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The Four-Step Process For All Human Progress

Jan 22, 2025

Is confidence a prerequisite for success or the reward for taking action? Discover the transformative 4 C’s Formula®, emphasizing commitment, courage, capability, and confidence. High achievers act despite their fears, developing new capabilities that further enhance their confidence. The impact of AI on personal productivity raises questions about skipping essential steps in growth. Explore how genuine progress relies on developing real capabilities, while courage acts as a necessary catalyst during uncertain times.

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The Four C's Formula emphasizes that true confidence is earned through commitment and capability development rather than expected before taking action.

While AI can enhance capabilities, it should not replace the foundational human processes of courage and commitment essential for growth.

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The Four C's Framework

The Four C's framework encompasses commitment, courage, capability, and confidence, which are essential for achieving success in any endeavor. Commitment is the initial step, requiring an individual to dedicate themselves to gaining new capabilities, regardless of the challenges it may present. Following commitment is courage, which involves overcoming fear and stepping into the unknown to develop that capability. The process ultimately leads to confidence, but it's crucial to understand that confidence is a reward earned through actions rather than a prerequisite for taking risks.

Intro

5min

Navigating Personal Growth: The Four-Step Framework

4min

The Evolution of Productivity: Embracing AI and Technological Change

5min

Navigating Personal Goals in the Age of AI

8min

The Essential Four-Step Process for Personal Growth

2min

Do you believe confidence is a prerequisite for success, or could it be the reward for taking bold action? In this episode, Gord Vickman and Dan Sullivan discuss The 4 C’s Formula^®, a four-step process of commitment, courage, capability, and confidence, and share how to embrace fear and uncertainty as essential steps toward growth. What happens if you outsource one or more to technology?

Show Notes:

High achievers commit to action before feeling confident. Others wait for confidence to act.
Commitment means pushing through challenges to develop new capabilities.
New capabilities always lead to increased confidence.
When you gain confidence, you can restart the 4 C's process at a higher level.
With greater confidence, you can make bigger commitments.
Building new capabilities on top of existing ones compounds your confidence.
AI is now an option to skip steps, but will that damage the process?
Growth stops when you stop developing new capabilities.
All genuine capabilities must be earned, and true confidence follows capability development.
Our 21st-century progress is built on the capabilities developed by countless predecessors.
Confidence feels good. Courage feels scary.
Courage is necessary when you lack capability.
Once developed, a capability becomes a permanent asset.
Whether consciously or not, all achievers have used The 4 C's Formula.

Resources:

The 4 C’s Formula by Dan Sullivan

Casting Not Hiring by Dan Sullivan and Jeffrey Madoff

Who Not How by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy

Learn more about author Ryan Holiday

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