1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:03,560 Speaker 1: G a gang. I hope your bloody terrific. So, as 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,280 Speaker 1: you well know, my job or the main part of 3 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 1: my job, is talking to people about creating better outcomes 4 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 1: on planet them in their world. And that's teams, and 5 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:17,880 Speaker 1: that's companies, organizations and individuals and people who want to 6 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:23,320 Speaker 1: become super good and proficient and elite at something. It's 7 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:26,640 Speaker 1: people who just want to think better, do better, create better, 8 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:31,320 Speaker 1: have less anxiety, more joy, more purpose, more focus, better outcomes. 9 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: It's the whole plethora of the human spectrum. And as 10 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 1: part of that, you know, we always talk about strategies, 11 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 1: and we talk about where you want to go and 12 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 1: what you want to do, and we talk about the 13 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:47,600 Speaker 1: ingredients and the variables that need to be factored into 14 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:49,920 Speaker 1: the goal setting, in the structure and the process and 15 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 1: all of that kind of very methodical strategic How do 16 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 1: I become a better version of me? How do I 17 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 1: become a better leader or a better boss, or a 18 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:05,960 Speaker 1: better problem solver? How do I better manage my anxiety? 19 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:08,960 Speaker 1: How do I optimize my genetics? How do I be 20 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 1: more productive and more proactive and more effective? How do 21 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:16,200 Speaker 1: I run fast, jump higher? How do I make more dough? 22 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:20,319 Speaker 1: How do I optimize my career, all that kind of stuff. 23 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:25,120 Speaker 1: And one of the things that I talk to people 24 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 1: about which I have not spoken about a lot on 25 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:38,399 Speaker 1: the You Project, is our capacity to understand and optimize 26 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:43,040 Speaker 1: our own potential. So I just want to talk a 27 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 1: little bit about this today. I mean, this is not 28 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 1: the start and finish. This is just me opening the 29 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:52,279 Speaker 1: door on a really expansive and big area of human 30 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 1: performance and human behavior. But I would say that for 31 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 1: most people. This is my experience and observation. This is 32 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 1: not based on any research I've come across, but I've 33 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 1: worked with thousands of people for four plus decades. My 34 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 1: observation and experience is that one, most people don't get 35 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 1: anywhere near optimizing their potential most and two most people 36 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 1: don't even really understand their potential. They don't understand how 37 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,640 Speaker 1: good they could be, or what they could create, or 38 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:32,240 Speaker 1: the level of change that could happen in their world 39 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 1: if they did all the right things. Now, again, this 40 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 1: is not an easy thing. This is you know, this 41 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:45,520 Speaker 1: is not fun, easy and painless, This optimizing oneself but 42 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:48,640 Speaker 1: human potential. What I can do if I set my 43 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:52,240 Speaker 1: mind to it. What you can do if you set 44 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:53,920 Speaker 1: your mind to it. What you can do if you 45 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 1: get yourself limiting thinking and self limiting beliefs and shitty 46 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 1: self esteem and you know, all that stuff, and the 47 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 1: self doubt and the fear and the anxiety and the 48 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 1: overthinking and the analysis paralysis. What the fuck can we 49 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 1: do if we don't let that stuff dictate who we 50 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:15,079 Speaker 1: are and how we are and what we do. Now, 51 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 1: that's not to say overcome the fear. That's to say 52 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 1: work with the fear. That's to say, lean into the fear. 53 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:24,240 Speaker 1: You don't need to be fearless. You need to be 54 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 1: courageous at times, as do I so and in fact, 55 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:32,800 Speaker 1: we can't be courageous by definition, being courageous as doing 56 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 1: something that we're scared of. And so we're not looking 57 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 1: for perfect people. We're not looking for fearless people. I'm 58 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 1: not looking for the most gifted people. I'm not looking 59 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: for the athletic unicorns or the cognitive unicorns or the 60 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 1: creative unicorns. I'm just looking for people who want to 61 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 1: do better than what they're currently doing and want to 62 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 1: figure out how can I get out of my own way? 63 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 1: How can I begin to consider what is, for example, 64 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 1: my genetic potential like what's possible for me? So there's 65 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 1: what's actually