Andy Black
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Ooo! Ooo! That's me! That's me!actually Derek Sivers says this is exaclty what he does - he let something consume him until he's finished/bored a few months later.
I don't disagree - I can think of a few examples of people who've done big things who go from one thing to another and obsess over it all day.
Think about this - if I got you into working out hardcore for 6 months to prep for competition. That meant everyday you were at the gym, you were doing diets, you were counting calories, you were doing stretching/learning muscle balance/etc to get to the level of competing. How much would you learn, how deep would your knowledge go? I'd say it would go much further than someone who works out 3x a week for 2 years.
I've been accused of being obsessive compulsive in the past.
Sprinting...
School finished at 3:30pm. I'd stay behind to go training at 6pm, then have to wait an hour for the bus to get home at 9pm. I'd also cycle 9 miles on a Saturday to the track for training, then cycle home. Wow... crazy 16 year old.
Then cycling...
Then motorbikes...
In my first year riding motorbikes, I'd leave work on the motorbike at 5pm. Spend two hours getting out of London, play in the countryside for three hours, then spend another two hours getting back into London. No more partying at the weekend, that's now biking time. Repeat for a year. The average biker does 2,000 miles a year. I did 20,000 (and a lot of it going really slow slicing my way through London traffic). I was knee-down at 12 months.
Then poker...
I've a cupboard full of books, all read too. (I'm cr@p btw. I think in straight lines, and poker is too much like unpeeling an onion. I've dropped this except for the odd home game.)
Then AdWords in 2009...
Still here, loving it more and more.
Just create habits around the other stuff you're not obsessive over, so you like, eat and stuff.
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