(soft inspiring music) - Hi, it's Robin Sharma, author of The Leader Who Had No Title, founder of The Titan Academy. And I am amped, super
excited, blessed, and grateful that you are here with me in this episode of The Mastery Sessions. Well, we have millions
and millions of people listening to these, watching
these podcast episodes that I produce and create with great love and respect from you from across the world every single month. Again, I have to say I'm so grateful. I'm just loving recording this for you. I'm loving preparing these. And I've got a great team who
brings a lot of sweat equity to these episodes so that
we distribute and unlock some great value towards
your personal mastery, your ascent to bravery, and you in your own unique way creating a life that makes history. Well, this episode is a deconstruction. I'm getting very well-known. People are always asking me, "Robin, we love your deconstructions "when you teach them at
Personal Mastery Academy. "Robin, we love your
deconstructions in your podcast. "We love your deconstructions "when you work with us one-on-one." And a deconstruction is basically a shift from superficiality. You see, most people are 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, 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." 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, 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, 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 de-seed the lemon wedges. They actually de-seeded them. And when I study F1 teams and I actually had the privilege
to be right with the team at a recent F1 and what I realized 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. I really want you to think about that. I really want you to think about F1. F1 is one or lost in milliseconds because each lap if you
get a little bit faster and you do it with a consistency because consistency is
the mother of mastery, that is the difference between first place and not even placing. And so, if you look at the top 5%, they are all about
de-seeding the lemon wedges. If you look at the top 5%,
they're all about calibration. I read a great article
about the CEO of Moncler, the apparel company, the fashion brand. His last name was Ruffini. He's an Italian and of
course he's an Italian because they do things with quality. The food is great. The boots are great. The coffee is great. Quality is part of their way of being. It's part of their mindset, heartset, healthset, and soulset. And in the article he was asked, "What's your favorite food?" And he said, "Well, it's
spaghetti pomodoro." And yes, it's very, very simple. It's just basil and pasta, spaghetti. It's pomodoro, the tomatoes,
the tomato sauce, olive oil, and I think that's it. But he said, and here's the keyword, "It's the calibration of
such simple ingredients "when brought together creates
that symphony of mastery." And so, I really want you to think about leaving any form of superficiality in your understanding of your game, in your understanding of your sport, in your understanding of your industry, in your understanding of
what makes peak vitality, in your understanding of productivity, in your understanding of
gorgeous daily creativity, in your understanding about
your ascent to humanity, and leave that 95%
majority thinking and being and rise up to the rare air of world class and really get good at granularity and that's really what
deconstructions are all about. You don't see things simply. You go, "Uh, I just had an amazing day, "let me deconstruct it. "I just met the love of my
life and it was magical," deconstruct why. "I just was in Mauritius
or Shanghai or Agra, India "or Dubai or Tel Aviv or Stockholm "or London or Barcelona," and you had an amazing meal. If you're in Barcelona,
definitely go to Cal Xim, one of my favorite
restaurants in the world, and talk to Santi, the
owner, and he is a magician. He's a maestro. He is world class. I should start talking a lot
about Santi over at Cal Xim because I have been there a few times and it's in this simple village of Penedes and he just works his magic. He just produces poetry
in the form of food. And all I'm saying is if you have one of these kinds
of meals and I know you have and it's not about the expense,
it's about the experience, go back to your hotel room or maybe the next morning
over your morning coffee and just to throw this in because I'm in a really expressive mood and I wanna share and I wanna give and I'm just being real with you, make sure you have some
coffee in the morning, it's a great antioxidant. It's an awesome cognitive enhancer. And over your morning coffee,
pull out your journal. And if you don't journal,
why aren't you journaling? Please, you know about my journaling. I've been teaching it for two decades. Journal and deconstruct so your thinking and your daily behavior
becomes very granular, very calibrated, you know
exactly what you're doing, just like the best of
the best in the world. And people might understand you
and say, "Are you obsessive? "Why do the details matter?" And all you have to do is smile and say, "Because the details matter." And if you study Beyonce,
study the great athletes, you study the great F1 drivers and teams, they do de-seed the lemon wedges. They do calibrate the pomodoro. They get OAD, that brain tattoo. I've become really well-known
