Now to explain this next input better,
I’m going to pick up the examples of
Priyanka Chopra, Virat Kohli and Arnold
Schwazenegger.
The templates associated with how these
people designed their own careers and
their own systems can be applied to any
other industry. Of course, all the
entrepreneurs I’ve spoken to also fall
under the same bracket. Now over the
course of 900 podcasts what I found in
common about the 1% is that all of them
have identified an industry that they
wish to flourish in but have also
identified one core skill that they
invested a lot of time in in order to
get better than the others in that
industry. The richest industries are
often also the most competitive
industries and the truth about careers
is that you need to be really really
good at one thing. Priyanka Chopra
progressively got better as an actor
over the course of her career. She
focused on being prepared. Virat Kohli
or any other cricketer that I spoke to
focused on their core skill of batting
or bowling through repetition. They put
in more hours repeating the same
processes until the skill got polished.
Anel Schwazenegger who had multiple
successful careers within one lifetime.
He found success because his core skill
was communication.
You need to identify one core skill
that’s required for you to flourish in
your industry and give that skill
maximum hours. But also keep in mind,
you need to choose a skill that you
actually enjoy getting better at. That’s
how you manage your own dopamine
systems. You need to feel a rush from
what you’re working towards. As Naval
said, the trick is to choose a job that
looks like play to you, but work to
others.
Your practice should leave you with a
higher sense of energy than you felt
before you began practicing. take one
skill really really far.
Now, additionally, what all of the great
do is that they focus on three
additional skills other than that one
core skill. A cricketer is obviously got
to focus on fitness, branding as well as
other cricketing skills like fielding or
bowling. An actor has to understand
social media, has to understand
communication, has to understand PR.
Every single entrepreneur that I’ve ever
spoken to on the show constantly speaks
about the need for reinvention over the
course of business as well. And that
reinvention is only going to be an
outcome of you putting in hours of
studying additional skills that you add
along the course of your journey. But
the only additional pattern that I’ve
recognized over all these podcasts is
that over a decade, you’ll figure out
how to upskill yourself for the sake of
your growth. After that 10ear mark, it
becomes all about managing your physical
health as well as your personal
relationships that aid your career.
Personal relationships fuel your mental
health positively and the physical
health leads you to having higher energy
levels to go about your upskilling
process faster and to be more productive
at your workplace. Have a look at all
these photos. The right side represents
people who have learned how to use their
dopamine systems correctly. The left
side represents people who’ve abused
those same dopamine systems.
The same mechanics have led to mega
success on the right and the destruction
of life on the left. Keep in mind where
you end up in terms of productivity or
career success or legacy is heavily
dependent on your own choices.
That’s the case with the 900 people I
spoke to. Not everyone has fully cleaned
up their life. Everyone’s got one vice
or another.
Your job is to understand what each of
those vices are and how each of your
habits are affecting your long-term
career prospects.