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8 Simple Mantras That Help Me Build Skills Faster
You are what you tell yourself.
The messages that you tell yourself are very important.
Good messages can help you to live a good life. Bad messages will likely lead you to a chaotic and messy life. Your “mantras” — the things that you tell yourself when you’re thinking — must be constructive toward being (not becoming) the kind of person you want to be.
I’m a person who’s very interested in skill development, learning, and trying to be better than I was yesterday.
These 8 mantras help me do that.
Hard work allows for smart work.
I think the idea of “work smart, not hard” is a good thing to think about, but if you spend all your time working smart and never work hard, you’ll struggle when the going gets tough.
For my Jiu-Jitsu training to reach a point where I could focus on specific skill building above pure grit, for example, I had to work extremely hard on Jiu-Jitsu for a very long time. I had to reach a base level. You can’t get strong without going through a few tough workouts. You can’t be a good fighter without going through some wars.
Hard work provides a foundation so that you can maximize skills through smart work. These 2 types of…
