About a year an a half ago, I started down a six month path that would dramatically change my life. I began dedicating myself to learning about investing, self-development, and eventually software development (surprisingly, all three topics are much more closely related than you might think).
I was lucky enough to have a job where I could listen to audio books while I worked most of the time, so I got to the point where I was passively listening to audio books around eight to ten hours a day. Eventually I got to a point in my learning where I realized that I needed to take action in spite of my fears and rationalizations as to why things were good enough already. I had a great, stable job that I liked and made good money from. But during this period of learning/ growth, my mindset had shifted from seeing a world of scarcity (where I needed to fight to hold on to the “security” that I had) to seeing a world of abundance, and there was no going back.
Taking action to pursue a path that I was truly passionate about became inevitable.
But for me to get to the point where I could act in spite of my fear, I had to undergo a transformation that came from rapid learning. And the technique that I give a large portion of the credit for enabling…
