This is a YouTube video titled "Why Doing the Hard Work Matters?" containing a monologue or talk recorded in January 2025. The speaker discusses the importance of doing foundational work and learning through experience before leveraging technology or shortcuts, using the metaphor of ankle weights in training for a marathon to illustrate the value of initial effort for long-term success.
So that by the time you ran the marathon, you would take the ankle weights off and it would be easier. Right. So whenever I'm doing something, I always ask myself, what is the what are the ankle weights? So in the beginning, it seems like the longer road to go, I have to go educate and talk to 100 people. Well, yeah, in the beginning, that is the longer road, instead of just, you know, trying to automate the whole process and defer to technology. But after you do that, you are significantly more educated about the process, how to do it well, what drives the outcome, what are the mistakes that then allows you to leverage tech. But if you skip that step, you think you're taking the shortcut, and then guess what? Shortcut ends up being the longer road because you skipped the whole learning. Yeah. You know.
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