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The Kevin Miller Podcast

Better Than Talent or 10,000 Hours Is Reverse Engineering | Ron Friedman

The Kevin Miller Podcast

Kevin Miller

Social Sciences, Nutrition, Society & Culture, Spirituality, Science, How To, Life Sciences, Mental Health, Medicine, Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Education

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

#955: The two primary ingredients we think of in regards to success, is talent and hard work. Greatness comes from having above average talent and putting in your 10,000 hours. Yet if we audit everyone who has achieved relative success, we find many, maybe even most, who do not have either of these. So what did they do? They just figured out what works and modeled it. Ron Friedman is an award-winning psychologist and from his research in neuroscience, human physiology and behavioral economics wrote a book on what he found in regards to this issue, called Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success. In this show I dig in and question Ron on how we can all use this reality to better embrace and accelerate our opportunities and success. For those who get the book, if you’ll go to decodinggreatnessbook.com and submit your receipt Ron will give you access to “The Reverse Engineering Success Masterclass” course. You can join like minded people in my Driven To Live private community to discuss how to decode your own greatness, come over to kevinmiller.co and go from listening to participating. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is a Glassbox Media Podcast.

0:06.2

Coming up next in the Ziggler Show.

0:08.2

You think to yourself, man, I don't know what I'm gonna do.

0:10.3

I just lost terribly in this first race.

0:12.7

Who's gonna give me money again to run again?

0:15.4

And he thinks about leaving politics until someone on his staff

0:18.6

suggests that he'd go to the church

0:20.9

and see what pastors are doing to engage their flocks.

0:24.1

And then a couple of years later,

0:25.6

he comes back on the trail.

0:27.2

All of a sudden, he's telling stories.

0:29.3

He's using repetition.

0:30.8

He's modulating his tone.

0:32.5

He's using the pregnant pause for a fact.

0:35.2

And the rest is history.

0:36.7

And what I love about that story is it illustrates

0:39.2

that Barack Obama didn't venture off into the wilderness

0:42.3

to find his talent.

0:44.0

He didn't practice for 10,000 hours.

0:46.4

He figured out what was working in a different field

0:49.3

and incorporated it into his approach.

0:52.4

And that's a tool that we can all use,

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