Establish a consistent, public commitment (e.g., team newsletter) primarily to hold yourself accountable for learning. The audience is secondary; the process of preparing the content is the true career accelerator, forcing you to stay current and synthesize information.
The vast majority of people abandon new initiatives—podcasts, courses, newsletters—within months. By maintaining consistency long after the initial excitement fades, you gain a significant competitive advantage over more talented but less persistent peers. Your superpower is endurance.
The speaker views his lack of natural academic talent as a "superpower." This self-awareness forced him to abandon competing on raw intelligence and instead develop a more robust system of consistency and accountability, which ultimately proved more effective for long-term success.
Committing to a small, recurring public task (like a Friday Slack update) creates a positive deadline. This forces you to trade passive, low-value scrolling for active, high-value information consumption, directly fueling your professional growth and visibility within your organization.