6 Skills You Must Learn To Make Money And Become Irreplaceable

The robots are coming and so are artificial intelligence and automation.

No not like anything you’ve seen in Terminator movies with Skynet taking over the world – hopefully.

I’m an optimist. I think humans will work with robots, AI, and automation to improve all our lives.

I see these things more as friends than foes in the years to come.

As one example, Amazon is already using robots in conjunction with humans, at some of their warehouses.  This cooperation produces an increase in efficiency and safety.

According to this article, robots and humans working together at Amazon warehouses made it possible to store 40% more inventory at their warehouses due to the increased safety and efficiency.

These robot-assisted tasks have allowed Amazon to hire more than 300,000 more humans full-time since 2012. ^[1]

The longer we stay at home and locked down, the likelier it becomes that companies will look to robotics, AI, and automation to keep productivity up while people work at home.

Humans will work in conjunction with robots, AI, and automation to improve our lives.

But, I’m also a realist. Eventually, these things will replace many jobs in the future.

Not to the degree that many fear but in time millions of jobs will still be lost to these things.

This is coming now. And it’s only going to accelerate in the future.

Today, I want to show you six skills that will help you earn money during this coronavirus pandemic we’re dealing with. No matter how long the crisis lasts.

And these skills will also help you make money for the rest of your life. No matter how many jobs robots, AI, and automation take in the coming decades too.

Because if you have these six skills you can work, make money, and provide for your family. No matter what.

Robots, AI, and automation do repeatable tasks well. And many of these kinds of jobs will go away in the years to come. But robots can’t do creative tasks like problem-solving and others mentioned below.

Jobs that require these skills will survive and thrive in the decades to come but they also require you to either know or learn the valuable skills I’ll show you below.

Before I get to that though, I want to illustrate why these skills are important by telling you a bit of my story.

You can learn any of these skills to make money and become irreplaceable.

Even If You Have None of Them Now

When I started learning value investing, I had no skills whatsoever. None.

Because my severe health issues – extreme dizziness – was so bad, I could only read or learn 30 minutes a day.

If I did more than this, I would get nauseous. Feel like I was spinning. And sometimes even fall.

To fight this, I’d have to lay in bed the rest of the day just to get back to not feeling somewhat normal.

I was 21 years old when I started learning value investing and I had no life skills, no job skills, no knowledge of finance, or investing, and none of the skills I’ll mention below.

But you can and need to learn valuable skills. Even if you can only spend 5 minutes a day on something. Learning for 5 minutes a day puts you 5 minutes closer to achieving your goals.

And I’m not talking about learning skills just because you find them interesting – although that helps. I’m talking about learning valuable skills you can make money with.

If you have marketable skills that are valuable you can make money and gain financial freedom in the future… If you don’t, you’re going to get replaced.

The best way to illustrate this is with the terms “essential” and “nonessential” employees that we’re seeing today.

In recent months “essential” employees kept their jobs.

While “nonessential” employees had hours reduced, got furloughed and rehired, or lost their jobs permanently.

In the next 10 to 20 years and beyond, automation, robots, and AI will take even more of these“nonessential” jobs.

But if you have valuable skills you won’t get replaced today during this pandemic. Or for the rest of your life.

If you have the 6 skills I show you below, you can work as much, or as little as you want. And you won’t have to worry about getting replaced by robots in the next two or three decades.

When I started I had zero skills. But learning one valuable skill in value investing put me on the journey to learning all the skills you see below. Skills that I use to make money today.  Skills that help me provide for my wife and 3 daughters.

I didn’t have any of the skills below when I started so don’t worry if you don’t either. You can learn them. And you need to.

At the end of this article, I share an appendix of the best resources I personally learned these skills from, so you can too.

Let’s get to it

Here are the 6 Skills You MUST Know or Learn to Make Money And Become Irreplaceable:

1. Writing

When I started the Value Investing Journey blog in 2012, I didn’t know how to write well or even that writing well was a skill I needed.

