Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 23. I've been talking a lot about greatness with people recently. The pursuit of greatness, how to achieve it, what does it look like for you? We're talking about success. And when we go out and read all of this information out there,

a lot of people, not everyone,

but a lot of people will give these silver bullets for success

or these silver bullets for excellence.

And the reality is there are no silver bullets.

You'll hear people talk about hard work.

Hard work is necessary, but not sufficient. You'll hear people talk about hard work. Hard work is necessary, but not sufficient. You'll hear

people talk about focus. Focus is necessary, but not sufficient. Grit, necessary, but not

sufficient. Growth mindset, necessary, but not sufficient. It's not one singular way of thinking,

approach, strategy. It's a combination of many things over time.

And I think that's very important to remember because sometimes we're pursuing this silver bullet. How do I be more confident? If I'm more confident, I'm going to get the results.

How do I be more, how do I lock in or have the great mindset or get my body ride or have the best,

be the best communicator, build a culture? All of these things are wonderful. They're important.

They're great. They're necessary. But they're not sufficient. And so it's important to understand that being complex, adaptive human systems, there's a lot.

There's a little bit of this, a little bit of that.

Then you've got to turn the volume down on this and turn up the volume on that.

And it's important to understand where you need to increase, where you need to decrease, need to take your energy

and attention into consideration, where you are in your career into consideration,

you need to take the time you have, your, all of those different things, where you live,

the season of your life, the season of the year, there are so many things to take it in

consideration.

Now, you might experience, say, oh, then you experienced paralysis by analysis. Maybe so,

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