if no one thinks you’re crazy you’re not
yet operating to the outer limits of
your potential doesn’t matter how old
you are you can’t blame your gender
doesn’t matter where are you from
doesn’t have matter how smart you are
doesn’t matter what your personality is
doesn’t matter how many strengths you
have or what your strengths profile is
at all
doesn’t matter how creative you are or
empathetic doesn’t matter how many years
of experience and doesn’t matter how
much you get paid you can’t blame them
any more the data doesn’t prove it out
now some people say well Brendan Brendan
Brendan those things must matter I’ve
seen studies no I’m not saying those
things don’t matter many of those things
are very important especially at certain
parts of your life but in high
performance it’s not the study of
initial success okay initial success is
nice and it’s not the study of peak
performance either because at the top of
our peak is a valley I think people are
tired of the ups and downs in life and
they want that steady path to growth I’m
the creator but it’s not what made me a
high performer there are a lot of people
who are creative who can’t organize
their way out of box there’s a lot of
people who are also empathetic deeply
caring but they can’t get stuff done
there are a lot of people who are
extroverted who also push away people so
we can’t say that any of those things
lead to long-term success but when we
get it right everything changes
high performers are more successful than
their peers in almost every category of
measurement you could take whether how
much they earn what they do how far they
succeed in their own industry etc
they’re also less stressed more success
only stresses you out when you don’t
have the habits to handle it don’t fear
success get better habits that’s all
high performers are prolific in their
field no matter what that means if their
salesperson it’s more sales calls right
if they’re an artist it’s more paintings
if it’s a musician it’s Beethoven right
it’s just cranking out the product that
matters in your area of expertise
they work passionately whether you pay
them high or not because they’re driven
by intrinsic motivations the care the
passion the art the the fulfillment of
what they do they’re admired and they’re
adaptive they change faster they make
decisions faster they’re happier than
most people they’re healthier than most
people they get better grades and they
also feel appreciated about their work
that there’s no loneliness at the top
they feel like people appreciate them
understand how hard they work and they
feel rewarded for it in other words a
lot of these people you might not
initially like these people are
extraordinary but not by accident and
not by birthright buy habits we proved
it there’s eleven effective habits that
makes a person successful in general but
when we tried to bust it down and we
said look can we prove that they’re
doing it on purpose can we prove can we
watch it and observe it and track it and
measure it can we change it that’s what
malleable means is it trainable meaning
can they get better at it and we can
show it and does it work across domains
it works for you your team your brother
your sister your mother your
grandparents everybody that you can it
work across life is it universal in
other words was our question that broke
it down then to only six habits which
I’ll show you with you now the first one
seek clarity high performers seek
clarity before they do almost anything
they don’t get clarity as if one day in
life they wake up and everything is
perfectly clear and they know exactly
what to do no it’s not get clarity it’s
seek clarity they are consistently
seeking clarity more than anybody else
men you guys know I’ve been blessed to
do some online courses with Oprah
Winfrey and one thing I love about her
is every meeting she starts her first
question in all the meetings after hi
how you doin ‘he’s our what’s our
intention for this meeting
what’s the intention for this meeting
she’s seek before the meeting starts she
wants them not what’s the agenda who’s
talking about what’s the intention what
are we trying to do here that’s seeking
clarity we found that high performers
look to the future
more than general population by over 70
percent in a positive frame meaning they
look to tomorrow and they say who can I
be how do I want to interact with people
what skills do I need to develop how do
I want to serve they’re seeking clarity
in those ways and now we all seek
clarity high performers do it more often
[Music]
common sense is not always common
practice and that’s why so many
potentially great people fail to ever
reach their full potential common sense
is not always common practice high
performers have made seeking clarity a
common practice they also generate
tremendous amounts of energy by will
they generate energy they like they fire
themselves up but it’s not just
generating energy by will in every
measure mentally emotionally and
physically high performers peak out over
the general population by almost 70%
they deal with stress 70% better they’re
in better physical shape for their age
it’s just like they it’s not by accident
