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How to Become a Super Learner
How hard can it be?
I’m delusional.
Every time I see somebody excelling at something I think to myself: “I can do that, how hard can it be?”
Then, I actually go and try.
If only I had videos of all my failed attempts.
What pushes me to try out stuff is a mix of curiosity, zest for learning, and competitiveness but mostly it’s my delusional grasp on reality.
“If he can, I can” kind of belief.
Sometimes I even compare myself to Elon Musk and think he’s got nothing on me.
How crazy is that?
And yet, this is my superpower, and it can be yours too, if you change your mindset.
Being delusional is a prerequisite for achieving anything worthwhile. Realistic people never push the boundaries, they just stay in the middle where it gets very crowded and where you can only be average at best.
Delusional people, on the other hand, go and try crazy stuff so they achieve remarkable results. Christopher Columbus, Edmund Hillary, or the Wright brothers were very unreasonable people, had they had any common sense the world would be a very different place today.
