Listen and Do

You over-complicate learning new skills.

You need 2 things to get better at anything.

• Listen.
• Do.Listening takes many forms. You learn, read, watch, get shown something, or just listen.

Doing is practicing, training, doing. Some people call it executing. I call it getting shit done.

Most people don’t do doing enough. We like to spend time learning, because learning gives us that quick dopamine hit. It gives us the short-term pat on the back.

Learning without application is just data acquisition. It won’t help you. Applying the data is the only useful thing.

I learned this quickly when I took up Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in February. I got mega excited about learning something new, as I always do when I start learning new stuff.

I started reading loads of books, watching YouTube videos. I got sucked into data acquisition.

Then I stopped, and just started doing more.

I went to more classes a week. I practiced the things I already knew more often. I trained and drilled more than I acquired new knowledge, and I got better. Very quickly.

The fundamentals are important to learn before you learn anything else, then they’re important to apply.

Over, and over, and over.

Listen and do.