they’re generating the energy they need
to serve in the world they’re not
waiting for it see a power plant takes
energy from one area transforms it into
a different form of energy stores it
then transmits it high performers do the
same thing they don’t hope one day
they’re gonna be satisfied they make
themselves feel satisfied they don’t
hope to find peace after they’ve
accomplished everything as they’re
accomplishing they’re making themselves
find peace they don’t have you know wait
for it like Christmas to bring them joy
they into each moment bring the joy
they raise their sense of necessity in
one way it means they have higher
emotional commitment they stoke
necessity necessity means the difference
between I should do it I’d like to do it
versus I must do it I know you guys are
in personal development and you’ve heard
this a million times
it’s just that high performers do it
every morning they’re aware of what must
I do today to move the needle forward
they’re very clear on what they really
must do to progress and they do it and
they do it because they’ve associated
their internal identity with their
external obligations so they know my
internal standards and values line up to
make me go there and they’ve set up
their external life so that there’s
deadlines and duty to other people it’s
why the military is so high performing
duty right internal standard I’m a
soldier
external standard duty to my country
identity external RAM together then you
have to do it they do that on purpose
mentally start figuring out right now
what we call PQ o PQ o sense for
prolific quality output high performers
have figured out what would make them
not only effective but sometimes wealthy
sometimes well-known sometimes more well
respected but I figure out what’s the
quality output that really matters and
then they go all-in it’s the story of
Steve Jobs coming back to Apple after he
was fired and seeing over 20 product
lines and saying this is too much
cleared the decks and say we’re gonna
focus on these five things that’s it
that’s what brought us the first iPod
then the iPhone then the iPad then the
Mac Pro like all that build was because
he came in he cleared houses what is our
P Q oh I didn’t use that language but
that’s essentially what we found all
high performers actually do they figure
out what’s the stuff that we need to
produce the route of productivity is
produced
so busywork is not the same as your
life’s work you got to figure out your
life sort what is the things that you
need to create that will shift and
change everything and leave your legacy
[Music]
high performers actively consistently
are seeking to develop influence with
people and they work so hard at it
they’re very very conscious of how
they’re impacting their kids how they’re
impacting their friends how they’re
impacting the world around them they’re
doing it on purpose to there they want
to be role models think about anybody
who’s ever been influential in your life
who’s been the most positively
influential person in your life for a
moment think about that and once you
have that I guarantee you I can tell you
exactly why they were influential
because our studies proved it out what
makes somebody influential number one I
bet that person who made such a
difference in your life they taught you
how to think influential people are
telling you how to think about yourself
sometimes about your relationship
sometimes about how you contribute
sometimes how to think second thing they
didn’t they challenged
they challenge what you contributed what
you gave what you were capable of they
said you’re better than this young woman
you’re better than this young man you
got more Enya come on let’s go they push
they challenge and third they role
modeled the way they role modeled the
way for you and that changed everything
high performers demonstrate more courage
than most people they demonstrate more
courage than most people these six
habits change everything but this last
piece is so highly correlated with high
performance you got to get it
demonstrating courage means it is time
for you to tell your family what you
really think need believe dream of same
with your team same with your spouse all
the holding back of what you really want
in life in silence there is suffering
high performers share what they really
want of life because if you can’t share
it you can’t get it out there you can’t
attract it you can’t move it high
performers deeply care about sharing
what’s true for them and they’re willing
to step into uncertainty even when they
don’t know what to do
maybe someone’s gonna reject you if you
start your dream no likely somebody is
going to reject you but either you can
look in the cave oh and uncertainty go I
don’t want to go in I’m so scared I’m so
scared to go what’s this gonna be like
and you wander in with a flashlight of
curiosity and you say oh no what this
could be and now your curiosity starts
looking like courage and it goes wow you
got a lot of guts and know you’re just
being curious again sometimes allowing
yourself to put yourself out there and
start asking more questions that’s
courage too but at the end of the day
we’ve got to take more action
[Music]
