Welcome to the Brian Baphini show, where we explore the mindsets, motivation, and methodologies of success. Here's your host, Brian Baphini.

Well, the top of the morning to you and welcome to the Brian Baphini show. I love that tune. That's a broke wave, is the band that plays that song is called the Cliffs of Mohar.

And I was just recently home in Ireland and I visited the Cliffs of Mohar. And what a majestic place that is. And I got to tell you, I had the goosepunt moment.

I played that song over and over again on my phone with a bunch of people standing around, standing over the Cliffs of Mohar. So if you want to get the little Irish fire in your system, I'd get that tune. That's the broke wave, lads.

Today we're going to cover the five keys to mastery. This is actually part two of a program we did where we talked about the pathway to mastery. And again, based on the work by George Lonerd, who was the author of the best selling book called mastery.

And George identified five keys to mastery, not just in the martial arts, but in everything you want to master in your life. And I have certainly studied this book. I have put these things in practice. They are very much part of my life today in many areas of my life.

So if you have something in your life, you want to master. I think this is the podcast for you today.

So in the pathway to mastery, I shared some of the pitfalls we face along the way and how to relish the journey. We discovered how mastery is this mysterious process during that, which is at first difficult, but becomes progressively easier and more pleasurable through practice.

Well, today we're going to learn these five keys to mastery as taught by some of the world's greatest achievers and how they've used it to succeed at the highest levels. So let's have a listen.

Let's go back in time and let me introduce you to Mr. George Lonerd. George is no longer with us, but his wisdom still is.

So now we've built out the case for what mastery is, what challenges it, what undermines it, what tendencies we have. And it's real important. Say the word tendency.

I don't want you to say I'm a hacker and I'm a dab. I have a tendency towards. Does that make sense? Very important. Very important. And so now we're going to get into the practical applications of mastery and making sure we light the path to keep you going down the path and to not stray off the path and do better on the path.

Okay. So let's take a look at George and how he explains this. Let's take a look from my study of Ike Doe.

Every little attempt at overreaching or playing tricks to get better or trying to do a quick fix, they just don't work and I keep it.

I notice students who consistently excel follow five traits. I call these traits the five keys to mastery.

I just find something refreshing about an 84 year old kickin' butt. You know what I'm saying?

So here's the five traits and then we're going to delve into them. Here they are, write them down fast and furious, and then we'll go nitty-gritty. First is instruction. And when we give you a number one, it's a number one. And by the way, these will be variation from the book in some regards.

But you know what, we have a bit of an experience ourselves. But feeding companies and coaching people in a way that no one ever has for 20 years.

Over a million and a half hours of coaching calls. Okay, no one's ever done anything like that. And so we see these same patterns and everything we're talking about here shows up again.

So it starts with what's the first thing? Second is practice. So you get instruction, then you go practice. Okay. Here's the third one. Surrender.

Number four, intentionality. Intentionality. And then number five is the edge. We'll talk about all these things.

So read them out. What's number one? Two, three, four, five. So that's a great thing for you to remember and remind yourself of when you leave here.

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