PRACTICE. EVERY. DAY. - You'll Always Improve Whatever You Practice! - 022
Peter Saddington emphasizes the crucial role of consistent practice in achieving success, a principle often overlooked. He illustrates this by contrasting his wife's surprised reaction to their son's bike wheelies with the son's daily dedication to practicing. Peter notes that there are no accidental superstars. The consistent dedication to one's craft is the key. Drawing a parallel, he recounts watching NBA and NFL drafts, amused by the mothers celebrating their children's success while a family member or coach nods knowingly. This "knowing" nod, he argues, represents the silent acknowledgement of the countless hours of practice and dedication, often unseen by the wider world. The "knowing" nod recognizes the daily grind required to achieve excellence and to recognize the unseen effort.
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The mom is going, oh that's my baby, that's my boy, that's my boy, he's gonna make that million bruh She's going crazy, because the girl just got paid guys, the girl just got paid But the reason why I busted that left him is because of the guy on the woman's right I've built many startups, most of them in a fail, so Bitcoin is exactly the place that I like to be We're gonna end it right there You know I have the distinct privilege of watching my children, both of them play outside every day Let that sink in I have the privilege of literally Watching my children both of them every stinking day every day I get to watch my kids and engage with them outside every day That is amazing And the reason that is amazing if you haven't grasped The reason it's amazing is
because we live in a time when kids don't play outside every day But I do I've modeled that I work outside every day in my garage every day. I work and I play every day Outside and that's what I've modeled and so that for me is natural That makes sense to me But I also am not unaware That Watching and being able to engage and play with my children outside every day weekend or weekday after school I get to watch them play every day outside. It's awesome And one of the things I also get to see Every day is them riding their bikes every day It is Amazing I used to ride my bike everywhere. I could tell you stories of riding over in Over in New Jersey Dunbar Drive I don't mind telling you the address. It doesn't matter. Dunbar Drive Driving over to
my friends the landers boys on my bike With my bro ham Going all around the neighborhood Going all the way over to Completely other town other townships back in the day on the bike From and then I mean Ryan bikes the best And so I have as you can I've talked about this before but I've encouraged and shown my kids how to do wheelies on their bikes I'm one of those dads. I'm one of those guys who likes to push my kids to the limit I like to Challenge them do amazing things different things And so my son is always practicing these wheelies. He gets hurt You know and I'm always there because I'm always the first one to hear the crash I'm getting really good especially if I'm working here I'm getting really good hearing and Getting off my ass and getting out there
and making sure that I am Within arms length if need be Right, but he's constantly improving. I mean my job is really just twofold It's number one to encourage him to lean into it Don't give up keep trying even if you get hurt right My job is to encourage him to continue to keep trying But also there for to be there for the wins and the fails right Right the wins are important. Don't get me wrong. The wins are important. It's great But man the lessons the real lessons It's through the tears It's through the pain It's through looking up at your upper Looking up at your dad when you're in pain and seeing him look at you And say it's okay Let's do it again You can do this Those are the moments that I enjoy the most with my kids giving them encouragement
right Right the wins are important. Don't get me wrong. The wins are important. It's great But man the lessons the real lessons It's through the tears It's through the pain It's through looking up at your upper Looking up at your dad when you're in pain and seeing him look at you And say it's okay Let's do it again You can do this Those are the moments that I enjoy the most with my kids giving them encouragement When they need to and giving them also A little bit of guidance when they need to But anyway, my kid is loving Doing these realies anyway my wife comes out. I'm outside hanging out with the kids right my wife comes outside And she notices she's noticing how how good my son is at doing these realies and she she's she's she's all shocked She's like, oh wow, it's
awesome. She busts out her phone taking video for over a minute It's like exclaiming the greatness of these wheelies, you know Lots of support. Oh, man. It's great. It's great. It's great. Right and and and you know just picture me right I'm standing there. I'm standing there arms crossed Ironically so right as my wife's gonna phone bust and out her phone taking these videos being like oh my gosh It's so awesome great and I'm standing there guys arms crossed Right Raise eyebrow, you know Raise eyebrow kind of look it overhead her kind of out of the corner of my eye And I finally I just I look at it. I'm like Yeah, he's been doing great He's practicing every day He's practicing every day. I see him practice every day I get to see him practice every day It's just so it's a wig It's
so funny. It's funny to me. I've you ever met an accidental superstar athlete Have you ever met an accidental rock star? You've ever met an accidental top of their game professional You've never met an accidental anybody That's successful You have to believe they practice every day I always like I I have had several occasions guys My friends. This is just always hilarious to me this idea of you know, I'm watching right I went to watch my son practice every Dad gone stinking day and then my wife comes out and she's like always so good. It's like sister. He's been practicing I have had at least two or three times in which I have busted out laughing like Deep howling belly ache and like laugh in man As I'm watching like an NFL draft or NBA draft I think there's twice during an NBA draft and
maybe once during an NFL draft I was watching and you might say well, what are you talking about? Why are you laughing so hard at an NBA draft or Or an NFL draft and I'll tell you why The reason is is because I'm watching this this NBA draft and Right they're going through speeches and they're going through you whatever's and they're doing congratulations and and you know the guy You know the guy has just been drafted getting paid a hundred million dollars a year whatever um You know, it's like going out you get up to the microphone and he says I just want to let everybody know Uh, I want to thank my mama who's been by my side and then the camera cuts to her mom to his mom to his mom, right And his mom's going oh Yeah, that's my boy. That's my
