understanding how bad you are

[Olaf]

I think that overconfidence happened to me until I met the masters of my craft. If you think you are any good at anything, meet someone who has been doing it for 30 years. You will realise how much of an amateur you are.

Sometimes I get frustrated at certain goals I want to achieve, until I see the people who have been doing it for the longest time. Then you realise some things can't be learned in a year or even a few years. They take years of mastery, maybe even decades.

The fastest way for me to grow was being humble and realising how bad I am at something. Let's say you want to start YouTube. Realise how fucking bad you are at YouTube. Mr. Beast said, "You need at least 100 videos made before I'm even going to help you and give you any tips."

The idea that you will be great on the first try, or that you can be good in 100 or even 1,000 tries, is just a lack of volume. To be excellent at something takes a massive amount of volume, and only through a massive amount of volume, either by putting in years of time or by increasing the amount of time you invest each day, can you become excellent.

Realise how bad you are at any given skill. I don't care if you are a national champion at whatever you do: there are people way, way, waaaaaay more proficient than you. Find them and meet them in real life. You will be shocked. You will become so humble. You will realise, "I didn't have bad luck with my results. I simply was bad. I simply needed more time. I simply need more decades, more years, and more time put into it."

And if you are really humble and intelligent, you will learn from the pros and take every word they say seriously. Really, really look at what the fuck they do and ask them as many questions as you can.

As Hormozi says, skill is the most important thing: "if you suck at shit, nothing else really matters." And also quoting Hormozi, saying: "do so much volume, execute so many reps, and stack so many attempts that failure becomes statistically impossible."

This is what it means to put in decades into one area. If you do something for 30 years, you probably are going to be better at it than 99.99% of the people. Yet are you willing to put in 30 years? Even half, like 15 years? I think if you are not, then why even try...

Edited 5 hours ago by Olaf

[Ulax]

Tell me again how bad I am 😈

[Joseph Maynor]

It depends on how much you care about producing excellent artworks in a particular artform.  Sometimes you do it for the love of sharing without trying to be a somebody.

[Olaf]

@Ulax why are you making this sexual lol, is this some weird kink hahaha

[Olaf]

@Joseph Maynor what do you mean? I don't understand

[Ulax]

2 minutes ago, Olaf said:

@Ulax why are you making this sexual lol, is this some weird kink hahaha

Yes, being called bad in the life purpose section of actualized.org is my no.1 kink  

[Olaf]

@Ulax everyone has its own kink I guess