15 Success Habits to Mastering Anything in Life

Ed Mylett (0:00)

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SPEAKER_2 (1:01)

Stonefire Naan is made with real buttermilk and ghee. It's the perfect flatbread for any occasion.

Ed Mylett (1:07)

I put out Stonefire Naan with dips at every dinner party.

SPEAKER_2 (1:10)

I make naan grilled cheese when my daughter has friends over. I use Stonefire Naan to reward the humans who do my bidding.

Jon Gordon (1:17)

Right, it's perfect for camping trips.

SPEAKER_2 (1:20)

Dance for it, feeble mortal.

Jon Gordon (1:22)

Sorry, is he talking to me or?

SPEAKER_2 (1:24)

Dance, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. From our tradition to yours, Stonefire.

SPEAKER_4 (1:30)

Together, we naan.

Jon Gordon (1:36)

This is The Ed Mylett Show.

Ed Mylett (1:40)

Hey, everyone. Welcome to my weekend special. I hope you enjoy the show. Be sure to follow The Ed Mylett Show on Apple and Spotify. Links are in the show notes. You'll never miss an episode that way. Now on with the show. Welcome back, everybody. I love doing the Max Out program 2.0, and today I can't wait to share with you what I call the three steps of mastery. See, there's three stages that you have to go through in order to master something in life. And oftentimes, we quit in the first stage because we don't realize it's just a natural progression to getting good at something. And so in any pursuit you have, if you want to start a new business, a new career, you want to learn to swim. Like right now, I picked up the hobby of riding horses. That's a unique thing to do at 50 years old. And so I'm addicted to it, but so it's kind of a new pursuit of mine. So whether you started a new business, or you're in the middle of a business you've got, or you got people in your business who are newer, or you're trying something new, it's very easy to beat ourselves up or really not understand that there are three stages of mastery, and it's just mandatory. You're gonna go through them. You can't cheat the system. And so in the three stages of mastery, let me tell you what they are, and then I'll break them down for you. There's the awkward stage at anything you begin to do. The awkward stage. And if you do enough repetitions, you can move to what I call the mechanical stage. And then from the mechanical stage, eventually you move to what I call the natural stage. Everybody looks at you and goes, ah, man, you're incredible, you're a natural. Like, whatever you do for a living right now, if you've been doing it for a long time, the first day on your job, I guarantee you, you were awkward. I guarantee you, everything about it was awkward. Where to go, the people's names, what to call things, where to, all of it was completely awkward, wasn't it? You probably even, a lot of people, their first night at their job, they'll have a nightmare that night. I remember, my first job was, I was a busboy at the whole Enchilada restaurant. And I didn't know, my bang job at the whole Enchilada was, really simple, I cleaned up your table and I brought you your chips and salsa. That's really the whole job. And for some reason, at 17 years old, it freaked me out. Cause I had to walk up to people's tables and say hello, and I'm a super introvert. And I remember going home that first night, I go, I can't do this. It's just too much, it's too much for me. Chips and salsa, cleaning up their table. It just overwhelmed me, which is pretty hilarious.