681: How to Achieve Greatness without Talent or Hard Work with Ron Friedman

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🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Ron Friedman provides a third path to greatness through reverse engineering.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How to reverse-engineer greatness

2) How to train people to give you better feedback

3) The 5 minute trick that will boost your performance by 20%

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— ABOUT RON —

Ron Friedman, PhD, is an award-winning psychologist who has served on the faculty of the several prestigious colleges in the United States and has consulted for political leaders, nonprofits, and many of the world’s most recognized brands. Popular accounts of his research have appeared in major newspapers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Globe and Mail, The Guardian, as well as magazines such as Harvard Business Review and Psychology Today.

Ron is the founder of ignite80, a learning and development company that translates research in neuroscience, human physiology and behavioral economics into practical strategies that help working professionals become healthier, happier and more productive. His first book, The Best Place to Work, was selected as an Inc. Magazine Best Business Book of the Year.

• Book: Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success

• Book: The Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace

• Book Website: DecodingGreatnessBook.com

• Website: RonFriedmanPhD.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• App: Lose It

• App: The Done

• Book: Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

• Book: Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson

• Book: The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss

• Book: The Ickabog by J.K. Rowling

• Diary: One Line A Day: A Five-Year Memory Book (5 Year Journal, Daily Journal, Yearly Journal, Memory Journal) by Chronicle Book Staff

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.
0:04.1	The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required
0:08.6	to flourish at work.
0:10.1	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McIdoz.
0:16.1	Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 681 with Ron Friedman.
0:23.4	What if I were to tell you you could achieve greatness without talent or hard work?
0:28.1	You probably think I'm trying to sell you something.
0:30.4	Well, talented hard work certainly help and can accelerate you in any number of domains
0:37.1	as you seek greatness.
0:38.7	But our guest, Ron Friedman, suggests a third way, which is interesting and fun and definitely
0:45.4	belongs in any professionals repertoire who's looking to be awesome at their jobs.
0:49.3	You'll learn one, how to reverse engineer greatness, two, how to train people to give you
0:53.4	a better feedback.
0:54.4	And three, the five minute trick that boosts your performance by 20%.
0:58.4	So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to albums we've
1:00.8	referenced, you can find them over at awesome at your job.com slash EP 681.
1:06.0	And if you'd like to hear these takeaways all the faster, you can sign up for the Golden
1:09.9	Nugget email list at awesome at your job.com, which gives you an email.
1:13.6	It takes about three minutes to read to get some of the takeaway bits of wisdom from Ron
1:17.9	as well as unlocking the fault of all 681 of these summaries.
1:22.2	We call those the Golden Nuggets over at awesome at your job.com.
1:25.3	Now here's Ron's story.
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