If you don’t believe me go back and check out some early posts from the blog here.

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• Brazil Fast Food Company Is Substantially Undervalued and Has A Moat

Yeesh.

The content was good. The writing; not so much.

But I didn’t know any better.

The early Value Investing Journey blog posts were covered in huge walls o’ text with little to no spacing. And they had a bunch of information that wasn’t important to the article.

I’d just ramble along with little to no structure to things.

Plus, I wrote in complex wording. This made it harder for readers to understand things.

Fortunately, someone in the 2013/2014 time frame saw and liked my analysis and investment articles enough that they hired me as an analyst for their investment newsletter.

I also didn’t know how to write well when I wrote the first version of my book How to Value Invest either. And when I go back and look at it now it drives me nuts.

This is why I’m writing the Second Edition of How to Value Invest – now in editing. But that’s a topic for a different day.

While at the newsletter they not only trained me on how to write professionally. But also showed me why this is important.

In writing, there’s the thing called FK score which shows you how difficult something is to read.

Typically, the easier something is to read, the easier it is for someone to understand and retain information.

Easier to understand writing does not include complex wording or filler words like adverbs. This kind of writing also has shorter paragraphs and more spacing like you see in this article.

In my early writings on Value Investing Journey and in the first edition of How To value Invest the FK scores were a mind-numbing 15. In other words, to understand everything I wrote, you needed a bachelor’s or master’s degree type of reading level.

Once the second edition of How to Value Invest is out, it will have an FK score of 8 or 9. Meaning you’ll need at most a 9th-grade reading level to understand what’s in the book.

For reference, this entire 6,000-word blog post has an FK score of 6.3.

Lower FK scores make things easier to understand. This means more people will retain the information in the writing. More people will like the content and I can help more people with my courses, books, and programs. Which will mean more people buying my courses, books, and programs resulting in helping more people through increased spending on marketing.

At least that’s the plan 😊.

When I started Value Investing Journey, I didn’t know how to write at all. But the content was good enough to get hired from it.

Even if you don’t know how to write well, you need to write and publish stuff online consistently enough for long enough though. Because eventually if it’s good enough someone will see your content and hire you.

If you learn how to write well now though you can speed up that process and get hired sooner.

I’ve been paid more for my writing than any other skill on this list – outside of maybe the value investing stuff. And that’s a big maybe.

For this reason, writing is the #1 skill you must learn.

Not only can writing help you earn more money now.

But if you can write well and get your ideas across powerfully you can help more people and make more money for the rest of your life.

For example, you can use this skill to help other people, help promote yourself and your services and products, get a promotion, sell other people’s services and products, and more.

Here’s the best way I can illustrate the power of writing.

From 2012 when I began writing on Value Investing Journey and various other places to today in mid-2020 more than 500,000 people worldwide have read my articles, watched my videos, read my books, etc.

And this is just what I can measure. I don’t have the data from when I was at the investment newsletter for example in terms of my specific article reach. But I know they had a subscriber base of 80,000.

That is the power of writing. You can reach many people with your content for years to come.

I’m nothing special. As I told you above, I didn’t know how to write or even that I needed to learn how to write well when I started publishing content online in 2012.

In fact, I was told in my senior year of high school after writing a paper “I hope you never become a writer because this paper is terrible.” It was.

I was an A and B student throughout high school and almost failed my senior year because of how awful this report was. I got a D+ on it.

You don’t have to know how to write today. But you need to start learning how to write today so you can make more money and become irreplaceable.

Plus, there aren’t a lot of good, well-trained, hard-working people in the world of writing either.

Companies are always looking to hire writers.

This means there isn’t a ton of competition so you can get paid more.

