Your current skills vs. your vision, Deadly illusion & Shame
When you compare your current skills to your vision, it seems impossible...
Welcome back to my newsletter, where I share interesting things Iâve learned during the week.
Todayâs topics:
đ« Â | Your current skills vs. your vision
đ€Â | Acting regardless of how you feel
đźÂ | The deadly illusion
đ | Pleasure passes quickly
đ« Your current skills vs. your vision
âŠthe only goal for a maker (creator, entrepreneur, builder) is to stay in the game long enough for their skills to catch up to their vision.
This gap will eventually close for anyone and everyone, as long as they keep playing long enough to let it happen.
I stumbled upon the above statement in a newsletter last week, and it's been on my mind ever since.
Hidden in a folder somewhere on my laptop, I keep a swipe file which is a compilation of works from people I admire. The purpose of the swipe file is to inspire me whenever I feel lost or stuck. Itâs not exactly a vision board, but it serves a similar purpose.
Recently, I was skimming the file and I couldnât help but feel like I had a really long way to go. When I look at my current skills and compare them to the grand vision that I have in my head or see in my swipe file, it looks almost impossible.
It also doesnât help that I have a tiny voice in a corner of my brain that thinks the same way.
âYou canât even write or speak properly but you want to someday interview elites like Steven Bartlett does? What a joke.â
Many times, it seems like thereâs no path visible between where I am right now and where I want to be. Like theyâre two eternities apart.
Iâm sure youâve also felt this way at some point.
Because Iâm conversant with this feeling, the statement I quoted from the newsletter above really hit deep.
The fact that my skillset is nowhere close to my vision is not a license for me to quit the vision, but a mandate for me to keep going until my skillset eventually matches the vision.
The important component to keep in mind here is time. You have to do it for however long it takes until you reach âskillset-vision alignmentâ - a term I just coined now.
I love how Myron Golden puts it. He says,
Most people make the mistake of thinking that because itâs not working for them, itâs not working. But I submit to you that even when itâs not working for you, itâs working; itâs working on you.
We have to become the kind of people who let our work work on us until we become the person for whom it can work.
I referenced this quote in the last newsletter and Iâm doing it again because itâs that good.
You have to keep working at it long enough until you reach âskillset-vision alignment,â and then it will start to work for you.
đ€ Acting regardless of how you feel
This post is so simple yet profound.
The only way to see results is by compounding efforts.
The only way to compound efforts is by staying consistent.
The only way to stay consistent is by learning to act regardless of how you feel.
đźÂ Donât let this illusion prevent you from starting in 2024!
There is a deadly illusion that plagues the minds of many people.
The faster you can dispel this illusion, the more progress youâll make in life.
Some are lucky enough to identify and eradicate this plague early on, while some have wasted their prime years, grappling with the ongoing turmoil of this mental affliction.
I recently uploaded a video on my YouTube channel.
In the video, I explain exactly what this illusion is, how to know if youâre a victim, and how to get rid of it.
If you have a lot of ideas and aspirations but struggle to commit to any of them, then you should check it out.
đ Pleasure passes quickly
If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labor passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures.