The Art of Improvement 🙏

nice job.. May I know which tool you used to make these cartoons & video ?

Strange example - the guy's rich but what has he shown us? As far as I'm aware he merely stands on the shoulders of others.

Hi Billy

@Bless Gillette it doesn't. I know people who read and honestly, for the most part, they're just arrogant as shit. Nobody looks at dyslexic people such as Einstein, they just ignore them. Afaik, maxwell was also dyslexic, yet his equations are used in engineering on a day to day basis. People are cherry picking, and that is what I call arrogance.

Being selective in what you read and actually applying the knowledge is most likely what seperates the successful from the reading addicts

Didn’t he explain in the end that you practice what you learned again and again to achieve expertise

Survivorship bias and retrospective determinism at play.

Well, what do you determine as success? For an "academic" or "scholar" a traditional career involves learning and participating in progressive research and discussions of said research. This research ideally leads to information that benefits society/humanity. That is why many professors become professors - the research opportunities that are provided to them. I would call this a traditional career for someone like that and the results of successful research a significant success in life. They may not be wildly wealthy, but they are certainly successful. Nikola Tesla lived and died poor and is likely the single most important person in history thus far.

Agreed. One of the most important parts of becoming successful is guts. You need to do things you're not comfortable with and you need to do them consistently.

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@@miserimuslovestarvus6587 next time, you will be the one to write :)

thank you!!

Ulrich Enevoldsen One cannot truly internalise it without putting it to practice first

Yes. Now go change the world .. or get hit by a bus whilst watching a vid and simultaneously crossing the road.. idk you make your decisions brah. ;) ( not wishing death, preemptively clarifying choices are important)

If you have to ask, no.

I have always been an auditory learner. Probably because I am somewhat dyslexic. Because of this I love learning from KZfaq and especially audio book. That being said, I have had mentors who strongly recommended reading as well. What I found is that I get something very different, and in addition, through the process of reading. And I have learned to live it. Having a mentor and Community of people committed to improvement and progression has been critical to this process. For one, people with the results I want point me to the best books and resources. I am happy to help you in any way I can or introduce you to my community if you want to reach out. lifrlearnerroger@gmail.com

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I wanna thank you too :))

True. Same goes for growing a KZfaq channel.

Thank you

Yeah, it took me 6 years to learn English lol but it was 'easy', I just invested a couple of minutes per day on that task...I'm glad I did that

That's really a wonderful advice

Try to hold a balance between reading and collecting life experiences. Book is a collection about other people's experiences, if you do not have these experiences, you won't be able to understand much of what they mean

@information addict You must be meaning "the feymans technique" , and one of albert einstein´s quote.

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Was your grandfather successful?

I know the second rule

Mohd. Ajmal Khan what is it

Haha

I took a print of your comment 😊

hey man you forgot to to add the 2nd rule.

Where did he write that?

That's cool!

Get a Life

What did you learn?

Really nice!

@@misssoftyhole how to build an enterprise data warehouse for health analytics. Still lots more to learn though - everytime you learn one thing you realise how much else there is to learn

Good for you!

i give you the most simple answer you will get after you sum up so many knowledge you can get from philosophy to save your precious time. 1. Nothing is new under the sun 2. Life is futility 3. Humans life is just like a vapor

@@Yue4me Someone never got past the surface level of Nietzsche's work.

@@Yue4me Edgy.

@@KazmirRunik Haha

I did this and found out I was super passionate about how the body works. Never would of fpund out if I didnt attempt to educate myself on it

@@kratos2godofwar good job, man!

Dude r u trying to be everywhere

@@musicgaines7170 Grinding man :) Sorry if my messages seem redundant to you. I really enjoy some of your drums videos!

@@thetruthbetweenthelines8521 hahaha thx. Most of them are trash. They were from a long time ago.

Rumination and reflection, recording too.

You have to be okay with “failure” or playing without an expectation during the learning process.

Learning just for the sake of learning is boring and unproductive. I have to have a question about something first, which creates the desire for learning more. Questioning everything is a great way to become "smarter", and is a lot more interesting because it concentrates on your individual interests. Gates, Musk and Buffet didn't spend time studying how best to clean a house.....they just hired someone who did. Having to learn something that doesn't interest you is basically just memorizing, and the knowledge fades from lack of use. Good luck!

