I said for years that to be successful one must do two things. 1) We must do it the right way. Do it well. Whatever it is. And, 2) we must do a lot of it. In my case, this mostly goes back to the old days when I thought that whatever “it” was, I’d just outwork it. I think quite a bit differently these days. That was a very hard way to spend a few decades of my life. And it’s very limiting.
There is a lesson worth looking at. It came to me recently to think of these as two levers. We pull these levers to create outcomes. Lever A is the quality and effectiveness of what we’re doing. Infinitely more powerful is who we’re being. Lever B is doing more of it.
I find people talk about Lever A. They do want to be better and do better. They read books, go to seminars, get ideas, try things out. But mostly that’s an incremental trying to be a little better at whatever they’re already doing. They’re operating under their current ceiling of what they think they know from the experiences they’ve had. If you read our recent newsletters about quantum leap, they aren’t ditching the car and getting on an airplane.
