“In my whole life, I’ve never been good at something I wasn’t very interested in. It just doesn’t work. There’s no substitute for strong interest.”
Charlie Munger – All I Want to Know Is Where I’m Going to Die So I’ll Never Go There
Learning new things is one of the best ways to invest in yourself. You can’t start learning something just because it’s popular or because you think you should. You must pursue your interests, not someone else’s. When you do, you acquire a unique skill set and no one can compete with you. Learning new things, but most importantly, learning new things that interest you leads to massive success. The most important part is that you sustain this as long as possible.
Here’s Munger again on this topic: “Cicero, learned man that he was, believed in self-improvement so long as breath lasts.” Self-improvement never ends, so you must embrace the idea that you never finish it. To know if you’re heading in the right direction, Kevin Kelly invites you to ask yourself a question. “If you repeated what you did today 365 more times, will you be where you want to be next year?”
“Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Day by day, and at the end of the day – if you live long enough – like most people, you will get out of life what you deserve” Charlie Munger once said. The compound effect is simple to understand: you invest a little so that, with enough time, you end up with something massive. The problem is that no one wants to get rich slowly. Yet this is the secret to success. “Most people don’t succeed because they’re either unwilling to fail or they get tired of failing before those failures pay off”, Mark Manson wrote.
So we know we want to learn new things every day and that we’ll never finish this process, but what’s the goal? Ideally, we want to achieve mastery. That’s the key to massive success. Here’s entrepreneur Derek Sivers: “Mastery is the best goal because the rich can’t buy it, the impatient can’t rush it, the privileged can’t inherit it, and nobody can steal it. You can only earn it through hard work. Mastery is the ultimate status.”