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This is such bad advice because I'm forcing you just to fail right away, but it is the best advice you're ever going to get.
You'll never learn faster.
You'll never learn by trying to execute something, so they say the best way to learn something is to teach it because you think you understand it until you have to go explain it to somebody else and you realize, whoa, I actually don't understand this.
But now you know exactly what you don't understand because as you try to put the words around, you realize I need to go research that, right?
So when, like whatever your vision is, I want like this is perfect.
I want to help starving children in Africa, rad.
You know what your first step is?
This is this is such bad advice because I'm forcing you just to fail right away, but it is the best advice you're ever going to get.
Because if you did this, if you have the cojones to do this, you will leapfrog everyone.
You want to help starving children in Africa.
The first step.
Book a flight to Africa, period.
Second step, get a hotel.
That's probably good.
Third step, what village are you going to?
That's an awesome step.
And then just and don't book the trip for six months from now, book the trip for this weekend.
Get off the plane, be hopelessly lost, totally confused, probably have something bad or at least stupid happen to you.
Lose your wallet, run out of money, um, who knows.
Or maybe you stumble upon something amazing, somebody who can help you.
Like if I were going to do it, that's not what I would do.
But for somebody who thinks that acting like, how do I get over the hesitation?
It is the one thing where there is no other answer than look inward, change your identity to be the person who acts immediately, say I am the type of person who acts immediately.
So if I want to help starving children in Africa, I'm going to book a ticket right now.
Like then live up to that.
If you do that, all of the other problems in your life will fade away to nothing because you will go there.
You will realize what a stupid mistake it was to go unprepared, but you will have acted.
And so the one thing that you're telling me is actually your stumbling block.
You will get over that and if you're smart.
Once if it's let's say it's Thursday and your flight leaves tomorrow.
The first thing I'm going to do is start researching, okay, where's the area I'm going?
Is anybody else done anything there because I'm going to be in a full-blown state of panic because I know that this is coming whether I wanted to or not, right?
So I love putting that gun to my head.
That's why like dude, I tell people what we're up to, I push people to get it done fast.
Like the best example of what it is like to be an entrepreneur is to jump off a cliff with a parachute on your back and try to build an airplane on the way down.
Now, I say have the parachute on your back because there's no reason to do something that's going to kill you.
But that hey, see if you can figure it out because that's what it feels like.
But it's the people that never jump, they're just never going to build that thing as fast as the people who are willing to take the risk.
Because now you're literally falling and it's like, well, I better figure something out.
Otherwise I've got to pull the ripcord and admit that this didn't work.
So but if you like stop planning, go out and do something.
Like there's nothing more powerful than that, you will figure things out as you go along or you will learn something about yourself, which is that.
You're going to learn that you are not smart enough, you're going to learn that you are not capable enough.
You are going to learn.
A whole host of very negative things and if in that moment you realize the absolute crushing necessity to switch your identity to that of a learner.
And to begin building your self-esteem around.
Identifying the right answer faster.
Always being willing to act.
Always being willing to stare nakedly at your inadequacies and address them through the acquisition of skills.
Like if you do that, everything in your life will change.