possible for me. So let's say let's just 66 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 1: let's just quantify this. Let's say my and I'm talking 67 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:20,600 Speaker 1: about me personally, right, because there's no global you know, 68 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:23,280 Speaker 1: my potential is not your potential. My genetic potential is 69 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: not the same as yours. My academic or athletic potential 70 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 1: is not the same as yours. So what I want 71 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 1: you to do is I want you to personalize this 72 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:35,000 Speaker 1: for you. So when you think about your genetic potential, 73 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:41,160 Speaker 1: we are talking about literally what is physiologically what is 74 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:46,480 Speaker 1: genetically possible? What is the absolute high watermark for what 75 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 1: you could do or achieve with your body if you 76 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 1: did everything right. Now, I think there are very few people, 77 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:58,720 Speaker 1: including myself, who do everything right, whereas there is zero 78 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 1: room for improvement. Let's just call that, let's call that 79 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:08,159 Speaker 1: level of genetic optimization for you. Let's call that ten. Now, 80 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 1: if I said to you, do you want to get 81 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 1: more out of your genetics? Would you like to be 82 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 1: physically physiologically improved? Would you like better health? Would you 83 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 1: like a stronger immune system? Would you like better cardiovascular 84 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:27,479 Speaker 1: system or fitness? I should say, would you like more strength, 85 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 1: more flexibility. In other words, would you like your body 86 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: to work better than it currently does. I feel like 87 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:40,600 Speaker 1: most of you are going to say fuck yes. Maybe 88 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:43,720 Speaker 1: some of you will not use the fuck right, and 89 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:46,160 Speaker 1: so that is great, that's good. But then so now 90 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:47,839 Speaker 1: what do I do with that? What do I do 91 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:51,479 Speaker 1: with that? So if ten is my genetic potential talk 92 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:55,799 Speaker 1: about genetics in this instance, then where am I currently at? 93 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 1: And I think some of us think that we are 94 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 1: doing way better than we are. I did a show 95 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:09,480 Speaker 1: the other day with Dr Jodie. We're talking about perceived 96 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 1: rate of exertion. We're talking about this thing that in 97 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 1: Excise Science, the insection Excise Science and Psychology, where I 98 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:22,600 Speaker 1: would ask someone who's doing a movement in the gym, 99 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 1: like a strength movement in the gym, or they could 100 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 1: be running on a treadmill, or they could be skipping. 101 00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: I would ask them out of ten, ten being their 102 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:35,919 Speaker 1: absolute physiological limits in terms of whatever it is, whatever 103 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 1: the fitness component is, so strength or aerobic fitness, or 104 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:42,040 Speaker 1: flexibility or power or whatever, I would ask them what 105 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: they think they're working at ten being their physical limit, 106 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:49,799 Speaker 1: And often people would say I'm working at eight or nine, 107 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 1: when in reality, we go back them and I have 108 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:56,480 Speaker 1: a chat and then they figure out within a short 109 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:58,479 Speaker 1: period of time they weren't working at eight or nine, 110 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 1: they were working at four or five. And that's not 111 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:03,359 Speaker 1: because they were trying to scam the system and scam me. 112 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 1: It's just that they didn't truly realize what was possible 113 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 1: for them. Now, having said all of that, I'm not 114 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 1: suggesting that we're always redlining our potential, our genetic, athletic, creative, 115 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:21,119 Speaker 1: whatever it is. We don't need to have our foot 116 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:23,840 Speaker 1: on the accelerator all the time, and we don't need 117 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:27,440 Speaker 1: to be working at that you know, that threshold, because 118 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 1: that's not working at that level or trying to be 119 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 1: at that level all the time. One it's not sustainable, 120 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:35,200 Speaker 1: to it's not realistic, and three we're going to be 121 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 1: fucking exhausted. But what is really interesting to know is 122 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 1: I have probably got a lot more potential. I'm talking 123 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 1: about you and me. I've probably got a lot more 124 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 1: potential than I think. And perhaps what's holding me back 125 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:51,240 Speaker 1: is not my actual capacity for success or improvement or 126 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:55,920 Speaker 1: growth or development, but rather what I think, or rather 127 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,680 Speaker 1: my low standards, or rather my lack of willingness to 128 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 