Here are some example niches to research for work once you learn how to write well so you can earn money:

• Copywriting
• Travel writing
• Financial writing
• Political writing
• Health writing
• Self-improvement writing
• Sportswriting
• And more

To put this into context the average job posting for a financial writer on Glass Door is $90,000 as of this writing in the Tampa Florida area where I live. ^[2]

The average Travel writing job posting on Glass Door is $52,000 as of this writing in Tampa. ^[3]

And the average job posting for a general copywriter is also $52,000 per year as of this writing in Tampa. ^[4]

Please note that these are for the “average” person. With experience, you can make a lot more than this.

And many of these jobs you can also do remotely as well. You must learn this skill to make more money and become irreplaceable.

If you’re still not convinced here are some other great stats about the demand and earning potential for writers in the years to come.

2. Researching

This one goes hand in hand with writing. If you write well – no matter what your genre or industry is – you’ll need to research and source things.

Even if you’re writing fiction.

The great horror fiction writer Stephen King – one of the most prolific writers in the world – uses research to make his writing better. ^[5]

Why?

When I started writing on my blog I researched mainly so I didn’t look like an idiot.

In writing as I do now – typically financial content writing and financial copywriting – it’s straightforward. I need to prove whatever I’m writing about.

I now source things to help emphasize points and to help people further understand things better.

You need to show people sources, so they can read the sources and make decisions for themselves. This helps build trust with the reader which is ultra important.

And of course, it also helps keep me from looking like an idiot still.

When I write for an investment newsletter you must have sources to avoid “legal liability issues.” In other words, you must have legitimate sources so the newsletter doesn’t get sued.

This makes sense for nonfiction writers like me, but why do fiction writers research?

To make their books better, more realistic, and more believable to trigger people’s emotions.

If you want to write well, you must get good at researching.

And I’m not talking about just getting one source.

Everything you talk about that’s based on information: stats, facts, quotes, etc.; you need to source. And you preferably need to find multiple sources for something.

Here’s an example of all the sources I used in a recent piece I did for an investment newsletter I write for as one example of this.

This report was 29 pages and had 33 sources. Or more than 1 source per page.

Sourcing stuff like this not only helps you prove things to readers which can help trigger emotions. But most importantly it helps give readers trust in you that you know what the hell you’re talking about.

Trust is the most important thing for many people – especially if you want to build a business.

If people don’t trust you, they won’t buy from you. Unless you sell exclusively $1 commodity-type items.

If people trust you, they buy more from you. If you do an excellent job, they tell their friends, and this leads to more clients and getting paid more money. And this leads to more opportunities and people you can help.

To become an excellent value investor, writer, or speaker – which we talk about next – you must also be a good researcher.

Researching is an ultra-powerful skill that you need to learn to make more money and become irreplaceable.

3. Speaking

My mom and wife think I’m nuts for liking to speak in public. They’re terrified of it. And they’re not alone. An estimated 75% of people worldwide are afraid of speaking publicly. ^[6]

Even though I sourced this, I find that huge of a number hard to believe. But either way, the fear of public speaking is real.

The fear of speaking not only affects people in terms of their mental health in the short term through anxiety. But also, in how much they can make over the long term of their careers as well.

It’s estimated that the fear of public speaking lowers your potential wages by 10%.

That will lower your college graduation rate by 10%.

And that you’ll have a 15% lower chance of getting a promotion to management levels at your job if you fear public speaking. ^[7]

In other words, the fear of speaking publicly will harm someone’s job prospects and career earnings over their lifetime.

The inverse of these things is also true though.

If you don’t mind or even enjoy public speaking, you gain a huge advantage over others. It gives you an edge over people in your career and improves your earning potential.

This is one of the reasons I seek out speaking opportunities. And why you should learn this skill too.

Like the other skills on this list, it’s an ultra-valuable one that will help you make more money and become irreplaceable.

Only through writing can you reach as large of an audience as fast.

Plus, with the rise of people watching videos online, you can also record these events and use them in your courses, to get clients, etc. online. This will further leverage your speaking events and help you reach and help more people faster.

Which, of course, helps you make more money.

The ability to speak well in front of groups has made people a lot of money. And helped people gain enormous power over the course of history.

