2280 | Robin Sharma: “Genius is Not About Genetics, It’s About Practice.”
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Sean Croxton
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🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Robin Sharma reveals the real source of genius — not genetics, but deliberate practice, disciplined rituals, and empowering environments. Drawing on Anders Ericsson’s research, he explains how world-class performers invest 10,000 hours of focused effort before mastery emerges. Sharma challenges excuses, highlights the power of words in shaping beliefs, and urges us to create our own “Menlo Park” where distraction-free genius can flourish.
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| 0:00.0 | Even in business class. |
| 0:02.1 | Oh, the industry has a lot of disruption. |
| 0:05.0 | Oh, I can't be world class. |
| 0:07.1 | Oh, I don't have the income I want. |
| 0:09.3 | Oh, I'm exhausted. |
| 0:11.4 | If you recite your excuses long enough, you will actually believe they're true. Welcome back to the quote of the day show. |
| 0:33.4 | I'm your host, Sean Croxton, at Sean Croxton.com. |
| 0:36.3 | We got Robin Sharma on the show today. |
| 0:38.9 | Today, Robin is going to dispel a common misnomer about genius. |
| 0:44.9 | And that is that some people are just born geniuses. |
| 0:48.9 | They just come out of the womb, absolutely masterful at their craft. |
| 0:52.8 | And that's not a thing, right? Because generally, |
| 0:56.0 | people need to put in the work to become masters. Like, one of my philosophies that I don't really |
| 1:00.9 | talk too much about, what my philosophies on life is what you put in is what you get out. You want |
| 1:07.7 | to become great, excellent genius at something. |
| 1:11.1 | You have to put in the time. |
| 1:13.1 | You have to put in the hours. |
| 1:14.8 | You have to put in the deliberate practice that Robin Sharma is going to talk about today. |
| 1:19.9 | He's coming up. |
| 1:23.3 | I mean, if you study the work of Andrew Zerickson, the preeminent researcher in the field of exceptional |
| 1:28.3 | performance, you know, Mozart. Oh, Mozart is a genius. No, the first 10 years of Mozart's |
| 1:36.3 | compositions were mere curiosities. It wasn't after 10 years. And by the way, it was Anders Erickson who popularized the 10,000 hour rule. |
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