1: full commit to doing the work to exploit that potential, 129 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 1: or perhaps so I don't like pain, I'm addicted to comfort, 130 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 1: or perhaps I'm lazy and this thing and me fulfilling 131 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 1: my potential is not going to be a three day 132 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 1: but rather a three year or a five year process. Right, so, 133 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 1: there are a myriad of reasons. And by the way, 134 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:23,560 Speaker 1: I'm not suggesting to you today that you should change 135 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 1: anything or do anything. I'm just talking about this concept 136 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 1: of what does it mean to use more of what 137 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 1: we've got, Like when you say to me, if you 138 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:38,520 Speaker 1: and I are chatting, I would like to get more 139 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 1: out of my brain. I would like to exploit my 140 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:45,800 Speaker 1: cognitive potential more. I would like to be able to 141 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 1: problem solve better, think better, learn better. I would like 142 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 1: to be able to focus for longer and have greater 143 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:56,080 Speaker 1: mental acuity. I would like my brain to work as 144 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:59,880 Speaker 1: well as it can for as long as it can. Now, 145 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 1: if what I just said to you is something that 146 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:06,280 Speaker 1: you would want, one, that's good. Two what's your plan? 147 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 1: What's your plan? So part of my plan to optimize 148 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:16,559 Speaker 1: or at least move somewhere in the vicinity of cognitive optimization. 149 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:19,520 Speaker 1: For me, one of the many things that I have 150 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:23,080 Speaker 1: committed to is lifelong learning. Part of that is the 151 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 1: research and study that I'm doing at the moment with 152 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:29,520 Speaker 1: my doctorate, but also just in general terms, I'm always learning, 153 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:33,959 Speaker 1: I'm always researching, I'm always having interesting conversations. Not because 154 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 1: I'm smart, because I am not particularly smart. I'm not 155 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:41,320 Speaker 1: a journius. I'm not an intellectual or academic genius by 156 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:43,800 Speaker 1: any means. But what I can do at any age 157 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 1: is I can learn new things. I can expose my 158 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 1: self to new ideas and new information and new research 159 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:57,560 Speaker 1: and new studies, and I can train my brain. Right. So, 160 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 1: in this whole kind of pursuit perhaps of optimizing and 161 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 1: using more of our potential, I think part of it 162 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 1: is getting clear about, you know, what it is that 163 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:16,200 Speaker 1: you want to work better, or what you're interested in. 164 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:23,720 Speaker 1: So when I talk about so even something as specific 165 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:27,679 Speaker 1: as this show, I think, what's my potential in podcasting? 166 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:31,600 Speaker 1: I don't know what that is, by the way, but 167 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that I'm not peaking right now. I 168 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: might find out down the track that I was. I 169 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 1: am right now. Maybe this is the best, but I 170 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:45,760 Speaker 1: don't necessarily mean, what's my potential in podcasting, as in, 171 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 1: what's the most money I can make per month out 172 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:51,720 Speaker 1: of podcasting, or what's the most bums on seats I 173 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 1: can have or listeners I can have. Maybe it's just 174 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:57,240 Speaker 1: maybe it's some of that, but maybe it's also how 175 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 1: good can I be sitting in front of a comput 176 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 1: to like I am right now talking to me in 177 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:06,400 Speaker 1: the moment right now for me talking to no one, 178 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 1: but for you talking to someone because you're listening to 179 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 1: this obviously after I'm recording it in this moment. But 180 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:17,560 Speaker 1: how good can I be at this thing? What can 181 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:20,520 Speaker 1: I do better? What can I learn? What do I 182 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 1: need to do less of? What do I need to 183 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 1: do more of? How do I build? How do I 184 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:30,640 Speaker 1: build competence and skill and understanding and awareness in this 185 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:34,280 Speaker 1: place so that I can become, you know, the best 186 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:37,680 Speaker 1: version of me at this And when I start to 187 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:40,800 Speaker 1: think like this, you know, one of the things that 188 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:42,880 Speaker 1: I used to do a lot of not so much anymore. 