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#490: Dr. Jim Loehr on Mental Toughness, Energy Management, the Power of Journaling, and Olympic Gold Medals

The Tim Ferriss Show

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Drive Is the Single Best Predictor of Success

Drive was the single best predictor of success, people who are driven. Angela duckworth calls it grit. It takes a lot of different forms h it can be persistence, determination and come hell or high water, you're going to be good. So what that drive does is that you just roll over setbacks, roll over injuries. And so we find people who have, even though they don't have a lot of skill and talent, but they have this blue collar kind of ethos, and they're driven like maniacs. They become extraordinary performers, just because they're driven to men.

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