1: “Consistent peak performance requires constant learning,” Steven Kotler writes in The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer.
Our goal? Learn how to learn faster.
But how?
“Learning is an invisible skill,” Steven writes. “For the most part, we’re bad until we’re better.”
Of course, we can decide to learn something and then double down and demonstrate the grit and persistence to stay with it.
But how do … continue reading
Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about.
Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations. On Friday, I share something about myself or what we are working on at PCI.
Did you know we spend almost half of our waking hours at work?
Here’s the math:
Seven days. Twenty-four hours each day. 168 hours total hours in any given week.… continue reading
1: In his fourth Olympic games, in his final race, Dan Jansen won his first-ever Olympic medal, finishing first with a world-record time.
Yesterday, we explored Dan’s emotional gold medal-winning race.
“Before the race, [Dan] decided to compete with a completely new mindset,” Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy write in The Gap and The Gain: The High Achiever’s Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success.
Rather than think about … continue reading
1: “Dan Jansen is considered by many to be the best speed skater to ever live,” Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy write in The Gap and The Gain: The High Achiever’s Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success.
“But he seemed to be jinxed,” the authors note.
Dan competed in his first Olympics in 1984 when he was 16 and finished fourth, one spot off the medal podium.
“Over … continue reading
1: Imagine a sheet of paper. At the top of the page is the word “Ideal.” At the bottom is the word “Start.”
The word “Achieved” is in the middle of the page. Achieved is where we are now. It’s what we’ve accomplished since we started.
When we measure our progress backward from where we started, we live in what Strategic Coach founder Dan Sullivan calls “the GAIN.”
Our tendency, … continue reading
1: “Let’s say our starting point is 1 and our goal is 30, but we only get to 22,” Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy write in The Gap and The Gain: The High Achiever’s Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success.
If we measure ourselves against our goal of 30, we are 8 short.
If this is where we choose to focus, we are in the GAP.
When we measure … continue reading
1: Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about.
Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations. On Friday, I share something about myself or what we are working on at PCI.
Last month here and here, we explored the strategic importance of being a great place to work.
Where do we start if our goal is to have a … continue reading
1: On July 2nd, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted to declare independence from Britain.
The following day, final revisions to Thomas Jefferson‘s draft of The Declaration of Independence were agreed to.
Which brings us to the 4th of July, 1776.
“In later years the excessive summer heat of Philadelphia would frequently figure in accounts of Thursday, July 4th, 1776,” David McCullough writes in his Pulitzer Prize-winning … continue reading
1: On July 2nd, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to declare independence from Britain.
“That these United Colonies are, and of a right ought to be, free and independent states, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved,” so read the motion.
But “there … continue reading
1: “Monday, July 1st, 1776, began hot and steamy in Philadelphia, and before the morning was ended a full-scale summer storm would break,” David McCullough writes in his Pulitzer-Prize-winning biography John Adams.
John Adams, then one of Massachusetts’s delegates to the Second Continental Congress, was up before sunrise.
Early that morning, he wrote a long letter to Archibald Bulloch, the new president of Georgia: “This morning is … continue reading
