BONUS: A Humble Request to SPI Listeners

BONUS: A Humble Request to SPI Listeners

Pat Flynn: Dear SPI listener, that’s you by the way, I wanna thank you. Whether you’ve listened to one episode or all 872 previous episodes to this one, this is a humble request from myself to you. This podcast has been an incredible experience. We are approaching 15 years almost to the date of this podcast being started.

The first episode was recorded three times because I was so embarrassed and I thought it had to be perfect. And eventually I just said, you know what screw it, I’m just gonna let it be and see where it takes me. And wow. Where has it not taken us? It’s allowed us to be introduced to so many other amazing people, authorities, and experts in this space.

It has allowed us to get to know a lot of our community members, even more so many amazing people from Jacques Hopkins, from Piano in 21 Days to Shannon Irvine, to Dr. B, and Rob and Kerry Stewart from Disney Travel Secrets, just to name a few. These were people who were once listening to this podcast just like you right now, who had gotten inspired and had taken action and had seen incredible results.

And Shane and Jocelyn Sams also come to mind from episode 1 22, two teachers in Kentucky, Shane on his lawnmower who stopped Mid Mo ’cause he heard this podcast and gave his wife the idea that one day they were going to earn passive income. And they did. And boy, they’ve earned millions of dollars and still continue to do so through the amazing work that they do.

And it inspires me every day to think about all of you. And it makes me want to pour into you even more in the best way that I can for how the world is today. And for me, that work right now that is most important to me is my new book, Lean Learning: How to Achieve More by Learning Less. And I was once guilty of being a hoarder of information.

And I think there are still forces at play that try to sway me from the work that I know I should be doing. This was demonstrated even in the process of writing Lean Learning, not just distractions, but also inspirations to try other things that in a way, were holding me back from the things I’ve already committed to, and we live in this world now that is ripe with so much information.

In fact, we are overloaded, overwhelmed, and over committed. To so many things that we are not actually seeing progress on the things that really, really matter to us. And not only do we now have access to more information than ever, we haven’t slowed down our consumption. We’ve sped up with it. How many podcasts are you subscribed to?

How many books have you read? How many pieces of information do you gather every single day? About x number of different topics. If we were to write that down, it might be scary to understand and see that we are falling short of where our focus should be. And this book aims to provide guidelines for you as we enter a world that’s going to be even more plentiful with information, both good information and of course, useless information that’s out there.

I wanted to provide a guide for my kids who are 15 and 12 at this time. Who are entering a world that’s so different than the one that I grew up in. Our brains have not evolved to consume this much information and to understand how to organize it. We still hoard as much information as we can, but there’s only a finite amount of room, not just in our brains, but in our day to think about things and get things done, and we have to create some sense of control over the information that we allow ourselves to learn. One principle I talk about in the book is the idea between just in time learning and just in case learning. Most of us practice just in case learning. We see an amazing piece of content. We hear or watch something that inspires us and we get excited, we get motivated.

We might even take action on that. But is that the action that we need to take now? Is that the information that we should be consuming? Or might there be better, more qualified information? Might there be better resources available to us to help us achieve our goals? In most cases, yes. And by allowing more information to come into our lives, we’re allowing for more bright lights to show up, to distract us, more squirrels to show up, for us to want to chase.

We need those guidelines. We need to practice just in time information only allowing ourselves to learn about the things that are most important and the things that are next on our list of to-dos next on our plate, the next part of the bigger project that we’re working on with the idea that we need to trust that there are plenty of resources to help us once we reach the next level.

Not only will the resources be there, but they will be better, more updated and ready for you when the time is right. We need to practice consuming just in time information and letting go of just in case information. While we are in the middle of learning something, we need to lean into it even more. We need to practice what I like to call micro mastery.

Breaking down the pieces of what it is that you’re doing and hyper focusing on little moments, little things, and mastering that, learning about that, getting help with that consuming information, again, just in time about that one little thing. I tell a story in the book about how I micro mastered my way into becoming a professional speaker, something that I was deathly afraid of doing, and how I broke down that skill and it become now a master at that.