189 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 1: I didn't for a while, by the way, for the 190 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 1: first hundred episodes, I didn't ever really listen to me 191 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:51,439 Speaker 1: because I do not like listening to me. But I 192 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 1: eventually somebody said something which was critical but also true. 193 00:11:56,320 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 1: Somebody said something about, you know, my work, and it 194 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 1: wasn't positive, but they were right. So I went back 195 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 1: and I started listening, and I listened and I heard 196 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 1: what they were talking about, and I went, all right, 197 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:13,640 Speaker 1: I've got to do better. So you know, if I won, 198 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:16,400 Speaker 1: if I can't take feedback, good and bad feedback, or 199 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:18,920 Speaker 1: positive or negative feedback. I mean, if it's honest, if 200 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:21,719 Speaker 1: it's real, if it's insightful, I'm up for it. If 201 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 1: it's just people just sending hate my way, that's a 202 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 1: different thing. But we're talking about real feedback, informed, educated 203 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:33,520 Speaker 1: insight that might help me be better, I'm up for it. 204 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: So I've always been interested, especially as the kid who 205 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 1: grew up being not particularly talented. You know, as I've 206 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 1: said to you many times before. You know, my default 207 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 1: setting up most things athletically and genetically and all of 208 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:55,600 Speaker 1: those things was a mediocre. So I went, all right, Well, 209 00:12:55,679 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 1: I can't get more talent, I can't get better genetics. 210 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:04,520 Speaker 1: I can't get more hours in a day. So what 211 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:08,079 Speaker 1: can I do? Well? While I can't get better genetics, 212 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 1: I can better optimize my genetics. I can make better 213 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:15,480 Speaker 1: use of what I have. I can't get another brain. 214 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:18,319 Speaker 1: But what I can do is I can train this brain. 215 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 1: I can optimize this brain. I can do things, as 216 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 1: can you, that will make this brain work better. I'm 217 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:30,880 Speaker 1: not a naturally gifted academic, But what can I do 218 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:35,280 Speaker 1: to exploit and explore and optimize my academic potential? Well, 219 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:38,240 Speaker 1: what I could do is I could learn how to 220 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:42,200 Speaker 1: study more effectively. I could learn how to research. I 221 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 1: could learn how to read academic papers. I could put 222 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:48,040 Speaker 1: myself you know, the first degree I did. I was 223 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 1: thirty six years old. I started in two thousand. I 224 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:56,000 Speaker 1: was thirty six years old. Almost everyone else in my year, 225 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:59,839 Speaker 1: first year exercise science, almost everyone else was a to 226 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 1: or nineteen. There were a few older students, but they 227 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:06,400 Speaker 1: were twenty five six seven, not many, but ninety eight 228 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 1: percent of the students in my year were literally half 229 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:14,920 Speaker 1: my age. I was hands down the worst student. And 230 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:17,440 Speaker 1: I wasn't the worst student because I was the dumbest. 231 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:19,960 Speaker 1: But I was the worst student because I did not 232 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 1: know how to do academia. I finished school in year twelve, 233 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 1: which was eighteen years before so, and even in year 234 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 1: twelve I did fuck all. So then eighteen years later, 235 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:34,880 Speaker 1: which is a lifetime later when you're eighteen, So eighteen 236 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 1: years later at the ripe old age of thirty six, 237 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:40,080 Speaker 1: I can't use a computer. I don't know how to 238 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 1: log on. That's what they told me in the first lecture, 239 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:47,200 Speaker 1: or it was in a what they called a computer lab. 240 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:50,600 Speaker 1: Log on, use your student ID, bibby bobbity boo. I 241 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:52,200 Speaker 1: didn't know how to do any of that. I had 242 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:54,360 Speaker 1: to ask the person next to me. I didn't know 243 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 1: how to do study. I didn't know how to do research. 244 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 1: I didn't know how to do university. I didn't know 245 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 1: how to optimize anything in that space. But I can't 246 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:07,280 Speaker 1: get good at the thing that I won't do. So 247 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:09,720 Speaker 1: what I have continued to do over the years, and 248 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:12,600 Speaker 1: I suggest you do the same when you get clarity 249 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 1: about what it is you want to optimize. Even though 250 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:18,160 Speaker 1: right now you might be a one out of ten 251 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:22,560 Speaker 1: in terms of skill and understanding and proficiency. Even though 252 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 1: you might be a one out of ten, I suggest 253 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:28,680 Speaker 1: that you put yourself in a situation where you can 254 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:32,960 Speaker 1: use more of what you've got. How can you optimize 255 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:37,160 Speaker 1: or develop or get more out of your potential if 256 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:42,760 Speaker 1: you're not doing the thing. One of my ever present 257 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:49,600 Speaker 1: questions is how strong and how fit and how functional 258 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 1: and how operational can I be at sixty one? And 259 00:15:56,880 --> 00:16:02,320 Speaker 1: the answer is thankfully and great, very grateful and pretty 260 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 1: fucking strong because I do the things that make me 261 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:12,360 Speaker 1: pretty fucking strong and pretty fucking fits and in pretty 262 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:17,000 Speaker 1: good shape and pretty lean. Why because the things that 263 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 1: create those results I have interwoven into my daily operating system. 