Read online through blog posts. Read whitepapers, and monthly journals from big tech companies. Participate in slack groups, linked in conversations etc.

I agree, but books could be analogous to reading documentation, blogs or just getting your hands dirty. You are right though, learning new tech with a book kinda misses the point. As a side note, I do not see 5 hours a week being even close to enough time to really grasp, play and test new systems, frameworks or even dive into the depths of the things you already know. I could spend 10-20 hours outside my job just learning if I could... But kids, life ... Etc

In IT we read other devs code, and documentation mostly. We still read a lot though.

Not really. The last big thing to happen in computers was networking. Early Eighties. What's new? Cloud computing? That's networking. Blockchain? Networking.

There are many 90s principles that are not used, but should, any time a new framework/tech arises is an implementation of something someone wrote in the 90s. All you can read about it would improve your vision

A much simpler method is to consistently eat American food.

Maytane Winner that sounds so stupid and a huge waste of time

Maytane Winner the answer is no

Never stop growing. Self development is a lifelong journey.

Or eating McDonalds

Its true.,,...I spend 15 minutes a day reading Hustler readers and now Iam a sex expert.

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Sure, and you will probably do a lot better at actually being able to absorb that material.

just because you read that doesnt mean you are being productive.

@@Baldoxxx4000 Sure. But I'd think at least a _necessary_ part of being able to achieve proficiency is to _really understand_ what you are reading. And unless you're an exceptionally talented genius, or you have had extensive prior exposure to the material and/or general subject matter, often times that will mean you will need to take it slowly and digest it.

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I agree

of course. that's also the thing that separate people. More knowledge = more problem solving abilities, More prob sol abilities = more demands More demands = more money More money = more resource to build your own empire More ====|||==== = becoming valuable person Becoming rare valuable person = hired to work with elite government Becoming super rare valueable person = work in secret society and so on until you become one of 1% person people around the world to control humanity in another secret place that never get spot light yet rich as foook .

@@Yue4me You dont become more valueable because you have more money. And the „Elite-goverment“ step is questionable just like everyone behind it

NurturingTalents Thank you! I will check it out.

Pseudo science is not necessarily bad. Intuition was and still is an important part of human knowledge. We have to make leaps of faith in determining what is the right course of action many times.

SuWoopSparrow point well taken and I think I can usually classify in my mind hard fact vs possible fact but I think there are many who take questionable information as fact then make bad decisions. (I am not immune to being sucked in by bad information.). Nutritional science is almost becoming a joke in what’s good for you and what is bad and even more so when discussing huge gains from certain foods when the reality is probably much less.

Have any questions about theory? Maybe I can help.

That's what scientific literature is for. Obviously theres misinformation everywhere but for most academic fields there exists a VERY solid and pretty much fail-safe foundation. I learned more from reading a few pages in a scientific book that I've learned in months of surfing the internet. Admittedly, the internet is more distracting than a book, but still...

I have the same curiosity. Sometimes I think there may be a misunderstood cause-effect relation in these habits. I mean, maybe they are not "successful" because they read tons of books, instead, they can read tons of books because they are "successful"...

"Good artists copy. Great artists steal." - Pablo Picasso

Thanks for sharing your schedule!

It sound inconceivable....that mean u read 1.15 hour per day and finish 42 books in 4 months? I read 2 to 3 hrs daily and only managed to finish 6 books in 4 months...🤣are you sure u understand and assimilate around 50% of those books (equal to 75 books annually, which are much are better than those CEO)?

@@fubao99975 some are fast readers. Also, audio books. I usually read 2 books a month, 24 books a year. One audio book and one paper back.

Consistency*

A term to describe what you mention at first is Survivorship Bias. It's particularly insidious because it effectively means we are ignoring the invisible, which is totally understandable and hard to avoid.

@@jim4588 Very insteresting, James. Never heard the term before but from what I read it leads to overly optimistic assumptions. An example is when media focus on "John, the drop out of college and CEO of XYZ" whilst ignoring a vast pool of talented individuals who did not attain the same success due to several life variables. "John's" position in life is not the standard and can't be repeated by phisically doing what John did such as waking up at 5am or reading ABC book or dropping out of college. Thanks for sharing the concept.