I could tell you about famous speakers like Marcus Tullius Cicero, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., how Hitler used the power of speech to rise to power, or any number of other historical examples.

But I want to use a recent one to illustrate the power of speaking in today’s world to you.

Let me introduce you to Joe Rogan.

He’s a comedian, UFC analyst/commentator, and probably the number one podcaster in the world.

On his podcast, he talks with and interviews interesting people from a massive range of specialties around the world.

But, it’s not a normal interview like on a mainstream news TV channel.

This isn’t shocking news or 5-minute sound bites of people screaming at each other.

He has 2 to 3-hour conversations with these people on his podcast. And he asks great questions, they answer, and then they go from there.

It’s fantastic and you learn a ton from his shows. Plus, they’re super entertaining and often funny as well.

He gets paid a lot of money to talk. But, as of September 1^st, 2020, he’s getting paid a lot more.

On May 19^th, 2020 Spotify announced that it bought the distribution rights of its popular podcast for $100 million. ^[8]

This is a modern example of the power of speaking.

I don’t know the numbers on his podcast episodes only, but the YouTube video versions of his podcasts get between 500k and 2.5 million views regularly. The popular ones get up to tens of millions of views. And just on YouTube, his podcast has more than 8 million subscribers. ^[9]

This is the power of public speaking and doing it well.  And he isn’t even on a stage for his podcasts.

Think about any President, leader, business owner, etc. that you admire.

They are likely great speakers. And if they aren’t, they have at least one of the ultra-valuable skills on this list. Outside of sports figures, of course. But that’s a completely different skill set.

Here is an article with a bunch of great stats on the current and future potential growth of podcasting.

Plus, think about something you have in your house right now. An Amazon Alexa or a Google Home.

You can listen to anything you want voice-wise – podcasts, speeches, sporting events, music, etc. – anywhere in your home or on the go on your phone. Mostly for free.

And podcasting is just one example of the future of voice.

Online and live in-person events are still popular – live events will be popular again once the coronavirus pandemic ends.

Politicians still derive much of their power from their convincing speech.

People on TV still gain huge power from how well they speak.

Actors and actresses are paid to speak well.

And on and on.

If you can speak well and entertain or help people, you can make money from this skill.

I think the voice in the next 10 years is going to be massive.

Another quick example is our own podcasts – Value Investing In Your Car and ILoveValueInvesting.

My team and I turn most of the videos I create into podcasts. And if our analytics are correct, we get way more listens to our podcast episodes than we get views of our videos on YouTube.

And it’s not even close.

This is another skill you must know or learn to make money and become irreplaceable.

But what if you don’t know or have this skill already?

That brings us to our next skill you must know or learn.

4. Learning

I’ve always loved learning. But, when I started value investing, I didn’t learn fast or well. And had no idea there were better ways to learn.

All I knew about learning was memorization and note-taking. That’s what I’d learned all throughout school.

Because of this, when I began learning value investing and finance, I wasted the first 3 or 4 years of time.

Why?

Because I tried to learn too many things at one time and didn’t retain any information.

This meant I had to go back and relearn everything repeatedly during this 3 or 4 year period of “learning.”

Since then, I’ve learned how to learn better and faster.

My top tips for this are simple:

• Learn one thing at a time, until you know it without having to look it up.
• Take notes by hand – this helps you retain more info because you slow down when you handwrite stuff.
• If you don’t know what something means, without looking it up – look it up… Again, and again if necessary.
• I still do this now 13+ years into my investing journey. Especially when I’m teaching students. This helps me give them the correct definition. And reinforces it even more to me
• If you can’t explain something in terms a 6^th grader will understand, you don’t understand it well enough yourself. Meaning relearn it again, or more.
• Simplify things as much as you can.

