The Daily Mastery Podcast by Robin Sharma

Satisfaction Breeds Stagnation

May 6, 2024

The podcast discusses the strange obsession for perfection among successful individuals, highlighting the uncontainable hunger they have to exploit their potential and bring on mastery. It touches on balancing satisfaction and growth in life, emphasizing the importance of finding a balance between joy and gratitude while maintaining a drive for improvement and growth.

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Achieving satisfaction can lead to stagnation, emphasizing the importance of continual growth and improvement.

High achievers exhibit an obsession for perfection, driving them to constantly enhance skills and make a greater impact.

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The Dangers of Complete Satisfaction

Achieving complete satisfaction can lead to stagnation and unhappiness according to insights shared in the podcast. High achievers like billionaires, industry titans, and Hollywood stars often exhibit a trait of never being satisfied. This constant drive for improvement, growth, and impact keeps them motivated and prevents complacency. The message emphasizes the balance between being joyful and grateful while maintaining the hunger to continually enhance skills and create more value for others.

Balancing Satisfaction and Growth in Life

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As I continue my work as the private advisor to many of the world’s most successful business titans, pro sports superstars and entertainment heroes, I constantly refine my “battle charts” and “game sheets” on what makes the great ones so good.

I need to tell you that they all have one strange trait: they possess an obsession for perfection.

Yes, perfectionism isn’t healthy. Got you on that point. Yet, here’s the reality based on my nearly 31 years in the trenches with famous CEOs, billionaires, NBA superstars and music icons: the great ones are all obsessive. They cannot bear being mediocre. They cannot live with stagnating at ordinary. They have uncontainable hunger to exploit their potential, bring on mastery and turn their entire field on its head.

My new book “The Wealth Money Can’t Buy” is full of fresh ideas and original tools that I’m absolutely certain will cause quantum leaps in your positivity, productivity, wellness, and happiness. You can order it now by clicking here.

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