yet operating to the outer limits of
your potential doesn’t matter how old
you are you can’t blame your gender
doesn’t matter where are you from
doesn’t have matter how smart you are
doesn’t matter what your personality is
doesn’t matter how many strengths you
have or what your strengths profile is
at all
doesn’t matter how creative you are or
empathetic doesn’t matter how many years
of experience and doesn’t matter how
much you get paid you can’t blame them
any more the data doesn’t prove it out
now some people say well Brendan Brendan
Brendan those things must matter I’ve
seen studies no I’m not saying those
things don’t matter many of those things
are very important especially at certain
parts of your life but in high
performance it’s not the study of
initial success okay initial success is
nice and it’s not the study of peak
performance either because at the top of
our peak is a valley I think people are
tired of the ups and downs in life and
they want that steady path to growth I’m
the creator but it’s not what made me a
high performer there are a lot of people
who are creative who can’t organize
their way out of box there’s a lot of
people who are also empathetic deeply
caring but they can’t get stuff done
there are a lot of people who are
extroverted who also push away people so
we can’t say that any of those things
lead to long-term success but when we
get it right everything changes
high performers are more successful than
their peers in almost every category of
measurement you could take whether how
much they earn what they do how far they
succeed in their own industry etc
they’re also less stressed more success
only stresses you out when you don’t
have the habits to handle it don’t fear
success get better habits that’s all
high performers are prolific in their
field no matter what that means if their
salesperson it’s more sales calls right
if they’re an artist it’s more paintings
if it’s a musician it’s Beethoven right
it’s just cranking out the product that
matters in your area of expertise
they work passionately whether you pay
them high or not because they’re driven
by intrinsic motivations the care the
passion the art the the fulfillment of
what they do they’re admired and they’re
adaptive they change faster they make
decisions faster they’re happier than
most people they’re healthier than most
people they get better grades and they
also feel appreciated about their work
that there’s no loneliness at the top
they feel like people appreciate them
understand how hard they work and they
feel rewarded for it in other words a
lot of these people you might not
initially like these people are
extraordinary but not by accident and
not by birthright buy habits we proved
it there’s eleven effective habits that
makes a person successful in general but
when we tried to bust it down and we
said look can we prove that they’re
doing it on purpose can we prove can we
watch it and observe it and track it and
measure it can we change it that’s what
malleable means is it trainable meaning
can they get better at it and we can
show it and does it work across domains
it works for you your team your brother
your sister your mother your
grandparents everybody that you can it
work across life is it universal in
other words was our question that broke
it down then to only six habits which
I’ll show you with you now the first one
seek clarity high performers seek
clarity before they do almost anything
they don’t get clarity as if one day in
life they wake up and everything is
perfectly clear and they know exactly
what to do no it’s not get clarity it’s
seek clarity they are consistently
seeking clarity more than anybody else
men you guys know I’ve been blessed to
do some online courses with Oprah
Winfrey and one thing I love about her
is every meeting she starts her first
question in all the meetings after hi
how you doin ‘he’s our what’s our
intention for this meeting
what’s the intention for this meeting
she’s seek before the meeting starts she
wants them not what’s the agenda who’s
talking about what’s the intention what
are we trying to do here that’s seeking
clarity we found that high performers
look to the future
more than general population by over 70
percent in a positive frame meaning they
look to tomorrow and they say who can I
be how do I want to interact with people
what skills do I need to develop how do
I want to serve they’re seeking clarity
in those ways and now we all seek
clarity high performers do it more often
[Music]
common sense is not always common
practice and that’s why so many
potentially great people fail to ever
reach their full potential common sense
is not always common practice high
performers have made seeking clarity a
common practice they also generate
tremendous amounts of energy by will
they generate energy they like they fire
themselves up but it’s not just
generating energy by will in every
measure mentally emotionally and
physically high performers peak out over
the general population by almost 70%
they deal with stress 70% better they’re
in better physical shape for their age
it’s just like they it’s not by accident
they’re generating the energy they need
to serve in the world they’re not
