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
The Granularity vs. Superficiality Mentality
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Be deep instead of light. Moving from superficiality to granularity will separate you from the 95% of humanity that is stuck at average. World-class lives in a fanatical devotion to perfection on the tiny details.
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A deconstruction is basically a shift from superficiality. You see, most people stuck in the majority, the 95%, it's not a judgment. It's just an observation. When you say, why are you healthy? Or what's your winning formula? Or what are the five best lessons of your life? Or what's the philosophy you bring to the leadership table? Or... What does the next 100 years of your life look like? With some of my clients, we actually do a 100-year timeline. And then we reverse engineer it to today. And literally, it's a reverse sequencing. I've learned this from some of the people I worked with in Silicon Valley. You start with your future 100 years and you reverse engineer and reverse sequence it to today. So you know exactly what needs to happen. All I'm suggesting to you is you talk to most people and you say, what's your favorite book? What needs to happen this year for this to be the single greatest year of your life? Or you ask them, what happens on your best days to make you feel the fire, to make you have so much focus in a world of dramatic distraction, to help you out produce your industry peers? And they say, I don't know. Great question. And all I'm suggesting to you with great love and respect is, one of the things about the 95%, a lot of them are complaining, they're making excuses, they want epic lives, but they're stuck in the group of the cult of superficiality. The top 5%, the titans, the icons, the A-Players, the world-builders are very different. They are not about superficiality, they are all about granularity. Literally, they have de-seeded the lemon wedges. This is a metaphor that I teach. Basically, I was at a hotel in Luzerne, Switzerland, and I love fresh lemon tea. And when they brought the tray to me, I noticed that in the tray was two lemon halves, and someone in the kitchen had taken the time to deseed the lemon wedges. They actually deseeded them. And when I studied the F1 team and what I realized is F1 almost like no other sport is really about deseeding the lemon wedges. It was the smallest granular detail, the smallest calibration that could make the difference between a top one and a 10th place finish.