Yo today's QOD is we're good at presenting ourselves as we're not

but how we want to be seen. Here we go.

Welcome back to the QOD at the day show. I'm your hope shan, cracks in a shot, cracks in.com. We've got Simon Sinek on the show wrapping up our skills series. And this isn't really like an inspiring piece at all.

It is more like a reality check because what he's going to talk about today is what I think in my opinion keeps people from developing the skills they need to have the life that they want.

It's that instant gratification is that sense of entitlement. It's the addiction to social media where you can't go more than three minutes without looking at your phone.

If you want to develop skills like I said the other day you have to be willing to sit down and develop them by yourself usually and not be looking at your phone all the time.

You know when I'm reading my phone is usually in a drawer in a different room. That way I don't look at it. That way I just stay focused on what I'm doing.

And you have to realize that it's possible that where you are right now is nowhere near where you want to be in terms of your skills.

But when you put in the time you'll slowly but surely develop them little by little it becomes a lot. Let me tell you in 2015 when I first got into the personal development space switching out of the health space my friend JJ version interviewed me.

And she was like so Sean tell us about how we how we reach our goals. And I'm like I don't know affirmations. I don't know have no idea. I just I had no idea what I was talking about.

And you know fast forward five or six years I probably read in this time.

Gosh at least 100,000 pages in the last five or six years just every day an hour here two hours there.

You know after you know on a Saturday just but but doing it every single day and then you're like oh my gosh like look what I know look what I can teach money mind Academy next semester coming up in a couple weeks is going to be insane.

I'm just all the stuff I know I'm just putting it in there it's dope right. And it couldn't be that way I couldn't be this way I couldn't know what I know I couldn't have the skills that I have if I wasn't willing to sit down.

You know if I wasn't willing to just to set aside instant gratification. So you have to be willing to be like okay here's what I want to do I'm going to do it and not be addicted to the dopamine hit of distraction.

I get a dopamine hit when I learn like a like a little nugget of information that helps me to connect another dot I'm like yes that was dope right I want to tell everybody about it.

Like that's when you know you're dedicated to your craft. So develop your skills my friends please because it is the the gateway it is the key to the life that you want you just have to be willing to be disciplined and to sacrifice a few rather non essential things.

Simon Sinek coming up.

Many of this young generation of this millennial generation were subject to what has been described as a failed parenting strategy.

Some of you and many of your friends were raised being told that you were special and you were told that you can have whatever you want just because you want it.

Many schools gave performance know where the participation ribbons. So in other words kids got medals for coming in last and the science on this is good we know what it does is it devalues the feeling in the middle for the person who actually works hard to come in first and it embarrasses the person who comes in last because they know they don't deserve it and it makes them feel worse.

Some kids got into honors classes not because they deserved it but because the parents complained and some kids got a is not because they earned them but because the teachers didn't want to deal with the parents.

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