The superpower earned through repetition
Michael Phelps. Elon Musk. Jeff Bezos. Seth Godin. Tim Ferriss.
How can Seth Godin communicate so seamlessly?
How can Elon Musk apply first principles to complex problems and execute the seemingly impossible with so much relative ease?
How can Tim talk to the top performers in the world with so much ease and comfort?
When we think of super-performers like the people above, we think genius and talent. We attribute their in-born talent as the reason for their capability.
Though more than that, I think that they have repeated the above tasks so many times for so many days, that even though the tasks seem impossible to us, for them, it is merely another day.
Seth has been publishing his blog daily for 20+ years: no wonder he can communicate so easily. Tim has been taking interviews of top performers every week for more than 7 years now: no wonder that there is no one better to discuss stuff with top performers than him.
We also repeat stuff daily. We repeat being stressed. We repeat procrastinating. We repeat getting tricked by Zuckerberg or YouTube or Netflix or Swiggy in doing something that we do not want to do.
Can we change this? Can we start repeating stuff that we want to repeat? The more we do that the easier it becomes. 5 days is the magic number, in my opinion. In 5 days, it becomes easier to continue a good habit than to skip it.