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It'S time to take your seat at the table. Find out how with vositembegwayo as we discuss Ideas that matter, a catalyst for bold action. Hello family, and welcome to another, another episode of the VT podcast where we talk about ideas that matter. Last week we spoke about Doppelganger and I really, really enjoyed that episode. Doppelganger, the idea of alter egos. We spoke a bit about Clark Kent and Superman and which is real and which one is the alter ego. So, so, so much fun. I really, really, really enjoyed that. Today though, I want to talk a bit about compounding time. Compounding time. In one of our earlier podcasts, I spoke once before about the story of Pablo Picasso and how he was sitting at a coffee shop, his favorite coffee shop, on a bright Sunday morning, and the lady came to him and said, monsieur Picasso, would you draw me a piece of art? And Pablo Picasso dutifully took a little pencil and a piece of paper, a serviette, and he crafted a piece of art. He then gave it to her and said, well, you know, there you go. And the value of this is. And he gave her this like, exorbitant value. And she was like, but how could you charge me that? It only took you three minutes to do the artwork. And he said, no, madam, it took me 40 years to get to the point where I can do this artwork in three minutes. Last week you saw Senegal beat Egypt to win the Africa cup of Nations. The Senegalese conquered the people of the Pharaoh. And whilst a beautiful feat it was, I must confess, I didn't see the game. See, I don't have tv. I know, no judgment, no judgment. But I don't have tv. I don't. I'm not that guy. I used to. I used to be a math massive TV guy, but now I. I've structured my life in such a way That I only have selected and selective programming. I watch the programs I want to watch, rather than watch programs that are constantly been streaming into my telly. So I didn't get to see the game, but I did see, as we used to say when I was growing up, I saw the showing shots. I'm a showing shots, which basically means I saw the highlights and I saw, you know, how the game kind of went out. And one of the things I loved watching that game was the way in which the Senegalese people played, but in particular the way that the attacking force played, the way the strikers played, the way the midfield played, and how you could just get a sense that these guys were a single unit. It almost felt as if they were moving in unison, not as if they were members of a team, but rather that the team was a single cell. If one element moved, the other element knew exactly what was going to happen next and it moved itself along the same way. They had a of collective intelligence connected to a single neural network and obviously built up over a period of time. So when we're watching master football gamesmanship happening in 90 minutes, I think you probably saw about 90 years worth of work in that 90 minutes. If you consider the amount of hours in training and preparation, the amount of hours in grooming and physio, the amount of hours in mental preparation and studying their opponents, it was 90 years collapsed into 90 minutes. You notice then there's this idea of collapsing time on itself. I think that that's what mastery is. Mastery is nothing more than collapsing time. What does that mean? In my own business, as a professional speaker, I travel the world and I speak at conferences. I'm going to be in Vegas. I'm so excited. I'm forward to being in Vegas in April. I've got tours all over the world coming up. We've got, particularly in Africa, we've got Zambia again, Kenya, Maius, Senegal. We're doing a West Africa tour. I think it's Senegal, Burkina Faso, and it could even be Mali or Niger one of them. But the team is busy with the logistics. And then I've still got to go to the US right? I've got to go to the west coast to meet with Eli Frank and my agency team over there, and then the east coast to meet with my team in New York as well as do some speaking while I'm there. So to this day I travel the world and speak at conferences. That is still what I do and I love doing it. But after all these years, one of the things I've noticed is I can, as happened this past Friday, arrive at an event and the client completely changes the brief. And I'm still able to deliver. Because when you see Vusi Tembugayo on stage, speaking for five minutes, what you're seeing is five decades worth of study, diligence, work, mastery collapsed into five minutes. The way I move, the way I gesture, the way I frame my language, the way I construct my sentences, my use of language for the construction of imagery so that you can imagine that which I want you to see. Even now, I'm doing it right. The way that I can temper my voice, speed up if I'm excited, or really slow down when I want to calm the conversation. The way that I can stare the audience in the eye and pause for a single moment just so that they really get the point I'm making, that all of that 50 years worth of study, I've studied the greats and the non greats. There is not a single Martin Luther King or Malcolm X or Nelson Mandela or Mahatma Gandhi or Mussolini or even Hitler speech that I have not read or watched. Not for the substance or content, but for their delivery, for the way they move. And so I can see when a young revolutionary politician is being a. We are revolutionaries. We are even going to start the revolution. I can tell you exactly where that comes from. I know exactly who they are studying. When they get up in front of a stadium of, you know, 5,000 people and say, comrades, we are going even. I know exactly the template where that comes from. I know exactly where it comes from because I've studied the best orators of all time. There is nothing new in the history of the world. Everything is a repetition of itself. Can I tell you guys a funny story? There is a particular young firebrand. We shan't mention him. I've watched his speeches and there was a time he was saying something, I was like, wait, I've heard this before, heard this before, heard this before, went and had a look at speeches that were delivered by other revolutionaries. And there was a speech that was done by the upright man in Tanzania, and it was, word for word, paraphrased exactly the way that Julius Nyerere said it. There is nothing new in the history of the world. But what you learn is that time collapses on itself.
