The #1 Habit BILLIONAIRES Run Daily To 100x PRODUCTIVITY For Success! | Robin Sharma

i think what's happened on the planet right now is there's been a great seduction and a great brainwashing when we are kids we want we want to be astronauts we want to be billionaires we want to be history makers we want to do all our dreams and then and we stand in awe and wonder and we're full of curiosity and we're loving and we're passionate we're strong we're not afraid to be ourselves but as we leave the perfection of childhood the hypnosis and the brainwashing begins our well-intentioned parents say oh you want to be an astronaut you want to start a business when you grow up you want to paint like john michelle basquiat be reasonable and george bernard shaw said it better than i ever could he said the reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in adapting the world to himself therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man [Music] welcome to impact theory our goal with this show and company is to introduce you to the people and ideas that will help you actually execute on your dreams all right today's guest is an international best-selling author whose books have sold over 15 million copies across 62 countries in 75 languages he's penned over 20 books several of which have set sales records across the globe his book the leader with no title was a number one bestseller on amazon and his mega hit the monk who sold his ferrari smashed it in the u.s was a blockbuster in too many countries to count has been on the best seller list in india for more than two years and is the fifth best selling book of all time in israel his success is not due to fancy marketing but rather an obsessive focus on ensuring that what he teaches delivers an insane amount of usable information and as such he is widely considered one of the world's top leadership experts and his staggering roster of clients includes some of the biggest names on the planet including microsoft fedex nike ge nasa and ibm he is also one of the most sought after speakers in the world and he's appeared on over 1 000 tv and radio shows additionally his social media posts reach a staggering 600 million plus people a year and he was ranked as one of the top five leadership experts in the world in a massive independent study of more than 22 000 business professionals so please help me in welcoming the founder of the robin sharma foundation for children the best-selling author of the 5 a.m club robin sharma [Music] welcome to the show man what a great introduction thank you so much easy with what you're after and what you've accomplished in the time that you've been doing this which is already pretty extraordinary and i having seen you in action now can say that you'll be doing this for a very long time it's it's really pretty extraordinary and one thing that i want to talk about is that level of energy and enthusiasm and you talk about that being something that's common among high achievers how do we cultivate that well um first of all congratulations on all your success with the show and all the people that you're influencing so one of the lines from right out of the 5 a.m club is one of the dnas of legendary is longevity so if you look at the picassos the jean-michel basquiats you look at the great sports champions you look at the great history makers they were much better at energy management than time management and so we're in a war against distraction right now and what we really have to do is optimize our energy how do i do it well i mean i get to the morning routine which which the whole book is based on but it's really quite powerful because if you start your day with sweaty exercise you're actually going to activate a pharmacy of mastery that exists in every human brain i know you love the neuroscience you're going to release bdnf which is brain-derived neurotrophic factor that's going to actually accelerate your processing it's actually going to repair brain cells that have been damaged by stress you're going to release the neurotransmitter dopamine which is the the fire neurotransmitter which we all need as entrepreneurs and business builders and and servants of humanity cortisol the fear hormone is highest in the morning so exercising first thing in the morning is going to reduce that i'm getting into my 20 20 20 formula but i mention it because it is a way to maximize your energy so talk to us about the 20 20 20 i mean you sort of um started it there with the the sweaty exercise but what's the rest of that formula which is pretty powerful sure so the new book is all about rising at 5 a.m and that's because if you look at the great creatives and the great saints and the great humanitarians and the great titans of industry many of them got up at 5 am even right now you've got tim cook and you've got howard schultz and it goes on and on before the sun rises is the time of least distraction before the sun rises where you can build intimacy and fluency with what you want to stand for in your day before the sun rises the luxury and tranquility of the early morning hours you can do that deep inner work that will allow you to go out in the world and and play at your best so what the 20 20 20 formula is is simply this there's three pockets the first pocket is move five to five twenty and you get into the sweaty exercise because like i mentioned it releases neurotransmitters it reduces the cortisol increases your metabolic rate which gives you more energy so now and serotonin as well which gives you joy so now it's 5 20. fundamentally you feel different you have energy your state is strong you've got a fire in your belly and you've accelerated your focus 520 to 540 is the second pocket of the 20 20 20 formula which is reflect we live in a world where a lot of people are busy being busy but what's the