Good morning and welcome to the 5 a.m. Miracle, episode number 605. How to master any new topic in six months, revisiting the EVE ratio.

I am Jeff Sanders, and you have reached the podcast that is dedicated to dominating your day before breakfast.

I am a keynote speaker and corporate trainer, and to learn more about that, head over to

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Now in the episode this week, I'll break down the EVE ratio, which stands for entertainment versus education.

We'll also dig into how you are so close to your next breakthrough, and of course,

how to master any new topic in six months or less.

Let's dig right in. Thank you. So next to me on my desk right now, I have a stack of books.

And if you've seen my house in the last, I don't know, 10, 12, 15 years, what you have seen is a stack of books that

gets larger and smaller and larger and smaller as I invest heavily into more books and then

purge as many as I possibly can because I'm in this constant cycle of personal growth.

And I want to make sure that the books that are around me are books that

matter. They are books that speak to who I am, where I am, and most importantly, where I am

next. And so if you look at my current collection of books, I have purged all of the ones that no

longer appeal to me in terms of my season of growth I am moving myself

into, and the ones that are front and center reflect my current focus. And the stack of books

that I brought with me today on my desk are all related to one particular topic. In this case,

it's finance and investing and trying to figure out all the nitty gritties

of improving the money side of our personal and professional lives for my wife and I,

and it has been an epic focus for the last six months or so. And what's really fascinating is that

whenever I take on a new topic, the very first thing I do is reach for a book.

It is always my go-to.

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