The Small Win Principle For Maximum Performance
The Robin Sharma Mastery Sessions
Robin Sharma
4.8 • 886 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2016
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
One of the best skills you'll ever hardwire into your mindset + heartset is the skill of undefeatAbility.
For years I've talked about "grit" being a primary trait of the most successful people in business and the corresponding research of Angela Duckworth at University of Pennsylvania.
Bottom line: it's not the brightest who wins. It's the most relentless.
In this new #MasterySession, I dial into a research study of 12,000 managers and the one thing they did that created their best performing days.
I'll also teach you my "Nightly 3 Ritual" which will boost your confidence, elevate your momentum and breed a Pharmacy of Mastery in your brain. Watch it here:
Thank you to everyone across the planet watching The Mastery Sessions, using them at team meetings to grow market-leading organizations and sharing them with their friends to help them improve their lives vastly.
I handcraft each episode with a ton of care, passion + love. Happy they've been so helpful to so many.
And I promise to work even harder, to make them even better for you.
All green lights. Your fan always,
Robin
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Robin Sharma. Welcome to the Mastery Sessions. |
| 0:05.0 | Hi, it's Robin Sharma, author of the leader who had no title, founder of the Titan Academy, |
| 0:10.0 | and welcome to this Mastery Session. |
| 0:12.0 | Well, this Mastery Session is all about the small win principle for maximum performance. |
| 0:18.0 | And I'm going to dive right in. |
| 0:19.0 | So I read this fascinating article a little while ago in the Harvard Business Review, and it was called |
| 0:25.0 | the Power of Small Wins. And the researchers studied 238 managers. And at the end of the day, the managers were asked to write in a journal about the quality of the day. |
| 0:37.0 | And what they found was this, and they studied 12,000 of these journal entries, 12,000. And what the researchers found is this one powerful |
| 0:47.7 | insight. And here it is. On the days that the managers had what they call their best days, |
| 0:54.2 | the managers had made some acts of incremental progress. |
| 0:59.2 | In their journals, they had said, you know, |
| 1:01.1 | dealing with a computer bug and we made a tiny win towards the vision of the organization. |
| 1:08.0 | Or we were dealing with a difficult customer, but we made some progress in building the relationship. |
| 1:13.0 | And on the days that the managers recorded their worst days, |
| 1:17.0 | it was because there was some kind of a setback during their days. |
| 1:20.0 | Now this, I believe, is a really powerful insight for you and I as we rise to world |
| 1:25.2 | class in our productivity, our performance, and our impact on our industries. |
| 1:30.2 | What it means is this. |
| 1:31.6 | If you want to stay fired up, develop a truly focused mindset, |
| 1:37.7 | feel emotionally alive, feel inspired, develop higher levels of drive, and stay on your best game, then we need to do |
| 1:45.7 | this. |
| 1:46.7 | Celebrate tiny wins at the end of every single day. |
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