Why "good enough" is good enough

Sometimes I think we set the bar too high for ourselves. Excellence is great. To view this email as a web page, [click here]() {NAME}, Sometimes I think we set the bar too high for ourselves. Excellence is great. And for a few key areas in my life — building amazing products, copywriting, [ironing]() — I want to go deep. [Gif] But I’ve also learned that you don’t always need to become the world’s best. Most of the time, we just need to get “good enough” and move on. When we strive for excellence, it’s easy to fall into the trap of perfectionism… and then never try anything new. Q: What happens when you set "the best" as your bar for success? A: You start to become really selective about what you're willing to do. That's very logical. - "I'd love to learn how to tango, but I'm a terrible dancer now. It would take a long time to become great." - "If I try to learn something new — like how to play guitar — that's time not spent on the stuff I'm already good at — like SEO." - "I can only be the best at one, maybe two, things. I need to focus on that." Fast-forward this line of thought a few years — what happens? You can see the results at parties. Ask 100 people what they do for fun and 95 of them respond with their job title! Yes, yes, some people might say "travel," but how many of us define ourselves by our job title? How many of us introduce ourselves by asking, "What do you do?" For chronic perfectionists, this is the side effect of focusing too much on one major talent. You become, say, a world-class back-end developer … and struggle to talk about anything else. It goes beyond just talking about your interests at parties, though. By focusing on “excellence” over “good enough,” many people short-circuit their careers. It's shocking how closely people's career paths follow their learning: [Chart] The people who advance the fastest in their careers are the ones who can quickly and easily add new skills that complement the talents they already have. Think about… - The copywriter who improves her public speaking and marketing analytics know-how… so people start to pay more attention to her recommendations - The engineer who learns how to communicate better with non-engineers… and helps cut scope creep in half - The CEO who adds accounting chops as the complexity of the business grows… and can invest more profit into continued growth The copywriter, engineer, and CEO didn’t become the best at any of these things. But by becoming “good enough,” they leaped ahead of their peers. By the way, when you talk to your boss about raises, be sure to mention all the new skills you’ve been learning — inside and outside of work. It shows the kind of employee you are. How to teach yourself anything Part of my job as a CEO is to learn things rapidly and then teach them to other people rapidly as well, in a very nuanced, credible way. Over the years I’ve had to learn dozens and dozens of new skills this way. From scratch, under fire, with no time to waste learning theory or useless minutiae that didn’t help me accomplish the task at hand. True, there are things I’ve spent years learning to do exceptionally well — like [copywriting]() — but with most things, I realized it was OK to just get “good enough.” This is so liberating! All those fun things you want to learn and do get a whole lot closer when you just need to get "good enough." Instead of thinking in terms of months or years (and getting overwhelmed), you can learn new things in weeks or days … or even hours. Become a master of HOW to learn ... and transform every area of your life. When you master the skill of learning things fast, you can skip months of boring practice, cut to the chase, and achieve exactly the things you want, while having fun doing it. We’ve all got something we’ve been meaning to learn but keep putting off. For some of us, that's learning how to play our favorite song on acoustic guitar, or how to give a better presentation at work, or how to take a great photo on your iPhone camera. Hell, maybe it’s even learning to do a solo takeoff in a small plane! Today, I want to show you the system I use to learn one new skill per month (sometimes more), all while still having a life! I put the entire system in my program [Teach Yourself Anything](). [Teach Yourself Anything]() These are the tools, techniques, and mindsets I use to learn any new skill fast. If you want to stop thinking about all the cool things you want to learn and start doing them, this is for you. 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