Screw The 10,000-Hour Rule. How To Learn Anything In Less Time

Traditional education taught me how to hate learning.

The more I progressed through higher education, the more I realized it was mostly antiquated garbage that didn’t apply to me or my business journey. Sure, adding and subtracting have been helpful, but Business Calculus, not so much.

School teaches its students how to be cattle, grazing a corporate forest.

It is no longer effective to learn old principles from dying dinosaurs.

Nor is slogging through 10,000 hours to be great at one thing.

The education system isn’t entirely to blame.

Once I learned that I needed to build a series of skills to progress in life, everything changed.

One business book became thirty. Then, one sales book became ten, leading to a sales course and mentor. Then, I hired a business coach to go deeper.

When you focus on the skills that matter to your unique life and passions, you magically morph into a new, superhuman.

To shoot rockets into the sky, Elon Musk didn’t learn the history of religion or how to write a memo in English class — he became a self-taught rocket engineer.