Why You Can’t Get Anything Done – The One Thing by Gary Keller | Animated Book Summary

Why You Can’t Get Anything Done – The One Thing by Gary Keller | Animated Book Summary

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  1. In the movie City Slickers, the cowboy Curly says to Mitch “ Do you know what the secret of life is?” He holds up 1 finger and he says it’s one thing. He says Everyone has to figure out their one thing. “You focus on that, and everything else don’t mean
    s#&t”. I saw that movie years ago and never forgot that scene.

  2. Only One life millions of moments just one thing? You dont have a family? Dont you spend time with them friends girlfriend? Whats the problem by doing everything just in a productive way. May be the one agreeing are the one who dont have a real interest.
    Before doing anything starting anything did you thought you liked it or not.
    Afterwards were you enjoying it?
    No thats y you werent able to focus
    If you have a real interest you can do and manage time about anything and also be good at the same time.

  3. like imagine sitting staring at a wall for a week just concentrating on a fucking wall for a week, that would do it, that's hard to do. That's why nobody does this stuff. ??

  4. Hello sir. Thank you for making this video. I loved it. I see your about that self improvement life so I gave you a like comment and a subscribe with the bell. Now anyway, I heard your message. Specialize in one thing so that you become great. But there are so many things I want to do that I CAN'T give up on that this strategy is of no use. Now your a well read man. Have you ever read this self improvement book called "168 hours" by Laura Vanderkam? it helps you with really really effective exercises to help you utilize the one 168 hours you have every week. She talks about how since we have 168 hours in a week. We need to optimize and maximize the usage of those hours. We need to subtract hours for sleep and work and thrn count howany hours we have "free." It's a book with what seems to be the opposite message encouraging you to understand that you can get everything you want done if you realize the perspective she offers do her exercises and plan your week. Neither author is right or wrong. I'm just mentioning this book to make conversation. Don't think I'm against you in the slightest this channel is great.

  5. I agree 100% and have failed many times – by allowing the 'wheel of fortune' idea factory to pull me in every direction. As you have conveyed, becoming really good at something (mastering something) by taking ownership of our time, martialing our resources effectively and exploding our learning potential has a tendency to create a desire to want to do EVERYTHING well, and worse EVERYTHING OURSELVES. As an example of how I went too far – I built a website for my own consulting business and went so far as to create the graphic icons, font and all images myself, from scratch in a software design suite. I finally had to ask myself, – do I want to have a Venture Capital consulting business or a website design business. Ridiculous waste of time and focus on my part.

    Some good news: About the only way to become really good at more than one thing in the same time period, is if two (no more than 3) different factors or techniques exist in the same stream of work, in the same lane and window of time. As the video illustrated, trying to be a 5-star chef, world class musician on an instrument, building a top notch website, becoming a professional fitness guru, and meditating yogi are completely different tasks and areas of knowledge. They are not interconnected, and require the mind to completely shift focus, reorganize information and compute completely different areas of knowledge. It also requires one to work in different locations. However, the example of Mozart playing a piano is a good example to illustrate 3 common factors in the same stream of work.

    Lets say Mozart wanted to learn to play the piano, read and write music, and also build the best piano string. These factors are absolutely aligned and correlate to one another, overlapping, interconnected, one being a product of the other. There is some potential to master more than one factor as long as the other 2 to 3 factors fall within the same practice or area of knowledge, the same stream of work. This will be your only way to succeed in learning more than one topic in the same space and time.

    Pursing conflicting or non-relative goals will rip you apart and actually cause you to remain dormant in your agenda to produce something amazing. Do it too many times, and it may cause you more harm than not pursuing any goal in the first place. Why? Because pursuing several goals over and over again without success will erode your self confidence, cause you to doubt your ability, waste too much time, fail to provide you with a tangible reward, and may ultimately kill your dream-machine at a deeper level, all causing you to intentionally torpedo your ability to generate esteem, motivation and/or new ideas.

    Only try 2 or 3 goals at the same time while in the same lane, same space, same stream of work, interwoven practice, same body of knowledge. This is absolutely key when trying more than 1 goal. I recommend only 2 to start, and if they don't correlate, then avoid it and stay on one thing.

  6. You can absolutely look like a bodybuilder and pursue other goals brotha.

    I’m a competitive bodybuilder/personal trainer. My day job is personal training. I prep my meals two days a week, and workout 2 hours a day.

    Since my hours are extremely flexible as a trainer, I use my free time to read books and l also listen to self-improvement podcasts while I prep my meals or workout.

    I also play the piano (which is what my YouTube channel is dedicated to), but since I’ve been playing longer than I have been bodybuilding, it only takes me a couple short couple minutes sessions a week to learn new songs.

    It’s funny how you listed all the things I’m doing in your video.

    I agree TOO MANY things will make it difficult to reach mastery. But if you strategically map out a “few” things you want to work on, you can definitely do that, but obviously spend the most time on the subjects that require the least intrinsic learning.

  7. I recommend the book Mastery by Robert Greene. He writes about different people who are masters at subjects, yet extremely talented at others. They’re able to combine their talents or work on them simultaneously.