264 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 1: I'm not in good shape because I'm lucky. I'm not 265 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:28,000 Speaker 1: in good shape because I fell on my feet. I'm 266 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:30,240 Speaker 1: not in good shape because I crossed my fingers, or 267 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:33,080 Speaker 1: I have some genetic advantage in fact, a disadvantage I 268 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 1: would think over many people. But I realized that I 269 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:39,800 Speaker 1: can't optimize my body in terms of all of these 270 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:43,840 Speaker 1: physical variable strength and fitness and flexibility and general health 271 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:46,280 Speaker 1: and posture and bone density and muscle mass and all 272 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 1: of these things. I can't accidentally end up being optimal 273 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:57,040 Speaker 1: maximizing my potential. So I need to be strategic, and 274 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:00,120 Speaker 1: I need to do what's required to be able to 275 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:06,000 Speaker 1: do that. What about you? What are the things for you? 276 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,879 Speaker 1: You know that you're wasting some of your talent. You 277 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,119 Speaker 1: know that some of you know that you're wasting talent, 278 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:14,840 Speaker 1: you're wasting potential, you're wasting your brain. Maybe you're wasting 279 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:19,440 Speaker 1: your genetic potential. Maybe you're waiting for the right time. 280 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:21,600 Speaker 1: Maybe you're always you know you're going to do it, 281 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 1: but you never actually do it. Maybe it's soon, Maybe 282 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 1: it shouldn't be soon, Maybe it should be now. Maybe 283 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:30,040 Speaker 1: Monday's not the starting day, maybe it's today. If today 284 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:31,879 Speaker 1: doesn't happen to be a Monday. When you hear this, 285 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 1: what's my earning potential? I remember working in gyms and 286 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:40,920 Speaker 1: earning twelve dollars an hour. I was working at one 287 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:42,960 Speaker 1: stage when I was twenty one twenty two, I was 288 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:46,800 Speaker 1: earning twelve bucks an hour as a gym instructor, and 289 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 1: I was earning twelve or thirteen dollars an hour at 290 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:52,159 Speaker 1: nights working in pubs getting punched in the face for 291 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:55,120 Speaker 1: not much doing security. So I was working three nights 292 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:57,800 Speaker 1: a week in pubs. I was working five days a 293 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 1: week in gym's my average hourly, it was like twelve 294 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 1: to thirteen dollars. And so for me, because that's how 295 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:06,160 Speaker 1: I thought, that was my experience, that was my environment, 296 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:09,160 Speaker 1: that was what I earned. So I had a self 297 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:13,280 Speaker 1: limiting belief that you know, what is Craig harperworth. At 298 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:17,800 Speaker 1: that time, I thought my potential was twelve, thirteen, fourteen 299 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:20,080 Speaker 1: bucks an hour. We're talking about the eighties here, a 300 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:22,400 Speaker 1: very long time ago. And then I met a guy 301 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 1: who wanted max, who wanted me to train him to 302 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:28,040 Speaker 1: do this thing called one on one personal training. And 303 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:33,479 Speaker 1: you know, I went from instantly from twelve bucks an 304 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:37,040 Speaker 1: hour as a gym instructor to thirty three and a 305 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:39,160 Speaker 1: third dollars an hour because it was one hundred bucks 306 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:41,879 Speaker 1: a week for three sessions with him. Now, all of 307 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:44,959 Speaker 1: a sudden, I'm earning nelly triple my hourly rate. And 308 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:49,119 Speaker 1: my overwhelming feeling was not gratitude or happiness. It was guilt, 309 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 1: and it was imposter syndrome, and it was all of 310 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:55,200 Speaker 1: these things. Because I didn't understand my own earning potential. 