Jon Goodman
speaker
58 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
Jon Goodman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsNo recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.
Appearances
What you're going to do is you're going to make yourself indispensable by learning these skills. And so if you work for somebody else, you're going to make yourself indispensable for them and can command a higher salary or move somewhere else if they're not paying you.
If you work for yourself, you're going to easily stand out amongst your industry because most other people in your industry are going to do the easy thing. And the easy thing is always to learn more about something you're already good at.
Or add something on to knowledge you already have, not because it's necessarily that important, but because it feels good to reinforce what you already know.
That's probably what you people need. You don't want to be over the head with this shit. Yeah.
Yeah.
And you've got to be able to, I don't know about you, man. I've hired a lot of contractors and consultants who are really bad at what they do.
I'll add a third reason because I think you nailed the first two. I'll add a third reason why I found that people are pretty resistant to this. And it's imposter syndrome. And so can I tell a quick story?
So in college, my roommate smoked a joint, put a bunch of oil on a pan, was going to fry some potatoes, and then went and lay down and fell asleep. And what happened is that the pan got on fire. And when I walked in, my roommate is sleeping, to be honest. I don't actually remember. I probably smoked the joint with him. I don't actually remember. Either way, he was sleeping.
I noticed a pot was on fire in the kitchen. And so I picked up the pot and I brought it outside to the driveway, which was very lucky, as you'll soon see. And then I went and got a big bucket of water and I filled up the bucket of water and I tossed it on the fire in the driveway. Now, if you're listening to this and you understand how to put out a fire, you immediately know how stupid I was.
Because what happens is that oil and water don't mix. They naturally oppose each other. Now, if the oil's on fire, when you put water on that oil on fire, it basically blasts that oil away. Said another way, it makes a fucking fireball. You don't put water on a grease fire on an oil file. So I didn't know that, right? Luckily, I was on the driveway. The thing basically blew up.
It was actually really cool, but it didn't cause any damage. OK, now imagine you're a firefighter and it's your first day on the job and somebody calls you and they say, we have a fire in the house. All of the other firefighters, you feel like you're not enough to them. Right. They've been there for a long time. They know all this about fire theory. They've gone on all of these jobs.
Anyway, you get to the house and you're like, yo, that's a grease fire. And you take a dry chemical extinguisher and you put it out. And then you say to the family, the next time that this happens, throw some baking soda on it, cover it, turn off the heat source, wait for it to self-extinguish. And you post shirtless for calendar, kiss a baby, do whatever I expect firefighters do. Yeah.
That person whose problem you solved is ecstatic. They don't care that it's your first day on the job. You knew how to put out the fire.
Other firefighters might laugh at you. Maybe, probably not. But that's completely irrelevant.
And so I think a lot of the reason why we always feel like we need to learn more about what we're doing is because we're stuck comparing ourselves to colleagues, which is Kind of a symptom of the world that we live in, where we're all in these really tight filter bubbles. The only people that surround us are people like us. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we compare ourselves to them.
We're too close to our own world.
So let me tell you, let me go quick because I know you want to go fast. So let me tell you about how you gain these skills, then the process of it. Yeah. Call this leapfrog learning. And so if you accept the fact that you really only need to build a mediocre to low level of this new skill set, then you understand that you can actually do it really, really quickly.
And so what I recommend is you don't have to always be in one of these phases, but you take 60 days. And you decide on which skill to learn. And there's two parts of it. Number one is 60 days to learn it. And number two is teach it to somebody else. Because the best way to learn is to teach. And so I'll give you an example.
I really wanted to wrap my head around artificial intelligence and automation. But in a very specific way, a number of years ago, what I wanted to do is I wanted to know about how artificial intelligence and automation is going to redefine job roles specific to the coaching industries.
What skills it's going to choose for. What's going to become obsolete? And I wanted to learn that because we were building our software platform, but I was also just personally interested in it. And so for 60 days, I went and found every single book I could possibly find on the subject. At that time, there were about seven on redefinition of job roles for artificial intelligence.
Showing 21–40 of 58 · page 2 of 3
← Previous
Next →