On the path to self-development, the journey to your best self will require you to learn a thing or two. No one goes nowhere in this world without a base of knowledge in something. You either learn to work with your hands, or work with your head. When you have come to that point of understanding, you have to learn the skills. Now you can go to college for the knowledge, or you can go to technical school like I did.
Yet, neither college nor technical school is going to teach you everything you need to know. For that my friends, you got to read. You have to consume information on the field you want to be successful in. Besides just learning the basic skills, you have to understand the best way to navigate those skills in the market YOU, the Alpha want to dominate in.
So, that means you are going to become a reader. You are going to have to become disciplined in reading and learning. With that said, the best place to begin is reading Jim Kwiks "Limitless" I ate this book up, and it was transformative.
When I went to tech school, I decided my best path was in the automotive sector. I learned how to diagnose and fix a car. Then I asked myself, "how far can my skills get me?" Pretty far if I learn how to sell my services, sell repair jobs. So, I learned sales skills, the art of the close. I read up on Grant Cardone, Ryan Stewman, etc. Each book I read brought me closer and closer to the success I wanted. I gave up playing XBOX in order to read more books on sales. It was hard, lemme tell you, because I loved Gears of War. It was necessary to monetize my automotive skills.
The more I read, the smarter I became. My vocabulary went from a high school dropout to an educated adult in the business world. My new addiction was reading. It scaled my ambitions, it helped me to develop a strategic mind. I just didn't want to sell, I wanted to lead! I wanted to be the best at what I did, and develop not just top-notch sales skills, but top performing business skills. I had aspirations to becoming a General Manager in the Automotive Service Shop world and began consuming the right books to get there. After 7 months of reading and self-development, I was given my own store to run as the GM. Now, going to college to earn a degree in business was not an option for me. Yet here I was in charge of a million-dollar business that not only did I have to maintain, but I also had to beat last year's numbers as well.
That's a lot for someone with a GED and a 900-hour technical school certificate. Yet less than a year I crushed the prior year's numbers, making my store #2 in sales district wide, and #3 out of 64 stores in commercial fleet sales. All because I picked up a book and started reading. Look, Bill Gates takes one week (Think Week) out of his incredibly busy year to just read in a cabin far from the hustle and noise. A week to just read, think, and learn. Look, leaders are readers. You don't scale in life without picking up a book!. Some can say they did, but I bet you a 6-pack they made a ton of mistakes that delayed their success, and they peaked at some point. Don't be that individual, be better. Get smart! Read!!
The Alpha.
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