Quit Worshiping Your Heroes

10 Ways to Maximize any Learning Opportunity

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When you first decided you would call yourself a writer, what did you want to do?

• Make a million from your bestselling book?
• Have thousands of followers ready to buy whatever you created?
• Become so famous that podcasters compete to have you on their shows?

Me, too.

We Want It Now

Malcolm Gladwell wrote that it usually takes 10 years to master something.

Tony Robbins says you can accelerate that 10 year curve by doing more of what you want more often.

The allure of instant success is an irresistible devil. We really want to believe we can do it overnight just like the greats we admire.

So we buy books. We enroll in courses. We join mastermind groups. Each goes deeper and gets progressively more expensive. Why? So we can sell as many books as Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, or James Patterson.

Learning the tricks of the trade will save you time. But you still have to risk, write a lot, and be willing to fail to succeed.

What We Really Want