Explaining a book's high-performance concept.from @davidkchoe

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The biggest sign that you're gonna be at the top 1% of your game is directly connected to how stupid you're willing to look. This concept is called investment in loss. It comes from the good, The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin. But a lot of people practice this from Tier Woods to Michael Jordan to even normal people like myself. For example, Michael Jordan has some of the most buzzer beating half court shots in history. But what that also means is that he has the most half court shot, buzzer beating misses of all time. And the reason he was able to become the greatest of all time is because he was willing to take the pain of missing all of those shots. This concept is especially hard for overachievers to accept, and it's because you feel like you need to be at the top of your game at all times. Feeling or looking stupid seems totally counterintuitive to you, but it's part of the process of reaching beyond your current performance. And the reason is is because when you invest in loss, when you face failure constantly, over tier, the pain of the failure and the pain of the loss, all of a sudden don't become as painful. They're not as shocking. In fact, you can endure. Not only do you endure the pain, you start to see ways through. Right? And that's kind of the beauty of all of this. The thing is, though, that this process is not gonna make sense to other people, especially if you're already a high performer. Think about it. Maybe you're a salesperson. You wanna improve your sales. Maybe you totally reinvent your approach to sales and clients. For a long time, it's gonna feel unnatural because what worked for you, you're no longer using. Now you're trying something else. And maybe even your sales decline. Your manager people are gonna start saying, what are you doing? Go back to doing the thing you used to do that worked. But you, you know that that's not the way. What you're gonna do is you're gonna face the pain. You're gonna believe that this process of investing in loss, trying something new is ultimately going to pan out. It's going to lead you into success because as you face the pain, you find ways through it. And you ultimately evolve into this next level, this next level that wouldn't have been possible if you weren't able to withstand looking stupid for some time. And maybe that feels too high stakes. If that feels too high stakes, I suggest you doing what I did, which was looking stupid in areas of life that maybe aren't that consequential. No, for example, I started taking metalsmithing and painting classes. I best really stupid. I had never done either of those things in a long time or better. And there was there was a beauty in facing yourself and no and looking stupid and not knowing anything that actually helped me realize that it's okay, That it's okay to look stupid. It's okay to feel stupid. And not only that, you can work through it and get to an outcome that you didn't even know was possible. I was able to paint paintings that I sold to people as a beginner painter that other people found beauty in. And it's not because I think I'm the greatest artist of all time, but it's because I was able to tolerate looking stupid and work through it and find start to find my own voice. And that's true in content. That's true in business. It's true in every domain of life. Look for places where you rank start looking foolish. I think that's a path forward.