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How to Become the Best in the World at Something
Trying to be the best
Trying to be the best at one thing isn’t the smartest path to success. Instead, you should put your effort into mastering a combination of skills.
Realistically speaking, there will always be someone working harder. There will always be someone with greater genetic gifts, or more luck, or both.
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One of the most popular ideas in personal development is that all successful people have achieved mastery. Many of us believe in this false notion that you have to master a skill to achieve career success. That's because we, as a society, admire and glorify winners.
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Mastery doesn't equal success
"Success wise, you’re better off being good at two complementary skills than being excellent at one." - Scott Adams
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Useful skills for your Skill Stack
- Productivity: The mother of all skills. With solid productivity skills, you can learn anything.
- Writing: The ability to translate your thoughts into words makes it easier to do your job.
- Psychology: Knowing the basics of psychology helps in dealing with other people, and yourself.
- Persuasion: The art and science of communicating in a way that resonates with people.
- Personal Finance.
In 2007, researchers at Oxford University started peering into the brains of newborn babies. What they found was surprising. After comparing the newborn brains to the normal adult human, the researchers realized that the average adult had 41 percent fewer neurons than the average newborn. 1 At first glance, this discovery didn't make sense.
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Habit Stacking
One of the best ways to build a new habit is to identify a current habit you already do each day and then stack your new behavior on top - habit stacking.
Habit stacking is a spec...