Napoleon Hill principle 4

Napoleon Hill principle 4

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March 03, 2020

Video Transcription: Now let's get to napoleon hill's principle number four of success which is gaining specialized knowledge and he noticed that lifelong learners consistently won these are people who learned way beyond high school in college and they were self-starters in terms of learning they kept learning and devouring books and everything else after college that was the recipe for success now the question can be should you have horizontal learning or vertical learning horizontal means knowing a little bit about everything and having a little bit of skills and everything versus vertical learning meaning having very deep skill set in a very specialized narrow area very often deep expertise in a very specialized field that more of a world expert you are in something the more respect and the more value you have because if you just know a little bit about something that's very replaceable but if you're super expert that's very valuable but it's usually of course this varies per job per industry per business it's not always the case but usually having deep expertise is better but of course you should still aim to stay well rounded because being well rounded will give you many perspectives and skills that your competitors do not so there isn't a yes or no answer here of course you should work to develop deep expertise in something but at the same time do not forget to remain well rounded that's going to also help you now there are people who do not succeed what did an employee in he'll observe about those people it was very simple those people thought that learning is done when schooling is done those guys fell they failed then they fail now this is exactly what you cannot fall into so if the lifestyle of coming home after work and watching TV or getting entertainment that lifestyle is not a lifestyle for particular success the lifestyle of on your free time learning going doing the extra mile taking courses reading books that's the lifestyle of eventual true success because that will give you that advantage over other and in the next video we'll talk about some actionable things you can do to become a lifelong learner and how do we make all your learning more optimized and more effective and learn faster.

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