How Do Successful People Think Differently?
I teach people stop selling your hours. I teach people learn how to learn better, right? Have you heard, you know, if I had 10 hours to cut down a tree, I'd spend one hour cutting down the tree and 10 hours sharpening my axe. Maybe the other way around. Right, 10 hours. I'd sharpen my axe for nine hours and I'd spend one hour cutting down the tree, right? And that's really what I feel life boils down to is that you have to really spend more time thinking, doing the heavy lifting, sharpening those tools.
How do I accelerate? How do I accelerate my learning? How do I accelerate the process where I can take information in and work with efficiency to maximize the things that I can be great at and not worry about all that other stuff. And when you do that, people don't even notice. People don't even notice that you have a learning disability, people don't even notice your shortcomings because they're like holy men. Look at this guy.
He's incredible at this thing. And really you might not be incredible at that thing, but you might have just worked a little harder than the last guy, who they think is incredible. You might have thought a little differently about things and when we look at people, you look at people like Elon Musk, he's got a learning disability allegedly. One of the smartest guys, richest man in the world right now as we record this. How is that possible?
The guy sleeps on the floor of the factory, he does not give a you know what? Look at Jeff Bezos. He had bricks set up in his office and a piece of wood and a spray painted sign behind him that said Amazon. And he worked ceaselessly, endlessly and getting to where he was. Look at Steve Jobs. The same thing Steve Jobs, you know, people will disagree with this wasn't the nicest of people from all counts, especially from Walter Isaacson's biography of him, but what they did do is they learned how to think differently and how to learn differently.