This week's Good Life project riff is brought to you by a dear friend of mine, Lewis Howes, who many of you may recognize as a former guest on Good Life project.
He's also the founder of School of Greatness and the School of Greatness podcast and a brand new book by the same name, School of Greatness.
He's an incredibly accomplished athlete, business person, and just a straight up good human being.
So I'm going to turn it over to Lewis to share some thoughts with you now.
So I've been having this thought lately about skills and about bringing on new skills.
And about ten years ago, I got done, finished playing football, and I had about a year and a half where I was in limbo trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life.
And during that time, something interesting happened.
I had this passion for learning new skills because I had all this free time.
And I remember I picked up public speaking training.
I found a mentor and a coach and I went to public speaking once a week and I would practice that.
I also picked up salsa dancing.
I had all this free time.
So I started doing salsa dancing.
I started watching YouTube video lessons of salsa moves and practicing it in my mirror during the day.
Then I would go out and get group lessons and practice at the club and build upon that skill of salsa dancing.
I started learning marketing online.
I started picking up these skills of marketing and pr and branding.
I found mentors and coaches to shape me and teach me these things, but I was also just learning them on my own.
I was finding the information online, on YouTube, on blogs, podcasts, videos, things like that.
Then I picked up a new sport.