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
Leave the Cult of Superficiality
Be deep vs. be light. Moving from superficiality to granularity will separate you from the 95% of humanity that is stuck at average.
[Note: if you’d like a much richer understanding of the “granularity versus superficiality” distinction that I’ve been teaching to my clients for years to prepare them for intense adversity, read The 5AM Club which explains it all clearly; you can even read it as an eBook or listen to the superb audiobook version which was recently #1 on Amazon].
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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 learnt 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.
But 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 outproduce your industry peers?" And they say, "I don't know." Great question.
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 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 Lucerne in 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. Someone in the kitchen had taken the time to de-seed the lemon wedges. They actually de-seeded them. And when I study F1 team, and what I realize is F1 almost like no other sport is really about de-seeding 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.