983: Mastery is a Double-Edged Sword AND Costs of Living by Colin Wright of Exile Lifestyle

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🗓️ 20 August 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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2 shorter posts from Colin Wright of Exile Lifestyle, on the good and bad of mastery and living in different places. Episode 983: Mastery is a Double-Edged Sword AND Costs of Living by Colin Wright of Exile Lifestyle (Location Independence) Colin Wright is a professional author and international speaker who co-founded a publishing company and travels full-time, moving to a new country every four months or so--that country determined by the votes of his readers! He also blogs. Colin's a minimalist in that he owns very few things and is careful in how he consumes. He tends to buy less, but invest in quality when he does, and trends toward the same in relationships, business endeavors, and just about everything else. He's left-handed, blue-eyed, scary good at Tetris, and can’t cook. The original posts are located here: https://exilelifestyle.com/mastery-doubleedged-sword/ https://exilelifestyle.com/costs-living/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's a minimalist Monday edition of Optimal Living Daily, Episode 983.
0:04.9	Mastery is a double-edged sword and cost of living.
0:09.2	Both by column right of exileifestyle.com,
0:12.3	and I'm Justin Mollick, your personal narrator, reading to you every day, including holidays,
0:16.7	just like an audiobook, but free of charge, and mostly from blogs, but sometimes from books,
0:21.5	and always with permission from the websites. That's super important, otherwise it would be
0:25.2	copyright infringement, and a happy Monday to you. I hope your week is off to a great start
0:29.3	if you're listening in real time. I have two posts for you today, both are from column right of
0:34.0	exileifestyle.com, and he's touring next month that September 2018, if you're listening in the future,
0:41.0	so check out his site for info about that. For now, let's get right to today's two posts,
0:45.6	as we optimize your life.
0:51.8	Mastery is a double-edged sword, by column right of exileifestyle.com.
0:57.2	I spend at least an hour a day answering questions about my life and work.
1:02.8	Travel, publishing, self-education, branding, the emails pile up, and I love that I'm able to share
1:09.4	what I've learned with other people so easily. It's not uncommon to see someone who has achieved
1:14.1	some degree of mastery or even just competence in a given field, spending a good deal of their time
1:19.4	answering questions. Work your way up any learning curve, and you'll find that the ratio of people
1:24.8	who can learn from you to the people who can teach you, shifting precipitously.
1:29.6	Before long, you spend most of your time teaching, rather than learning. Of course, it's possible
1:34.7	to learn while teaching. I find that sharing what I know with others increases my grasp of the
1:39.7	fundamentals, and even helps me derive new knowledge from old, as I have to explain what I already know
1:45.2	in new ways, and mentally put that information in new contexts, as I do. This type of learning
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