The podcast discusses the importance of creating a personal checklist, getting specific feedback, and setting goals. It also explores the value of identity, the challenges faced by special operations operators, and the concept of legacy and excellence.
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Leaders who sustain excellence prioritize personal growth, aligning their values and identity.
Leaders who sustain excellence have a growth mindset, embracing challenges and seeking feedback for continuous improvement.
Leaders who sustain excellence manage their time effectively, prioritize important tasks, and avoid letting life dictate their priorities.
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Accelerating Personal Growth Through Value Transformation
Leaders who sustain excellence prioritize accelerating their personal growth by aligning their values and identity. They transition from valuing reputation to valuing their true identity, focusing on what truly matters to them. This allows them to be comfortable in their own skin and double down on their core values. They also invest in valuable feedback and coaching relationships to continually improve themselves.
MIndset Shift: Embracing Growth and Facing Challenges
Leaders who sustain excellence have a growth mindset, embracing challenges as opportunities for growth. They actively seek and value feedback, both in times of victory and defeat, with the intention of continuous improvement. They view setbacks as unique challenges rather than threats to their ego, identity, or reputation. Their mindset also evolves based on the different roles they play, allowing them to adapt and excel in various areas of their lives.
Efficiency and Consistency: Mastering Time Management
Leaders who sustain excellence manage their time efficiently and consistently. They understand the value of time and utilize it effectively. They prioritize important tasks and activities, minimize white space in their schedules, and avoid letting life dictate their priorities. By staying focused and deliberate in how they spend their time, they enhance their productivity and overall performance.
Navigating Adversity and Controlling the Stress Response
Leaders who sustain excellence possess the ability to navigate adversity and effectively manage their stress response. They utilize techniques like pre- and post-performance routines, goal setting, visualization, arousal control, compartmentalization, self-talk, contingency planning, and self-awareness. These techniques help them maintain composure, adapt, and perform at their best even in challenging situations.
Balancing Life Pillars and Leaving a Lasting Legacy
Leaders who sustain excellence understand the importance of balance and recovery. They prioritize multiple pillars of their lives, which include work, health, relationships, hobbies, spirituality, and legacy. By feeding and watering these pillars, they create a strong foundation that enables them to withstand adversity and leave a meaningful legacy. They focus on making a positive impact not only in their profession, but also in their personal lives and the broader world around them.
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“Amateurs focus on outcome. Professionals focus on process.” And if you want to change the process, focus on just one change at a time. He used the fly fishing analogy. You don’t change all three at once. Try one change and re-evaluate.
I love the idea of creating a personal checklist for yourself much like pilots fill out every time before they fly a plane. We should all create our checklist and fill it out consistently. This is a great tool to become more self-aware.
Top performers have a thirst for feedback in victory and defeat. The leaders who sustain excellence over time are intentional about surrounding themselves with a kitchen cabinet who is there to regularly provide feedback so that they can iterate and improve. That’s one of the biggest differences between those who sustain excellence over time and those who don’t.
Goal Setting
34%-42% chance of hitting a goal if you ideate it
62% chance of hitting a goal if you write it down
75% chance of hitting a goal if you verbally share it with others
Eric developed a psychological “resilience” test that when combined with data on the candidate's physical characteristics became a very good predictor of who would fail BUD/S (97%).
While working with the Navy SEALs in San Diego, Eric frequently had guests come to observe the SEALs and how they worked. A lot of them were professional athletes like Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, Michael Phelps, and many more… While there, Eric asked to interview them. Over time he was able to build an extensive knowledge base of the mental approaches of the world’s top performers.
“If your brain is firing, it’s wiring.” Learned from downhill skiers...
Commonalities of leaders who sustain excellence:
They accelerate what they value. They move from reputation to identity. They worry less about what others think.
One of the biggest regrets of people on their deathbed is that they regret what they didn't do.
Capitlize now to have no regrets later.
Create a credo (your identity)
Mindset
They have a growth mindset (instead of a fixed mindset)
They are thirsty for feedback (they want feedback in victory and defeat)
Eric is agnostic about motivations - Clean fuel vs Dirty fuel
They have different mindsets for the roles they play
Think of yourself as a dimmer switch -- Sometimes you're white hot, sometimes you need to dim down
Efficient and Consistent
They manage their time well
They sleep 8 hours
They don't let life dictate what's important to them.
Time = Currency. Block time for what's most important. Color code your calendar.
Adversity Tolerance
They control their human stress response
They have a pre and post-performance routine
They set goals
They use visualization tools
They compartmentalize well
They use positive self-talk (they believe)
They are good contingency planners
They have high levels of self-awareness
Like a pilot, they have checklists for themselves
Balance and Recovery
The more balanced, the more productive
Feed all of your pillars
Work
Health
Relationships
Hobbies
Spirituality
Legacy
Leadership role "Must-Haves"
Emotional Intelligence - "Feel for a room"
Empathy - Put our own perspective aside to understand others
Curiosity - A desire to learn, to know more
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