Nick HutchisonFounder and CEO, BookThinkers

Study and research those who have come before you!

6 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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In this motivational monologue, the speaker urges listeners to avoid the costly trial‑and‑error of figuring everything out alone. He advocates finding people who have already succeeded, copying their methods, and using existing resources—books, coaching programs, and online guides—to accelerate personal growth. He explains that his own books and free website content are designed to spare others the time, money, and mistakes he endured. The speaker emphasizes that even a single book or a single chapter can be life‑changing, and that investing modestly in deeper learning is a smart strategy. The overall message is that learning from predecessors is the smartest thing one can do to achieve goals quickly.

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But here's another thing. Don't waste your life trying to figure it out all for yourself. Find someone who's already done it and then do it yourself. Copy that person. Copying is one of the smartest things that you can do in the whole world because you can save yourself months and years of hard work. One of the reasons I wrote all these books is to help save people the effort of learning it all by themselves and making the mistakes and spending all that money. So people say, what are the keys to writing a book? I said, well, here's the— in my coaching program, People would ask over and over because people who go to my coaching program are ambitious. They want to know how to write a book. So I show them how. And so I put that on my website as well. And it's free. So that's another way to help you to achieve things. So one of the smartest things you can do is research, is find out from other people what they have done. And then if you want to go deeper into it, well, you may have to spend a little bit more money. But the smartest thing you can do in the whole world is learn from others. And one, one book, one chapter in one book can change your life.