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*Uber's first self-driving truck makes first delivery of 50k beers. Ie, that is blue collar job loss. Need to learn something new. Applies to white collar jobs, too.
*Uber's first self-driving truck makes first delivery of 50k beers. Ie, that is blue collar job loss. Need to learn something new. Applies to white collar jobs, too.
*book - Disrupted. My Misadventuree in the Start-Up Bubble. Funny book. High pay + old skill = not good. Example of white collar job loss.
*book - Disrupted. My Misadventuree in the Start-Up Bubble. Funny book. High pay + old skill = not good. Example of white collar job loss.
*Hobby Hilda - does well, then falls. How Hobby Hilda learns - ex. Industry Publication - reading what everyone else knows. You need ideas that people don't have. At best you get caught up with everyone.
*Hobby Hilda - does well, then falls. How Hobby Hilda learns - ex. Industry Publication - reading what everyone else knows. You need ideas that people don't have. At best you get caught up with everyone. She also does Social Media - but that's not great (thought of day vs thought of lifetime). App called Pocket - pocket things for future. Books - books that everyone else is reading may not be good.
*Attention Bias - listening only to specific channels as above. Illusion of importance - just because something pops up you think it's important.
*Deliberate Danny - Compound interest: he who understands it, earns it, he who doesn't, pays it. So Deliberate Danny wins in the long run.
*Thrun - top players are worth $10M. Not many people have developed that skill. Deliberate learner finds what is needed and gets those skills.

Revision as of 17:28, 6 September 2019

  • 244 people on webinar
  • Learning how to read
  • Getting 10x in retaining learning
  • Finding 1 hour to read every day
  • Ex. learning to start a business - customers, sales, price setting
  • The faster you learn, the more you can earn
  • Ernst & Young reward and multi-million dollar business from scratch
  • Co-creator of largest online community of learning how to learn?
  • Think and Grow Rich - by Napoleon Hill is a classic. Takes a few hours to read, but changes life for ever.
  • Michael started reading books since then en masse
  • Likes learning about high performers, esp entrepreneurs
  • 5 Hour Rule - read (or learn 5 hours per week)
  • Worker Will, Hobby Hilda, Deliberate Danny - 3 archetypes.
  • Scrooge saw the implications of his decisions - so he improved
  • Focus on learning vs performance. Learning is improvement, not mastery, max mistakes, leverage 1000x. Performance is only 24hr, mistakes minimized, goal of execution, and mastery.
  • Worker Will does well - but then plateaus. At that point, he must get deliberate about learning.
  • Uber's first self-driving truck makes first delivery of 50k beers. Ie, that is blue collar job loss. Need to learn something new. Applies to white collar jobs, too.
  • book - Disrupted. My Misadventuree in the Start-Up Bubble. Funny book. High pay + old skill = not good. Example of white collar job loss.
  • Hobby Hilda - does well, then falls. How Hobby Hilda learns - ex. Industry Publication - reading what everyone else knows. You need ideas that people don't have. At best you get caught up with everyone. She also does Social Media - but that's not great (thought of day vs thought of lifetime). App called Pocket - pocket things for future. Books - books that everyone else is reading may not be good.
  • Attention Bias - listening only to specific channels as above. Illusion of importance - just because something pops up you think it's important.
  • Deliberate Danny - Compound interest: he who understands it, earns it, he who doesn't, pays it. So Deliberate Danny wins in the long run.
  • Thrun - top players are worth $10M. Not many people have developed that skill. Deliberate learner finds what is needed and gets those skills.