ROBIN SHARMA 1 THE PRIVATE HABITS OF GAME-CHANGERS TRANSCRIPT © THE TITAN ACADEMY GLOBAL AG 2 THE PRIVATE HABITS OF GAME-CHANGERS Hi. It’s Robin Sharma, author of The Leader Who Had No Title, founder of The Titan Academy and I could not be more excited to have you here with me on this training video. This video is all about the private-not the public-the private habits of game-changers. What do people like Elon Musk and Steve Jobs, what do people like Winston Churchill or Da Vinci, what do people like Taylor Swift or Kanye West or the great athletes, what are they doing when no one is watching? That’s what this video is all about. I’m going to walk you through at the beginning 5 of the myths of being a legendary performer. Once you know what the myths are you can actually have the awareness not to drop into the myths and so you can rise to your next level of world class. After that we’re going to get into the tools and the habits. This is really where the rubber hits the road so to speak. We are going to get in what you need to do every single day to get the best results of your life in the following key areas: In your mindset, in your confidence and bravery, in your health and energy, in your focus, in your creativity and in your production, in your personal relationships and in your internal life in a way that you influence the world. Without further adieu, I want to congratulate you for being here because, as you know, the one who learns the most wins. You can’t put a price tag on the value of education and learning. I call it 2X-3X mindset. You want to double your income and impact, best way to do it... Triple your investment of your time and your focus and your resources in 2 key areas, your personal development and your professional education. Thank you for being here with me and let’s go right into the 5 myths. Number 1, the myth of the gifted prodigy. Society sells us this bill of goods that those who are great performers are somehow cut from a different cloth. They are child prodigies. Mozart is a great example. If you look at the backstory of Mozart, he, for the first 10 years of composing music, was very average. His early works for 10 years were described as mere curiosities. They showed no signs of great talent. If you’ve watched video 1, you know exactly now the science behind genius and that you can be a genius. It’s not about genetics. It’s about doing the right things and installing the right beliefs. The key idea on Mozart is it took him 10 years of daily focus. His father was a music coach. His father said, “You must be doing this all the time,” in composing music. He pushed him very hard because that’s how the family survived in terms of an economic income and Mozart just spent the time. Anders Ericsson has the preeminent research in the field of exceptional performance. He’s the one who actually came up with this famous 10,000- ROBIN SHARMA 3 hour rule. The myth of the gift of prodigy really is a myth that says the Elon Musk’s and the Google guys and the great tennis players and the world-class violinists and the great entrepreneurs and the great humanitarians and the great scientists were child prodigies. They had this natural inborn talent. The real idea that society sells us is you don’t have that. You’re just ordinary. I’m just ordinary. Resign yourself to average and spend your best years not dreaming too big and not reaching too high. The key idea I invite you to really think about is genius and legendary performance is so much less about your DNA. It’s so much less about what you are born with and it’s so much more about what you do with your potential. Again, video number 1, I shared with you psychologist James Flynn, his idea of capitalization intelligence. It’s not really the potential you’re born with. What makes the best athlete for example is how much of their potential they capitalize on to bring it into their skill. Boom Boom Mancini, I believe he was the heavy champion of the world for a while. I still remember a great documentary on him. The documentary said he said, “I wasn’t the most gifted. My brother actually had longer arms and he’s more talented naturally, but I worked hard and I had a bigger heart and I was more devoted. I was obsessed with being a great boxer and that’s what made me great.” Which brings me to myth number 2 about legendary performance, the myth of the overnight sensation. We put these people that we admire up on a pedestal, those people who look otherworldly when they’re performing theirs skill. We think that we see them or we witness them at the end result of their years of training, learning, practice. We see them in the full blazing glory of their epic skill. We fall into the trap of thinking, “They must have had an overnight success.” If you look at the backstory, every great performer they feel the idea, It took me 20 years to become an overnight success. I just want you again to wrap your brain cells around the idea that patience is more important than natural talent. Grit. Remember Angela Lee Duckworth of the University of Pennsylvania? She studied very successful students, very successful people. Their number 1 common trait was not their natural IQ. It was this word she coined, grit, their ability to stick with it, their ability to be patient, their ability to be knocked down and get back up, their ability to play the long game. Myth number 2, the myth of the overnight sensation really reminds you patience truly is a virtue when it comes © THE TITAN ACADEMY GLOBAL AG 4 THE PRIVATE HABITS OF GAME-CHANGERS to legendary performance. Don’t play the short game. Be in it for the long game. What you do every single day is much more important than what you do once every few years. You want to be consistent. You want to do the training. You want to do the learning. You want to run the right routines and rituals. Small daily acts of optimization and focus when done consistently over time are guaranteed to yield you remarkable results. Myth number 3 of legendary performance, the myth of the privileged producer. Again, we look at people who are world-class and we say, “They must have had rich parents. They must have lived in the right neighborhood. They must have gone to the right schools. They must have had lucky breaks. They must have come from blessed background.” That’s just not true if you look at the research and you look at the backstories. Let’s go to the Brazilian footballers. These are some of the most talented footballers or wherever you’re from you might call them soccer players, but they are truly world-class. If you look at their backstories, many of them came from the poorest areas throughout Brazil. They were not privileged and they didn’t have great backgrounds. What they did have in common was a few things. Number 1, a commitment and a desire to be BIW, best in the world. Number 2, they were members of talent hotbeds. They were in communities when they were little kids where every single one of their friends in Brazil also wanted to be a legendary soccer player. They looked at their heroes or the great Brazilian football players. They knew they lived in beautiful houses. They basically saw football or soccer whatever you want to call it as a ticket out of poverty and that gave them the fire in the belly. Because all their friends were doing it and because the Brazilian government had set up these training institutes that were using cutting-edge training techniques where they touch the ball a lot more, by the time the Brazilian footballers had reached 14 or 15 they had touched the football millions of times. When compared to their counterparts in other places around the world, they were undefeatable. They were undefeatable. It wasn’t natural talent. It wasn’t divinely-blessed gifts. It was just a reflection of the talent hotbed, the skills that they learned, the coaches that they were blessed with versus privileged backgrounds. You can do this, too. That’s really what training video number 1 was all about in many ways, lots of science, lots of tactics, game-changing ideas for sure. If you haven’t seen video number 1, you need to take the time to watch that video. It is a tour to force on what makes a game-changer a game-changer. The bottom line is you can do it. You can do this. It’s not about natural gifts. It’s about learning what to do and then applying it every day. ROBIN SHARMA 5 Other talent hotbeds, let’s look at Silicon Valley. When Steve Jobs and Wozniak formed Apple in the garage, every one of their peers was thinking about technology. There was that homebrew club that Steve Jobs was a member of where Steve actually met Wozniak.