Unlimited Mastery: Mastering the Learning Process with Nick Velasquez Episode #157

GUEST SUMMARY Sharing insights with us this week in the lab is the passionate learner and devoted student of mastery, Nick Velasquez. He's the founder of the popular blog UnlimitedMastery.com with some of his writing  featured in TIME, Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Thrive Global around the topic. Learning has been Nick's life-long passion and gives purpose to his life.  While Nick constantly tackled new hobbies, he felt frustration in the learning curve and so devoted himself to the mastery of learning, how we learn as functional human beings. Eventually, he wanted to create a manual of his life, condensing all the information into something that he could use in the future and help anyone else in a similar position. At a time when everyone had time to reflect on new passions, interests and skills, Nick, launched his book --- Learn, Improve, Master: How to Develop Any Skill and Excel at it in the middle of the pandemic. In this episode, Nick will walk us through his life's never-ending process of learning. From defining your goal, knowing the things you want to do, exemplifying sacrifices, being balanced with the natural conditions of life to having the confidence in winning the everyday battle of life. If you'd like to be the master of your life, you want to tune in from the beginning to begin mastering your new upcoming and ongoing experiments in your lab. HIGHLIGHTS OF THE EPISODE: 04:18 - Why Nick wrote the book Learn, Improve, Master: How to Develop Any Skill and Excel at It 06:01 - What is Mastery? 07:04 - Definition of being competent 09:14 - Learn as you need 13:03 - Learn in-depth and apply it KEEPING IT REAL: 16:10 - Defining the end goal 19:34 - Quantity leads to quality 22:49 - Mastering things that you enjoy 25:44 - Knowing the things you want to do 32:18 - Natural condition of Life - Struggle 38:59 - Being balanced and exemplifying sacrifice 44:31 - Key takeaways to master something 50:37 - Overcoming the resistance 57:42 - What’s next for Nick? NOTABLE QUOTES (KEY LESSONS): 6:37 - 6:48 -  Learning is getting to a point of competence because mastery is really not a destination, you never reach mastery. You are trying to go as far as you can until you drop dead and that's the mastery. It's just a path but not a destination. 6:49 -  6:55 - "No master would call himself a master. Everyone, even the greatest one know that there's more to do, more to learn, and more to improve" CONNECTING WITH THE GUEST Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/velznick/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/velznick Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/velznick/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/velznick/