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And almost certainly could be, even though I’m 58 years old. Until recently, I never believed that was possible. For most of my adult life, I’ve accepted the incredibly durable myth that some people are born with special talents and gifts, and that the potential to truly excel in any given pursuit is largely determined by our genetic inheritance.

During the past year, I’ve read no fewer than five books — and a raft of scientific research — which powerfully challenge that assumption (see below for a list). I’ve also written one, The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working, which lays out a guide, grounded in the science of high performance, to systematically building your capacity physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.

We’ve found, in our work with executives at dozens of organizations, that it’s possible to build any given skill or capacity in the same systematic way we do a muscle: push past your comfort zone, and then rest. Aristotle Will Durant*, commenting on Aristotle, pointed out that the philosopher had it exactly right 2000 years ago: “We are what we repeatedly do.” By relying on highly specific practices, we’ve seen our clients dramatically improve skills ranging from empathy, to focus, to creativity, to summoning positive emotions, to deeply relaxing.

Like everyone who studies performance, I’m indebted to the extraordinary Anders Ericsson, arguably the world’s leading researcher into high performance. For more than two decades, Ericsson has been making the case that it’s not inherited talent which determines how good we become at something, but rather how hard we’re willing to work — something he calls “deliberate practice.” Numerous researchers now agree that 10,000 hours of such practice as the minimum necessary to achieve expertise in any complex domain.

There is something wonderfully empowering about this. It suggests we have remarkable capacity to influence our own outcomes. But that’s also daunting. One of Ericsson’s central findings is that practice is not only the most important ingredient in achieving excellence, but also the most difficult and the least intrinsically enjoyable.

If you want to be really good at something, it’s going to involve relentlessly pushing past your comfort zone, along with frustration, struggle, setbacks and failures. That’s true as long as you want to continue to improve, or even maintain a high level of excellence. The reward is that being really good at something you’ve earned through your own hard work can be immensely satisfying.

Here, then, are the six keys to achieving excellence we’ve found are most effective for our clients:

1. Pursue what you love. Passion is an incredible motivator. It fuels focus, resilience, and perseverance.
2. Do the hardest work first. We all move instinctively toward pleasure and away from pain. Most great performers, Ericsson and others have found, delay gratification and take on the difficult work of practice in the mornings, before they do anything else. That’s when most of us have the most energy and the fewest distractions.
3. Practice intensely, without interruption for short periods of no longer than 90 minutes and then take a break. Ninety minutes appears to be the maximum amount of time that we can bring the highest level of focus to any given activity. The evidence is equally strong that great performers practice no more than 4 ½ hours a day.
4. Seek expert feedback, in intermittent doses. The simpler and more precise the feedback, the more equipped you are to make adjustments. Too much feedback, too continuously, however, can create cognitive overload, increase anxiety, and interfere with learning.
5. Take regular renewal breaks. Relaxing after intense effort not only provides an opportunity to rejuvenate, but also to metabolize and embed learning. It’s also during rest that the right hemisphere becomes more dominant, which can lead to creative breakthroughs.
6. Ritualize practice. Will and discipline are wildly overrated. As the researcher Roy Baumeister has found, none of us have very much of it. The best way to insure you’ll take on difficult tasks is to ritualize them — build specific, inviolable times at which you do them, so that over time you do them without having to squander energy thinking about them.

I have practiced tennis deliberately over the years, but never for the several hours a day required to achieve a truly high level of excellence. What’s changed is that I don’t berate myself any longer for falling short. I know exactly what it would take to get to that level.

I’ve got too many other higher priorities to give tennis that attention right now. But I find it incredibly exciting to know that I’m still capable of getting far better at tennis — or at anything else — and so are you.