across the planet for it, an Obsessive Attention to Detail, OAD. That's what makes the best
hotels, the best entrepreneurs, the best teams, the market leaders, the best restaurants, the best hotels, the best cars, the best products, the best user experiences online. They are sweating the tiniest
seemingly innocuous details to create over time a user experience that creates a global base
of fanatical followers. So, let me just share the brain tattoo. I wanna deconstruct. I've taken you on a little bit of a journey around deconstructions and the rise from
superficiality to granularity. So, let me focus on the brain tattoo which has been so helpful. I just ran Personal Mastery
Academy two weekends ago. Some people said this brain tattoo sent shivers up their spines and created a shift
within the room for them that led them to a
revolution of transformation over the two days of this live event. And here's the brain tattoo. The traits that make, I'm
gonna just slow it down, the traits that make you strange are the gifts that make you special. I'll repeat that again. The traits that make you strange are the gifts that make you special. This episode, this podcast,
my work is about you. It's not about me. It's about me serving
you, giving you value, reminding about your heroic instinct, reminding that you were born into genius. And we don't have the time right now to talk about the science behind this. These are not anecdotes, platitudes. Science, the work of Anders Ericsson, Sonja Lyubomirsky, Heidi Grant Halvorson, the work of Angela Duckworth over at the University of Pennsylvania, the work of people who are understanding
transient hypofrontality, the work of neuroscience. You've probably been hearing a lot about the neuroscience of
greatness that I've been teaching and that pharmacy of mastery. If you run the run routines, you release the dopamine and the cortisol and the norepinephrine and the oxytocin. You release the cortisol
which is the fear hormone and you release dopamine
which is the crash it inspirational neurotransmitter and all I'm just trying to say is it's a great time to be alive, why? Because science and neuroscience
and psychoneuroimmunology and the data and research
of leap performance is catching up with what the
mystics and the philosophers like Marcus Aurelius and the great pundits and the great holy books
and the great wise books have been saying for thousands of years. You can live into genius. You can lean into greatness. You were born to do something special. Your brain is actually
hardwired for genius. The phenomenon that I teach is called transient hypofrontality. I talk a lot about freedom of distraction, my tight bubble of total focus, my 90-91 rule that has
helped so many people including the billionaires I work with, the people who come to The
Titan Summit every year which is now one of the most
famous events in the world for entrepreneurs, billionaires, world creators, and history makers. And I only mention that to say I'm sharing science in these events, science in my other podcast where I talk about the
neuroscience of audacity, bravery, creativity, and productivity. So, the brain tattoo for
you to think about today is just remember there's a lot of science behind the idea that
you have genius in you. You have power in you. You can bring on world class ideas that when implemented change the world. You can get more done in a day than most people get done in a week if you learn how to protect
your five precious assets that I teach at my live
events including mental focus, your physical energy, your
daily willpower, and your time. So, the brain tattoo for now
in this episode is simply this. The traits that make you strange are the gifts that make you special. And so, I know you're different because you wouldn't be here with me now if you didn't feel you're different. You probably don't fit in
with most conversations. I sure don't fit in
with most conversations. I don't know a lot about most things that most people talk about because I don't participate
in the majority. I don't participate in the news. I don't like to gossip. I like to encourage people
versus diminish people. I like to be productive versus busy. I like to be creative versus complacent. I like to create value versus
take from other people. I like to move into my present and future versus get stuck in the past. I like to be fast versus
move too, too, too slow. I like to be a leader versus a victim. I like to believe in possibility versus get stuck in rational thinking because instinct is so much
more powerful than intellect and all I'm suggesting
to you is simply this. It's the very things
that make you different that make you authentic. And if you don't fit in, I
just wanna share with you I have never fit in and the very nature of anyone
who's living a visionary life and you are living a visionary life no matter what you're doing. Let's not get trapped in labels. "Oh, I'm just a coder. "I'm just a receptionist at a
restaurant or an organization. "I'm just a yoga teacher. "I'm just a gym manager. "I'm just a chef in a restaurant. "I'm just a teacher." People always say this
when I interact with them on the social media. "I'm just an entrepreneur. "I'm just a student." No, you're not, "I'm just
a mom, I'm just a dad." No, you're not just. You're very special. There are no extra people
