1: To perform at the highest level, we must tap into our intrinsic motivation, Steven Kotler writes in his book The Art of Impossible.
Intrinsic motivation refers to behaviors that are driven by internal rewards. We engage in activities because we find them exciting and internally satisfying.
Steven identifies five intrinsic drivers: Curiosity, passion, purpose, autonomy, and mastery.
2: One of my goals for 2024 is to be intentional … continue reading
1: We are chasing the impossible. Peak performance is our goal.
Step one: Align our intrinsic motivators: curiosity, passion, purpose, autonomy, and mastery.
Step two: Layer in our goals.
The final piece of the puzzle? Seven daily practices and six weekly practices. These are our non-negotiables.
“If we want to sustain peak performance long enough to accomplish the impossible—whatever that is for us—we’re going to need to weave these items … continue reading
1: Our goal? Peak performance.
In the final chapter of The Art of Impossible, Steven Kotler gives us “a meta-strategy for consistent peak performance.”
There are steps to this process, and we must follow the steps in a specific order.
We begin by aligning our intrinsic drivers or motivators: curiosity, passion, purpose, autonomy, and mastery.
Steven writes: “Because of the nature of intrinsic motivation, we have to start … continue reading
1: It was 1968, and the executives at NASA had a problem.
“The space agency had a lot of smart people on staff, but smart and creative were different things,” Steven Kotler writes in his brilliant book The Art of Impossible.
“NASA’s lifeblood was innovation. They desperately needed their most creative engineers working their most difficult challenges,” Steven notes. ” Yet telling the Picassos from the … 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.
This week, we’ve been exploring ideas from David Brooks‘s wonderful book How to Know a Person.
“Over the past four years,” he writes, “I’ve become determined to learn … continue reading
1: “Sometimes you can learn more about a person by watching how they talk to a waiter than by asking some profound question about their philosophy of life,” David Brooks writes in his book How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen.
“Even when we know someone well,” he notes, “I find that if we don’t talk about the little things on … continue reading
1: M has contempt for her daughter-in-law, D.
“The mother-in-law is always perfectly polite to D, but inside, she looks down on her,” Iris Murdoch states in her celebrated lecture “The Sovereignty of Good over Other Concepts,” as shared by David Brooks in his book How to Know a Person.
“But M is aware that she can be a bit superior, conventional, and old-fashioned,” Iris notes. “M … continue reading
1: Journalist and author David Brooks was sitting at a bar near his home nursing his bourbon.
“Because the bar was in D.C.,” he writes in How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen, “there were three guys at a table behind me talking about elections and swing states.
“I was studying the bartender’s Chinese-character tattoos and drawing all sorts of … continue reading
1: Journalist and author David Brooks was intimidated.
He was interviewing a ninety-three-year-old Black woman named LaRue Dorsey at a local diner in Waco, Texas.
A former teacher, LaRue “presented herself to me as a stern drill sergeant type, a woman, she wanted me to know, who was tough, who had standards, who laid down the law,” David Brooks writes in his book How to Know a Person.
“I … 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.
This week, we’ve been exploring ideas from Jeffrey Fox‘s terrific book on sales, How to Become a Rainmaker.
2: For the last 16 months, I’ve been leading … continue reading