Yes leo, a great point indeed. however Reading is praised entirely not due to the fact of having intelligence or just gathering knowledge. When one reads self empowerment books, one begin to realize that he/she may have unhealthy habits that are hindering there process and that's where the tire meets the road. there a lot of people who didn't read and yet they have achieve great success, but when you observe what makes them different, one thing stand out, HABITS. Habits in behavior and habits in how one thinks. for most people who are raised in a poverty or who were less fortunate, we tend to develop habits from society that isn't healthy in the long run, strangely enough you may find millions of kids who went to college/university and yet that same large portion still experience many of life disadvantages long after school, while for example one who reads the book rich dad poor dad, immediately realize that with our current economy, high tax rate, and inflation fluctuation, one then understand that being in any form of debt is horrible even forms of student loans and they investment in all forms are a must.While the same persons you mention didn't read however they were fortunate enough to have someone around them to act as a mentor of sorts and thus speeding up there ability to get stuff taking care off. Unhealthy habits millions of people have develop right across the world. INABILITY TO LEARN NEW SKILLS(majority of people who leave schools tend to stop giving there attention to books or learning in general. work/money is the aim which is strange because majority of which knows little of how money works. LACK OF PERSEVERANCE (the willingness to give in to pressure and hardship has made millions broke) TIME MANAGEMENT(too much time is spend watching shows/sports/ and playing game. That time could be spend learning about HEALTH, MONEY, TAXES, ECONOMY etc etc. yes people should learn these stuff for security and comfort and a healthy life is what many is seeking. NOW these are simply habits many people don't know about and the rich are always constantly building these up. People would do well if they found books that aided them in the arena that they want to be in.

You've made fair points and I agree with you on most. I just don't want people to get frustrated because they can't achieve what that one non-standard individual achieved. One thing is to learn healthy habits, another thing is believing that you are going to be Steve Jobs because you imitated his habits. Most healthy individuals well versed in everything that you mentioned such as economics, tax and so on, are not similar to Steve Job. Strangely we use him as standard whilst ignoring the average individual. You mentioned playing too much games, however, there are kids making more money than their parents because they are sponsored to play games. That is normal in the eSports industry. However, these kids are non-standard.

Hi Leo. Great observation - that survivorship bias is evident in examples of these success stories. Recognizing biases is an important skillset. It helps one distinguish one's behavior or perspective as perhaps being part of exactly that which you hope to overcome. However, with all due respect, you are exhibiting a bias yourself - that examples of successful people are poor examples of success because of the potential existence of survivorship bias in their story. To approach a success story with, "that doesn't apply to me because of X" is setting yourself up to diminish any wisdom shared in that story. You may be setting yourself up to miss a nugget of wisdom that lies directly within your bias. The message I see in this "motivational" video is this: By opening up your awareness to take new information in, you will likely learn something that connects two previously unconnected dots in your life. Additionally, creating a structure around doing so primes your mind to open up even further - its very existence is reinforced as a "dot-connecting" machine. Areas of ones life that were previously unavailable for improvement show up as a new possibility. However, that becomes impossible if the messenger is shot at the door because its source was from a "motivational" video that used an extreme case or example. One may find one's path through the average or one may find one's path through an outlying statistical improbability. The key is to keep one's eyes open for the path no matter where it comes from. I wish you the best in finding your path and sharing your wisdom with loved ones and strangers alike.... :)

How much time is wasted on crap TV?

@@willrichardson519 Little. its mostly wasted on crap social media.

Your uncle doesn’t follow the rule, which consists of spending ONE hour a day each week day and using a very specific methodology. If you were to use him as an example, it’s solely to demonstrate that reading for entertainment does not produce the same outcome as reading to learn, which requires actively engaging with the concepts covered in the reading materials. 😀

@@username00009 Oh poppycock! What a load of hooey. Hahahahahahaha 😅

And...? I’m not sure what the point of this comment is. Reading for pleasure isn’t what this video is about, at all. However, even reading for pleasure can do amazing things for a person. There are crazy benefits from reading books, regardless of subject matter as long as they’re enjoyed- www.healthline.com/health/benefits-of-reading-books

@@tictactoe4431 you don't learn much from fiction or fantasy. Reading for entertainment is hedonistic NOT necessarily learning. You're wrong.

