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The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Decoding Greatness with Award-Winning Psychologist and Author, Ron Friedman, PHD

The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Tom Ferry

Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever wonder what separates top performers from all the others? Catch today’s Tom Ferry Podcast Experience to learn about the methods of award-winning psychologist and author of Decoding Greatness, Ron Friedman, PHD. The best companies have a range of performance levels, Ron digs into what separates top performers from everyone else. Ron explains how the stories we’ve been told about greatness and success are wrong and runs us through the path that so many entrepreneurs and inventors have gone through to achieve success. If talent and practice are not the key to greatness, what is? You’ve got to go out of your way to find people who have done extraordinary things to learn from them.   In this episode, we talk about: 1:54 – The stories we’ve been told about greatness and success are wrong2:58 – People think that greatness is for someone else7:49 – Ron reverse engineers the most popular Ted Talk of all time12:08 – As a species we are distrustful of the “new”17:03 – Ron walks us through how to decode greatness22:58 – Scoreboarding: anything you measure you will likely improve on32:48 – Become a collector, start collecting great examples

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0:00.0

So here's the thing, entrepreneurs, leaders, salespeople.

0:05.8

We all want to create consistent, repeatable, and scalable ways to grow our business and

0:10.0

our income.

0:11.0

And we want to do it better, faster, and more seamlessly.

0:14.1

Why?

0:15.1

So we can actually enjoy our lives, take vacations, and spend the quality time that we want

0:18.9

with the people that we love.

0:20.6

How do we do all this without spending a fortune or running ourselves ragged?

0:24.8

That's the big question, and this show is dedicated to the answer.

0:31.0

Hey guys, welcome to the podcast.

0:33.0

Super excited.

0:34.0

I've got the author of decoding greatness, a book that I am digging into, and I think you're

0:39.0

going to get a lot of value out of Ron Friedman, psychologist.

0:43.0

And it sounds like he is doing a lot of different things primarily because he likes to research

0:47.7

and write.

0:49.0

So we're going to get into all this stuff.

0:50.4

But if you're like me, and you're listening to this right now, and you're like, all right,

0:53.2

fairy, you know, what are you bringing me next?

0:55.9

What immediately hooked me in this book is, how do I reverse engineer success?

1:01.7

And how do you truly, as we've all talked about for years, how do I model excellence?

1:06.1

But what he's done, at least what I'm getting the sense of, and Ron, I can't wait to dig

1:09.5

into this, is there's more of a math equation to really dig in and figure out if Tristan's

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