311 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:59,520 Speaker 1: I got in my own way. I now work in 312 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 1: a space where, you know, in the corporate space, the 313 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:07,480 Speaker 1: corporate landscape, where I do about one hundred corporate gigs 314 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 1: a year, whether that's a forty five minute keynote or 315 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:13,199 Speaker 1: thirty or one hour, or a two hour workshop or 316 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:16,199 Speaker 1: a half day workshop or a full day workshop with 317 00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:22,000 Speaker 1: an organization, and you know, the money that gets handed 318 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:26,800 Speaker 1: out in that corporate space for events like that is ridiculous, 319 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:30,960 Speaker 1: but it's not. It seems ridiculous, but it's not because 320 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:34,520 Speaker 1: that's what I'm not necessarily talking only about me, of course, 321 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:37,200 Speaker 1: but that's what high end speakers get. After a thousand 322 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:40,200 Speaker 1: years of doing it, I'm probably towards the you know, 323 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:45,160 Speaker 1: the better end of professional speakers, I would hope, right, 324 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:49,720 Speaker 1: And even now, all of these years later, I still 325 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:52,359 Speaker 1: need to be careful that I don't get in my 326 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 1: own way, and I don't rationalize why I should feel 327 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:03,320 Speaker 1: bad about this organization having this hourly rate. So so 328 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:10,280 Speaker 1: much of us exploiting and optimizing and developing and understanding 329 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:14,440 Speaker 1: our potential is getting our mind out of the way. 330 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:21,920 Speaker 1: My mind, my mind is my superpower and it's also 331 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:26,320 Speaker 1: my arch enemy. And you probably feel like that a 332 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:29,399 Speaker 1: little bit too. I mean, for years I have spent 333 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 1: I have spent trying to, you know, manage my mind 334 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 1: and optimize my mind, to optimize my choices and behaviors 335 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 1: and all of those things. But at the same time, 336 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:49,080 Speaker 1: you know that that that fear, that those fear driven 337 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:58,040 Speaker 1: insecurity driven fear based ideas that can pervade my cognitive landscape. 338 00:20:58,119 --> 00:21:01,480 Speaker 1: You know, for me, that's that's ever present. And the 339 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:05,360 Speaker 1: volumes turned down a little bit now, but it's still 340 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 1: an issue, you know, I think for all of us. 341 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:11,960 Speaker 1: And so despite my own insecurity at times, my own 342 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:16,120 Speaker 1: self doubt at times, I still need to do what's 343 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 1: required to be the best version of me and exploit 344 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 1: what I can in terms of my own capacity and 345 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:24,719 Speaker 1: my own ability. And so you know, I will. I 346 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:27,880 Speaker 1: will make the decision that I know that I should make, 347 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:32,679 Speaker 1: despite my anxiety about the decision. I will take on 348 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:35,560 Speaker 1: the challenge that I know I should take on, despite 349 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:39,359 Speaker 1: that inner voice of doubt. We recognize the anxiety, We 350 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:42,880 Speaker 1: recognize the fear, We acknowledge it for what it is. 351 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 1: I literally sometimes say to myself, Oh, I see you. 352 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:51,200 Speaker 1: I recognize you over there, imposter syndrome, How are you? 353 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:54,879 Speaker 1: It's harps, you know, mister feel like a fraud? I 354 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:57,879 Speaker 1: see you as well. All that stuff. I recognize that 355 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:02,200 Speaker 1: stuff in me because I'm human, because I'm emotional, because 356 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:05,679 Speaker 1: I have fear. I recognize all of those things that 357 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:10,200 Speaker 1: can limit me. But I can say reasonably confidently these 358 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:12,720 Speaker 1: days they don't get in the way like they once did. 359 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:16,560 Speaker 1: So my self doubt and my fear and my overthinking 360 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:22,959 Speaker 1: mind periodically overthinking mind, they can coexist with my courage. 361 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:27,719 Speaker 1: They can coexist with my optimal decisions and actions. That 362 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:31,639 Speaker 1: if I wait in order for me to optimize my 363 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 1: potential and my talent and my genetics and my time 364 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:39,760 Speaker 1: and my resources and my relationships, if I don't optimize 365 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:42,359 Speaker 1: that stuff, or I don't try to optimize that stuff, 366 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:45,840 Speaker 1: until all my fears gone, all my emotional and psychological 367 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 1: issues are gone, all the self doubt's gone, all the 368 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:52,480 Speaker 1: self loathing's gone, I will never fucking do anything, and 369 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:57,199 Speaker 1: neither will you, because that shit's ever present, some of it, 370 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,000 Speaker 1: all of it, you know. But I've never met ny 371 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 1: anyone who's fearless. I've never met anyone who has zero 372 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:09,960 Speaker 1: self doubt. I've never met anyone who never ever second 373 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:13,919 Speaker 1: guesses anything. So and maybe that person exists, I just 374 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:17,320 Speaker 1: haven't met them. But if you're something like me, which 375 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:20,280 Speaker 1: is you can be the self doubting, self loathing, periodic 376 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:25,040 Speaker 1: overthink and that's cool. So there's a few things that 377 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:28,240 Speaker 1: you can do to optimize your potential. I'm going to 378 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:34,000 Speaker 1: give you some simple ideas, but at work. So what 379 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 1: can you do to optimize your potential and get out 380 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:40,960 Speaker 1: of your own way? So Number one is chunk it down, 381 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:44,919 Speaker 1: And by that I just mean rather than, you know, 382 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:49,000 Speaker 1: taking on the entirety of the project and fully committing 383 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:52,560 Speaker 1: to this thing that at the time feels like I'm 384 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 1: painting the Sydney Harbor Bridge. Right, We'll just start at 385 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:59,879 Speaker 1: one end of the bridge and paint one bolt, you know, 386 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:03,800 Speaker 1: just chunk it. What is something that I can do today? 