Then hes not learning, hes entertaining himself. It's not the topic of the cvv ideo so why bring it up.

So why are you attracted to people that talk to much? Why are you sat with people you don't enjoy?

dsrtflwr It looks like this is an introvert case. I often attract people who talk too much because they feel listened to. Sometimes I just get exhausted and have to quit from everyone and everything, and be in my empty and personal space of reading, writing and thinking.

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I think at the end of the book, you are supposed to put it down. Not pick up another one...

That's why you do it so you can do better.

You gotta do social media cleansing so you can increase your attention span back to it’s natural capacity. The scrolling makes us addicts to “newness”

@@estherbjerga523 that's so true. I'm going to try that.

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gavin Reid You’re never too old to learn!

Which grades have you repeated most often?

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@@briseboy 1st, then the ones where puberty struck

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Yes, these things are inevitably going to be extremely complicated with millions of various outcomes for any given subject. That's why it's important not to take people's words for it but to look at the results themselves, and is why any scientist worth a lick of salt won't just use their status as a place of authority. It's important to consider yourself above all else with these types of things, if it fails to work completely then keep searching for what will, however these are the things that typically work and should (at least partially) work for you or myself.

That's a smart question. I'll agree with the previous post ^^ and quote the Bruce Lee philosophy: "Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless"

@happy face It's never as simple as a 0% chance vs a 0.001% chance. There's always a cost associated. In the lottery analogy, you can't win if you don't play...but playing comes at a cost

@happy face that is fallacious reasoning, you assume x is causally linked to success just because successful people do it, this is confusing correlation with causation, but worse still if its just as equally correlated with unsuccessful people there is no reason to think it is causally connected to success.

@happy face and how could you possibly know that without knowing what x is?

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Me too, basically. They're much better. I don't see the purpose of reading hours and hours to know a 5 minute bit. A smart relative I have makes fun of me, but he's bitch

Joey Guerrero thank you for this,

Yep. Most of the people who _are_ interested are mentally ill or vastly overestimate their abilities, and become a net drag on the progress of other members. The capable candidates are too busy with family/work/play to bother with something so abstract as "self-improvement" unless they think there's a quick buck to be made (e.g. you're a millionaire marketing the club as some kind of seminar). Franklin limited the size of the club to no more than 12, and only admitted new members by invitation and the approval of other members (as he says in his Autobiography). Early on, it's better to stick to topics like science, math, and philosophy, before progressing to politics and religion, which require a lot of trust and good-will.

ryh Very good point!

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I read, research and learn things about other religions, worldviews, other languages etc. But "current events" trigger my anxiety so in that case, I just can't. It's better to be ignorant in that regard that constantly on edge. And math? That strikes horror in my heart. I actually have a diagnosed disability in math. Out of these, readers are probably the easiest to find. There are still people who do read and if you find any of them, maybe you will have other things in common. Maybe just a book club would be a start, though maybe not ideal.

What's sleepy conscience

@@prs-fl3sp According to Mark Twain, his definition of an ideal or perfect life, is the company of good friends, read good books and not be too overly bothered by our conscience (our inner sense of what is right or wrong). As you know our conscience is inevitably pestering us all the time. Mark Twain used the term “sleepy conscience“, he meant try to dull or pay less attention to our conscience. In other words, don’t let our conscience keep us up at night, so to speak. So if we want to live a more pleasant or less stressed-out life, we got to just let go and not be burdened by our ever-present conscience. In short, don’t worry, be happy.

@@ChessMasteryOfficial It seems that many pay far too little attention to their conscience as it is.

@@ChessMasteryOfficial isn't it good to have a relatively active conscience though? If you choose to ignore it what you are doing is repressing it which may be disastrous in the long term due to guilt from being immoral and not really abiding to your conscience during decisions. I believe people may be happier if they have good friends, read, have a healthy lifestyle and are moral in their character. For example helping people in need when they can and not being a bad person. Maybe having some integrity which would make you feel better about yourself. Obviously you can't always be as moral as Jesus but as long as you are trying to be a good person I think you can live a good life.

