A golden lesson: aim for excellence
What Ben teaches us is special. When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you. Olympic athletes don’t help each other. They’re competitors. Ben starts every race with a very clear sense of WHY he’s running. He’s not there to beat anyone but himself. Ben never lose
... See moreSimon Sinek • Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Olympian expectations • Experiment to generate instances of success • Early experience of success • Extreme ambition: Think big; think bigger • Unreasonably demanding of self and others
Richard Koch • Unreasonable Success and How to Achieve It: Unlocking the Nine Secrets of People Who Changed the World
In the end, greatness is less a checklist than a delicate alignment of mindsets, methods, and morals. You begin with something half-seen and half-known, build with others who share your faith, wander widely before settling on a direction, learn by doing rather than by empty theorizing, protect nascent ideas from premature judgment, and persist with... See more
4. How do we want to do our jobs? Do we want to be part of a high-performance environment that results in daily excellence? If the answer is yes, then what behaviors are necessary to produce that result and what behaviors inhibit or negate that result?