point of being busy around climbing the wrong mount everests and so clarity is one of the dnas of mastery you know this if you talk to the titans of industry and you talk to the people really getting traction around their ambition these are people who have a monomaniacal focus on the few things that matter they have an obsession bordering on a possession around the few priorities they want to build their life around and so 520 to 540 the second pocket you write in the journal you meditate you visualize you do what i call in the book a blueprint for a beautiful day or you just sit in solitude and you think and you ponder and you reflect and then the final pocket is 5 40 to 6 o'clock and this is the victory hour the final pocket is grow but if you look at the greatest billionaires i've coached many billionaires over the past 20 years if you look at the greatest producers on the planet these people have one thing in common they are ridiculously curious and no matter how much money they make and no matter how much impact they have they maintain a white belt mentality one of the keys to epic performance is a relentless commitment to daily growth so that's the 20 20 20 formula that the 5 a.m method is built around and the premise is basically this as you begin your day so you hand craft the rest of your day and if you have consistently great days you're going to have consistently great weeks quarters a year and a lifetime so your days are life and miniature and you got to get those mornings calibrated if you really want to win when you were talking about the obs the obsession that board is on possession which i like a lot and i think is the thing that's missing from a lot of people's lives in fact i'll say that i don't think people know how to want and i don't think they know how to turn a want into a crushing need and so there's people have this vague sense that they want something but they don't know how to really cultivate that how do you help people with that how do you help them light themselves on fire and really commit to something tom i actually believe we are built to want the very nature of being a human being is we are built to progress we know that the human brain craves novelty and we are most alive we have the most energy we are most intimate with our best selves when we're progressing towards our mighty mission so i think we all want i think what's happened on the planet right now is there's been a great seduction and a great brainwashing when we are kids we want we want to be astronauts we want to be billionaires we want to be history makers we want to do all our dreams and then and we stand in awe and wonder and we're full of curiosity and we're loving and we're passionate we're strong we're not afraid to be ourselves but as we leave the perfection of childhood the hypnosis and the brainwashing begins our well-intentioned parents say oh you want to be an astronaut you want to start a business when you grow up you want to paint like joe michelle basquiat be reasonable and george bernershad said it better than i ever could he said the reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in adapting the world to himself therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man so that's our nature but our parents give us limitation based on their limited psychology and their emotional patterns that they learn from their parents then we go to school and we're taught to live in a box think in a box dress like everyone else don't sing too loudly don't dream too big don't be too passionate and then our peers do the same thing to us and then society says oh genius is the realm of genetics not everyday people which has been dismissed by some very good science you know i mean the 10 000 hour rule that we all know from florida state university professor anders erickson it just confirmed so much so i do think we all want i think what's happened is we've as we've left who we truly are we've contracted and now it's all about staying safe in the world versus going out there and letting our brilliant our primal genius shine and a lot of people just have stuff that pain of disappointment and their doubt really deep inside and they just are addicted to distraction and escapes because they don't want to deal with their potential that they've denied take us back so you um start out as an attorney you're a litigator and you write your first book you self-publish it printed at kinko's which i thought was pretty interesting um how do you then take that leap like obviously you were beginning to cultivate that the the traits of the unreasonable man or maybe it was a process of unlearning but how did you do that how did you buck all of that and do something new uh self-growth you know we live in a world that suggests the doorway to success swings outward if you build the business if you get the jet if you get the money if you get the cars if you get the beautiful spouse then you're going to be happy what i believe and there's a model in the 5am club that i think is a very disruptive model but it's a transformational model and it's called the four interior empires and it's not just mindset it's mindset heart set health set and soul set and we can talk about it if you like but i worked on those four interior empires when i was a very unhappy litigation lawyer like i'd made money i was successful i had two law degrees and yet i wake up every morning time and i'd go into the bathroom mirror and i'd look at myself and i was a completely empty person and nothing is more expensive than losing your joy and your peace of mind and so what i did was i started working on myself you know i worked on my mindset and i read all the books and i went to the courses but that's only your psychology and i think that's one of the missing links in our field which is everyone's talking about mindset