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title: "#18 High-Leverage Skill Set Acquisition - Limitless Mindset"
description: 15 high-leverage skill sets at the intersection of being relatively easy to acquire but valuable in the business world.
author: Jonathan Roseland
url: https://www.limitlessmindset.com/podcast/177-high-leverage-skill-set-acquisition
---

# #18 High-Leverage Skill Set Acquisition

| Ⓒ By Jonathan Roseland |  |
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Applied Neuroscience Strategist, K-Selected Biohacker, Tantric husband, Promethean peaceful parent, Adventuring philosopher, Raconteur & Author. He spent +14 years researching the intersection of human performance enhancement and advanced personal growth in his obsessive quest to find real-life "NZT-48."

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In this episode, we are joined by Alex Roseland to discuss 15 **high-leverage skill sets** at the intersection of being relatively easy to acquire but valuable in the business world.

Stick around till the end of the episode to learn how to increase your IQ and get software that will save your eyes from bright screens. And in the badass story, the time Jonathan got in a sword fight on New Year's Eve.

Listen to this podcast on the go [here](https://castbox.fm/vb/72023541) with the Castbox app...

## **High-Leverage Skills**

1. Sales
2. Negotiation
3. Contract drafting
4. Proposal writing
5. Open Source web development
6. Mobile app developer
7. Search engine optimization
8. Video production
9. Event coordination and marketing
10. Basic accounting
11. Forex trading
12. Self-promotion
13. Dressing well
14. Being very good at interviewing
15. Networking

Here's the three of us...

![Roseland brothers](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/media/reviews/photos/original/00/10/f5/high-leverage-skill-set-acquisition-14-1701337875.jpg)

## Definition of IQ

> "*the global capacity of the individual to act purposefully, to think rationally and to deal effectively with his environment.*" - David Wechsler, the creator of the most widely used IQ test.
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> "*Action is the real measure of intelligence.*" - Napoleon Hill, Author of [Think and Grow Rich](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/books/1337-think-grow-rich).

## **Resources mentioned**

[How To Increase IQ? Working Memory Training, Smart Drugs and tDCS Reviewed](http://www.iqmindware.com/brain-iq-science/how-to-increase-iq-reviewed/) by Dr. Mark A. Smith of IQ Mindware - check out their line of Brain Training Software

[Does working memory training work? The promise and challenges of enhancing cognition by training working memory](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21327348) - Study

[Free Dual N-Back](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/membership/community-membership) - Brain Training Software

Jonathan's Contract and Proposal Templates ([Download](https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B1srbvVJyNe3SjA0RHFfYWlqeDA/edit))

[Udemy.com](http://www.udemy.com/) - Free and very reasonably priced Open Source software development courses

[CodeAcademy.com](http://www.codecademy.com) - Get started learning to code and program for free

[Limitless Mindset videos](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/LBRY) - +600 videos on life hacking and biohacking

[The 48 Laws of Power](https://amzn.to/2TXvTfv) - Law #13: *When Asking for Help Appeal to People's Self-Interest Never To Their Mercy or Gratitude*

[BabyPips.com](http://www.babypips.com/) - Free Forex trading training.

[Iris tech](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/Iris-Tech) or [f.lux software](http://stereopsis.com/flux/) - for adjusting screen brightness at night.

## Music

*"Candy doesn't always taste so good"* by Obcission

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