@@user-hi2nd True.

5 hours a week so maybe half an hour daily, then the balance at the weekend. Manual workers in the past had evening classes.

Well you can do your do your ruminating and planning while you're doing your physical labor and I would probably give up TV and watch listen to learning type things and read although you got to do a lot of stuff besides

Make great use in learning with those 4 hours you have open.

Sometimes just having enough interest in learning that you enjoy it and will substitute it for spacing out in front of the tv after work or the mindless talk radio or whatever most people are listening to on their commute. I've done jobs like that where I could listen to podcasts or audiobooks while I worked. To me a philosopy or science podcast is way more entertaining than the typical radio crap that's mostly ads and filler any way. The new bluetooth headphones make that way easier, but I in a pinch I still operate machinery with cheap earbuds under ear muffs. Not to minimise your point, society is basically structured to screw over the working class while keeping us too worn down and distracted to learn that anything better is possible. So it's just a matter of trying to make learning and using your brain a top priority and then figuring out how to squeeze that into your daily life. Also, don't own a tv. I think that's the single biggest thing you can do, get rid of the tv and read instead, fundamentally life changing.

Those are good suggestions the ruminating at work and listening to things but do not let it distract you from your work and I would save pay full attention to your work while you are working unless it's some mindless activity anything you need to focus on to be safe focus on that learn everything you can about your job make it easier and more productive and what's the next step up is anything you can do to increase your mental and physical energy so you have enough to learn and not exhausted I listen to books on tape whatever you call him nowadays there's no tape involved and I can do things don't require too much attentions but my face is not stuck in the phone or watching TV which you don't really learn much from at all find somebody that wants to learn like you and talk with them hope it goes well

Everyone started somewhere with other believes and motivational factors. The timing and execution has to be right for getting a billion. The name explains the importance of each exercise and how to aim your focus. Droping a mediocre critque won't make you a creative geniouses, but I guess it gets you likes.

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I suppose name-dropping town drunks and wine-o's would pass for YOU then, eh? It's been said repeatedly, that if you want to achieve some station in life, your best approach (right out of the figurative gate) would be to find someone in approximately that station in life, and then seek to emulate them. If you want to become a championship boxer, maybe pick a professional boxer with a reasonable success rate, or even a current or former champion that you stand a chance at emulating... If you want to be successful in business, a top-level CEO would be the obvious choice, if you're that interested. AND if you want to be a successful entertainer with some degree of social influence, you could certainly pick worse than a well respected talk-show host. The big problem with most of the "efforts don't equal results" types (in my observation) is the "number 2 step" in this video. Maybe you should get back and re-wartch it... yet again. It involves deliberately putting lessons into practice. Whether you read enough or watch enough instructional vid's or chase down and interview enough professionals or teachers, coaches, etc... If you don't personally put real effort into real practice, you've only memorized information, a far cry from actually learning "the thing" you wanted to learn. It's the same big difference between me (for instance) who uses considerable high-school math most days... AND the next sod who just regurgitated that crap on test-time and never bothered actually applying a damn bit of it. Now, I'm sitting here (far too often) wondering what the hell is wrong with the moron simps in the population who "Cant" convert one measure for another, or who "Can't" figure out proportions, or basic trig'... I can do that shit in my friggin' head. I ACTIVELY HAVE TO DO them most days in my regular routine... so I paid attention. It IS useful, if you're not too "stuck in the damn electronic gizmo" to get your head out of your ass and actually LEARN something... Try that. ;o)

I dunno man, that seems pretty fair. Idiots all the way through.

Somebody's always too poor to read, but not too poor for electricity, cable, internet, multiple smartphones, Xbox with Live subscription, and Netflix.

dandre3K you hit the nail on the head This describes all the friends I had to push away because they lived extravagantly (in a Walmart way) while in debt and were miserable So miserable that they were ready to scrutinize my conservative lifestyle in every conversation Now I finally have met my goals They are still in the same spot It’s actually painful for me to think about it but if they choose to change they know where I’m at and that I’d love to teach and encourage them