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Hello and welcome back to another episode of Train for a Great Life. Today we're going to talk about the idea of buying back time. If you can pay money to steal someone else's 10,000 hours, do it. There's this idea, popularized by Malcolm Gladwell in Outliers, that it takes 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to achieve mastery in something. Not just time spent doing it, but time spent focused on improving, refining and developing the skill at a deep level. And while there's some debate about the exact number, the concept is solid Mastery takes time and a lot of it.

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But here's the thing most people are trying to go it alone. They grind away, making every mistake for themselves, trying to reinvent the wheel, thinking they have to earn their way through experience. And sure you can do it that way. But why would you? The people who progress the fastest don't do everything the hard way. They buy time. They find people who have already put in the hours coaches, mentors, experts and they steal those 10,000 hours by paying for guidance. They skip the wasted years of trial and effort, they avoid the dead ends, they take the fast lane. And it's not cheating, it's smart. The shortcut isn't a hack, it's a strategy. Some people hear this and think well, I don't want to cut corners, I want to earn it. And yeah, there's things that you have to earn. No one else can lift the weights for you. No one else can run the miles. No one else can put in the reps no one else can face you know realities of situations that you only you experience, but why would you choose to waste time making every mistake when someone else has already figured out the best way forward and likely made the same mistakes?

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Think about it. You want to get in shape? You can spend years of trying random workouts and diets and pulling stuff online, or you can hire a coach who already knows what works. You want to build a business? You can stumble through every failure yourself, or you can learn from someone who has already built one. Do you want to master a skill? You can waste hours of sifting through free content, or you can go straight to someone who's been there, done that and let them show you the path.

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This isn't just a theory. It's what the highest performance in every field actually do. The best athletes have coaches, even when they're already elite. The best entrepreneurs have mentors, even when they're already successful. The best in any field are constantly investing in people who already have put in the hours because they know that's the fastest way to get better. As I have gradually leveled up in different areas, I see this more and more, and I was the person that was trying to do everything on my own in many ways, and being around these people has greatly influenced me.

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So there's the idea you're either paying in time or money. No matter what you're paying for progress. You're either paying in time years of frustration, slow improvement, figuring it out along the way, or maybe not. Maybe you just fail, like that is a real possibility. Or you're paying in money to learn a skill faster, to skip unnecessary struggle and to buy someone else's experience. Which one do you think is more valuable?

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Most people hold on to their money like it's the most important thing they have, but time that is the thing that you can never get back. Money can be replenished and time cannot, so why would you not trade money to buy back time? Why wouldn't you invest in a coach, a mentor, a guide, someone who can take their 10 000 hours and give you what actually matters? This is how the best move faster. If you look at people who accelerate the fastest in any field, you'll see a pattern. They don't just work hard, they work smart. They aren't afraid to invest in learning. They aren't stuck in the mindset of I can figure it out on my own. They seek out people who have already figured it out and they listen and they apply what they learn. They follow the blueprint and they execute. That's why they get where they're going so much faster than ones who refuse to invest in help.

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So what holds you back? Some people resist the idea because they don't want to admit they need help. Some people don't want to spend the money. Some people convince themselves that they can learn everything they need from free resources and that they don't need a coach and that they can do it alone. There are all the free resources out there to literally probably do anything you want, but are you actually going to do it? Sure, you can do it alone, but just know that doing it alone means choosing the slowest, hardest route. If you had the chance to buy back years of mistakes, years of frustration, years of wasted effort, why wouldn't you do that? If you could pay money to steal someone else's 10,000 hours, would that not be the smartest investment you could ever make? Here's the truth. People who move fastest don't just put in the hours. They buy them and that's why they win. I'll see you in the gym.