Now get invited to speak on stage and get paid five figures every time I do it, or most of the time, unless I’m speaking for a friend. How I do this in my day-to-day life. How I use tools like voluntary force functions to learn how to get better at things more quickly to speed run acquisition of skill.

For example, when I wanted to learn how to recently fish with a jig, a lure, an artificial lure, that’s pretty difficult to learn, something that I’ve wanted to learn for years. I practiced something I call voluntary force functions, meaning, and more practically, I went out to a lake one day and only brought one bait and one bait, only. The jig.

And every time I wanted to not use it because I was not comfortable with it. I had baits that I was more used to using, but I really wanted to learn this jig bait and how to actually catch fish with it. Well, guess what? I had no choice. I forced myself to function with only the jig. Halfway through the day, I finally got a bite for the first time, which gave me a little boost of confidence.

And by the end of the day, I caught two fish with a jig for the first time, and now it’s my go-to bait. I love it because it provides the best strike on a fish, if you will. So these are just a few of the stories I tell inside of my book, Lean Learning, and I go into depth about not the science behind it.

I’m not a scholar, I’m not a professor at a university or somebody who has studied this for years, but I’ve lived it for years. People have asked me, especially more recently with the new learnings that I’ve done. Everything from the Switch Pod invention, something I had never done before to learning about Pokemon, which I didn’t grow up with.

I was a Magic the Gathering player, not a Pokemon player, to now creating a successful shorts channel that is now at 1.5 million subscribers and over a billion views all within a year. How Pat do you learn things quickly? I call it Lean Learning. And one principle I talk about in the book is how much you learn by teaching.

And after 15 years of entrepreneurship and beginning to understand a little bit about how I function and the work that I do and how I learn things to then put this into a book and force myself to teach it in a way that is easy to understand and easy to implement for you, has helped me. Learn about myself and lean learning even more.

It’s helped me distill these things to be able to share them practically with people like you. And for those who have tested and have read this book already, this stuff works. And so my humble ask of you today is to go to LeanLearningBook.com or just simply go to Amazon, the account that you’re used to, and look up Lean Learning and place an order for my book.

If there are bonuses available, if you happen to purchase this before June 3rd, which I mean that’s next week for you listening to this. If this episode is still up, the book is still available within the time period that you are able to help us potentially hit the New York Times bestseller list. That is a goal.

It is not the goal, but it is a goal that would show that as a byproduct, this is in fact actually reaching the people that it needs to reach. And so again, I humbly ask you to support the book and check it out. And again, if you are listening to this, it will disappear by the time that the book sales count for the first week launch and its potential New York Times bestseller run.

But we are setting ourselves up for success, doing our best to try to reach that. By the time you’ve listened to this, you might have caught my series on my Pat Flynn socials, leading up to the point at which we will find out whether or not we actually hit the New York Times bestseller list or not. And if I don’t, I will honestly be bummed, but I’m not gonna stop.

That doesn’t mean it’s a loss, it just means not yet. I feel like this book has the opportunity to reach a point where it can really change the world and the way we learn in the world that we live in today. So LeanLearningBook.com to see if there’s some bonuses still available, or just head to Amazon and pick up a book and pick up another one if you’d like to share it with somebody close to you.

And I hope that you enjoy the stories in it and learn even more about me, even though I know I’ve shared quite a bit about myself here in the last 873 episodes. But thank you. I appreciate you. I would not be here today if it wasn’t for you, the listener, and the support that I’ve gotten ever since day one from people encouraging me.

And as much as this book writing process and working with a traditional publisher for the first time has been new and difficult, and an adventure to say the least every minute has been worth it, and I keep going for you. So thank you. I appreciate you and I truly look forward to seeing how you not just respond to the book and how you like it, but how you use it.

I cannot wait to hear your stories. Thank you. Seriously, thank you.