387 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:07,840 Speaker 1: This is what I think every day regarding this thing 388 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:10,600 Speaker 1: perhaps that I'm scared of, or regarding this thing that 389 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:14,040 Speaker 1: for me is uncomfortable, or regarding this thing that for 390 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:17,520 Speaker 1: me might feel periodically overwhelming, and I don't know where 391 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:19,880 Speaker 1: I'm going to end up with it. What's one thing 392 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:25,320 Speaker 1: that I can do to create progress, even if it's 393 00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:29,320 Speaker 1: a tiny bit of progress. What's one thing I can 394 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:33,399 Speaker 1: do to build a little bit of momentum and maybe 395 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:37,119 Speaker 1: move the needle a little bit on the fear or 396 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:39,560 Speaker 1: a little bit on the other side of it on 397 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:43,920 Speaker 1: my confidence and as much as the next tip, as 398 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:48,040 Speaker 1: much as possible. I'm going to preface this with an asterisk, 399 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:53,399 Speaker 1: and that is easier said than done, of course, is 400 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:57,080 Speaker 1: to turn down the emotion as much as possible, or 401 00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 1: at least get the volume down a bit, and turn 402 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:03,159 Speaker 1: up the strategy, turn up the logic, turn up the 403 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:08,200 Speaker 1: rational thinking, the plan, the process, the timeline, and we 404 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,399 Speaker 1: start to just like we would with any project or 405 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:17,240 Speaker 1: go the you project, just like with any project that 406 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:21,639 Speaker 1: is a three D out in our physical world project, 407 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,360 Speaker 1: if we're doing some kind of project with our garden, 408 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,679 Speaker 1: or with our academia, or with our business, or with 409 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:30,239 Speaker 1: our not for profit or with out whatever it is. 410 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:35,400 Speaker 1: When we're doing a project, when we're committing to a process, 411 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:38,000 Speaker 1: we need logic, we need strategy, we need planning, we 412 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:41,040 Speaker 1: need accountability, we need all those things that I always 413 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:43,800 Speaker 1: bang on about, and we need to jump into the 414 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:47,960 Speaker 1: process as soon as possible. Now. I'm not saying eradicate 415 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 1: the emotions, of course, because it's pretty much impossible. What 416 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:56,920 Speaker 1: I'm saying is, as best you can feel what you feel. Right. 417 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,480 Speaker 1: I think there's a book called Feel the Fear and 418 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:01,400 Speaker 1: Do It Anyway. It's not the worst title and it's 419 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:04,399 Speaker 1: kind of true. So what are you feeling? I feel 420 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,760 Speaker 1: self doubt, I feel a bit scared, I feel a 421 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:11,359 Speaker 1: bit apprehensive. Cool, Okay, I get it. That's normal. That 422 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:13,719 Speaker 1: doesn't mean you're broken or weird or terrible at all. 423 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:16,199 Speaker 1: That means you're human. So despite those feelings, what are 424 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:19,399 Speaker 1: you going to do? Yep, I'm acknowledging the feelings and 425 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:22,119 Speaker 1: now I'm turning my attention to what I'm going to do. 426 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,439 Speaker 1: What are you going to do? Okay? My third idea 427 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:27,480 Speaker 1: for you is this, in terms of how to optimize 428 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:33,879 Speaker 1: your potential, involve somebody else right now. That could be 429 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 1: a coach, could be someone you pay or someone you 430 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:38,119 Speaker 1: don't pay, by the way, It could be a mentor 431 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:41,800 Speaker 1: it could be a friend that you know that will 432 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:44,600 Speaker 1: kind of keep you honest from one of the better terms, 433 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:48,560 Speaker 1: someone who will call you on your bullshit. Somebody who 434 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 1: will help you stay accountable and in the process, and 435 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 1: somebody that might encourage and support and give you a 436 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:58,680 Speaker 1: pat on the back when you need it, but also go, hey, 437 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:02,560 Speaker 1: you're being for of shit. You need to dig deep 438 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:05,920 Speaker 1: and look. We need I think we need a mix 439 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 