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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Stop looking for tricks. Just get good. That is the trick. The hack is literally just to skill up as efficiently as possible. No skill, no results. No train, no gain. The only way around is through.

Yeah, upskilling takes a lot of work, and it might seem unattainable at the beginning, but 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 a single year or less if you train seriously, consistently, efficiently. Sometimes what you expect to take a decade only takes a few years.

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.

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.

Again: 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 many people believe that they can find some shortcut by which to get results without skills, and many people are unserious and inefficient with their skills training.)

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