on the planet today. And all I wanna suggest to you is you wouldn't be here with me right now, you wouldn't be with me on this leadership and personal mastery
adventure that we're on, you wouldn't be interested
in the rituals and routines of the A players that I teach
if you aren't different. I mean, most people really
they watch too much news, they talk too much gossip, they see the worst in people. It's the mindset of can't versus the mentality
of possibility and can and it just goes on and on and so you're meant to be different because if you were ordinary
and like most people, you'd be getting ordinary results and there is a longing
inside of you for legendary and that's why we're having this time together in this episode. And I just wanna say to you and validate for you and encourage you those things that other
people might not get, those are your gifts. You might be awkward, awesome. You see the world
through a different lens. Steve Wozniak who was on my stage at The Titan Summit in Zurich, the co-founder of Apple, one of the best people I've ever met, he would not have been able
to create the Apple platforms and products that he created
if he didn't see the world through a different set of eyes. Steve Jobs saw the world
through a different set of eyes. Travis Kalanick of Uber saw the world through a different set of eyes. Jeff Bezos of Amazon saw possibility. Let me have an online store
that initially sells books. John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther
King Jr., Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks, Jean-Michel
Basquiat, Beethoven, Michelangelo who did the Sistine Chapel and in Florence David, Jonas Salk, Tesla. We could just go on and on and on and on. These people were misunderstood because the nature of a
genius is to not fit in. And so, if you're not
fitting in with the majority and people are calling
you weird and an odd ball and a misfit and a kook, I wanna say I love you
because you're a kook. I love you because you're
awkward because I'm awkward and I'm eccentric and I
use a different languaging for a lot of people and I
have all of these protocols that I run my life by like the
tight bubble of total focus and the 20-20-20 formula and the 60-minute student
which will change your life and I don't just drive to
work and think about the past. I participate in traffic university and I do this thing I've been
teaching for 20 plus years, the two massage protocol, and I run my weeks every Sunday because I built out a blueprint
for a beautiful weekend. It's called the weekly design system. And these are the things
that I've been teaching to my highest level clients
at Personal Mastery Academy and The Titan Summit and people
think initially it's strange because every disruptive idea is initially called kooky and flaky. What, Mr. Wright brothers,
you're gonna fly? What, Mr. Henry Ford, you're not gonna build
a better horse carriage, but you're gonna come up with a car? What, Mr. Richard Branson, you're gonna put people on the moon? And Mr. Elon Musk, what? Mr. Mandela, you're
gonna free your nation, but you're still in prison? What, Mother Teresa, you're gonna help hungry
people find personal freedom? And it just goes on and on. The history of humanity,
the history of heroism is a ride and an ascent
towards possibility in a world where most people
really are about can't. They're about rational thinking. They're about victimhood
versus leadership. They're about it's never been done. How can it be done? And so, I just wanna admire
you and celebrate you with great love and respect. Protect the things that make you strange. Protect your authenticity. Protect the gifts that life
has hardwired into you. They're not bad. They're awesome. Protect your differentness. Protect your eccentricities and then find people just
like you who get you. If you don't vibe with the tribe then that's not the person for you. One of the things I've done in my life that's really, really helped me is I basically released
the energy vampires. I've basically let go with
great love and respect of the dream stealers and my entire life is pretty much this is not a science, it's
an art so it's not perfect, but I've pretty much just
got people around me, they get me, they get my eccentricities. They understand the science
and the neuroscience and the elite performance research between all of the rituals that I run, how I structure my life, and they get me and they celebrate me and they vibe with me
and they energize with me and we are all professionally a bunch of leadership missionaries in a hot pursuit of changing the world at our own unique way. And in my private life, I've got fun, loving, high integrity, high creativity people who
understand me and who lift me because I lift them and we just have fun and we're creative and we're passionate and we protect ourselves from the negativity that's out there. And you can do it too and
I just wanna say I love you and I hope this episode has been real and authentic and valuable and I've touched on a lot of points and we'll just keep
the conversation going. So, if this episode has been true to you and if it's inspired you and if it's given you great information, please help me, help me get
these messages out there. This podcast is being
listened to or watched by many millions of
people every single month, but I can do a lot better and I can get the message out there, but I can't do it alone. It's just me and a relatively small team. And so, I need your help and