waiting for it see a power plant takes
energy from one area transforms it into
a different form of energy stores it
then transmits it high performers do the
same thing they don’t hope one day
they’re gonna be satisfied they make
themselves feel satisfied they don’t
hope to find peace after they’ve
accomplished everything as they’re
accomplishing they’re making themselves
find peace they don’t have you know wait
for it like Christmas to bring them joy
they into each moment bring the joy
they raise their sense of necessity in
one way it means they have higher
emotional commitment they stoke
necessity necessity means the difference
between I should do it I’d like to do it
versus I must do it I know you guys are
in personal development and you’ve heard
this a million times
it’s just that high performers do it
every morning they’re aware of what must
I do today to move the needle forward
they’re very clear on what they really
must do to progress and they do it and
they do it because they’ve associated
their internal identity with their
external obligations so they know my
internal standards and values line up to
make me go there and they’ve set up
their external life so that there’s
deadlines and duty to other people it’s
why the military is so high performing
duty right internal standard I’m a
soldier
external standard duty to my country
identity external RAM together then you
have to do it they do that on purpose
mentally start figuring out right now
what we call PQ o PQ o sense for
prolific quality output high performers
have figured out what would make them
not only effective but sometimes wealthy
sometimes well-known sometimes more well
respected but I figure out what’s the
quality output that really matters and
then they go all-in it’s the story of
Steve Jobs coming back to Apple after he
was fired and seeing over 20 product
lines and saying this is too much
cleared the decks and say we’re gonna
focus on these five things that’s it
that’s what brought us the first iPod
then the iPhone then the iPad then the
Mac Pro like all that build was because
he came in he cleared houses what is our
P Q oh I didn’t use that language but
that’s essentially what we found all
high performers actually do they figure
out what’s the stuff that we need to
produce the route of productivity is
produced
so busywork is not the same as your
life’s work you got to figure out your
life sort what is the things that you
need to create that will shift and
change everything and leave your legacy
[Music]
high performers actively consistently
are seeking to develop influence with
people and they work so hard at it
they’re very very conscious of how
they’re impacting their kids how they’re
impacting their friends how they’re
impacting the world around them they’re
doing it on purpose to there they want
to be role models think about anybody
who’s ever been influential in your life
who’s been the most positively
influential person in your life for a
moment think about that and once you
have that I guarantee you I can tell you
exactly why they were influential
because our studies proved it out what
makes somebody influential number one I
bet that person who made such a
difference in your life they taught you
how to think influential people are
telling you how to think about yourself
sometimes about your relationship
sometimes about how you contribute
sometimes how to think second thing they
didn’t they challenged
they challenge what you contributed what
you gave what you were capable of they
said you’re better than this young woman
you’re better than this young man you
got more Enya come on let’s go they push
they challenge and third they role
modeled the way they role modeled the
way for you and that changed everything
high performers demonstrate more courage
than most people they demonstrate more
courage than most people these six
habits change everything but this last
piece is so highly correlated with high
performance you got to get it
demonstrating courage means it is time
for you to tell your family what you
really think need believe dream of same
with your team same with your spouse all
the holding back of what you really want
in life in silence there is suffering
high performers share what they really
want of life because if you can’t share
it you can’t get it out there you can’t
attract it you can’t move it high
performers deeply care about sharing
what’s true for them and they’re willing
to step into uncertainty even when they
don’t know what to do
maybe someone’s gonna reject you if you
start your dream no likely somebody is
going to reject you but either you can
look in the cave oh and uncertainty go I
don’t want to go in I’m so scared I’m so
scared to go what’s this gonna be like
and you wander in with a flashlight of
curiosity and you say oh no what this
could be and now your curiosity starts
looking like courage and it goes wow you
got a lot of guts and know you’re just
being curious again sometimes allowing
yourself to put yourself out there and
start asking more questions that’s
courage too but at the end of the day
we’ve got to take more action
[Music]
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