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We often will walk away from those things that are a lot harder, things that we've never done before, just to go back to our comfort zone.

But sometimes you need to get forced to do these things and add a little bit more pressure to get the results you want.

When you take a small moment in time, focus on something, a little micro thing inside of the thing that you're doing that's much bigger.

And that then becomes a part of you so that you can kind of become a master at it over time by continually stacking those skills. That's Pat Flynn. He's a lifelong learner from San Diego who has built a reputation as one of the most influential voices in digital entrepreneurship through smart passive income or SPI and additional diverse businesses, award-winning podcasts, newsletters, YouTube channels,

and thriving online communities. He's also the guy who taught me how to podcast. Pat reaches and

inspires millions of people each month, so you'll learn one, why learning less can help you achieve

more. Two, how pressure helps you learn better. And three, how to teach others in order to learn

faster. And if you want a quick summary write about these actual takeaways, I recommend you sign up for the free Gold Nugget email newsletter, which you can find at awesome at your job.com. I'm Pete McItis. This is How to Be Awesome at your job. And now, here's Pat. At, welcome back. Thanks for having me. Excited to be here. Well, I'm super excited to dig into the

wisdom you've got for us, your latest book, Lean Learning, How to Achieve More by Learning Less,

which is almost blasphemy here on how to be awesome at your job. Learning less, Pat, explain.

Yes. Well, it's about learning the right things, not everything. And here's what I mean by that. You know, we always grew up, or at least I did, thinking that the more information you knew, the better. Because with more information, you were more powerful. You were more useful. You had more utility, right? And that was the case for such a long time until now, because now we have access to all the information that we could ever need and beyond. However, we are still fine-tuned to absorb information as if it were scarce, right, as if it were a scarce food source. We see it. We're like, ooh, let's get that and get more food and more food because it's a survival sort of mechanism, right? But now we're at this buffet line of information.

And not only are we stuffing our plates full of everything and everything that we may or may not need,

we're also getting force-fed stuff into our throats from algorithms and other things that believe they know more than we do what we need.

And that we're all seeing that, experiencing that on all these platforms.

So lean learning is really about learning from the right resources at the right time for the right

things, trading just in case learning for just in time learning, as I like to call it.

And it's how I've been able to accomplish a lot of different things across many different

fields in such a short period of time. And I believe that this is where we need to go

when it comes to figuring things out, not by trying to figure out literally everything there is to know

about something before taking action, but choosing action over information and using that action

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