I'm asking for your help. I want you to within the next 60 minutes to share this episode with three friends. Just do this please so together, the world shifts from hate to more love. The world shifts from
busyness to productivity. The world shifts from
people who are going, "I'm just ordinary, I'm not a hero. "What Robin teaches is for
the billionaires he works with "and the titans who
come to his Titan Summit "and the people who can
afford his online courses," and it just goes on. You can change the world
or you can make excuses. You can't do both. And so, please share this
episode with three people over the next 60 minutes so we'll get the messaging out there, so we plant the seeds, so we help more people, so we help people find
freedom and more power and that's not a fake
power, it's a real power that lives in the seat of their hearts. Second thing, a lot of
people are asking me, "Robin, we're hearing so much
about Robin Sharma Nation. "We're hearing so much that you're now "not only coaching the billionaires, "not only coaching the titans, the icons, "the NFL players, the Major
League Baseball players, "the NBA superstars,
companies like Starbucks, "TOMS Shoes, Nike, FedEx, Microsoft, IBM, "organizations like
NASA, Yale University." I've been doing this for 20 years. I'm going into my third decade and so people have been
asking me for 20 years, "Robin, can you create a
program where you mentor us?" And over the past few years,
it's really accelerated. "Robin, can you teach us monthly online "at a fraction of the
cost of The Titan Summit "or your elite coaching program IconX "which is a very small,
super elite coaching circle?" And now is the time and that's
what Robin Sharma Nation is. This is a magnificent coaching program where I will work with you
and other people like you who wanna live legendary lives. You wanna own your craft. You wanna be the heavyweight
champion of the world in what you do, but you
also wanna do it with style, with love, with humanity, with spirit. You wanna have a great family life and you wanna impact the world. You wanna help the world be a better place so you make your mark on the generations who are not only here but who will come. If that feels right to you, if you want me to be your mentor, if you want me to actually be
your coach every month online at a fraction of my usual tuition fee, do the rest of your life
an absolutely giant favor, don't make any excuses, just do this like the best do stuff. They don't just make
excuses and put it off. Go over to robinsharmanation.com, robinsharmanation.com. I would love to help you. I'd love to serve you. I'd love to work with you every month and teach you times 100 what I've shared in this podcast episode. Just go over to robinsharmnation.com and you'll get all the details. People are also asking, "Robin, how do we get into
Personal Mastery Academy?" My two-day live event so they're saying, "Tell us in the podcast "because we don't get the information. "We don't know the details. "And the next thing we know,
it's totally sold out." Personal Mastery Academy is my live event. It happens every single June. It's live and it sells out so if you wanna get on
to the waiting list, I'm just telling you the facts, thousands of people
get on the waiting list and it's very hard to get into. Just go over to personalmasteryacademy.com and you'll just read all the details. And if it's right for you, join us. And if it's not, hey, I love you. We're cool and just consume
the podcast episode. And then the final thing is I would love to see
you on the social media and continue the conversation. If you're with me on Instagram and you can find me on Instagram and if you're with me on Facebook, we've got millions and millions of people on my page on Facebook. I'm pushing videos, great content, brain tattoos, serious personal
mastery poetry of sorts. If you wanna really dial in your productivity to exponential, get more done than most
people would get done in a week and a day, understand this philosophy
I've been teaching, mindset, heartset, healthset, and soulset, because a lot of people are saying, "Robin, wow, we've never
heard those other three words. "We've heard mindset, but
we've never heard of heartset. "We've never heard healthset. "We've never heard soulset." I've been teaching this
for a number of years. Mindset is only 25% of the
personal mastery equation. If you wanna learn these things, we'll continue the conversation not only in future Mastery Sessions, but on the social media
and I'd love to see you. Okay, so thanks for your time. Hope I've delivered value. Hope you're feeling fired up. Hope I've given you some real
information as well too, okay? Because you know this, inspiration without
execution and implementation is fool's gold so get this done. Get traction on your ambitions so you start the rise to personal mastery, professional legendaryness
and so you go out there and have your impact in the world, okay? Love you a lot and I'll
talk to you soon, bye-bye. Hi, this is Robin Sharma. Hope you received great value
from this mastery session. If you'd like to receive
potent training videos, blog posts, learning tools, and information on my two live events, Personal Mastery Academy and my flagship four-day
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