When you were researching for the book, was there at least one moment where you were validated? Cause i love it when this happens. And again, going back to oliver berkman's book, i found myself doing, like, nodding a lot to what he was saying to me,. cause it was the audio version. But i'll tell you something else that actually cond of vality. When i read a story about how kurt monegat would reverse engineers stories in his field. He would do as he would a grat out the protagonist's fortune over time. On the y axis is, how are things going for the main character? O he going poorly? The going well
Ron Friedman is an award-winning social psychologist who specializes in human motivation. He is a frequent contributor to HBR, CNN, Fast Company, and Psychology Today, as well as the author of multiple books including ‘Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success’.
Find out how athletes, artists and entrepreneurs succeed so you can create your own breakthrough formula. Ron is on the show to discuss keeping score of success, how to creatively copy, finding your meaningful metrics – and Macklemore’s ‘Ten Thousand Hours’.
Talking Points
- How to reverse engineer greatness
- The stigma of copying
- The curse of creativity and the confusion with originality
- The Scoreboard Principle
- Setting desirable and undesirable metrics
- Why reverse engineering extends to all areas of society
Quote
"Make an established idea different."
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