How To Grow 10x Faster (Starting Today)

Personal growth isn't hard when you know what to do. Having a direction is the hack most people forget.

"A man is great not because he has not failed. A man is great because failure has not stopped him." ― Confucius

Look around you.

Do you see it?

So many people moving through life like robots, lost in the crowd of being average.

• Wake up

• Eat

• Blame each other

• Get stressed in work

• Go go home

• Scroll in TikTok

• Watch TV

• & repeat

A nagging emptiness that keeps them awake at night. A silence that screams that they're capable of more, but they can't pinpoint what's holding them back.

Are they lazy? Undisciplined? Or is something else entirely at play?

The heavy weight you feel and the sense of being lost or underachieving isn't a sign of laziness but a lack of direction.

You don't know what to do so you end up doing nothing. Your mind reminds you of what you could've done today.

Because you didn't do it —you feel even more guilty.

Without a clear path or purpose in life, everyday can feel repetitive.

You wander in circles leading to nowhere. You latch into temporary addictions giving you a sense of comfort even if it hurts you in the long run not because there's something wrong with you but because you don't know what to do.

Accepting a life of mediocrity is foolish. Just because you don't know what to do doesn't mean you shouldn't try.

This breeds suffering and frustration leading up to being angry all the time.

You'll hurt your loved ones and the people close to you.

I know this hurts will reading but if you keep pretending the feeling you have inside you isn't real or try to avoid it— the more you will suffer.

You'll say "This is how life is supposed to be". THAT'S WRONG.

I remember when I was young.

I just wanted to grow up fast. I wanted to do what adults could do.

I never realized how hard it is being an adult until I became one. It's even harder if you have a family to feed.

• You have bills to pay

• You have a boss to please

• You work even if it kills you

• You rarely have time for rest

• Your responsibilities pile up

This is hard however —I think it's all necessary.

The key to growing fast in life is suffering. How much you can handle and how much you can learn for it.

So how do you break free from this aimless life and actually build the progress you've always wanted?

It's simple.

Be a student.

Here's what I mean.

The Unfair Advantage

We live in the modern world. We can talk to anyone we want every time we want.

The world is connected. We can give opinions even if we are not experts,

We get to access to materials that could've only been available to libraries.

What does this mean?

Become obsessed with learning. People say it's self-help so you don't need to read. Because you're supposed to know how to help yourself and not get help from some author.

Stupid thoughts.

You can only know how to progress in life when you make the unconscious conscious.

It is true that you can help yourself without help but it will take too long.

You'll fail and hit setbacks more than you can handle. Causing you unnecessary problems in the end.

I understand what it's like to be a loser who don't know what to do in life.

I was once aimless. I was ignored and rejected. I'd hide in the back seat so people won't notice who I am.

I remember how I would help others when they need it but—when it came to my needs I would get obvious excuses.

• "Oh sorry X might be able to help"

• "Man that's tough but I'm busy this week"

• "Why do you need my help? you just ask someone else"

It took me years to get respected. I learned how to force people to respect myself. I get approached for advice and help now.

And how did I do all of that?

I learned.

I understood the depth of ignorance and ineffective strategies.

I went from being rock bottom social class to being respected and someone who doesn't tolerate disrespect.

That was because I learned. If you remember —I made a reddit post about the book "How to win friends and Influence people".

I internalized the techniques and lessons contained within that book.

And what all I had to do was become obsessed with it. I applied the principles day and night.

Every time I'd go out —I'd bring the book with me. I'd visualized how I would use the book and what the other person would be like.

I visualized how I would use the book. I made sure what I was going to apply was the right one.

It even get out of trouble when I broke a glass pane. I didn't make excuses and straight up admitted I was at fault.

I thought I would get yelled but to my surprise no. No one even blamed me.

That was when I realized how powerful learning was. If this was from one book only —then what about other ones?

Be obsessed with learning. That's where depth is found.

The Wrong Path: Why a Lot of People Stay Stuck

The following here is what you should avoid.

Settling for Mediocrity.

There is nothing more worse than a man who have given up in himself who had the potential to be great.

"What? that's your dream? you should go to school instead and get a good degree"

No offense but my whole body and mind screams in agony every time I listen to other people's advice.

Because I see them not living it. They say great things about themselves but fail to live up to it.

You know them.

The one's you see in social gathering. Being loud and noisy.

But that's exactly why they're loud and noisy. If they had skills and achievements in life—those would talk instead of their empty mouths doing the talk.

Is that a bad thing? not really —but if you follow their advice —then yes.

When someone talks of how great they are despite their abilities not being able to live up to it.