Listen your people immediately (no hearing).We usually says to people, ‘talk to me later’. Even, we hardly look up to them (eye contact) and communicate as we are occupying in technology. I found people are busier in electronic gadgets and missing charm of meeting live people. Most of the time we give importance to technology, instead of live people. Isn’t it? Listen people completely. Do not cut their thoughts before they actually finished. (People do cut the thoughts of the people as if they know it). To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection .Listen intently till the people are exhausted.
Life is “now “or never.  Do it now have impact in the life. Leaders always respect the power of ‘now’ and listen them. This moment is the truth of the life. This truth is very well understood by leader, that’s why leader listen his executives, managers and team members.
Once we listen our people we have the following advantages.
1/ People down the line believe that they have a person to share their emotions.
2/ as a leader we come to know the actual status of the situation.
3/ indirectly, leader give the confidence to the people and power to communicate.
4/ People down the line feel that they have a shoulder to cry or spine support to stand tall.
5/ Leader offer solutions or decisions to the matter.

“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said. “
Peter F. Drucker

A  R Rahman, Oscar winner award musician says, “Prayer coming from a pure heart can actually change the destiny. I have seen it happen. There are instances that make me believe in the power of universe. And when the right things happen at the right time, is when your faith in something is reinforces many times more. It’s you also need to put you sincerity and hard work, but it’s meaningless if there is hatred and contempt in heart for your fellow beings. “
Clean soul can create wonders. Clean soul bless you sound and deep sleep of 8 hours. Prayer, Music, Meditation and creation are the tools to make soul more clean and clear. Holly wood actress learns prayer and meditation to live distress life. Recently, Angelina Jolly committed that she love spiritual life and she understand the importance of it in the life.
Leader does spend net 40 minutes for meditation and prayer every day, irrespective of anything and any place. In prayer you travel to God and share your pure emotions (not intelligence) this lesson is very well understand experience by leader.
The good wishes that leaders earn in the lifetime are true victory and real awards. “Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.” asserted by Vince Lombard.
True leaders know the true value of prayer and meditation. They also know that there is no pint in value the water after finding out dry well.

Never argue with one’s own understanding.

The whisper of intelligence is always there, whatever you do.

If you create a time lag between the whisper of intelligence and understanding in you and your action, then you are preventing the cerebral organ from growing into a new dimension.  When you argue with intelligence, when you postpone acting according to understanding then there is confusion, the brain gets confused.

The voice of understanding, the voice of intelligence has an insecurity about it. How do you know that it is the right thing?

So we tend to ignore it.  Instead we accept authority.  We conform.

But the brain cannot be orderly, competent, accurate and precise if you do not listen to it, if you have no respect.  We are so busy with the outside world, and its compulsions, that the world that is inside us does not command that respect and reverence, that care and concern from us.

So one has to be a disciple of one’s own understanding, look upon that understanding as the master.

Sometimes one may commit a mistake, it might be the whim of the ego and we might mistake the whim, the wish of the ego for the voice of silence and intelligence, but that we have to discover. Unless you commit mistakes, how do you learn to discriminate between the false and the true?  In learning there is bound to be a little insecurity, a possibility of committing mistakes.  Why should one be terribly afraid of committing mistakes?

So instead of accepting the authority of habits and conditioning, while one is moving one watches, and when there is a suggestion, a whisper from within, from one’s own intelligence, one does not neglect, ignore, or insult that.

To eliminate the time lag between understanding and action is the way to grow into spontaneity.

–Vimala Thakar

Leaders keep themselves away from Vanity:
Vanity means you feel that you deserve more than what they have got and they actually don’t. Vanity creates bitterness and discontentment.
Leaders do lead with pride and honour not with vanity. Leaders are always generous in giving and they give more than what others deserve and receive less than what they deserve. Pride is an attitude which separates leaders from mediocrity.
Leader love humility and believe strongly in pride. Leaders do lead without title and earn lot of pride for themselves in the society or family or organization. The humility and pride are invisible but it has terrific amount of value in the life. Pride is a greatest asset in the business of life.
Leader love proud when they are alone. They are so strong from inside and they activise inner in solitary. They listen inner sound always very clearly before taking decisions. Mohandas Gandhi asserted very profoundly ” The only tyrant i accept in this world is the still voice within.”

Leader knows the rules of leadership very well that leadership is inside-outside.

I would love to narrate famous Indian proverb: “There is nothing noble in feeling superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.”
Power or authority is not substitute of leadership. Leading with the virtue of position can corrupt leadership. True leadership is always regardless of power and living in pride.