 One of the things that I actually really like about Gary V is that even though he talks about working 16 hours a day and working your face off One of the things he does really well The thing is that Gary V is so committed to the process that he doesn't waste a lot of time during the day Now in this video, I want to share what I think is a way to a hundred extra productivity by focusing more on what you do While you're awake versus depriving yourself of sleep of all these fun things you want to do and making your days count So the first a hundred extra productivity hack is the first and foremost do the things you enjoy You know an example of what not to do is Andre Agassi He was one of the top tennis players in the world and if you've read his biography open He talks about how since he was a kid his dad kind of pushed his own Unfulfilled potential of becoming the tennis champion onto little Andre and he drilled him from the time he was a kid They even bought a home where he could put a full tennis court in the backyard and they would have him hit 50 a hundred thousand balls a year believing that if his kid hit that many balls He would be unbeatable. Well, yeah, Andre became number one in the world super young super Successful, but he was super miserable and he was always rebelling. He got into drugs I think he even did meth at some point. He really unraveled and he derailed And this is in stark contrast to some people who you find have that continual up and up and up success because they really are Consciously choosing that that's the game they want to be the best at more than anyone but for Andre he never loved it and he was always pushed into it and so You could force yourself and push yourself into doing anything you don't like anyone can be successful at something They don't like with a good work ethic But the repercussions come in the other aspects of your life the collateral damage will show up in your health Relationships with drug and alcohol use. It's gonna show up in some other like soul level discontent The second thing is dedicating one hour a day to a concrete habit or skill acquisitions skills Number one more than anything are what pay the bills So if you're lost or you're uncertain the main thing I would dedicate your life to is Acquiring a valuable concrete skill set for me writing all of my books Which so far I think has been five has all been done in one hour per day Like I did it with a full-time job. I wrote my last full book while in my first year of medical school It's possible. Like it's really is possible. I'm not super human The reason is because I dedicated one hour per day to developing the craft of writing of how do I write? How much can I write in one hour? What writing styles? How do I frigging create a book market it sell it hire designers? Editors I don't I did not know any of this. It was the commitment to one hour a day I'm gonna study the craft of writing a book and selling a book and it was just in that one hour a day That over the last three years I've produced five and of course there's gonna be plenty more I'm sure but I didn't go off in this crazy sabbatical. I didn't quit my life I had a full-time job for the first one or two and then I was in med school for the others So it's possible by dedicating one hour a day to a concrete skill set that could be programming video editing Improving your conversational skills being more friendly or personal think about what is the concrete skill set you need to develop? The third way to be way more productive is actually to have more grit than anyone else So for example when you see people you think are super productive you see two things Number one is that they're not wasting a lot of time and number two is that they're getting more things done But often the way they do that is they're focusing on doing fewer things Better and that's this idea from Warren Buffett. So there's this great story between it's about Warren Buffett between Warren Buffett and Mike Flint who is his private airline pilot and the story goes something like this that Mike Flint was his personal airplane pilot for ten years and According to Flint he was talking about his career goals with Buffett and his boss asked him to go through a three-step exercise And he said the first thing was to write down his top 25 career goals So he took some time and then he wrote it down and then he said to review the list and circle his top five Priorities in those goals. So eventually, you know, he decided on the top five and then at this point Flint his pilot had two lists the five items he circled were list a and in the 20 items He did not circle that were not the priorities or list B So that's when Flint said he'd work on his top five priorities and then eventually get to the 20 others But that's when Buffett said no, you've got it all wrong Mike Everything you didn't circle just became your avoid at all cost list No matter what these things get no attention from you until you're done with the top five So this is a story showing that maniacal focus on developing one core pattern One core process one core goal and the core habits to reach those first So my mind productivity is all around Making sure that you feel good on a daily basis which you can do by doing more of what you like being maniacally focused and Being gritty in the sense of outlasting everyone because you're very focused on specific things. 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