Tag: Performance

Brad And Steve On How To Elevate Your Game

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Improve Academy, Innovation Management, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning

If you want to improve your life, you must first improve your performance.

The question is, according to Brad and Steve, ‘Is healthy, sustainable peak performance possible? If so, how? What’s the secret? What, if any, are the principles underlying great performance? How can people like us- which is to say, just about anyone-adopt them?’

‘The brightest minds spend their time either pursuing their activity with ferocious intensity, or engaging in complete restoration and recovery.’

What are you doing to get better? If you are doing something, then ask yourself, ‘Is it the right thing for this moment?

‘It isn’t experience that sets top performers apart but the amount of deliberate practice they put in. Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.’

Be intentional about your practice. If your practice is not right, do not expect to get better.

‘The way we think about the world has a profound effect on what we do in it.’

‘By pushing us toward just- manageable challenges and enhancing how we’ll respond to them, the right mindset opens up the possibility for growth to occur.’

Growth happens when you open up your mind to receive it. Because you will never receive what you are not expecting.

‘If we never take ‘easy’ periods, we are never able to go full throttle and the ‘hard’ periods end up being not that hard at all.’

‘Hard work only becomes smart and sustainable work when it’s supported by rest.’

‘It is hard to do your best thinking when your mind isn’t at peace.’

‘The things we work amidst become expansions of the self, things the mind can use to create harmony in experience.’

‘Is healthy, sustainable peak performance possible?

Source:

Brad Stulberg & Steve Magness (2017). Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with The New Science of Success

Why You Should Never Copy Other People

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
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Growth comes from doing the work. It does not come from copying other people.

When you copy others, you are not creating your own life. You are just repeating what is already out there.

When you copy other people, you are not adding value to your life; you are stealing from your own growth; you are reducing yourself. Because growth happens when you actually do the work, not when you copy other people.

When you copy other people, you are a follower, not a leader. You are not an innovator. You are not living your life. You are living other people’s dreams.

Copying other people is not good for you. According to Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, ‘… copying does more harm to the copier than to the copied. When someone copies you, they are copying a moment in time. They don’t know the thinking that went into getting you to that moment in time, and they won’t know the thinking that’ll help you have a million more moments in time. They’re stuck with what you left behind.’

That is why you should NEVER copy other people. Because copying is not learning. Learning is doing the work, not copying the work.

The question is, ‘Do you have the courage to face yourself?’