Hey, party people, what's up? This is Brian. I am recording this on Saturday morning. The whiteboard is growing. As you know, I'm creating the coffee table book now. And these are the hundred notes that I'm working on. We've got abundance books, we've got modern classics. We've got top 20th century books. We've got positive psychology. This is where a lot of those books are. Anyway, that's not why I turned it on. I'm gonna walk over to the morning office. We'll wave at Alexandra. What up? She's helping me out with the editing, taking my edits and polishing them with me, which is awesome. Thank you, darling. What do we got here? We've got the Bhagavad Gita, we've got the anorexic Confucius, some Nietzsche and some Tole, and then a bunch of other ones that I've edited and we're still polishing. And I'm excited about this Deepak golf book. But again, let's get to work. So doing my morning routine, as you may know, I get up at 5am, meditate for an hour and then move for an hour and then eat by eight. There's my oatmeal. Have some tea and do some reading. Reading this right now. Talent is overrated. Great book. What really separates world class performers from everybody else? So the idea there is that talent's awesome, but that's not what makes great people great. What makes great people great is a lot of things, but primarily deliberate practice. So great people put in, you know, upwards of 10,000 hours, actually a minimum of 10,000 hours, usually over the course of 10 years. And with that level of performance, they do great things and they also deliberately practice beyond their comfort level. So I'm actually just getting into the book and I chose to start at the end of the book. One rule when you read a book that I love. When I studied creativity, I picked this one up. Start by reading the front cover, the back cover, right? Get a sense of what's going on with the book and then check out the table of contents, kind of see what gets you fired up, right? So I'm looking at this, I'm like, oh, that's interesting. That's interesting. But I'm really interested in this, the last chapter. Where does the passion come from? Understanding the deepest question about great performance. I'm like, that's pretty cool. Out of all the stuff in this book, that's what I'm most interested in in this moment. So I'm going to Start there, which is a huge practice for me. I used to think I had to read a book from page one all the way to the end. And what would happen often is I'd stall at like page 14 and then feel bad that I didn't read it all. I've given up that habit a while ago and I now do what I want to do. So I love this line, though. So in this chapter, they're talking about, you know, where does passion come from? And then he's telling the story of this one woman who's an ice skating champion and how hard she practiced. And this whole idea of deliberate practice is one of the big ideas from the book. And the idea with deliberate practice is most people practice what they're already good at. Experts, people who become truly great, go beyond their comfort zone and they're willing to do what they're not good at yet knowing they need to do that if they want to get better. And the way he summed it up as he described this world class ice skater who won the gold medal was she had been training all her life, essentially since she was five. And he said that landing on your butt 20,000 times is where a great performance comes from, right? So she literally, he did the math. He figured that she landed on her butt on cold ice 20,000 times, perfecting all her different moves in figure skating, and that's what made her great. And most of us aren't willing to go to that edge and fall on our butts 20,000 times. So the question is, how can you fall on your butt a little bit more today and rock that? I was actually going to start and do a different big idea, but I'm actually going to leave it at that. I'll come back and film a different video. Respect your time. It's already 4 minutes and 20 seconds into the show this morning, so how about that? That's the big idea. Talent is overrated. What really separates world class performers from everybody else? Falling on your butt 20,000 times. So what do you want to be great at? Do you believe you can be great at that? Are you willing to put in the effort? And how can you start pushing your edges a little bit more? Be willing to fall down and laugh and not think that falling down is a mistake and you screwed up somehow. But that's inherent to genius. You have to be willing to fall on your butt approximately 20,000 times. So get on that. I'll share more soon. Have a great day.