In his book: “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, Daniel Pink narrows motivation down to 3 key elements: autonomy, mastery, and purpose.

Without a genuine interest in what we do, we will never be proud of it, we will never master it, and we will never feel purposed for it.

In short, if you are not interested, you are not motivated, and without motivation, you will not succeed.

Even if you are motivated to be successful at a task or job, what happens if you don’t have the skills to do that?

Well, with the help of an AI tutor and YouTube you can learn anything.

You don’t have to pay any money for training as long as you won’t need official qualifications for what you want to do.

Basically that means if you’re doing this for yourself you don’t need a university degree.

If you want to be paid by an employer, you will need the paperwork.

Let’s ignore that for now.

If you have no skills, yet, how long will it take to become proficient?

Not necessarily an expert, but good enough to produce good work.

The old saw is that it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert, but we’re not talking about becoming an expert, we’re talking about becoming proficient.

That time has been quantified through testing and the answer is 20 hours.

If you then continue with deliberate practice you will get better and better until you reach expert proficiency.

I’m suggesting that with the help of an AI tool you can short-cut even the 20 hours.

It’s like having a personal mentor who is there at your beck and call 24/7 without fees.

The trap here is to determine what you want to do and then sticking with it until you’ve reached the proficiency you want.

Far too often we get caught up in some other path that looks interesting and abandon what we were doing.

Stick to one thing for 20 hours – that’s only 10 days at 2 hours a day, before you decide to wander off on a tangent.

Do you understand what this means?

In a single year you could become proficient in 3 languages, writing sales pages, writing computer programs in several languages, build a YouTube channel, build a successful membership, automate a Fiverr gig, learn to cook like a chef, plan a wedding, plan the honeymoon, learn to play the guitar or piano, etc.

You might not want to do all or any of those things, but whatever it is that you want to do you can now because you have access to that 24/7 mentor.

Of course, if you don’t know what you want to achieve, I can’t help you.

But AI might be able to.

Tell it that you don’t know.

Tell it to ask questions to help you decide.

You might have a revelation.

Regards,
Brent.

P.S. If you want to do things that require a website, programming, testing apps, testing posts, etc. this will help with a platform.

https://burt.gumroad.com/l/zero-risk.