the guy You know the guy has just been drafted getting paid a hundred million dollars a year whatever um You know, it's like going out you get up to the microphone and he says I just want to let everybody know Uh, I want to thank my mama who's been by my side and then the camera cuts to her mom to his mom to his mom, right And his mom's going oh Yeah, that's my boy. That's my baby. That's my baby. That's my boy. And she's going crazy. She's going nuts and you look to the side You look to the side and you see that dude that guy He's part of the family. You know, I never know who this guy is could be an uncle could be an estranged father Could be the father could be right a family, you know another uncle a family
friend I don't know But you know what that guy's doing. He's not doing what the mama's doing the mama's going That's my baby. That's my boy. That's my boy. He's gonna make that baby. Bruh Right. She's going crazy because The girl just got paid guys the girl just got paid But the reason why I busted out laughed him is because of the guy on the woman's right He's going like this kind of shaking his head Notting his head. Can you guys see that right? He's nodding his head slowly. He's clapping. He's with it He's congratulating the boy. He's congratulating that that that young man And you look at that and you know what I'm you know what I'm immediately thinking about you know No one's going through my mind immediately at that moment is that's the brother who's been watching that guy Practice every day
He's the one going yep everyone's excited and congratulations man But I was there. I was there every day. I saw him practice every day I was actually the one that drove him to the courts at 4 a.m. in the morning to get to practice early To get those drills in yep, that was me like that's why I end up busting out laughing on these guys Because I'm watching this and this NBA draft and the and the mom's going whoa she's going all crazy She's going wild and you see this brother next to her going Yep That was me guys that was me. I'm looking at my wife. I'm going Look I've seen him practice every day You know sometimes people ask me why I ship every day Why do I produce why do I produce content every day and ship it to the web I
mean, I'm not making any money on advertising. I mean, I'm doing this for free Right and and and people ask me this question like why do you why do you ship why do you do this right And the answer is always ridiculously simple the answer is always ridiculously simple This is my trade craft. This is my Craft this is how I make money. I'm a communicator I'm a communicator. I'm a communicator of ideas I'm a communicator of strategy. I'm a communicator of visions of future realities I'm a future of I'm a communicator of encouragement of tough truths Of my reality How I see it how I see the world? All right, that's what I do I am someone who communicates I think pretty effectively The ideas that are in my mind and the things that I have seen and conjured up and be able to
a communicator. I'm a communicator of ideas I'm a communicator of strategy. I'm a communicator of visions of future realities I'm a future of I'm a communicator of encouragement of tough truths Of my reality How I see it how I see the world? All right, that's what I do I am someone who communicates I think pretty effectively The ideas that are in my mind and the things that I have seen and conjured up and be able to create The ideas that I want to execute on right my best skill My best skill is communicating what I have learned period full stop That's it guys My Peter said my best skill is communicating what I have learned That's it I mean whether through study or vision right a lot of stuff just comes to my brain But I have studied hard I've studied hard and I must
practice every day That's why I ship stuff that's why I create content that's why I talk Into a microphone ideas that I think are challenging ideas that I think are worth thinking about ideas that I think are that are worth struggling with Ideas that I think people aren't generally willing to talk about number one number two Things that they might not even have thought about and number three things that I thought about that I think might Be helpful to other people I must practice everyday And even I can improve my communication and I do I mean for those who have been with me through this journey This communication journey. Let's put it that way for those who've been with me you've seen Right, I'm constantly trying to improve my communication in multiple different ways from doing interviews To doing from doing live interviews to doing
you know Interviews on the web to different formats to memes to To store you storytelling to sermons to you know fun, you know very Operational talks to strategic ideas to I've changed so many different things I'm constantly trying to learn how to communicate better with different formats different topics editing styles mediums themes. I mean I'm a man of languages Some of you guys don't know the languages I know and it might freak out But all of this stuff that I practice every day with communication It all requires that I learn something new and lucky for me Lucky for me That I enjoy The process Keyword process. I love the process of learning I love it. I love going from a green bean status of knowing absolutely nothing To being able to effectively communicate what that idea is that I didn't know anything about months ago
To someone else and say this is something that you might be interested in learning about I I guess if I think about it right now Many times I just want other people to be interested what I'm learning about I just want people to be interested in what I'm learning about because I love learning about new things And so you'll here's a saying and I'll leave you with this guys. I'll leave you with this You'll and I wrote this down. I don't know if anyone is quoted in saying this I wrote this down it came from my mind so it seemed fresh to me But I wrote this I said you'll always see improvement in whatever you practice Makes sense duh, but It's a nice reminder right You you will always see improvement in whatever you practice My hope for you guys is that you're putting
this guys. I'll leave you with this You'll and I wrote this down. I don't know if anyone is quoted in saying this I wrote this down it came from my mind so it seemed fresh to me But I wrote this I said you'll always see improvement in whatever you practice Makes sense duh, but It's a nice reminder right You you will always see improvement in whatever you practice My hope for you guys is that you're putting your time into the right things And not spending your time just being a consumer of goods and services So here's the question and you can leave a comment below What's your trade What should you be practicing daily This is Pudah the bit calling If you enjoyed this episode smash that like button Subscribe and share with at least one person in your network And you think might benefit
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About the Creator
This video is part of a library of 780+ episodes published by Peter Saddington on staas.fund. Peter is a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist (StaaS Fund, RegD 506B), and AI practitioner who has trained 17,000+ professionals in agile and AI methodologies. He bought Bitcoin at $2.52 in 2011, built 4 autonomous AI agents (the Council of Dogelord), and operates 10+ websites with zero employees. His AI Workshop has been attended by Fortune 500 teams, and his newsletter "The Agile VC" reaches thousands of subscribers weekly. Peter holds 3 Master's degrees (Divinity, Computer Science, Computational Operations Research) from institutions including Georgia Tech.