Understand, unlock and unleash your unique potential
8 July 2020
Each week, we introduce one talk to help you understand more about your potential; one thought to unlock your potential; and one tip you can take to unleash your potential for the good of our world.
One talk to understand
In a 1981 interview, Nobel laureate Richard Feynman shared how he made time to think about difficult problems.
So I have invented another myth for myself—that I’m irresponsible. I tell everybody, I don’t do anything. If anybody asks me to be on a committee to take care of
admissions, no, I’m irresponsible, I don’t give a damn about the students—of course I give a damn about the students but I know that somebody else’ll do it—and I take the view, “Let George do it,” a view which you’re not supposed to take, okay, because that’s not right to do, but I do that because I like to do physics and I want to see if I can still do it, and so I’m selfish, okay? I want to do my
physics.
One thought to unlock
Alice Schroeder shared an intriguing story in The Snowball, the biography of Warren Buffett. During dinner one night, Bill Gates Sr. posed the question to the table: What factor did they feel was the most important in getting to where they’d gotten in life? Warren
Buffett said, ‘Focus.’ Bill Gates said the same thing.
In life, we tend to split our attentions between different roles and responsibilities. We try to juggle many things. But in the lives of many successful people, the epitome of their success
is simple. Focus.
One tip to unleash
In business philosopher Jim Collin’s book Good To Great, he shares the secrets behind how mediocre companies make the leap to greatness.
He found that besides having a to-do list, the companies who made the leap to greatness also had a stop-doing list. To focus their efforts on the most effective actions, they decided on things they would not do.
Today, create a stop-doing list for yourself. The fact is that we are human. We can do anything, but we can’t do everything. Knowing how to focus on the most effective actions brings us to greatness, rather than mediocrity.
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