This is the secret that's going to change everything about your personal development journey.

Ready? You've got to learn while doing. That means starting before you're ready.

That means doing it while you're still scared. And it means having a system in place for improving while taking action.

That's what I learned from a recent guest on the podcast.

His name is Eduardo Briseño, and in his new book, The Performance Paradox.

Available wherever you get your books. He talks about a concept called

the learning zone. The concept is simple. By building the process of learning into the process of doing,

you manage to be more productive overall, while also continually improving over time.

Sounds pretty good, right? It's a great idea, honestly, and he even shares a simple framework for how exactly you can do that. Let's say you're a professional athlete and let's pretend that you play volleyball.

Don't worry if you don't know anything about professional volleyball. I don't either. I'm not going to get into any of those details. It doesn't matter for this.

So, you're a professional volleyball player. Your day consists of practice, rest, eating well, and reviewing game tape. And then on some days, you have to actually perform. You need to go out to the court and play the other team with the intention of winning.

I mean after all it's your job. Now you might notice something here already. As a professional volleyball

player your life is broken up into two distinct areas.

You've got your practice zone, your learning zone,

and your performance zone.

The performance zone is when you're actually playing games

and you need to be odd.

The learning zone is basically everything else. It's the rest, it's the review,

it's the thinking, time, the practice, and honestly just spending time with your teammates too.

And even within the performance zone itself, there is an enormous amount of learning built in.

Like yes, you are on the court and you are relying on tried and true strategies, things that you've practiced

over and over and over again. But you are still learning about the other team and their habits and the things that you should take advantage of in order to best utilize those strategies. So in the moment you have to be learning as well.

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