High Performance Lifestyle
Describing a year’s worth of reading with one sentence is a proven way to distill the key ideas, main concepts, and major takeaways.
Incorporating this practice without notes reinforces the idea that knowledge without action is meaningless.
If you cannot summarize what you read, you cannot take action on that information. Then what you read is useless.
The path to success is massive, determined action. – Tony Robbins
The most important thing that comes from reading is learning how to navigate difficult things or times.
That is why a lot of people read before making a career transition — the path ahead is murky, mysterious, and scary as hell. So people read to help ease their transition.
How about when starting something new?
It is much more uncommon. People would more than likely walk into something fresh-faced and eager, but woefully unprepared. They might be willing to learn but would have done zero work prior to showing up. This small difference separates the best from the rest.
Starting new things is not easy and it may be more difficult to open up your mind to the idea of reading ahead or preparing before beginning. The difference is in the details, it is a slight edge. [Read more…]
I recently attended an event in Hollywood with Jim Kwik of Kwik Brain, aptly called an evening dedicated to your brain.
Jim suffered from an injury growing up and was known as “the boy with the broken brain,” but has since conquered his limitations through reading and systematic thinking regarding the brain’s ability to learn and overcome.
He has been called upon by industry giants like Zappos, Nike, and Google to help increase the reading, thinking, and learning capabilities of their employees, which gives him credibility with some of the world’s highest performers.
The event was held in a dimly lit, hippie-ish Yoga studio, but was far from translucent. [Read more…]
Guru’s seem to love talking about the power of meditation.
But is it really the act of sitting idly, fighting to control the primal urge to do anything but?
Or is the ability to control and direct one’s thoughts?
Or is it the simple ability to do it every day, consistently, that yields power over time?
At some level, it must also be the ability to self-reflect, to learn from one’s actions, to control and direct our lives.
So perhaps, beyond the act of meditation, the real lesson is to constantly self reflect. When we look deep within ourselves, we find answers to what lies on the surface.
There is a ton of fitness babble on the worldwide web.
The bottom line, which we beat to death, but is repeated by every reputable source on planet earth: Get Strong (and then get stronger).
It is the underlying principle regarding all physical pursuits. Strong people, as they say, are harder to kill. Which also makes them more efficient at sport and more dominant in competition.
Abide by these rules and avoid admission to the University of Obesity, FatTown, USA. [Read more…]
