I Read 650+ Self-Improvement Books To LEARN THESE 7 Lessons | Tom Bilyeu
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Impact Theory
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🗓️ 29 October 2022
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
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On Today's Episode:
If you’ve ever wondered how Tom is able to retain so much information or how he’s read hundreds of books in a single year, secrets are being revealed. Tom went from not knowing anything about NFTs, crypto, and blockchain at the beginning of 2021 to becoming a thought leader and international keynote speaker at multiple NFT events.
How did he do it?
In this episode, Tom is revealing major life lessons he’s learned from reading hundreds of books, why reading is so important to your success, and how to leverage what you read and retain the most amount of information possible in the shortest amount of time.
SHOW NOTES:
0:00 | Introduction to Reading for Impact
0:18 | Books Build Better Beliefs
14:45 | It’s About Building Skills
26:22 | Focus on These Core Topics First
33:03 | Do This To Read More Efficiently
39:42 | Make The Information Stick
48:14 | Focus Is A Muscle
55:54 | Dyslexia Is A Superpower
58:26 | Get The Most Info in Just 30 Days
1:07:34 | Brain Optimization in the Gym
1:13:01 | Optimized by Meditation
1:20:25 | Optimize In the Kitchen
1:34:52 | Optimize Your Sleep Life
QUOTES:
“You have a lot of really dumb beliefs that you have mistaken for objective truth.” [0:24]
“The truth, very simply, is that which most efficiently moves you towards your goals.” [2:05]
“You want to exchange what sounds good, what seems like it should be right, for what actually yields the results that you are looking for.” [10:40]
“The whole point, the very thing that makes the human species that successful is our ability to learn from a cultural standpoint.” [17:59]
“When you put energy and effort into something, into getting better at something, you will actually get better. That’s the juice.” [25:54]
“The thing that you are going to battle with the most in life, I promise, is your own mind.” [26:39]
“Get to the point where you can explain things to other people in a very simplistic fashion.” [36:19]
“Stop worrying about f*cking embarrassing yourself. It doesn’t matter. What matters is on a long enough timeline you can beat anyone at anything if you’re willing to go an f*ck up!” [40:46]
“Knowledge stacks.” [43:05]
“Learn in the morning, use in the afternoon.” [44:30]
“You need to be a hardcore muthaf*cker. You need to make demands of yourself. You need to force yourself to focus. You need to get some fury in your diet.” [51:57]
“Do whatever it takes. but make demands of yourself.” [54:31]
“Seek disconfirming evidence. Do not trick yourself into learning a side of an argument. The whole point of moving ourselves forward with knowledge is to get to the point where we can more accurately predict the outcome of our actions…” [1:02:15]
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| 1:08.6 | Reading has left a massive impact on my life and it can for you too. And in this episode, |
| 1:14.0 | I'm going to tell you some of the major life lessons I've learned from reading books. |
| 1:17.8 | And I'm going to help you determine which books might be best for you as well. Let's get into it. |
| 1:26.8 | Here is what I've learned from reading an obscene amount of self-improvement books. |
| 1:31.1 | Number one, you have a lot, a lot of really dumb beliefs that you have mistaken for objective |
| 1:41.1 | truth. Everybody gets trapped inside their own minds. Nobody more so than me. And because we all |
| 1:49.2 | get trapped inside of our own minds, if you really want to make change in your life, the first thing |
| 1:54.8 | you're going to have to do is recognize what those beliefs are, unwind them, and then you can begin |
| 2:02.4 | to layer the new beliefs in. And that's the second thing is you need to build up a set of beliefs |
| 2:10.3 | that's going to take you where you want to go. Now, we live in what many people refer to as a |
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