8 Key Lessons from the Ultralearning Experiment

Financial Independence Podcast

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🗓️ 2 October 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Last year, I conducted an experiment in Ultralearning that I hoped would help me achieve a lifelong dream of mine of writing and releasing an album.

I’m happy to say it was far more successful than I ever imagined it would be!

As I mentioned in the initial Ultralearning podcast episode, the hope for the 3-month experiment was that it would accelerate my progress towards my goal and make the process more enjoyable.

Well, it did all that and more…

I ended up finishing a song during that 3-month experiment and I can’t believe it but I just released that single today!

Not only did I write a song during the experiment, I continued writing music since then and I now have enough material for an album!

Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought this experiment would help me make so much progress but it has!
In today’s podcast episode, I go through everything I learned and explain why the Ultralearning Experiment helped me push past the self-doubt and self-destructive habits that have plagued me in the past.

I also describe the new routines the experiment helped me develop and why those new habits have allowed me accomplish more than I ever have before!

Highlights

How to get your brain ready (and why it’s essential for making progress)
The best way to make developing new habits easier
What you should focus on and why
How to be original and creative
Why you should make your project “real” (even if it makes you feel silly)
When it’s worth spending more money instead of less
Why you should expect to encounter the “gap” and how to get over it

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm blind to give you a chance.
0:05.0	Hey what's up everybody.
0:07.0	Welcome to the Financial Independence Podcast.
0:09.0	Today's episode is the single most terrifying and exciting episode I've ever released and I will get to why in a second
0:16.1	but if you remember back in September I shared with you my lifelong goal of releasing an album and really that's the whole reason I
0:25.6	wanted to achieve financial independence because I thought that work was the one
0:29.2	thing that was holding me back which it wasn't and I've talked about that in that article, The Best and
0:34.6	Worst thing about FI, which I'll link to in the show notes if you haven't read that
0:38.5	yet. So I shared that goal with you back in September, and then in October I
0:42.2	released an episode with Scott Young who is
0:45.3	the author of Ultra Learning and I sat down with him and sort of put together an ultra learning experiment
0:51.7	for my music project and I thought that would be a really good way to
0:55.6	kick off the project in a way that's a lot more focused than I had been in previous years.
1:01.1	So even though I left my job back in 2016, I wasn't really making as much
1:05.3	progress as I had hoped. And I'll talk about why that was today and how I overcame those things
1:10.0	that were blocking me, but I figured if I could sit and do a ultra learning experiment
1:15.1	over three months and really focused then I had hoped that that would sort of
1:18.9	make me progress more than I had in the past and And in the episode I talked about, you know, I felt like I was going five miles per hour and I wasn't even sure if I was pointing in the right direction. I felt like I was in the dark and I was moving around but I didn't know if I was actually making progress and I thought that you know if I spend three months on this ultra learning experiment
1:37.4	Hopefully by the end of it I'll be going 15 miles per hour so I can feel the breeze in my face and enjoy the journey a little
1:43.2	bit more and I'll know that I'm pointing in the right direction. So that was the
1:46.9	whole goal of it and I have to say it exceeded all expectations and that's why
1:51.4	today is the most terrifying and exciting day.
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