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Why am I telling you this? Because today you're going to have to make a decision about what you're going to do with five minutes here, one hour there. Today there is a friend of yours who's going to call you and say hey, let's go for coffee. It's just going to be 20 minutes. Today there is a potential lover, an old flame that's going to WhatsApp you and say hey, you know what hey means, right? We all know hey, not hi hey and you know what that means. And you're going to have to make a decision about whether or not to reply. And if you do reply, do you have a conversation with them? And if you do, do you go and have that hour coffee at that Mug and Bean for the South Africans or the Starbucks for my global audience? And the real question is not about the hour you see the hour today spent committed to the accumulation incremental indeed, but the accumulation of additional knowledge, skills and competencies buys you a week 20 years from now. In other words, there is something you're going to do for one hour this week that done right will pay off for one week in 20 years time. So as you make that decision about what you spend that hour on, realize it's not actually an hour in today's time. It's it's one week in 20 years time. Are you willing to sacrifice a week of your life to see somebody that you don't want to see? Are you willing to sacrifice a week of your life to go to a meeting you shouldn't be in? Are you willing to sacrifice a week of your life to be in a space you shouldn't be in in the first place? Time is Non linear. It keeps to the true laws of nature. Like most things, that which you practice, you get good at. And if you practice the efficate application of time, you compound that time. This is why if you call a master craftsman and you ask him to do a piece of work, he can do in a single minute what a novice can't do in a single year, it's because he's collapsed time on itself. So this week your homework is to look for the places in your life where you are wasting time and ask yourself, how can I collapse time into the things that matter so I can buy myself time in future? And often. A lot of this time we waste doing silly things. It's that one hour you're spending on Instagram liking stuff and resharing stuff, or posting stuff. Guilty. Have you guys seen the. Have you guys seen the Russell Peters? That's like one of these old specials. It was the very first time Russell Peters became famous. And he said, he said, if you're ever in trouble, get an Indian lawyer. And the reason you get an Indian lawyer is because an Indian lawyer can get you out of anything. He's like, because, you know, even if you commit the crime, like if OJ really committed the crime, the judge would say, so, Mr. OJ, how do you plead on the matter of this murder? And if OJ's lawyer was, you know, an Indian lawyer, you know, of course I'm taking the mickey here and we're being extreme and we're being stereotypical, but forgive us for a moment, let's not be pious. So if the lawyer was like, you know, you know, like this Indian lawyer who would get up and say, your Honor, Mike Lyon would like to plead guilty because he says with an Indian accent, you can make anything sound light, right? And you can get away with anything. But the point I'm coming to here is that really take the time this week and try to collapse time on itself. Look at the areas of your life where there are inefficiencies, wastage, leakage, and pull that down in itself. This is time you're spending in conversations, you shouldn't be in meetings, you shouldn't be in emails, you shouldn't be replying to teams members, you shouldn't be talking to family members, you shouldn't be entertaining, you know, barbecues, a brides that you shouldn't be going to. This is time you're spending on social media doing and posting comments on things that have nothing to do with you. If you learn to collapse a second onto itself, the second compounds into a minute, the minute into the hour, the hour into the day, and the day into the rest of your life. Learn to collapse time on itself. So, ladies and gentlemen, family, that is our podcast for this week. Sayonara. This podcast was proudly brought to you by my growth fund in partnership with Sound and Sounds Media. To have your podcast recorded, send an email to infooundandsounds.co ZA. That's infos. Co zaq.