Do something important, not just interesting.

It's not enough to do good work.

It's not enough to get five out of five on every performance appraisal.

It's not enough to be the glue that keeps everyone together.

And I didn't know what more I could possibly do.

This is Dr. Ruth Gaution.

She spent her entire career decoding what actually makes people succeed at the

highest level. I'm talking about NBA champions, Nobel Prize winners, Olympic gold medalists,

and more. And that's when the clarity hit me, was that it's not about waiting to be seen.

You have to make yourself undeniable.

In this episode, you're going to find out what it really takes to get to the top,

and I promise you it is not what you think.

I never knew about the rules,

and I think there are a lot of people like me who didn't grow up knowing what the rules were.

So I am here to clarify to everyone what those rules are.

She studied the people who cracked the code.

And she's going to share the stories that might make you a little uncomfortable.

Because getting what you want sometimes means doing things that

don't feel natural at first she asked him that guy that I nominated two years

ago he by the way won the award if he would write a letter of support and he said

I can't I'm writing it for my buddies the ones who wrote letters of support for him two years ago.

And that's when I realized that those buddies nominate each other and support each other for

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