 I have a very simple rule regarding knowledge and action. And I devised this rule since I wasted so much time in my life, just wasting time by learning. And so many people, entrepreneurs and self-development guys, you know, they pride themselves so much on learning. I learned so much. I learned five hours a day. I do this six hours a day. I did this many courses. But the golden rule of learning in any subject, it doesn't matter if it's sport or business or meditation, whatever. The golden rule is that for every hour that you study, you need at least two hours of action to complement it. And the reason for that is that if you don't have action that surrounds your goals and your knowledge, you're not going to have any way to connect the dots. So imagine all the knowledge you get is like dots, like hundreds and thousands of dots of knowledge that you just accumulate. But when you take action, when you get a reference experience, it's like, oh, when I did this, this happened, when I did that, that happened. Results, that's the word. Then you start connecting the dots. Oh, now you can see the system. Now the system makes more and more sense to you. And that only dots that you connected are actually affected. You could have the strongest battery in the world, but if it's not connected to something, it's pointless. It doesn't matter if you have how much fuel you have or how big of an engine. If it's not connected to something, it's not going to generate any power for that thing. So it's the same with knowledge. You can have a ton of knowledge. You can be well studied, all the Harvard guys and all the people that study at academies and stuff like that. But they have all this knowledge, but there's no application for it. When you study for an MBA, you study for a couple of years, but you don't actually run a business while studying it. So it's all theory. Nothing would back it up. So when you don't take action, when people don't take action and they learn a lot, that's so destructive. You begin to have these thoughts and theories of the world. Like, oh, this is the way it should be. And this is the way it should be. And the knowledge gives you this false sense of superiority and knowledge like, oh, I know so much, so I'm going to have probably an easy time. And I'm just looking for the perfect formula and you just begin to lose your fucking mind. And I'm saying this because it happened to me. It happened to me so many times in the past and it was so brutal that I'll never let that happen again. And the easiest way to explain it is that when you're like a car and when the car is driving, when it's in movement, then it's very easy to pivot the car. Just, you know, just move the wheel a bit. You change directions. But when you're standing still, you're like vroom, vroom, vroom. And nothing happens. So for me, people who just study theory all day long, they're basically kind of like that. They're like, they're sitting in a car that's standing still and they're basically turning the wheel like, oh yeah, I'm learning. And they're making these weird car sounds like vroom, vroom, vroom. But they're not actually moving. And they're like vroom, vroom, and they're like, oh, new knowledge. Spin, vroom, vroom. Yes, this direction, vroom, vroom. And you look at them from the side and it's like, bro, what the fuck? You're not fucking moving. Like you're standing still. Even that knowledge is going to be irrelevant soon. So yeah, the guy who takes a bit of action, you know, makes a couple of cold calls every day just to get clients, is actually more better than the guy who's just learning all the time. And I talk about this very in depth in my video called The Three Levels of Success. Basically, I explained that you have the root level. You have the fundamentals and you have the nuances. So the root is like what creates the actual results that you can then use. The fundamentals are the big percentages, like improving by 30%, 40%, improving sales, improving marketing, creating website learning. And then the nuances are like the banners. The banner should be blue or it should be dark red or something. You know, things that make like 5% difference or 3% or 1% difference, but that matter once you get to the big levels. Like, for example, for an athlete. So if you don't focus on the root level, which is the action itself, only on fundamentals, it doesn't make any sense. Because what does matter if you improve knowledge from 20% effectiveness to 40%, if you have zero action, 20% of zero and 40% of zero is still zero. Even 500% of zero is still zero. So yeah, you have to take action. You have to take fucking action. If you don't take action, you're not going to see shit. And I know this sounds obvious, but if it's that obvious, how could I have wasted so many months of my life not doing it? Now I'm not saying that all this knowledge doesn't help you eventually. It definitely does. When you learn a lot, that knowledge is stored. One of the coolest things that I learned while reading and studying psychology is that your brain retains information forever, pretty much. So you have all the data banks and you do retain what you learned and once you have enough connections, you'll remember it. You might have learned something two years ago while you weren't doing anything and then you might make a call or whatever it is that you do and suddenly you connect the dots. Oh yeah, and you connect them and you're like, oh shit, I learned this like two years ago or something. So yeah, that happens. But that's not an excuse to just study all the time. That just means that once you start taking action, it's not that bad if you wasted time if you take enough action. So I hope this helps you. Wherever you are right now, just start taking action and usually you study a lot actually as a means of procrastination. It's a very effective way of procrastinating because you feel like you're making progress even though you're not. Because again, you're not focusing on root, you're just focusing on fundamentals. You're studying the map, you're not actually driving it towards destination. So yeah, work on the problem of not being able to take action. Work on the problem of procrastinating. Probably the problem is you have such a high expectation of yourself to take action like, oh it needs to be this big and this much every day and learning more is even psyching you out even more. So what I recommend best is to just lower the bar as much as needed to sometimes your ridiculous levels. Make it as small as required. As long as you start taking action, it's good because in a week or two, the amount of action you're going to take is going to grow massively once you get used to it. So don't be that idiot that is like, oh, I want to take massive action now but he can't. It's like the guy who wants to lift 200 pounds but he can't even lift 150 right now. So if he just lifts 100, he can actually build himself up but he's like, no, no, if I don't lift 200, I don't want to do it. So the guy who starts small is actually smarter because he is going to get to that 200 pounds. So the guy who doesn't take massive action and just starts small but actually starts in a couple of weeks or a couple of months is going to be where you want to be while you just wasted time and bitched about it. So take that into account. Yeah. Cool. Thanks for watching. I love doing these videos. Let me know what you think. Let me know if you have any questions. Tell me how you might have wasted your time. 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