but mindset is just your belief system it's just your psychologies it's very important but that's 25 of the personal mastery equation i believe the second piece is your heart set and i worked on that purifying your heart that's your emotionality not just your psychology you're never going to make history dominate your domain and hand craft a world-class life if you've got a great psychology but you're carrying the pain and sadness disappointment and trauma of the past so i worked on my heart that's only the second interior empire the third interior empire your health set don't die if you want to change the world like dead people don't change the world so health set biohacking there's a whole chapter on recovery and the essentialness of sleep so really getting your health set right but there's a fourth interior empire that i worked on that allowed me to go out in the world and and pursue my my magic and it's a little dangerous for me to share because i know how many business people you know follow you and how many entrepreneurs but i'm going to share it because it's my truth so it's not just mindset and it's not just heart setting it's not just health that's at its soul set and soul said has nothing to do with religion soul set is about working on your character so you re-access your nobility and your bravery and your authenticity and your decency and you find a cause that's larger than your life so when they go out in the world every single morning people might ridicule you because every genius is ridiculed before they're revered people might throw stones at you but you use them to build monuments of mastery people might not mis understand you because any disruptor is going to be misunderstood and even if you're an army of one a galileo or a steve jobs or how phil knight you continue at all costs so those four interior empires that i go into detail in in the book give you a fiery inner core of warriorship and leadership that allow you to go out in the world and do amazing things but it all starts with who you are because you'll never rise any higher than what's going on within you all right we really have to talk about the the soul set and the heart set i think those are going to be the ones that are least familiar to people so um in the soul set let's just dive into the the most maybe a controversial one but i i actually think people are going to resonate with this um the thing that you talked about in the book that that really hit me is this notion of being braver of finding ways to get braver and i don't know it was one of those where you're kind of like trying to guess what the person is going to say and i was so struck by that one how do we practice getting braver what does it mean to be braver and then how does that end up being useful for us what terrifies you most go directly there because discomfort is simply growth in wolf's clothing well yeah i mean the last chapter is uh i don't want to give too much away but it's it's um an experience i live you know it's it's nelson mandela's prison cell have you been to robin island i haven't but i am beyond obsessed with nelson mandela so i know the story very well you know i i i'd encourage you to go because standing that in that cell feeling the sensations will transform you at a soul level as well as heart set level so how do we become more brave well i went over to nelson mandela's prison cell and i stood there and i was shocked he didn't even have a bed and he was in there for 18 years then i went over to the limestone quarry and i saw where nelson mandela spent 10 years chipping away at stone to break his spirit because they threw the stones away and then i saw the showers where this elderly statesman would shower while the young guards would laugh at him and then in the book i talk about a true fact where he was asked on robben island to dig a grave and he he got in the grave thinking he was going to die and the prison guards urinated on and my point is simply this when nelson mandela was released from prison after 27 years of total incarceration the he invited the prosecutor who was seeking the death penalty to dinner and he invited the prison guard who kept him in prison for 18 years on robben island to his inauguration as president of south africa and he was asked why would you do that he said because if i didn't i'd still be in prison and my point is to lead and to become a great hero or an everyday hero the doorway is through embracing our suffering and doing difficult things i think pleasure has been promoted too much in our society like no great tight enough industry no legendary cellist no great athlete you know the great ones all understand that suffering is the price of greatness so how do we become braver you you do the difficult things that you don't feel like doing but you know have the payoff yeah the heart set that's a it's really interesting and what i liked about it was the way that you talk about you know we all have this accumulation of trauma oftentimes from when we're younger how do you help people process through that like how you've worked with some really high performers how have you helped them tap into that and then more importantly how do you help them process through that it's about reframing the event what does that look like journaling is profound do you journal i have journaled to say that i do journal would be a lie you're going to love journaling like i i do it almost every day i had um i had a showed this morning and then i had to set my intentions for you and all your global followers or viewers and so i went back to my hotel room i took a cold shower you know i've been fasting a lot so we can get into fasting because i fasted as i wrote the 5n collab and that helped massively and then i pulled out my journal and i sat on my terrace and i literally started writing about