As one example to the simplify things line, here’s a real-world investing example…

Here’s the “book” definition of free cash flow from Investopedia.com. ^[10]

Free cash flow (FCF) is the cash flow available for the company to repay creditors or pay dividends and interest to investors. Some investors prefer FCF or FCF per share over earnings or earnings per share as a measure of profitability because it removes non-cash items from the income statement. However, because FCF accounts for investments in property, plant, and equipment, it can be lumpy and uneven over time.

My simplified definition…

Free cash flow is the money/profit left over after paying taxes and using capital to operate and grow the business.

These two definitions mean the same thing – but I’ve stripped out the unimportant noise.

To learn more about Free Cash Flow and why it’s so important go here.

Try to simplify things as much as you can when learning anything.

This helps you retain more information. And it will also help you put things into better context.

Because I’ve learned how to learn better, faster, and more efficiently I can now learn skills fast when I want or need to.

If you learn this skill you can do the same.

But, why is this here? Aren’t we talking about ways for you to make money now?

Yes, we are.

Since learning how to learn well and fast, I’ve been hired specifically by people not because I had the skill they required at the time. But, because they knew I had the ability to learn fast and well and then translate that into actual practice within weeks.

If you can learn fast and well, not only can you learn valuable skills faster – which will help you make more money. But sometimes you get opportunities to learn and make money, just because you can learn well and fast.

This skill will help gain these skills so you can make more money and become irreplaceable.

But you’ll need something else too.

5. Focus

For many, focusing was already hard enough at work.

Between colleagues talking and working around you. To the proverbial water cooler talks. To the distractions on your work computer or phones. Focus was already difficult while in an office or work setting.

Now with more people working at home than ever before – and this trend likely to continue even after we’re done with the coronavirus pandemic – you must be able to focus.

Focus is the difference between being productive and getting closer towards your goals; to wasting your entire day looking at cat videos on YouTube.

How important is this to me? I’ve read several books and articles on just how to focus better.

As someone who’s worked from home for years now, around family members, kids, pets, video games, phones, and the other infinite ways to distract yourself; I wanted to tell you how important it is to learn how to focus well.

In my experience, I struggled most in the past with playing video games. I’ve played them my entire life and still love them. But to reach my goals, I must keep away from them while working.

You have something that either distracts you or that you use to distract yourself and procrastinate too. But, you must learn how to tune out distractions.

You need to learn how to get “into the zone,” or into your “flow,” if you want to learn and produce higher levels of work.

One of my top recommendations is a headset. Get a good and comfortable noise-canceling headset if you can afford it. I was skeptical about how well these would work before getting one, but it helps enormously.

My wife got me some for my last birthday and they’re amazing. Especially, if you need to concentrate and you have TVs, kids, phones, and other noisy distractions around while working.

If you can’t afford a noise-canceling headset yet, get a cheap pair from Wal-Mart or Amazon. I used these for years before my wife got me the noise-canceling ones.

They don’t work as well as the noise-canceling ones, but they still cut out a lot of the noise. Especially, if you play music while you work.

And speaking of music, play individual songs or playlists on repeat if you can. This way you can’t distract yourself by constantly changing the song to “something better.”

Oh, and if you can, work in a quiet room away from distractions especially when first working from home. This will help you focus easier.

The lack of focus leading to procrastination is one of the largest things keeping most people away from focus and producing more.

But even though I’ve studied how to focus better and use things like noise-canceling headsets and music to drown out distractions, I’m still guilty of this.

Focusing on important and productive work is hard mentally in even the best circumstances.

Years into this, I’ve improved my ability to focus enormously. But it’s still hard especially on days when you “don’t feel like working.”

And there will be days no matter how much you love what you do and no matter how much you train yourself out of it, where you still don’t feel like working.

Push through this.

You need the ability to focus, whether you’re working from home or at an office.

And you can learn this skill.

Not only did I used to procrastinate a lot – as in hours per day – but it would take me forever to get into the zone, or into my flow while working.

Now, I can turn my focus off and on, as needed almost on command. For usually short bursts of time, at least. Still working to improve this 😉.

