life rewards action not intelligence

life rewards action not intelligence

took me a few years growing up to really

learn this I think U my sense in school

was I did quite well in exams just

through intelligence without having to

do a lot of work and for me when I was

quite young I I valued intelligence over

action I think one of the dangers is is

smart people that the smarter you are

the better you're EXP excuses the more

accomplished you are in talking yourself

out of taking action in proving to

yourself that every action that you

could take is too small too meaningless

and not worth it and George Leonard who

uh brought uh jiujitsu from Japan to to

the US one of the things he said is

absolutely you cannot do everything but

you can do one thing and another and

another and that's the way you make

massive progress in life doing one thing

and another and another this idea that

life rewards action not intelligence

this YouTube channel very often I sit

down and think you know these ideas

they're not particularly deep or wise

but what makes this channel grow what

makes you come and connect is I guess

the ideas aren't terrible but I show up

and I share them and the the matter that

you show up and try and act week after

week month after month year after year

uh with a little bit of intelligence you

start to get better and better and

better you start to become more

articulate so this thing even if the

action is poor action you're going to

learn something from it and and it's so

easy to talk yourself out of action but

it's so important to remember that life

life rewards action not intelligence not

smarts in your brain but action into the

world and discipline is is necessary in

our life in order to to generate

consistent systematic action but I think

until you measure something that matters

you do not know if you're disciplined

and and perhaps for me the time that I

learned this most was when Esa my mentor

here in the early days as a teacher at

essay Brian leot would ask me if I would

do some writing just write a few

technical notes and months passed years

passed and I just wasn't making progress

and I hired a writing coach and for one

year I had a call every Wednesday with a

writing coach and every call would begin

with him asking one question how many

words did you write this week and he

pushed me to measure how many words I

wrote each day how many words I wrote

each week and early on it was very

painful it felt like I was putting a lot

of energy into writing but the actual

number of words being produced day after

day week after week was very low and it

was only when I really got this measure

and made sure that I looked at this

measure each morning each day each

evening each week each session with my

coach that I started to realize that so

much of the effort was in my head and

not turning into words on a page and

it's only when you measure something

that really clarifies whether you're

getting the actions done that you start

to realize whether you have discipline

or not so be very careful in evaluating

your Discipline Your Capacity to turn

ideas into action by by some measure of

whether you feel like you're making an

effort cuz your mind will cheat you into

believing you're being really busy

you're being really putting a lot of

effort for me it was it was

brutal the feeling in me was I was

putting a lot of time and a lot of

effort and a lot of energy into writing

but those early weeks seeing that it was

result in so few words being written

videos you know make a video uh a video

is a very clear measure of whether you

finished something or not uh so again

reminder this week life rewards action

not

intelligence action leads you to grow

leads you to engage with others action

everything good in life happens when

you're off the sofa and engaging with

the world so my hope for you this week

is is find a measure of something that

matters pay attention to whether you're

making progress on the actions that lead

to that measure and look at what needs

to happen in your discipline so that you

value action above thinking or intending

to take action so have a good one Connor

here at Esa business school here in

Barcelona teaching a three-day program

to a group of wonderful senior

Executives this week have a great one

thank you for your likes your comments

your questions keeps me coming back

making these videos have a good one