Peter Vander WallFounder driving creative community growth

I spent $10K to Learn This

Name: I spent $10K to Learn This
Uploaded: 2023-04-01T15:00:39+00:00
Duration: 37 s
Channel: Peter Vander Wall
Description: Speaker Peter Vander Wall describes the first lesson learned after spending $10,000 on a coaching program for agency owners: execution matters far more…

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Speaker Peter Vander Wall describes the first lesson learned after spending $10,000 on a coaching program for agency owners: execution matters far more than acquiring knowledge alone. He argues that practicing skills (doing the thing) is how one becomes sharp, using college tuition/debt and long-tenured professors as a counterexample to show knowledge without practice fails to produce skill.

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I spent $10,000 on a coaching program for agency owners and this is the first lesson I learned from it. And by the way, this simple lesson is worth the entire price all on its own. You can learn all of the knowledge in the world, you can study under the greatest teachers, but if you don't execute upon what you're doing, then you'll never go anywhere. Case in point, take a look at College. We encourage 18 year old kids to commit to $200,000 of debt for a degree, and yet we don't put any emphasis on taking those skills out of the classroom and practicing them. Meanwhile, the professor has been in the Same classroom for 30 years and is still using an A Is the only way to become sharp is through execution. Do the thing that you're trying to get good at.