Best of: Dispelling Myths of Success and Goal Setting With Todd Herman

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Have you been believing in “potential” more than actual, tangible results? According to Todd Herman, the word “potential” is taboo in his practice because it’s “the crutch that average people use to describe their mediocre results.” Take a listen to our latest episode as Todd discusses what it’s like to be a performance coach and how there are many, many myths to being a successful person in this world.

Todd Herman is a performance coach who helps Olympians, billionaires, and teams break through to new levels of performance.

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0:17.1	If you lived your life more with the attitude of I wonder instead of I have to or I want to but I wonder what I could do if I did this and I think it's this powerful place of adopting the mindset that scientists use.
0:26.4	And they go in with a thesis of an idea and they're going to go and prove it in the lab. And I think that on the field of play, I talk about this concept of the field of play all the
0:30.9	time with my clients, I'm like, you know, like the word potential.
0:34.4	I think it's one of those bullshit words out there.
0:37.1	And it's the homework of how I know someone is very good
0:41.2	of being a good performance coach or advisor is when they use
0:43.7	potential because I don't it's literally a word that's not allowed to be used in my
0:47.2	practice at all like when someone says oh my kid has so much more potential no he doesn't no he doesn't what's
0:54.6	his performance on the field of play just like you know oh my business has more
0:59.2	potential no it doesn't because if it did then it would be producing that. So stop getting it's the
1:03.8	crutch that average people use to describe their mediocre results.
1:07.8	I'm Sreeney Rao and this is the unmistakable Creative Podcast where you get a window into the stories and
1:17.8	insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements, built thriving businesses, written best-selling books, and created
1:24.7	insanely interesting art.
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1:57.0	Todd, welcome to the unmistakable Creative. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us.
2:01.0	I am honored to be on this phenomenally successful podcast.
2:04.7	Well, I am really thrilled to have you here
2:06.2	because I came across your work via our mutual friend Dan Martel
2:10.9	and I figured if Dan Martel hired you as a performance coach I was like okay Dan is doing extremely well the only kind of people he would hire to work with are people who know what the hell they're talking about.
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