my intentions for impact theory and so how do you how do you move through pain you journal if you're going through heartbreak i mean we've all experienced heartbreak what we do is often we repress it because we're not given the tools to process through it you lose a business people repress it someone has a divorce or an illness oh mindset reframe it psychology you're swallowing pain you're swallowing sadness you're swallowing anger we're built to feel right so writing in a journal just getting it out there's actually something in the 5m club called the journaling deconstruction because it's not just processing through pain but to answer your question that trauma of heart set you write in a journal you get it out of your system guess what you don't bring passive aggressive into the workplace you don't bring sadness or low vibe into the workplace you're full of your true self in terms of your heart set which is gratitude love appreciation you know what that does for a business you know what that does for a human life so if you're going through a painful time write that out almost every day i write gratitude but i love great restaurants and so i'll take the business card and the next morning i pull out my little glue stick and i glue the business card into my journal and i relive the experience oh i had dinner with so-and-so here's what i learned i deconstruct it with better awareness we'll make better choices better daily choices better daily results imagine journaling like this every single day you're going to have such a cute awareness about when you're at your best what the great ones do how to live a life what you want to stand for what your core values are you walk out in the world and you're just radiating possibility in a world where people are addicted to distraction and numbed out you've brought up distraction before and i know you talk a lot about it in the book how do we in this world where it's algorithms are literally being constructed to make sure that they get our attention with as much frequency as possible how do you talk to people about eliminating that how do you do it in your own life how do you create that space how much time do you allocate to that that real isolation yeah the brain tattoo in the book is an addiction to distraction is the death of your creative production your people's phones are costing them their fortune so how do i do it one of the rituals in the book is the tight bubble of total focus it's it's based on edison's menlo park there's a great documentary on what he did but essentially him and his band of co-geniuses would leave the world go up to this hill to menlo park where they could get into flow state to give credit where it's due mihai chick sent me high if university of chicago came up with that term flow when we're at our absolute best doing magical things in our performance but that only comes when we get away from the world so you can play with your phone or you can be monomonically focused on being a history maker and legendary you don't get to do both and so building periods of time in that tight bubble of total focus where you leave your phone in another room where you train your team or if you don't have a team you just don't have any distractions and you ask yourself what is the one thing i could do that would allow me to go out in the world and and bring my magic to the world the human brain has a phenomenon called transient hypofrontality the neocortex as you know it's the the seed of thinking it's our monkey mind it's all the chattering it's the stuff that says tom you can't do it robin you can't do it what would they think what if i fail what do i get laughed at that's all the neocortex it's the crown jewel of brain development not our primitive brain crown jewel but there's no genius in there and here's what i mean when we get away from distraction and we find our menlo park or we go work in a quiet place and we get lost the neocortex actually shuts down and that's why it's called transient hypo frontality for a short period of time our thinking shuts down the whole model is in the book and we actually go from brain waves at beta down to alpha down to theta and maybe even delta and we stop thinking we go into flow in other words the advanced minds of the world the great geniuses galileo da vinci steve jobs they weren't in the neocortex they got away from the world for bursts of time which allowed them to access the human capability we all have to get into flow state and access insights that they went out in the world and then executed on with a world-class team which totally changed the game it's interesting talk to me about impatience so this is something that i bump against a lot of people on i i'm not a patient person i don't invest in patients i don't think it's useful doesn't mean that i don't play the long game it doesn't mean that i do things that are dishonest just to get ahead or because it would be faster i wouldn't but i definitely cultivate impatience what are your thoughts around patience and what do you mean by being impatient i'm ridiculously impatient around my mighty mission i'm ridiculously impatient tom about serving people and bringing value to people i am very patient with my children i'm very patient with my team you got to love the people around you i'm very patient with the barista in a coffee shop who maybe is overwhelmed or it's her first or his first day on the job i'm very patient with the taxi driver who maybe gets lost but you know that's how they're making their livelihood so with human beings i've worked very hard and i'm a work in progress but i'm very patient with human beings going back to leadership for a second what would you say are the three if somebody wants to be a truly effective leader what are three traits that they should cultivate in themselves know yourself i