But, even at the high end of things, focusing for long periods of time is hard.

In Cal Newport’s research outlined in his terrific book Deep Work, he estimates the high end is 4 to 6 hours per day of highly focused “deliberate” work per day. ^[11]

Even for people who’ve trained themselves to focus well.

Why?

Because like I said above, focusing is extremely mentally draining and wears you down both physically and mentally.

It’s hard. But you must learn how to do it if you want to reach your goals.

It took me years to figure it out, and I’m still working on this every day. But, the sooner you learn how to focus, the better.

Because you’ll be able to do more important and productive work. Which leads to you making more money and becoming irreplaceable.

But you still need one more to make sure people can find you and your solutions to their problems.

6. Marketing

Marketing is newer for me in terms of my specific focus on it. Probably 4 years, instead of the more than a decade for the others above.

But it’s just as important as the others.

If you can’t market your products, services, events, books, courses, etc. – how are people supposed to find and pay for it?

Not just so you make money and continue building more stuff. But, more importantly, so you can continue marketing and helping more people with your solutions.

There’s a saying about self-confidence, but it applies to marketing too – “if you don’t believe in yourself why should anybody else?”

And if you don’t market yourself why should anyone else?

How will people find you?

What will you do to help more people?

How will you make money?

For example, If I don’t market my Value Investing Masterclass and other programs to you, that’ll show that I don’t believe in them. Nobody would join it. I wouldn’t be able to help anyone learn with the programs. I wouldn’t be able to afford to build newer programs to help even more people.

And this doesn’t just affect you either.

If I don’t market my books, products, courses, and services, I can’t afford my teammates which means they won’t have jobs.

This means they can’t support their families. And I wouldn’t have helped 2 of my teammates buy homes due to the salaries I pay them.

And if I didn’t have teammates, I would be doing only a fraction of what I’m able to myself. This means I wouldn’t be helping as many people as I can or want to.

If I wasn’t marketing, getting new clients, and helping, I also couldn’t donate a portion of all sales from our products and services to charities around the world like I do every year around Christmas.

Proper marketing isn’t a selfish thing. It incorporates all the things I mentioned above.

Marketing is an entire cycle that affects you, your business, your products and services, any teammates you have, their families, the people you’re helping, and the entire world.

Plus, if you can market well for yourself you can also make a lot of money marketing for others too.

Russel Brunson who is one of the world’s best marketers calls good marketers rainmakers. Because if you can market things well, you can make as much money as you want and help as many people as you can.

Marketing is an ultra-valuable skill. If you get good at it, you can always make money.

You may notice throughout this article and specifically in this section that I keep mentioning helping other people.

In any marketing I do – courses, books, masterminds, online and in-person events, writing and consulting for clients, etc. – I want to help as many people as I can.  I want them to benefit more than I do. That’s my mindset going into anything.

But I can’t continue helping people if I don’t make money and bring in new clients via marketing.

One of the biggest ways you can make money outside of writing and speaking is marketing.

For example, you are in a job and you want a promotion.

Who do you think will win?

A person who is shy and introverted and doesn’t believe in himself?

Or a person who is confident – not cocky or arrogant – that helps people and believes that they can do the best job?

Who do you think will get the job?

This is marketing.

If people don’t know about you and your skills how are they supposed to hire you? How are you supposed to get a promotion?

Dating is also about marketing.

You present yourself in the best way you can on a first date. You get dressed up and go to a nice dinner so you make a good first impression. In the hopes of getting a second date.

This is exactly what marketing is.

Putting your best foot forward, helping people, and getting paid for your work.

You need to learn this skill not only for yourself but also so you can help more people and make money and become irreplaceable.

Conclusion

If you learn the 6 skills above well, I guarantee, you’ll have more job opportunities and make more money and become irreplaceable. Today and for the rest of your life.

You also won’t be replaced by robots, AI, or automation anytime soon because these skills require creativity, problem-solving, and thinking.

