1: Remember the classic 1946 Frank Capra film It’s a Wonderful Life?
George Bailey is about to jump off a bridge and end his life.
An angel named Clarence appears. He “takes George through a spiritual tour of the world as it would have been had George never been born,” Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy write in The Gap and The Gain: The High Achiever’s Guide to Happiness, Confidence, … continue reading
1: The year was 1930.
One hundred eighty young women had just become nuns at the School of Sisters of Notre Dame. They were asked to write autobiographical journal entries.
“More than five decades later, researchers coded the entries for positive emotional content,” Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy write in The Gap and The Gain: The High Achiever’s Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success.
The psychologists doing the study … 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.
There are two ways we can measure our progress, Dan Sullivan and Ben Hardy tell us in their book The Gap and the Gain.
The first way is … 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.
Twenty-five years ago, driving to and from work, I listened to a set of cassettes I had purchased from the Strategic Coach, the world’s #1 entrepreneurial coaching program founded … continue reading
1: One evening, author Ben Hardy had a realization.
He and his wife, Lauren and their six children lived in Orlando, Florida.
“In my mind, we would live in Orlando for the next 2–3 years until I reached a certain place in my career, and then we’d move on to the next place,” Ben reflects in The Gap and the Gain, which he co-authored with Dan Sullivan.
He … continue reading
1: There are two ways we can measure our progress.
The first way is to compare where we are now against our ideal, Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy write in The Gap and The Gain.
“Ideals are like a horizon in the desert,” the authors write. “No matter how many steps we take forward, the horizon continues to move out of reach.”
When we measure this way, we are living … continue reading
1: Trevor Lawrence was one of his generation’s outstanding high school and college quarterbacks.
He had 52 wins and 2 losses as a high school five-star recruit. As the quarterback at Clemson during the 2018, 2019, and 2020 seasons, he won 34 games and lost only two.
In April of 2021, as the projected #1 NFL draft pick, he told Sports Illustrated he didn’t “need” football to feel worthy as … 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.
Happy associates are also happy spouses, parents, and friends.
Because we enjoy what we do every day at work, we are positive and optimistic in other areas of our … continue reading
1: “When do I feel like I know enough about a subject to write about that subject for a major magazine or newspaper?” was the question author and journalist Steven Kotler was asked by a college student while riding a mountain biking chairlift in northern New Mexico.
In Steven’s case, he had worked for over a hundred different publications over the past thirty years. He’s covered “everything from hard science … continue reading
1: Nearly a quarter of American adults (23%) haven’t read a book in whole or in part in the past year, whether in print, electronic or audio form, a Pew Research Center found.
“According to the National Endowment for the Arts, most adults spend an average of seven minutes a day reading for pleasure,” Steven Kotler writes in The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer.
This is bad … continue reading