1: of the reality stick, which ain't always what we want, 440 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 1: and of course encouragement and support. But what we don't 441 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:20,600 Speaker 1: need is a cheer squad. We don't need. You know, 442 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,000 Speaker 1: there's a lot of talk about cheersquads in twenty twenty 443 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:26,600 Speaker 1: five and people you know who need a cheersquad. I 444 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:28,800 Speaker 1: think if you need a cheersquad to be able to 445 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:31,600 Speaker 1: do the things that are necessary for you to optimize 446 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:35,240 Speaker 1: potential or become successful, if you can't do that shit 447 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:39,280 Speaker 1: unless someone's looking or cheering or patting you on the 448 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:43,199 Speaker 1: shoulder or handing you a trophy, then you're in trouble 449 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:47,240 Speaker 1: because that is not practical in a world and a 450 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:51,080 Speaker 1: life and an existence where people are not always going 451 00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:53,320 Speaker 1: to be there to do that. So if somebody happens 452 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:54,679 Speaker 1: to be given you a pat on the back or 453 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:59,560 Speaker 1: telling you you're awesome, that's nice. It's nice, but it's 454 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:01,960 Speaker 1: not nice and it's not smart to be dependent on 455 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:05,200 Speaker 1: that because if we can only do the work, if 456 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:08,120 Speaker 1: we can only take the risks, if we can only 457 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:13,640 Speaker 1: get uncomfortable and be brave when people are looking on, well, 458 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:18,040 Speaker 1: now we've just created another dependency. Now we've created a 459 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:22,240 Speaker 1: new addiction. And my addiction is I need attention or 460 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:25,480 Speaker 1: I won't do the work. That's a way to destroy, 461 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:30,560 Speaker 1: not optimize your potential. Can you do the work when 462 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:34,960 Speaker 1: nobody's looking. Can you do the work? And my last 463 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:38,920 Speaker 1: bit of advice is just and this is overly simplistic, 464 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,400 Speaker 1: but I'm going to explain it. My last bit of 465 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:46,160 Speaker 1: advice is, don't roll the dice and see how you go. 466 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,560 Speaker 1: Don't give it a try. Don't do that, don't go 467 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:53,800 Speaker 1: you know what. I'll start out and we'll just see what. 468 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,600 Speaker 1: Don't do that because the moment that you go, oh, 469 00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 1: you know, I'll give it a go and I'll see 470 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:00,960 Speaker 1: what happened that you may's go fuck it, I'm not 471 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,880 Speaker 1: doing it. There's an energy that people have, there's a 472 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,840 Speaker 1: mindset that people have. I can't really articulate it well 473 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 1: right now. I'm just thinking out loud, but I see it. 474 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:14,880 Speaker 1: I'm not always right, but I'm nearly always right. I 475 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 1: meet people who want to change shit on planet them. 476 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,760 Speaker 1: I meet people who want to be successful. I meet 477 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,960 Speaker 1: people who want to do this, change that optimize that, 478 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:26,080 Speaker 1: and with quite a high level of accuracy, I know 479 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:27,360 Speaker 1: the people that are going to do it, and the 480 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:29,480 Speaker 1: people are not going to do it. And it ultimately 481 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 1: comes down to how much they fucking want it, how 482 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:36,400 Speaker 1: hard they will work, how fully they will commit, and 483 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:40,240 Speaker 1: their capacity to keep doing the work long after the 484 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 1: motivation and the excitement and the emotion have died. How 485 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:49,680 Speaker 1: well can you commit? How brave can you be? How 486 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:53,400 Speaker 1: uncomfortable can you get? Take away the safety in it, 487 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:57,400 Speaker 1: take away the get out a jail card, fuck off 488 00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:03,480 Speaker 1: the escape clause. Fully fucking commit. And yes I'm coaching now, 489 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:06,080 Speaker 1: And yes I sound like me I always default to 490 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,640 Speaker 1: this done, but it's just fucking true. You know how 491 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,920 Speaker 1: many times do we need to hear stuff before we 492 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:17,240 Speaker 1: go right? I'm in, I'm in. I'm suggesting that, and 493 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:21,520 Speaker 1: I could be wrong, but I'm suggesting that that you 494 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:24,800 Speaker 1: have a propensity or you have had at times, or 495 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 1: do have at times to waste what you have to 496 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:31,160 Speaker 1: work with. And I'm also guessing that maybe you want 497 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,440 Speaker 1: to get more out of your talent and your capacity 498 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:38,960 Speaker 1: and your potential. So maybe today's a time to start. 499 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:44,320 Speaker 1: Maybe I'll be metaphorically cheering you on from way over here. 500 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:45,840 Speaker 1: See next time.