Things robots, AI, and automation are nowhere close to replacing even after decades of improvements.

People who have these skills will make more money and have more stable jobs and opportunities in the coming years and decades.

If you want to be among these people, you need to learn the 6 skills above starting today.

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I’ve included an appendix of sources below.

This appendix includes links to books, articles, videos, and even courses I’ve taken over the years to learn and improve the skills I talk about above.

I’m not an affiliate or paid promoter of any kind of these products. They’re just the best ones I’ve learned from over the years. And they’re the resources I recommend to anyone wanting to learn these skills so I wanted you to know about them too.

The resources below are categorized by section – writing, speaking, etc. – and are in no order. All of them are great, so learn from all of them over time if you can. Otherwise, feel free to start at whichever resource catches your eye.

Also, please keep in mind, that many of the resources below can be put into multiple categories as well. So just because something is in the learning category below, it may also help you learn how to focus.

Appendix:

Recommended Writing Resources

• On Writing – A Memoir of The Craft by Stephen King
• Joanna Wiebe Copy Writing Course – these used to be free resources not sure if they still are… Use your researching skills to find out for sure on the site. There are also paid courses here as well.
• Digital Marketing Copy Writing Course
• AWAI Copywriting Courses – I don’t remember the exact course I took – it was free through the investment newsletter I worked for at the time. But all these courses should be great.
• The Ultimate Sales Letter – Attract New Customers and Boost Your Sales by Dan Kennedy

Recommended Speaking Resources

• Platform Closing – The Underground Playbook to Dominate Every Presentation, Win Over Your Audience, and Have Them Beg You to Take Their Money by Peng Joon
• Speak to Sell
• John Maxwell Speaking Courses – I can’t find the direct links to these. If you are interested in more information email me at jasonrivera@valueinvestingjourney.com. I’m a John Maxwell team member and can connect you with someone to get into the John Maxwell team.
• TED Talks – The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking By Chris Anderson

Researching

• Didn’t really learn from any books or resources here. I just learned how to do it and got better at it with practice.

Learning

• Mindset – The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
• The Power of Habit – Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
• Brain That Changes Itself – Stories of Personal Triumph from The Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge
• The Obstacle Is the Way – The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday
• The Art of Learning – An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance by Josh Waitzkin
• So Good They Can’t Ignore You – Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work Your Love by Cal Newport
• Learn or Die – Using Science to Build A Leading Edge Learning Organization by Edward Hess

Focus

• The One Thing – The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller
• Deep Work – Rules for Focused Success in A Distracted World by Cal Newport
• Grit: The Power of Passion and Persistence by Angela Duckworth
• Relentless – From Good to Great to Unstoppable by Tim Grover
• Willpower – Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength by Roy Baumeister
• Extreme Ownership – How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
• Can’t Hurt Me – Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins
• Talent is Overrated – What Really Separates World Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin

Marketing

• Mitchell Harpers Conversion Method Course – I can’t find the link to directly buy this anymore so I found another landing page that looks like it takes you to the course.
• Billy Gene Is Marketing Clicks to Conversions 2.0
• Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got – 21 Ways You Can Out Think, Outperform, And Out Earn the Competition By Jay Abraham
• The Sticking Point Solution – 9 Ways to Move Your Business from Stagnation to Stunning Growth By Jay Abraham
• 80/20 Sales and Marketing – The Definitive Guide to Working Less and Making More By Perry Marshall
• Magnetic Marketing – How to Attract A Flood of New Customers That Pay, Stay, and Refer By Dan Kennedy
• Piranha Marketing – The Seven Success Multiplying Factors to Dominate the Market You Enter By Joe Polish and Tim Paulson

P.S. And if you want to learn the skill of value investing that I teach on the Value Investing Journey site you can use the following links to learn more about some of our programs.

• Value Investing For Beginners – coming soon
• The mindset of A World Class Value Investor – coming soon
• Value Investing Masterclass
• Value Investing One on One Coaching Program

Sources Below Here:

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