Productive people try to build on their strengths. They're constantly figuring out what is it they do well, how can they do more of it? How can they go deeper? How can they build that strength more, they don't try to rub down all the rough edges everywhere in their productivity portfolio. They don't try to be a jack of all trades, or Jill of all trades, for everything. That's not how people can be most productive.

So for example, I'm not very good at web design. I could take courses here on this platform and other places on web design graphic design. I could but I've just made the decision. That's not the best use of my time. I'm not good at it. For starters, I'm colorblind.

So any web design that I come up with, the colors gonna look awful, it's probably gonna clash. And it's just not a good use of my time to take more and more classes on web design. in graphic design, the best use for my time is either giving a speech or conducting a training live, or creating new courses online in a video base so that they can be seen by thousands of students all over the world. Again, I apologize if this sounds promote, I'm really not trying to sell you on any other courses in this course you paid for this one, I'm giving you value for this one. So I'm not a big fan of the whole cross selling thing that some do. But I just don't know another example any better to make for you to drive this point home.

And that is you've got to figure out what your strengths are and just do more of it. That is what will make you highly productive. If you're the world's best plastic surgeon, then you probably don't want to spend all your time trying to figure out how to do with infectious diseases. It's a different skill set. Go deeper with what you are in and spend your time reconstructing the faces of people who have been in a horrible car crashes, if that is your expertise, but build strengths. It's a different mindset than trying to get an A in every single subject in school.

Now a lot of productive people were good in school, some were horrible in school because they're so focused on what they enjoyed. They couldn't spend a second on things they don't like. I'm not asked if you're in school, I'm not asking you to quit and to ignore every class that doesn't seem 100% interesting to you. But you can be a wildly successful person, even if you were horrible in school, as long as you can find one strength and build on it and strengthen it and improvement, improve it, always try to improve your strengths. So that's what I want you to reflect on right now. And then right in the future, In a section, what is your number one strength and be specific?

Don't just say I'm likeable or hard working. Focus now what is your number one strength as far as a skill set that you can do? Because I will be asking you later to try to figure out how can you do more of that? How can you clear away your schedule to do fewer things that don't directly relate to this one core strength?