243. The Best of What Others Know (10X Series: Part 2)
Oct 31, 2023
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Learn how to achieve 10x results without burning out by leveraging resources, exploring mental models, and expanding perspectives through reading. Discover the power of interdisciplinary knowledge and the importance of learning from the smartest people. Don't forget to evaluate your reading habits and increase reading time to broaden your perspectives and enrich your thinking.
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Leveraging diverse knowledge from various disciplines leads to better decision-making and higher probabilities of success.
Deliberate reading, especially of classics and books from different fields, grants access to collective wisdom and leads to residual results and effortless creativity.
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Leverage as the Key to Success
The podcast explores the concept of leverage as the differentiating factor between success and extraordinary success. It explains that successful individuals find multiple ways to leverage knowledge, technology, relationships, and resources, rather than just working harder. The episode stresses the importance of leveraging the best knowledge from various disciplines, as exemplified by the investing legend Charlie Munger. By combining learnings from diverse fields, individuals can develop a more comprehensive mental model of the world, leading to better decision-making and higher probabilities of success.
Expanding Mental Models through Reading
The podcast advocates for deliberate and diverse reading as a powerful way to expand mental models. It encourages listeners to read not only within their field but also deliberately outside of it, citing the benefits of reading classics and books from different disciplines. By doing so, individuals can overcome the limitations of their narrow mental models and develop a richer understanding of the world. Reading is emphasized as a high-leverage activity that grants access to the collective wisdom and insights of the smartest people, leading to residual results and effortless creativity.
The Power of Leverage in Reading
The podcast highlights the significance of thoughtful reading and the implications of the choice between reading books versus consuming shallow media. It suggests allocating more time to reading, and specifically reading books that have stood the test of time, as they have gone through a filtering process to separate the essential from the nonessential. By engaging with the classics and sharing the reading experience with others, such as family or teams, individuals can amplify the long-term impact of reading and leverage the best knowledge to enhance their daily lives and future outcomes.
Have you ever wanted to make a higher contribution in your life to be able to get better results, even 10X results, but at the same time you already feel like you're running out of space, stretched too thin, a little exhausted, or more than a little exhausted? Well, that's what this series is. This is part two in a series about how to use leverage to achieve 10X results without burning out. In the solo episode last week, I introduced this theme and I asked you to be able to pay attention to all the forms of leverage that you see, physical and metaphorical, across all of your life. By the end of today's episode, we'll dig deeply into one form of leverage so that you can use this lever to be able to take modest input but produce residual results that is results that come back to you again and again.