mean jack welch of general electric said it really well do um don't lose yourself on the way to the top warren buffett said um they'll never be a better you than you so great leaders again it's those four interior empires working on yourself knowing what what you want to stand for knowing what you once said about you on the last hour for your last day knowing your core values your top five core values knowing those knowing your weaknesses knowing your strengths i mean a lot of leadership talk isn't about that but starting with your character and your self-identity that is really important for a leader i'd say the second thing for a leader would be well getting big things done you know you mentioned it in the introduction it's like ferocious like a warrior when it comes to execution like great leadership is less talk and more do you know i mean it doesn't really matter what the chatter i mean it's all about execution implementation and and application so they get things done and we live in a world where you know we pull out the phone people i'm going to get this done and i'm going to get that done we say to people i'll send you a book it doesn't get done even worse it's we lose self-respect from the promises we make to ourselves that we break that's where it all starts like it's so you know this it's so important your your income your impact your relationship with creativity productivity in the world it all comes down to your relationship with yourself so that would be the second thing about leadership it's like execution and don't break promises and the third thing i'd say um you know be crazy the great leaders are insane and i say that they're insane to the majority the great ones are all misfits and they're all weird i mean the very nature of being a disrupter and a leader means you're not a follower and if you're not a follower then you're not buying the kool-aid that society sells you if you're not a follower you're not like this all the time looking for likes if if you're not a follower you dress the way you want to dress if people criticize you yeah they criticize all the great ones the critics are nothing more than dreamers who got scared and never got off their chairs and got back in the game so you've got to be willing to be to 5 a.m weird who does that why not sleep leaders have to be willing not to be followers all said what drives you so hard to keep doing this after you've had the kind of success you've had to keep coming back to this and keep pushing and the touring and just like going after it tom because we live on a tiny planet in a galaxy with trillions of other planets so on our little planet we're actually it's a core philosophy of mine we're brothers and sisters on a little planet that person that homeless person was someone's dreams at a time the person in the restaurant or the hotel who it's very easy if we're numbed out and not awake i'm not someone's father or mother and when i look at most people on the planet it's no judgment i just i see people who are they're in scarcity versus generosity i see so many people saying you know when i was a kid i had all this creativity i don't know where it happened you see it every day you know you have all these people i want to build a business oh i i oh i guess i ca it's psychology of can't versus mentality of possibility i see people in pain i see people playing victim i mean wouldn't you agree most people on the planet at some foreign form or another whether it's with their creativity or their prosperity or their personal lives they're they're stuck in victimhood and i know i know mindsets i know rituals and routines i have systems and it's not just go out there and live your dream and be happy happy happy i mean the book shares most of my a lot of my methodology the twin cycles of elite performance the 90 90 one rule the second wind workout the two massage protocol the 2020 like these have worked for my clients for years so i have the information to serve you have the information to serve how can we see people stuck when they have such glory and nobility and decency inside of them how can we allow that to happen we have a responsibility we all have a responsibility you said that everybody should have core values what is what are some of your most deeply cherished core values service above self in other words contribution impact service number two family i mean if i could be a tenth of the human being my two children are i'd be a i'd be a i'd be amazing family you know i've worked very hard but i've really worked hard on my family too even trying to be a great son a great brother all those things because we all know to get to the last day of your last of your life and say i made a lot of money and i got a lot of likes and i sold a lot of books and i impact a lot of people and your own family never got to know you that's heartbreak third value i'm an asset the french word lover of beauty you know that's why you know that's why i love los angeles like we were coming over here and it's like there's flowers you know it's whatever time of the year is the flowers everywhere you know um so i love beauty and art and food and people and sunsets and that's why i love rome so much now that fourth value would be um vitality you know i really do believe that the the one of the keys to legendary is longevity i mean i want to live till 177 i want to you know right i mean i'm biohacking and i'm resting and i'm doing the two massage protocol and everything possible so i can be rocking my craft and serving as many people as possible when i'm into you know i mean one of the things i'd say is you never want to let an old person anywhere near the inside of your body right because and we can get into epigenetics and the fact that we have a chronological age and a biological age but vitality is important and i think the