hello so it's been a while since i made a self-development video and i've been reading this
book called the one thing the surprisingly simple truth about extraordinary results by gary keller
and i learned so much from this book it gave me a bunch of awe moments and you know what that is
it's basically like oh i learned something and you should always look for those every single day of
your life but i learned so much in this book and i wanted to share with you guys because i feel like
you guys could take a lot of out of this so he talks about how we all have the same 24 hours but
not a lot of us get a lot done compared to others and you know the people who are super successful
in life they have the same amount of hours as us but they get so much more done compared to us
and he actually broke it down into one simple fact on why that happens so this book goes over a lot
of different stuff just to let you guys know and i'm just focusing on one little thing that
he talks about but i think this is one of the most important things that he talks about and it's that
the people who are the most successful understand the simple fact and it's that they focus on
the small things now what do i mean by that so we all have a to-do list on a daily basis all right
and even if you don't write a to-do list a lot of people you know focus on things that they could do
instead of what they should do and you know i fall victim into this too a lot of the stuff
that i do on a daily basis is honestly things that i probably shouldn't i know my main focus is to
make youtube videos that's like my should do goal on a daily basis but obviously i fall victim and
i don't make a lot of videos so he talks about how like the people who are the most successful
in life focus only on the things that they should do on a daily basis and what that does is that it
compounds into their future now what do i mean so if you focus solely on the things that you should
do on a daily basis and it shouldn't be a lot of different stuff it should only be really one to
like three things that you do and if you do those every single day it compounds now i'm going to
use an example from albert einstein he says the eighth wonder of the world is compound interest
he who understands it earns it he who doesn't pays it now what does he mean by that in my last video
and a couple videos ago i made a video about 21 tips from a 21 year old highly recommend it but
i use that example in investing and it's true if you you know put money into a compound interest
savings account or anything like that it compounds on a daily basis and then when you turn 60 or when
you retire the amount of money that you originally put in has you know changed dramatically and he
says that if you do this with the skills that you have on a daily basis it compounds into mastery
now i want to give you guys an example with like people who are very successful like bill gates
elon musk um let's use bill gates for example he started learning about computers at a very
young age around 12 years old and he focused on it his whole life you know he built microsoft
which was one of the biggest companies in the world and it made him the richest man for like 15
years and it's because he's solely focused on one thing now there's a lot we can go into this with
and he talks about how a lot of people you know they like to switch careers and
you know there's a problem with that if you keep going from like one skill to another
you're basically resetting everything you know the network you know and you basically affect you know
everything they try and chase too many birds at once instead of just trying to chase one
if you just chase that one bird you will be successful you will actually catch the bird
if you look at a lot of the most successful people in the world they understand this
and it's so crazy that no one understands us that they don't teach us this in school that we should
be focusing on one thing school makes us focus on so many different subjects at once instead
of just one thing you know and it just baffles me you know that's why i don't like the school system
but an example that they use in the book is the domino effect
now let's just say you have an ordinary domino you know it's like a couple inches long or tall and
if you put one that's double its size in front of it and you push it it can make it fall over
now if you put one that's double its size in front of the one that's already bigger
it can make that one fall it will continuously keep doing that it will keep falling and the the
smaller one will make the bigger one fall and the bigger one will make another bigger one fall and
it will get to the point where like even if it was the size of the eiffel tower you know after
so much compound of them falling it will make one twice the size of the eiffel tower fall and you
know this is how you look at it with your skills it's that when you keep focusing on one thing
it creates this domino effect where you get to the point where you literally master a skill
and past mastery is basically where you can change the world like you you get
so good like you can get to the point where you are so good at something
that you literally are an expert so yeah a lot of businesses use this and they focus on one
thing and you know even like starbucks they only focus on coffee kfc they only focus on chicken it
all comes down to just focusing on one soul thing you know what i mean guys i want you guys to think
about this in your own life like what what is something that you guys should be focusing on on a
daily basis and think about how you can implement that into your daily life and make sure that you
know you put that as the top priority in your life there's one quote that i really liked in this book
and it's that there can only be one most important thing many things may be important but only one
thing can be the most important let me know what you guys think leave a comment below on what you
guys your opinions are on this and what your guys's one thing is that you should focus on
um and also let me know if you guys want me to go deeper into this book because it goes
over a lot of different stuff so i'd love to but yeah if you guys enjoyed this make
sure to leave a like subscribe to the channel and i'll see you guys in the next one peace