Don’t Put Off Training Because You Think Your Goals Are Too Far Away

If you are willing to train seriously to achieve a goal, don't let yourself get faked out and discouraged by how long it takes people who don't take their training seriously.

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Don’t put off training because you think your goals are too far away. Once you actually get on the wagon and feel how fast you’re moving, you might realize your goals are closer than you thought.

Sometimes what you expect to take 5+ years turns out to only take single year or less if you train seriously, consistently, efficiently.

This is especially true in academics where standard grade-level learning paces are based on unserious, inefficient training. A grade level’s worth of learning can be compressed much, much shorter than a year if you avoid wasting time.

Basically, if you are willing to train seriously to achieve a goal, don’t let yourself get faked out and discouraged by how long it takes people who don’t take their training seriously.

Don’t get me wrong – there is no shortcut. Developing skills requires work and there is no way around it. You cannot skip out on the work and still come out with the skills. But what you CAN do is work efficiently and compress the necessary volume of work into a surprisingly small duration of time.

(All that may sound obvious, but the reality is that most people are unserious and inefficient with their training, and many people believe that they can find some shortcut by which to acquire skills despite training unseriously and inefficiently.)

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