final core value is lifestyle you know we can serve the world and that's very important i know to both of us but i want it's life is ultimately a really short ride and so i want to really be around only people i mean i am focused i only want people in my orbit that bring me joy or fuel my joy i only want to do the pursuits in my business and career and life that bring me joy and i only go to places where i feel joy that all makes a lot of sense so you've brought up a couple of times now the biohacking part so going into the health set let's talk about that what are you doing you've got fasting you've got the obviously the exercise you've got sounds like the massage to massage protocol um walk us through what you do to care for yourself to make sure that you hit that 177 number which i like it's very far and it's very specific so um so yeah fasting a lot of writing in the book i was in fasted state and for me it was the way it looks are you doing intermittent fasting yes but i want to get to 36 hours and then i want to go beyond that because a lot of the great creatives and mystics so for me it's um my last meal might be at nine o'clock but i won't eat until four o'clock let's say the next day when i was writing a lot if the book was written in rome i would get up and have two cups of coffee because coffee is a health drink awesome antioxidant magnificent cognitive enhancer and plus i'm in italy you know drink coffee um and then i just you know i'm at a hotel that allowed me to have a tight bubble of total focus so zero distraction and then i go into that flow state and i would just work on the manuscript in fasted state and i saved a lot on grocery and food bills just imagine it you know how much time how much time we spend even eating yep and i'd actually so and then it'll be like three or four o'clock i'd be in flow i didn't even know where the time went and then i'd ask you know call the hotel front desk can you clean my room i'd go out to the streets and i'd re-ground and have something to eat so basically it would be at least 18 hours without food and then i'd have the window of eating where i you know eat healthily i'm on a mediterranean ketogenic diet and that's how i do the fasting and nutrition i just i know by my energy level and by my mental focus when i'm in ketosis um rest there like i said there's a whole chapter in the book on the essentialness of sleep and and the the key piece is this a lot of business builders a lot of creative performers a lot of great a lot of athletes think that it's work harder to achieve more well that's been debunked by science we all know that we are at our best creatively productively and in terms of our performance when we experience intense burst of elite performance and then we make the time to recover i had a person at one of my events recently he worked with usain bolt and he said usain bolt told him i sleep 50 percent of the time wow to allow the training to take effect so i i run these cycles of intense creativity and productivity and i've learned to really rest i take naps i've done it since i was 18. and recovery is very important in terms of meditation visualization or whatever all right i could keep going with you but we have to get you out of here so before i ask my last question though tell these guys where they can find you online sure um well anyone who's interested in the 5am club book it's on in the bookstores amazon it's on audible anyone who also can't find it it's at the 5am club.com and i think it's important to say a lot of books they don't have a support system and i really wanted to serve people and really help so at the end of the book there's actually a 66 day because that's the amount of time according to university college of london to install a new habit there's a 66 day online digital course for free where i mentor people via videos to lock in the 5am club habit it's also important every very important to me because every uh the royalties from the book a percentage goes to helping me fight leprosy wow yeah a lot of people don't know about leprosy and i'm i'm ferociously committed to helping reduce it um as well and then i'm on instagram robinsharma.com youtube robinsharma.com yeah so perfect all right last question what's the impact that you want to have on the world i want to remind people of who they truly are and when they see nelson mandela or oprah winfrey they say they did it but legendary is simply a testimony to ordinary people who thought differently felt differently and did different things and there by became who they were and if they can do it i can do it if i go all in i want to get that that message out even more i love that guys if you want to go all in let me tell you dive into this man's world like i said he's written 20 plus books it is absolutely extraordinary the way that he's able to weave information into narrative he's been at this a very long time touching high achievers figuring out how to make them even better and he's able to distill that information package it up and make it usable to everybody else i think that he's really one of the most incredible minds in the space you will not regret diving in and seeing how much of that information you can extract and put to use in your own life it will change you if you let it alright if you haven't already be sure to subscribe and until next time my friends be legendary take care robin thank you so much man this is what we want in our lives this is who we are and that's not a judgment it's just right in terms of our level of personal development and then i my epiphany was if i dedicate time every day to personal development i will gradually become a level three and then a level four and then a level seven eventually if i become a level 10 person

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Published: Tue Apr 16 2019