Welcome. I'm Kevin Miller. This is a podcast for your personal evolution. In this episode,

the strategy that outperforms talent or hard work. So the two primary ingredients that we think of in

regards to success is talent and hard work. We tend to believe greatness comes from having above average talent, skill,

abilities, gifts, and then putting in your, you know, 10,000 plus hours as Malcolm Gladwell

showcased. Great things to have, but I feel we do ourselves a disservice to think that's the

holy grail.

If we audit everyone who has achieved a relative level of success, we find that many, maybe even most,

did not have greater talent or put in more hard work than other people did.

So what did they do?

They just figured out what works and they modeled it.

So my guest here that I'm bringing back this conversation from a few years ago, Ron Friedman.

He's an award-winning psychologist. And from his research and neuroscience, human physiology,

and behavioral economics, he wrote a book on what he found

in regards to this issue of success. The book's called Decoding, Decoding, Greatness,

how the best in the world reverse engineer success. So in this conversation, I dug in with

Ron and just questioned him on how we can use this,

really a reality of success to better embrace our achievements, our pursuits and accelerate

our opportunities and success again. Instead of thinking that we have to just be exceptionally

talented or work the hardest, which I find so many people

striving to become the most talented, striving to put in the hardest work, or what I often find

even more so is people who just feel no hope. I feel like it's a lost cause. They can never be

the most talented or work the hardest, which I feel as well if I look out

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