Just be nice and agree. No need to believe it.

But inside you must never allow yourself to live a mediocre life.

You are a reader of The Improvement Letter. You are meant for more and staying mediocre in life isn't one of them.

I do not allow it.

Avoiding Hard Questions

The root cause of being average is the inability to be honest within one self's capacity and limitations

There is no shame when you cannot do something now.

There is no shame when you do not know the answer.

But what's shameful is never acting or trying to understand knowing you could at least try.

Being honest with yourself is a painful. You have to revisit memories and painful experiences to get the answer you want.

You have to let go of strong negative emotions even if you feel like wanting to run away.

You know what I'm talking about. You know what you lack but you also know deep down you keep avoiding them.

Before you ruminate on thoughts like "this won't do" or "this won't work" you've got to at least try.

There is more to learn than to lose. There is more to gain than to lose.

Asking yourself the hard questions is a way of growth. And your answer must not be a lie.

If you ask yourself if you made any progress this year and the answer is no— that's good.

Being honest with yourself is the first step of growth.

Now let's talk about how you can grow fast.

3 Pillars of Exponential Growth

Pillar 1: Self-Trust

Without trust in your abilities and strength you will always wonder what you are doing wrong and why it isn't working.

When you believe you cannot and your mind keeps saying that you cannot—it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy where it happens again and again until you realize it was you that's holding you back all along.

You will not do it right the first time.

You will not get it perfectly done after doing it the 10th time.

But you will continually get it right as long as you believe you can.

Do you know why winners win?

It's not because they have other worldly talent or skill. It's because they trust themselves.

They know they can do it because they've practiced and worked hard for it.

The easiest way to gain self-trust is effort and hard work.

Your effort won't betray you unless your mind betrays you first.

Talent is abundant. Discipline and determination is lacking.

Pillar 2: Keystone Habits

Your mind, body and health needs maintenance. And the best way to do that is to have habits that will help you grow.

Not all habits work the same for everyone.

Some prefer walking than running. Some do calisthenics instead of body building.

Keystone habits are categorized by 3 things.

• Mental Habit- What you do everyday to make sure your mind stay functional and sharp. Intellectuals like to do math and experiments. Creative people love to make art. Personally I like doing art and reading.

• Physical Habit- What keeps your body strong? What keeps your body functional? What are you doing that will keep you physically strong when you hit your 50's and 60's? The hardest pain of old age isn't seeing your children or family anymore. It's your muscles becoming weaker over time.

• Spiritual Habit- This one is deeper and hard to explain. But think of it as your soul guiding you in the right direction so you don't fall into worldly pleasure's like addictions.

Your keystone habits will be different than mine. So go find it.

Ask yourself what it's going to be about.

Pillar 3: The North Star

Without a goal in life you will never get anywhere. If you don't remember —that's what I said in my first issue in The Improvement Letter.

The reason why most people get stuck is simple. They don't have a goal that will guide them in what direction they should take.

We have finite time in this world. That means when we pursue something and want to get good at it —we lose time for other things that we could've been good at.

You have to pay with time, money or relationships. The reason why people pay for services is to either consume, sell or save time.

When you don't know where you're going to go. You'll keep wandering. Getting stuck wondering where you want to go.

Read this:

Have you ever noticed that a man who becomes successful tends to continue to become successful? And on the other hand, have you noticed how a man who’s a failure tends to continue to fail?

Well, it’s because of goals. Some of us have them; some don’t. People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.

Now think of a ship leaving a harbor and think of it with a complete voyage mapped out and planned. The captain and crew know exactly where it’s going and how long it will take. It has a definite goal. 9,999 times out of 10,000 it will get to where it started out to get.

Now let’s take another ship, just like the first, only let’s not put a crew on it, or a captain at the helm. Let’s give it no aiming point, no goal, and no destination. We just start the engines and let it go.

I think you’ll agree with me that if it gets out of the harbor at all, it will either sink or wind up on some deserted beach, a derelict. It can’t go any place because it has no destination and no guidance.”

-Earl Nightingale The Strangest Secret

Now that you've read all of it.

Here's a simple action step:

• What have I been avoiding to do this week? Write it down in paper and do it right there right now.

• What are my keystone habits or what will be my keystone habits? Start with one. Don't do it at once. You'll quit. Do it little by little. Stack them after 30 days.

• What's your dream? What do you want to achieve? Write it down specifically. Write memories of what could happen if you achieve that dream of yours. Keep it close to you.

There is no too late unless you're dead. And if you're reading this then that means you're still alive.

I hope this letter was useful.

See you on the next one.

-Noat.

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