First question is, you've reached a high level of ability, slash expertise in a number of fields martial arts. Ai music, etc. I'm curious to know how you think about the learning process when juggling all of these things. It takes a huge amount of time and dedication to master any one of these skills. Where do you draw the line between balance an obsession? Put another way? How deeply do you immerse yourself? When learning something? How do you schedule your day? For work slash learning is it appropriate to spend nearly every waking hour learning and developing a skill do you try to learn a number of things at once or narrow your focus to one thing so first of all obviously I have not achieved mastery in. Any of these things and I should also say that I don't think I've figured out the art of learning very much. But I can give my 2 cents of the way I see it so one passion. I think is exceptionally important for learning anything. And if I look back at my life, I certainly have spent days and weeks. And months at a time really obsessed with things now to me.
设置最低完成时间下限
说话人 1 01:06
That's not necessarily useful on the long journey of learning a skill. The beginner to mastery what has been useful to me and if I have a philosophy on it is probably centered around the rigor of discipline so making sure that every single day. You do a minimum amount. Of that particular thing then you do it for weeks, months years and also the way to remove motivation from the picture is to build a habit when I'm 1st learning something I tried to set the goal. Of doing a minimum of 2 hours a day of that thing for a year to build the foundation so that first year is really important, it's so easy to kind of skip out on a few days. And then this becomes weeks, and Weeks become months and you lose completely that initial Hook that like pulls you into the depth of the particular topic.
每天至少花2个小时来打音乐基础,坚持了5年
说话人 1 02:01
So I really want to be a stickler of putting in. I would say one to 2 hours, but if I look at my life, successful things like music have been at least 2 hours a day for a year to build the foundation then looking out farther into let's say 5 year range. You can lower that to about one hour a day and that's to build the what I would think of his expertise. I think you can get pretty good at something in 5 years. If you just do it. One hour a day I don't know if this is true for everyone. But I think for me not even an hour just 10 minutes, a day. It's been really surprising how good I can get and a bunch of little things from just doing every single day at not even 10 minutes like one minute today because. It's rarely becomes a woman thing it usually blows up into a thing that takes an hour. But if you just set a hard lower limit and make sure you do every single day no matter what no matter where you are you end up forming this habit.
说话人 1 02:59
And there's an accumulation affect a skill that's just fascinating so that's 5 years and I think at that point. The skill is solidified nicely. I don't think it's mastery by any means, but there's a level of.
大脑形成肌肉记忆
说话人 1 03:13
Parties that seems to persist for a long period of time, but I found like with music for me not singing just music. I haven't actually practicing. I suck at singing but the music part. I think I've achieved a sort of. Minimal kind of understanding at this point just even 10 minutes, a day for the rest of your life is one way to. I think take further and further steps into mastery again, I think masteries. Possible but to increase the skill overtime. I think a very minimal amount of time. But every single day is good. The other magic thing about it is, you can at this point at least for me take off. Months at a time and when you return to it, you'll pick up almost right where you started. I don't think you want to overdo it, but I think after you put in the first few years of every single day of an hour or 2, there's something about the mind that is kind of solidified in there, you know, I've certainly had months where I don't play guitar at all. And I return to it, maybe will take a day or 2 and you're right back into it.
保证至少专注20分钟在一个任务上
说话人 1 04:18
Zero but still if you really want to grow. You want to put in every single day for me 20 minutes is just the right minimal amount to give me time to get pulled into the task fully get immersed fully enough to where I can pick up a little. Tidbits of new stuff new ideas that kind of get going ready for the next day.
说话人 1 04:38
For me, there's always a kind of fascinating dance here between passion and discipline. I think passion goes up and down and that's where discipline is essential to keep carrying you forward to keep doing the thing every day and.
skip一天就会skip很多天,就会打破固有习惯
说话人 1 04:53
I'm not a big believer of resting and then returning to the task. I'm a bigger believer in when you don't really want to do it still grinding it out and days later, your passion for the thing will return. People are different, but that's how I am. Because the greater danger for me is when you take a break when you rest is you going to destroy the habit that you've built and once you destroy the habit it's too easy to never return. To the pursuit of expertise that you are on for many years before.
竞争心态
说话人 1 05:29
Also related question was asked I loved your video and recipe for success in AI do you have any advice for dealing with frustration slash difficulty in making progress I'm learning high school math right now? With a proof based course and sometimes it gets hard. I feel like crying do you have any advice for pushing past frustration at dead ends thanks? I personally think that struggle is assigned that you're on the right path. So all those things in my life that I've gotten the most meaning from learning I've struggled through it, I think the biggest reward. At the lowest level of your brain like the things you actually remember and just the self satisfaction and happiness. You feel about life is when there's something is really hard, but you stick to it, and then you eventually succeed. That locks in the lessons into your brain that makes you feel good about yourself. That gives you more confidence for keep doing that in the future also I think this is helpful for a bunch of people like David Goggins. It's not as helpful to me, but I'll just give it to you because I've tried it. It doesn't really work for me, but a little mind hack, which is imagining the you're kind of a competition with everybody else in the world and. So if something is difficult for you, imagine that it's probably going to be difficult for a lot of people and if you just stick by it. You're going to leave. All those people behind you and eventually if you keep doing it long enough you'll be the best person in the world edit. So kind of seeing struggle as a sign that most people would be quitting at this point and it gives you motivation that like struggle is a sign that you're on the path towards being number one. If you enjoy the kind of idea of you being. At that top tier of excellence in a thing.
享受精通一件事物的过程
说话人 1 07:23
Then then that kind of might had can help. I personally don't often like to think in that way, especially in competition with others. I just like the art. Itself, so I enjoy the idea of pursuing mastery not in comparison to others. But just for myself. So, in that sense that mine had doesn't really work for me. I kind of tend to believe that if I embrace the grind. A habit of every day doing something that months from now years from now as I've had many times in my life. I will experience these moments these long periods of flow of truly enjoying the process of practicing that thing so for me music now that have achieved. The level they have achieved on my own personal quiet private moments.
说话人 1 08:15
I can truly enjoy feeling the music. I'm creating on the guitar playing Jimi Hendrix playing Stevie Ray Vaughn, improvising different Blues. Or even just like much simpler songs like these crime. Melodic songs of Eric Clapton Wonderful tonight, or or even just strumming in a way where I can also sing. Just it allows me to enjoy.
说话人 1 08:42
The both the musicality in the deep, meaning in the words and all that kind of stuff and that was only possible because I put in that time in the early years of the foundation that I built it allows you to enjoy life and I believe in that.
说话人 1 08:55
If you form the habit if you do the thing every single day. Eventually, you'll get to a set of a set of activities that you enjoy partaking that our source of a lot of meaning and happiness in your life. So you can think of it as the mind hack, which is believing that discipline eventually leads to a meaningful life. Hope that answers the question good luck.