 Occasionally when you're reading the book you stumble upon a line or a paragraph that we really resonate with One that plays through your head throughout the day that you always go back to reflect on now recently I finished Eckhart Tolle's book and New Earth this one here, which I think is pretty good and There was one line that I Had to share for this video because it really highlights the stuff we're going to be talking about so I quote The great arises out of small things that are on it and careful Everybody's life really consists of small things Greatness is a mental abstraction in the favorite fantasy of the ego The paradox is that the foundation for greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness Now what does that mean? I'm sure we've all heard about it before Practice makes perfect Malcolm Gladwell talks about how you require or you need 10,000 hours of consistent practice of Consistent effort to become a master of your craft This is the accepted amount by many experts, but many people believe you need more than 10,000 hours You heard of the book of mastery Success is not a linear path It has ups and downs. It's got these weird trials and tribulations that you have to go through That's why it takes time Because it's not linear. You don't just grow at the same rate. It always changes But what people don't understand about success is that it's not just an event It's a process doesn't just happen And this is partly because the media and how the media manipulates people into thinking, you know Shit just happens to lucky people assess few people things just magically happen, which is a great falsehood It's a fallacy Things don't just happen is always the background events that precede them that you don't usually see right Think of when they're building a skyscraper like the one in Dubai You don't see them building it up. You just hear about the news about when it's finished They say the tallest skyscraper in the world has just been built boom. Look at that I just came out nowhere Now, but you didn't see the previous four years of consistent effort that was required over the five years wherever long it took Just like someone in the gym when you see them looking big and juicy and swole You're like, oh, they probably just were born like that or they hit the gym for one year But no, they started when they were 11 It always takes some extended amount of time to really be a master of what you do I like to show the guys a story of me I used to be a skateboarder, right? I skated for five years and when I started off It was actually pretty difficult. It took me six weeks to learn the initial most basic fundamental skateboard We were just cold and all the just kind of like this bam You pretty much have the board going to the air with you. It's just like a jump Took another six weeks to learn how to pop shove it Another maybe 10 weeks to learn how kick flip It just took a long time to get the fundamental baseline set up But once you have the foundation you can build on those tricks and do some more complicated tricks a very heel flip Tray flip 360 switch 360 flip, etc. You just kept going on and going on but it was through consistent effort I used to skateboard every single day for hours and I did that for five years after five years I still wasn't great. I was decent, but I wasn't great That's the same with anything else in life. I'm sure if you played guitar for an extended mouth Yes, you know about this You know about your friends that try learn how to play guitar They think they can get it in three weeks or four weeks through watching a few YouTube videos Doesn't happen that way. You have to honor the process. You have to enjoy the daily grind Forget about the end outcome It will happen if you are not the daily grind the daily grind is what's important It's what really matters is or that you have control over Focus on your circle of influence some things of course you won't have control over but the things you can do is what you need to focus on It's kind of like how people always say things like how do you eat an elephant or something like that? How do you eat a whale? One bite at a time The journey of a hundred miles or was that thousand miles starts with a single step We hear it over and over again, but how many of us actually have it embedded in our heads How many of us actually adhere to the philosophies? Not many You need to know this stuff and to buy in if you want to be great Enjoy the process and you will inevitably reach the end outcome Hope you guys enjoyed that video and be great