Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success
Dr. Friedman’s book is superb! It’s clear that he used his own reverse engineering process in writing to create this book. I was pleasantly surprised to learn more than I expected what is Decoding Greatness.
Did you know?
Barack Obama used to be terrible at public speaking? That Stan Lee almost quit writing comics around age 40?
After a slump and injury, Roger Federer took almost a year off to revamp his entire game to become the greatest of all time?
Well, I did not,
Reverse engineer success formulas. The first step in becoming a good performer on your own is to study and analyze what the top performers in your field are doing right now. Reverse engineer, what are they doing? This unleashes hidden insights and reveals new skills needed to gain and inspire creativity.
- Become a colleter of Greatness
- Spot the difference in the success
- Think in patterns and frameworks
- Dont music them, advance and evolve
- Embrace the vision-ability gap
- Keep the score with metrics
- take the risk out of risk-taking
- Doubt solace anticipate difficulties
- Bridle practice and Visualization
- Ask for advice, not feedback
Apply these formulas with your twist. Once you have rebuilt your excellence in your area, you can start turning that knowledge into acquisition. Given the gap between what you can do and what you have to do. There are clever and evidence-based ways to fill that gap. Hone your skills and create great work.
For one, if journaling is good enough for Thomas Edison, Michael Phelps (How he did visualization winning the medals before going to bed), and Serena Williams, I figure it’s good enough for me. I will start doing it.
The advice in this book is spot on many years of research and experience. This could be one of the most compelling and valuable books in your life. Could you read it, you won’t regret it.
