In November of 2012 I decided to join professional network/entrepreneurial brain trust.
The rationale was simple, successful people don’t succeed on their own.
There are two parts to the program:
- Monthly interviews with a wide array of brilliant people, masters and advisors that have helped countless people with productivity, health, psychology, and more
- Membership to an exclusive community of ambitious professionals to hold you accountable, encourage you, and help you live a Rich Life
I read as much (or more) than anyone I know, but reading is a time consuming endeavor.
This brain trust provides access to knowledge, wisdom and proven strategies that top performers use to…
- Get more done
- Stay focused
- Earn more money
Below is a video preview and my notes from Naveen Dittakavi discussing, among other things, how to go from ordinary to extraordinary:
- A top performer takes direct action towards achieving their goal rather than thinking about “someday”
- Your mindset should be grab it (whatever it is) by the throat vs. “It will happen to me”
- Have a “seize it” mindset
- The time is *never* right (i.e. just do it)
- Taking the time to respond to someone in a lot of depth and specificity = looking at yourself in the mirror and showing yourself the path to overcome the obstacle you share with the other person
- There’s enough pie for everyone
- Helping others crystallizes what works for you
- The world wants you to be vanilla
- Ed note: My wife has a quote on our bathroom mirror, “Only dead fish go with the flow”
- Move from disparagement to curiosity (Ramit talks about the D to C principle with Patrick McKenzie here)
- Realize the world around you is made up
- Reverse engineer successful people’s careers and emulate what they did to get there
- When consuming content ask: “Why do you care?”
- On asking great questions:
- Seek to formulate questions that cannot be answered with a question
- Answer questions with their (person you’re asking) anticipated answer. If vague, scrap it and dive deeper
- On prioritization:
- Take 1 or 2 things from your master list and start there
- Prioritize and trust your system(s)
- Break down a big task into small parts
- If you want to learn something, teach it
- Develop keystone habits (fitness, personal finance) that permeate the rest of our life
- For more on how to develop these habits, check out my Brain Trust notes on Charles Duhigg
- Bonus Resource: Naveen recommends checking out Andrew Warner’s Mixergy Master Classes
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