Jim Kwik explains Stephen Covey's 'sharpen the saw' habit: invest in learning how to learn before tackling any task. A dull saw requires more force. Once sharpened, the same work becomes easier. Personal development now means less effort later.
How many people here read 7 Habits of Highly Effective People? What's the 7th habit? Sharpen the saw. Sharpen the saw. Very good. Sharpen the saw. The metaphor here is if you have all this wood to cut and you have a saw with a dull blade, when do you wanna sharpen it? Before you start cutting the wood, right? Because a lot of people are gonna work hard, is gonna work a lot harder with it if you have a dull blade and they have to sweat and perspire and work 3 or 4 times harder when they could have sharpened their saw. And so learning how to learn, like Vishen was talking about, that's you sharpening the saw, because anything that comes afterwards is going to be easier, right? And so that person's not working harder, they're working what? Smarter.
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