How to PROSPER Under Pressure?

To have the weight of the world on your shoulders and the stress of excellent opportunities and the livelihoods of many (or a few) within your responsibility isn’t easy. Yet it truly is a gift. You wouldn’t have this pressure if you didn’t also have the associated talent to handle it.
 
Victims face tough times and grow smaller. Real leaders and the best among us meet challenge—and rise into their primal bigness.
 
Yes, they feel scared or insecure or confused. Yet, they continue, understanding that hardship is the fire that makes heroes real.

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Using difficulty to your advantage is a skill that you will definitely become brilliant at with daily devotion and practice and that's one of the great things about practice. Every single workout makes you a little bit better and small daily optimizations and improvements over time lead to legendary results. Most people really do allow failure to crush them but the game changer is vastly different. She or he leverages, leverages is the key word, adversity to grow them. And it's just a belief they install and then a decision they practice. And just as the violinist who trains daily gets better and the chess champion who practices regularly becomes greater, and the boxer who does the workouts every morning while the world is asleep grows stronger, and the victim will say, I'm having a bad day or a bad decade or a bad life, or the... sort of growth, the fixed mindset entrepreneur will say, oh, why me and get stuck? And the growth mindset entrepreneur and the real game changer will practice developing a mindset and an emotional architecture and away of being. And again, it's not something that's quick fix, but it happens inevitably over weeks and months until it becomes your automatic default, which is exciting for you because it's within your choice and you will get there as you do the work. But the big idea is, you will get to a mindset where when you get knocked down, you automatically get up. You will get to a mindset where you actually see hardship as opportunity and beautiful possibility to make yourself and your results even greater. So please just remember this principle, a problem only becomes a problem if you're running the mental software and have installed the hard wiring architecture and operating system that says problems are problems. And I totally get that you say but Robin isn't feeling the pain or getting discouraged during a difficult time isn't that part of being human andI'd say to you that's An old way of being human and what I'm inviting to you to start playing withand being a game changer is Human nature 2.0, and I want you to start feeling that Yeah, it's human nature in the past for most human beings according to those old beliefs to feel that intense hardship is hard. It is at times. And I agree it's definitely just top 5% thinking to see that something difficult and feeling stuck that has knocked you down can actually lift you up. And I get that this way of being definitely takes practice over the coming days, weeks and months until you get there. But it's so worth it. You know, I mean, if this was easy, everyone would be doing it. If being world-class was easy, everyone would be doing it. best fitness of your life was easy, everyone would be in the best fitness of their lives. If living, if doing world-class work that stuns your industry was easy, everyone would be a Jordan or a Picasso or an Elon Musk or the Mother Teresa of what it is that they do, or the Misty Copeland of their industry. And that's the opportunity, because so few people are willing to do the work and go deeper, it's because so few people believe that they can rise to iconic. You have that opportunity here today. So what I'm suggesting to you is as you do the practice and do the training and do the work, you will feel confident, positive, happy, and peaceful on the inside, no matter what's going on the outside. And that is a great place to be. Your inner state of grace and power will no longer be conditional on your outer world being perfect. And that's an amazing place to be. And if you're still resisting me on this idea that you really have it within you to get to a place where no matter if your outer world is falling apart, you are graceful, powerful, and strong within, please just think about this. Everything you now find easy, you once found hard. And that's the very nature of developing any skill. See, all of this is developing a skill. Unconditional bravery is the skill we're talking about. And of course it's gonna be hard at first. And of course it's gonna be messy in the middle as all your false beliefs get torn down and make way for better beliefs. And it's gonna be ever so gorgeous at the end, which is the state of mastery.