Connecting the dots

The authors lay down a framework for achieving peak potential with the help of certain behaviors & solutions. Solutions leading to help you attain peak potential are:     Specialize: In today's world, you need to have to be specialist in at least one skill to live a comfortable life. How to achieve that is being spoken by Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers: The Story of Success . He states a common finding from all leading professional athletes & experts spending at least 10,000 of deliberate practice before being called an expert. 10,000 hrs that would take us almost a decade of practice. Let’s talk about great professional bodybuilder Ronnie Coleman who is the only person along with Lee Haney (1984-91) to win 8 Mr Olympias (biggest & toughest international bodybuilding competition). He had already completed 10,000 hours of training by the time he had entered his first competition in 1995. He started training at the age of 12 and was 30 (1995) when he won ...

  https://unsplash.com/@randvmb   The classic google search on word reflect shows “throw back without absorbing”. What I want to talk about today is about the other meaning “to think deeply or carefully about”. Similar to how a mirror shows what’s kept in front of it due to reflection of light. So, what does reflecting mean? Take a moment sit back and run through how you spend your last day in your mind. List down things you liked to do and helped you & things that did not. What you just did was a reflecting. Why do we need to reflect? To see how things actually happened as against what you planned in your mind: If the    reason for variation is an external factor like this pandemic then you need to adapt to the change. If it is due to something you dint do now you know what needs to be done.   To analyze your mistakes and errors in judgement: Things go wrong all the time and that’s the nature of design because if everything well we won’t learn o...