The moment I read and understood the following quote is the moment I knew I had to turn my life around and become a more skilled individual:

“The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.” ― Robert Greene, Mastery

Now imagine the scenario where you learn more than 100 skills in just 3 years.

How much more “successful” do you think you could be?

How many ways can you combine those in creative ways?

There are too many variables to do the accurate math on that, and frankly, that’s beyond the scope of this article, but there are way more than 100,000 possibilities!

A lot of times we can’t see how two or more skills may come together until we have acquired the knowledge.

And then one day you wake up and realize that by using a multitude of skills you’ve acquired over the years, you come up with a brilliant idea that could change your future forever.

I briefly talked about that in How Fabricated Luck Can Turn You Into A World-Class Performer — And How To Fabricate It Yourself

As an example, my book, 31 Stories To Motivate And Inspire You To Work Harder And Build Momentum, is coming out tomorrow.

Just 3 months ago, I didn’t really know how to write good stories. Writing was just one of the skills I wanted to learn over the course of the month of January.

During that month only, I:

got published by The Startup (after 5 days in fact!);

became a top writer in 7 categories on Medium.com;

learned to build mass and gained 5kg of pure muscles (and lost 2% body fat);

started a fitness group that grew from 2 people to 13 in just a few days;

became way more proficient at day-to-day Spanish conversations;

made a new partner for a side-business I was working on; and

built my personal brand website.

Next month, I’ll learn how to do Social Media Marketing (with emphasis on Facebook), learn how to speak/write basic Tagalog and learn how to grow muscle mass in the legs for someone with chicken legs.

I will also release Soul Reaper: Unreap Commander, the paperback version of my book, launch my Viking store, read more books, attend toastmasters and game development events, and grow my networks.

So how can I learn that many skills so quickly and accomplish more?

Simple. In theory at least:

I learn 3 new skills every month.

Let my story above inspire you to try this approach.

Keep reading to learn how I choose the skills, when and how to practice them, why this approach works so well and some of the criticism I’ve received concerning this approach.