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The most important quality that cannot be taught
You’ve seen too many successful creators lately and it’s becoming tempting now.
“Can I also have my own business?”
“Well, it cannot be that tough, everyone is doing it.”
“Maybe I can become an owner of my time too!”
The first step to anything is visualising your growth. But if only visualisation could get people rich then we’ll be driving on roads full of Bugatti.
Reality check, you cannot achieve what those people have. Because your motivation is to make money without putting in the required effort.
The Bluff
Every time you read a post that says ‘I made $5,000 in a week’ just know that it took that person months of effort, experiments and failures to reach a place where they can talk about the profits.
From personal experience, the one quality I’ve seen that’s common in all creators is - discipline.
They don’t have to - but they do get up early to have a routine.
They eat healthier than 90% of the others I know
They are not all work - they take out time to go for runs, exercise and be in nature
They have a schedule to work. If they don’t work at least 4-6 hours a day, they don’t take rest.
And it is not an easy task. You can have 10 people sitting on your shoulder to tell you what’s right and I won’t call that discipline. You’re doing it because you don’t want to upset other people.
But when that discipline comes from the inside - that’s when it is worth it. When you have no audience to please but yourself and the only reason you’re putting yourself through the uncomfortable times of sweating and working is because you know it is beneficial for you.
This is where most creators fail
Because they think buying courses and $99 digital books is more important than sitting with yourself and asking the right questions.
Discipline is something that people miss out on and don’t pay enough attention to.
You have to make the difficult choices and uncomfortable decisions. You have to discipline your routine to make the best version of yourself.
I recently heard the podcast "How to Get Rich" and also re-read the book 'The Almanac of Naval Ravikant' all over again. So I thought - there has to be a way i can implement these models in real life.
So here I am. I spent the last 82+ hours gathering data and creating a system of mental models suggested by him and also creating notion templates for these models.
Level up your cognitive toolkit, gain a strategic advantage, and unleash your full potential.Checkout the template here: Naval Ravikant’s Mental Models
Hey friend, I appreciate you reading till the end. If you find this useful - do share this externally and help me reach more people.
See you again!
Smoul (the discipline police)