Here's how you can become excellent at what matters most
Mar 11, 2024
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Discover how top performers excel in any skill with insights from Eric Potterat and Alan Eagle. Learn about mindset variations, building resilience, prioritizing time, and embracing personal values. Hear about the importance of failures, mindset shifts, and finding compassion through loss.
Eric Potterat, a former US Navy psychologist for the Navy Seals and psychologist for the Los Angeles Dodgers, delves into the commonalities of elite performers. By focusing on identity over reputation, top performers accelerate their development through a personalized value credo. Potterat emphasizes the importance of defining personal values and consistently aligning decisions with these values. By prioritizing identity and mental training, individuals can cultivate a mindset geared towards optimal performance in various roles.
Personal Accountability: Writing Goals for Success
Potterat highlights the significance of written goals and accountability in achieving success. Research shows that setting goals in writing increases the likelihood of goal achievement. By sharing goals with an accountability partner, individuals further enhance their self-accountability. The process of writing down goals and verbalizing them leads to a 76% success rate in goal attainment, emphasizing the power of personal accountability in goal setting.
Mindset Mastery: Embracing Growth Mindset and Adaptability
Potterat and Alan Eagle underscore three key mindset takeaways from top performers: growth mindset, challenge mindset, and role-specific mindsets. They advocate for embracing useful feedback, reframing challenges as unique opportunities, and tailoring mindsets to different roles. Encouraging a growth mindset and adaptable approach, top performers exemplify the ability to continuously learn and evolve across various contexts.
Time Ownership: Maximizing Efficiency and Balance
Potterat and Eagle stress the pivotal role of time management in achieving success. Top performers excel by owning and optimizing their time effectively. The focus on process over outcome highlights the importance of allocating time wisely for personal and professional growth. By setting non-negotiable priorities and managing time with intention, individuals can enhance their productivity and work-life balance.
Plenty of people are born with natural talent for anything from sports to writing to organizational skills. But what if you could learn excellence at anything? Eric Potterat spent years helping Navy SEALs and professional athletes perform at a higher level, and with help from author and ex-Google exec Alan Eagle they wrote “Learned Excellence: Mental Disciplines for Leading and Winning from the World's Top Performers.” In this episode, Eric and Alan identify how we perform every day of our lives and illustrate how we can adopt the methods used by top performers to improve any skill.
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