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Hi, welcome back!
My name is Gideon Shalwick. Welcome again to another video for my Key Insights Into
Freedom video series.
Inside this video, I want to talk a bit about my university days and some of the lessons
I learned there to help me become more free and get more freedom as I have today in my
life.
I did five years of study at the university. Five years is too long in my opinion. But
I did learn some things, at least. Perhaps not from the textbooks or from the lectures,
but I learned some other things that was more of a "behind-the-scenes" kind of learning.
The key lesson that I learned from this was that persistence is a good thing, except when
it's in a wrong direction.
We've been taught that persistence is a good thing -- when you get started with something
you might as well finish it. It is a good habit to have; and yes in general, it is.
It's only not a good habit if that thing that you're working on is the wrong thing. There
is not much point in working on something that is taking you down on the wrong path.
Here comes the big challenge: How do you know what is the right thing to work on? And how
do you know when it is the right time to give up?
That is the big challenge; sometimes it's a bit like the chicken and egg situation.
You can only sort of see with retrospect which was the right path to take and which was the
wrong things to take.
A lot of it is trial and error. But I think sometimes you can assess whether you're going
on the right direction or on the wrong direction; and perhaps this only comes with time.
Some tips that you can use for this is to ask people around you; to get to know yourself
more; and to read books. See what other people have done.
A key thing that has really helped me is to get to know myself very well. I'm going to
talk about some extra models in the rest of this video series that talks about how I've
been able to find out the right path for me; and now I know that that is the path that
I need to persist on.
It encompasses a number of different things playing together. Hopefully, I can clarify
how that works for you so that you can apply it to your life and to your business as well.
But really, I just wanted to wake you up to the idea inside this video that yes, persistence
is a good thing but only if it's in a right direction.
When I did currency trading (that is something I did a while ago as well), we learned that
you cut your losers and let your winners run. That's very much the same principle here.
If you are on to a loser, cut your loses. And when you cut your loses, you focus on
your winners.
That's all I wanted to say inside this video.
Look out for the next videos coming up and a few more videos to come. I'll be sharing
with you how I found my own path to success and the path I'm now persisting in.
Once you have that clear path, things just start falling into place. I'm going to share
it with you how all that works in the coming videos.
Thank you for watching and I look forward to seeing you inside the next
video.