Becoming great at something doesn't only require practicing that specific thing for countless hours. Research shows that athletes become exceptional by dedicating time to activities that are different from what they excel at. During a match, athletes focus on executing their known moves and minimizing mistakes in the performance zone. However, after the game, they shift their attention to practicing and improving the moves they struggled with during the match, a separate and crucial aspect of their development.
Over the years one of the things I have learned is that if we only focus on performing, our performance suffers. That idea is not new to me, but that precise language is from Eduardo Briceño. He's our guest today in part one of a two part interview. Before Eduardo became an author, a TED speaker, a thought leader in his own rights, his life was totally changed, as was mine by the research of Carol Dweck. Carol Dweck is currently a professor at Stanford and formerly of Columbia, who is best known for the Growth Mindset, that idea that intelligence itself is not fixed, that it can grow, that we can become more intelligent after years of helping to take those ideas out into the world, out into organizations. Eduardo is on his own journey and it's a journey that he's inviting us to go on. By the end of today's episode, you will be able to grow your skill level and your output simultaneously and for the long term.
Learn more about Eduardo here: https://briceno.com/
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