The Daily Mastery Podcast by Robin Sharma
Welcome to the Daily Mastery Podcast by Robin Sharma where you’ll receive the mental models, daily routines, and productivity tactics that Robin Sharma has taught to the titans of industry, sports superstars, and elite performers who he has served as a private mentor to for over 31 years. You'll learn how to live a truly world-class life while you accelerate your productivity, grow your leadership, build your business, and scale your impact on the world.
The Daily Mastery Podcast by Robin Sharma
Run Your Own Race (The First Lesson My Mentor Taught Me)
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The most happy, successful and peaceful people on the planet generally all have some sort of a mentor.
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A neighbor I had in my 20s deeply influenced me—he taught me the power of running your own race instead of following the crowd.
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I don't know if you have a mentor, but if you don't have a mentor, you want to get a mentor as swiftly as possible. Because we become our influences. We become our conversations. We think like and we perform like the people we surround ourselves with in our orbit. And one of the things that has served me so well is populating my professional life and my personal life with people who are at a higher level than I'm at. And they are called mentors. When I was 21 years old, I lived in a relatively small city on the East Coast of Canada. And I was very blessed to be associated with a mentor who was a financial uh epic performer. He was doing very, very well in the capital markets. And I just looked at his lifestyle and I looked at his belief system and we used to go for these long, wonderful walks in the forest that was also along the seaside on the East Coast of Canada. And one day it was a sunny day in the summer. And he said something to me I still remember to this day. He said, Robin. Run your own race. And that's really the first lesson I learned from one of my mentors. Run your own race. Stay in your own lane. You you have no competition if you are in your own division. And what I mean by that is simply this. It's so easy to get swept off your game, swept off your vision, swept off your values, swept off your focus when you're measuring your success and your performance by your so-called peers. in your industry or your competition within your craft. And that first lesson was so profound, he simply said run your own race. know, come up with your ambition, come up with your vision and have the singular focus and the character discipline to say I'm just gonna put these blinders on and stay true to myself, true to my values, true to my vision. So the first thing, run your own race, stay in your own lane. You know, measure success by how... close you're getting to your mountaintop versus the mountaintop of your competition or your neighbors.