1006: A Navy SEAL Shares the Hidden Attributes Enabling Optimal Performance with Rich Diviney

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🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Rich Diviney reveals the hidden drivers of optimal performance: attributes.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The crucial difference between skills and attributes

2) When your “weaknesses” are “strengths”

3) A neuroscience hack for focus and overcoming stress

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— ABOUT RICH —

Rich Diviney developed his expertise in human performance during his over twenty-year career in the US Military, during which he completed more than thirteen deployments overseas and held multiple leadership positions.

While serving as the officer in charge of selection, assessment, and training for a specialized Navy SEAL command, Diviney was intimately involved in an extremely elite SEAL selection process, which required pairing down a group of exceptional candidates to a small cadre of the most elite optimal performers.

He also spearheaded the creation of a mental performance directorate that focused a strong emphasis on physical, mental, and emotional discipline to optimize individual and team performance, allowing operators to perform faster, longer, and more effectively in all environments—especially high-stress ones.

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0:00.0	Low performance might not be because that person doesn't know what they're doing. It might be because their attributes don't line up properly.
0:13.0	There is significant kind of friction in one's life.
0:17.0	They may in fact be in a position in a role in a job and a niche that is not suited to their normal attribute profile.
0:25.0	They're having to consciously behave differently,
0:28.5	consciously dial up or dial down their attributes
0:30.5	so that they can actually conduct the job, which you can do, that's okay, but it doesn't feel as good.
0:35.0	Your top five attributes are just as meaningful and have done just as much for your success as your bottom five.
0:43.4	In other words, you being low on your bottom five
0:45.6	is also why you're successful. That's Rich Davenny.
0:55.0	He spent over 20 years in the U.S. military where he revolutionized the selection, assessment and training of some of the very most elite Navy SEALs.
1:05.6	He later went on to write the best-selling book, The Attributes, 25 Hidden Drivers of
1:09.6	Optable Performance, and now he's worked with Simon Zinnic to launch a joint course about the secrets of
1:14.0	high performing teams. So you'll learn one, the crucial difference between skills and attributes,
1:19.4	two, when your weaknesses are actually strengths.
1:22.8	And three, a neuroscience hack for focus
1:25.4	and overcoming stress.
1:26.7	And if you want to get a quick summary
1:27.9	right up of some of these takeaways,
1:29.3	I recommend you sign up for the free gold nugget email
1:31.7	newsletter at awesome at your job
1:33.0	dot com. That's the gold nuggets at awesome at your job dot com. I'm Pete
1:36.7	Bekitis this is how to be awesome at your job and now here's rich. Rich, welcome.
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