This bestselling book written by Scott Adams is a game-changer for me in terms of achieving great things, for real. I decided to take five key concepts that in my opinion are the most important and highly applicable in every aspect of our life, and also in entrepreneurship.1. System vs goals"Losers have goals, winners have system"It seems that each of us is by nature more oriented towards the goal itself than actually acting towards achieving it. This is where the system comes in handy.Let’s take health and lose weight. Your goal is to lose 80 pounds.So in terms of goal, it is: I’ll lose 80 pounds. But your system is: I’ll eat healthy food and run three days a week.Operating within a system, which is eating healthy and running three days a week will make you lose 80 pounds. But The goal itself, which is I’ll lose 80 pounds is an empty statement that doesn’t bring any real action toward actually achieving what you want.Another example, let’s say blogging. Your goal is to have a blog that will be viewed by 100,000 unique users per month. Your system is: I’ll be publishing 3 posts a week and promoting the blog on social media. Sooner or later, based on the system, you will achieve your goal. But if you say my goal is to have a popular blog, it’s an empty statement, that doesn’t bring anything to the table.2. Talent StackThere are two ways to achieve excellence. The first is extremely difficult, the second seems to be easier.First method: you have to be in the top 1% in a given field, which is very difficult to achieve, almost impossible for an ordinary person.Second method: you have to be above average in two or three areas, which can be done by almost everyone.The second method can be called Talent stacking. This method is about combining fairly common skills into a unique and unprecedented set of skills. Combining skills that go well together is like the snowball effect that gives you an extraordinary advantage. It’s about increasing the odds of success.One of the best examples of talent stack is Scott Adams itself. A famous syndicated cartoonist, but as he said he’s not the best at drawing, he doesn’t have much artistic talent and he has never taken a college-level writing class. But few people are good at both drawing and writing. When you add his ordinary business skills (he earned an MBA). He also has a strong work ethic, risk tolerance, and a good sense of humor. All things together highlight his uniqueness.3. Success is better than passionScott Adams says that people who have achieved great success in a highly competitive field, such as technology or art, advise others to "follow the passion", because everyone wants to hear about passion, not about hard work, commitment being highly intelligent, or lucky.You may not be interested in something at first, but if you are successful in this area, passion will start to emerge and it will follow your success4. Focus on increasing energy, not time managementWe are busy. We have a lot to do - school, friends, work, passions, maybe even kids. The problem with focusing only on one thing is that other aspects of your life don't work out properly. Instead of learning perfect time management, learn how you can keep your energy high.This is a very good tip because when we have the energy it is easier for us to manage various aspects of our lives. When I say energy, I mean deep, focused energy, not the energy stimulated by coffee. This one is good but for the short term. We, on the other hand, are talking about a system that will allow us to maintain a high level of our energy in the long term without side effects. 5. Thoughts ratioA very interesting concept where Adams compares our brain to a bookshelf. In a way, it is limited to what is in it. Look at it this way. Only the books you put are on the shelf. If you have a lot of math books on it, I suppose you are fascinated by science. It's the same with our brain. Our mind is filled with thoughts that we will put there ourselves, just like with books on a shelf. Therefore, it makes sense to even force-feed yourself with positive thoughts.When you watch comedy on TV, you laugh, you think about what you are watching, and your body reacts to it by increasing the number of happiness hormones.Reality and thoughts go hand in hand.If you're interested in system instead of goals, joining our community of builders & thinkers may be good idea: https://ift.tt/vtTA4gm as well as write the blog post to get the bigger picture https://ift.tt/Dk8bPBR wish you every success, take care! :) see hubwealthy.com/wealthy
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