In Darren Hardy’s terrific book The Compound Effect, he shares a story about a time when as a young man he attended a seminar on being successful. The instructor asked the group, “What percentage of shared responsibility do you have for making a relationship work?”
Darren blurted out: “50/50.” It was obvious to him both people must be willing to share the responsibility evenly or someone was getting “ripped … continue reading
The late great David Foster Wallace shared a story of two young fish who were swimming along who happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way. The older fish nods at them and says, “Morning, boys. How’s the water?”
The two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over and says, “What the hell is water?”
Trust is like water. It’s everywhere … continue reading
In Stephen Covey’s book The Speed of Trust, he recounts something a client once told him: “Look Stephen, you need to understand something. Either you have trust or you don’t. We don’t have it, and there’s nothing we can do about it.”
As Larry David says, not so fast…
Turns out trust is not a fixed trait – something we are either born with or not.
Rather, we create … continue reading
This week we are going to be looking at some of the key lessons from Stephen M. R. Covey’s wonderful book The Speed of Trust.
Our theme this year at PCI is all about building trust. During our 2020 Kickoff event, we did an exercise where we spent time reflecting on the high trust and low trust relationships in our lives. When trust is high, we communicate easily and quickly. We can … continue reading
It’s the end of week one of #LeadWithDrew. Each week my plan is to do a deep dive into a different topic and this week we’ve been looking at some of the key take-aways from Brian Johnson’s Optimize Mastery series. Brian aims to take the very best of ancient wisdom and practical science to teach us how to flourish, to live life according to our virtues.
Brian tells us step … continue reading
Aristotle tells us that to flourish as human beings we need targets. We need goals.
This week we’re reviewing some of the key lessons from Brian Johnson’s Optimize Mastery course. Today’s lesson is: Happy people have projects. That’s step one.
In choosing goals we want to aim for something just beyond our comfort zone. If it’s too easy, that’s boring. If it’s way too challenging, we lose interest. Essentially, we’re … continue reading
Are we approaching life with zest or avoiding it? Is our real goal hoping to avoid challenge and failure? Put another way: do we see obstacles as threats or as challenges to get better?
This week we’re looking at some of the lessons from Brian Johnson’s Optimize course. The big idea for today is: happy people are open to life’s experiences. Brian encourages us to adopt a playful attitude towards … continue reading
Yesterday, we talked about Rule #1 from Brian Johnson’s Optimize Program: Expect challenges. Brian tells us that when life knocks us down, our goal should be to challenge ourselves to bounce back. Quickly. Turns out this skill is something we can practice, something we can get better at. The most successful people are not those who never fail, but rather those who learn to recover fast.
In her book Grit… continue reading
Rule #1: Expect Challenges
At the start of the year, I signed up for Brian Johnson’s year-long Optimize Mastery online course and I am loving it. I first learned about Brian through his Philosopher’s Notes where he’s read and distilled the key learningson how to live a good life from over 500 books. He’s organized all of this wisdom into a year-long program. Good stuff!
Today, let’s talk about Brian’s Rule #1: Expect … continue reading
