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9 Mar 2021
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#106 Josh Kaufman: Maximizing Our Locus of Control
9 Mar 2021
1hr 17mins
Quote
"Most of us live better than kings did as early as 100 years ago, but our satisfaction levels don't reflect this reality, because we're constantly comparing ourselves to others."
Ideas
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You don't learn from your experiences, you learn from actively reflecting & upgrading upon them.
Josh says he thinks that a lot of times people just sit with something that's not working or uncomfortable, without properly doing anything about it, limiting your ability to actually improve.
For example: let's say you're unhappy with how you speak in certain contexts. Most people just know they're not happy with it and leave it at that. Josh says that intentionally improving upon this would look like: you're recording yourself, listening to it, and coming up with a plan for how you can change it. Then you're experimenting with how you speak and collecting feedback on it.
Once you properly reflect upon your experience, it's often pretty straightforward to do what you need. It's the discipline in remembering and actively and intentionally trying to to deconstruct and go deeper that's hard.
When it comes to reflecting upon your experiences, the faster your feedback loop, the faster your rate of growth and improvement.
There should be a very short period of time between making a mistake or not performing in the way that you want to perform and then making the adjustment, making the improvement.
For example: let's say you're unhappy with how you speak in certain contexts. Most people just know they're not happy with it and leave it at that. Josh says that intentionally improving upon this would look like: you're recording yourself, listening to it, and coming up with a plan for how you can change it. Then you're experimenting with how you speak and collecting feedback on it.
Once you properly reflect upon your experience, it's often pretty straightforward to do what you need. It's the discipline in remembering and actively and intentionally trying to to deconstruct and go deeper that's hard.
When it comes to reflecting upon your experiences, the faster your feedback loop, the faster your rate of growth and improvement.
There should be a very short period of time between making a mistake or not performing in the way that you want to perform and then making the adjustment, making the improvement.
1
You don't learn from your experiences, you learn from actively reflecting & upgrading upon them.
Josh says he thinks that a lot of times people just sit with something that's not working or uncomfortable, without properly doing anything about it, limiting your ability to actually improve.
For example: let's say you're unhappy with how you speak in certain contexts. Most people just know they're not happy with it and leave it at that. Josh says that intentionally improving upon this would look like: you're recording yourself, listening to it, and coming up with a plan for how you can change it. Then you're experimenting with how you speak and collecting feedback on it.
Once you properly reflect upon your experience, it's often pretty straightforward to do what you need. It's the discipline in remembering and actively and intentionally trying to to deconstruct and go deeper that's hard.
When it comes to reflecting upon your experiences, the faster your feedback loop, the faster your rate of growth and improvement.
There should be a very short period of time between making a mistake or not performing in the way that you want to perform and then making the adjustment, making the improvement.
For example: let's say you're unhappy with how you speak in certain contexts. Most people just know they're not happy with it and leave it at that. Josh says that intentionally improving upon this would look like: you're recording yourself, listening to it, and coming up with a plan for how you can change it. Then you're experimenting with how you speak and collecting feedback on it.
Once you properly reflect upon your experience, it's often pretty straightforward to do what you need. It's the discipline in remembering and actively and intentionally trying to to deconstruct and go deeper that's hard.
When it comes to reflecting upon your experiences, the faster your feedback loop, the faster your rate of growth and improvement.
There should be a very short period of time between making a mistake or not performing in the way that you want to perform and then making the adjustment, making the improvement.
2
Knowledge and skill aren't the same thing, but a lot of people conflate the two.
Knowledge is the learning act, of gathering information, forming these concepts.
Skill is, the ability to actually do something to produce a particular result in a reliable, repeatable way, it's always gained in the context of practice.
Actually implementing and experimenting in reality often gets you a lot further than just reading or hearing about something, in order to actually achieve, you have to turn knowledge into skill, which means putting things into practice.
In many areas of both life and business, more experimentation means more mistakes, but it also means more results and more growth.
Skill is, the ability to actually do something to produce a particular result in a reliable, repeatable way, it's always gained in the context of practice.
Actually implementing and experimenting in reality often gets you a lot further than just reading or hearing about something, in order to actually achieve, you have to turn knowledge into skill, which means putting things into practice.
In many areas of both life and business, more experimentation means more mistakes, but it also means more results and more growth.
2
Knowledge and skill aren't the same thing, but a lot of people conflate the two.
Knowledge is the learning act, of gathering information, forming these concepts.
Skill is, the ability to actually do something to produce a particular result in a reliable, repeatable way, it's always gained in the context of practice.
Actually implementing and experimenting in reality often gets you a lot further than just reading or hearing about something, in order to actually achieve, you have to turn knowledge into skill, which means putting things into practice.
In many areas of both life and business, more experimentation means more mistakes, but it also means more results and more growth.
Skill is, the ability to actually do something to produce a particular result in a reliable, repeatable way, it's always gained in the context of practice.
Actually implementing and experimenting in reality often gets you a lot further than just reading or hearing about something, in order to actually achieve, you have to turn knowledge into skill, which means putting things into practice.
In many areas of both life and business, more experimentation means more mistakes, but it also means more results and more growth.
3
You and your 5 closest people aren't just similar to each other, you can significantly improve each others understanding and decisions.
The people you are closest to are the ones that you share and ask for feedback on your decisions, so their world view shapes how you make your decisions.
At the same time, Josh says one of the greatest things about your peer group, is that they can violate your expectations about what's possible. They can help you learn about potential experiences that you wouldn't expect would work or was possible. They try things that you've never tried before, they can do experiments that maybe don't work out and you can learn from that.
At the same time, Josh says one of the greatest things about your peer group, is that they can violate your expectations about what's possible. They can help you learn about potential experiences that you wouldn't expect would work or was possible. They try things that you've never tried before, they can do experiments that maybe don't work out and you can learn from that.
3
You and your 5 closest people aren't just similar to each other, you can significantly improve each others understanding and decisions.
The people you are closest to are the ones that you share and ask for feedback on your decisions, so their world view shapes how you make your decisions.
At the same time, Josh says one of the greatest things about your peer group, is that they can violate your expectations about what's possible. They can help you learn about potential experiences that you wouldn't expect would work or was possible. They try things that you've never tried before, they can do experiments that maybe don't work out and you can learn from that.
At the same time, Josh says one of the greatest things about your peer group, is that they can violate your expectations about what's possible. They can help you learn about potential experiences that you wouldn't expect would work or was possible. They try things that you've never tried before, they can do experiments that maybe don't work out and you can learn from that.
Questions
What else is in the episode
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Why we should read more broadly, and then look for recurring patterns.
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Why we should read more broadly, and then look for recurring patterns.
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When and where not being dumb is the best way to be smart.
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When and where not being dumb is the best way to be smart.
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Overcoming the fear and anxiety of uncertainty, which is what his
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Overcoming the fear and anxiety of uncertainty, which is what his
Who is Josh Kaufman?
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Author of three bestselling books:
- The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
- The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything... Fast!
- How to Fight a Hydra: Face Your Fears, Pursue Your Ambitions, and Become the Hero You Are Destined to Be
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Author of three bestselling books:
- The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
- The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything... Fast!
- How to Fight a Hydra: Face Your Fears, Pursue Your Ambitions, and Become the Hero You Are Destined to Be
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