have you ever wondered is there some
sort of science that would give you the
answer on what exactly you need to do at
work to get recognized to get that next
race to climb up in terms of your level
in a company to even give your best work
to the world if you work for yourself
well there is a lot of science on this
and one of the foremost thinkers i pay
attention to when i'm trying to
understand how to give my best at work
is a guy by the name of stephen coppler
perhaps you've heard of him he wrote
some of the most significant books of
the last seven years including abundance
bold rise of superman and stealing fire
stephen cutler has been studying for
years and years to try to understand
scientifically what it takes to be the
best you can at your work and there are
five things that he looks at now his
newest work where he integrates these
five elements is called the habit of
ferocity we're so excited because we're
going to be bringing this to mindvalley
but what i want to do in this video is
share with you really quickly the five
principles of the habit of ferocity that
you can integrate in your company and in
your life this week itself that will
change the way you function at work so
the first one is motivation then there's
flow risk taking learning and grit now
the first thing i want you to understand
is that the word ferocity may seem
fierce it may seem aggressive that is
not what stephen is talking about rather
when you embrace the habit of ferocity
all it means is that you are fierce
towards your goals but you're doing it
in a state of ease and flow and
gentleness where it's almost as if it's
a beautiful dance so what are the five
qualities of the habit of ferocity well
the first one is motivation now
motivation comes from knowing purpose so
if you wanted to rapidly boost
motivation in any company and get people
more engaged in what they do more
excited about their job and this applies
to you as well here's a simple hack that
stephen cutler and daniel pink speak
about and it's called
reminding yourself of the big purpose so
here's what we do at mindvalley one of
the fastest ways to remind you of your
purpose is to ensure that you are paying
attention to how you change customer
lives so many people who work in larger
companies are not directly in touch with
the customer and so they may be doing
great work but they don't see those
lives changed one of the things we do is
we have a person within mindvalley her
name is mata and her full-time job is to
be a tribe storyteller mata travels
around the world film stories of our
customers puts them on a youtube channel
called the mindvalley tribe and you know
what these stories don't just inspire
other customers primarily they serve to
inspire our team at every weekly company
gathering mata is the first person on
stage sharing stories and slides of how
we changed our customers lives now can
you do this in your work if you do what
you're going to see is a big rise in
motivation now the second is a term
called flow now flow is a really
powerful idea that brings out the best
of you but here's what kotler says to
get in a state of flow you got to have a
challenge that slightly above your skill
level if the challenge is too high you
feel anxiety if the challenge is too low
you get bored the optimal amount of
challenge above your skill level
according to cutler is four percent so
how do we put ourselves in flow simple
you give yourself a goal that is
slightly beyond what you know right now
so many people set goals based on who
they are right now and what they know
right now the problem is that leads to
stagnation you want to set your goal for
what you are going to learn who you are
going to be a classic example of how we
do it here in mind valley is this
amazing woman ola ola is someone who
organizes our events all around the
world but what's unique about her is
every time she nails the formula for an
event and she makes it successful and
almost
automated she sets her sights on putting
on an event in a new country and in a
new region even though she knows she
might fail now by giving herself such a
challenge she is continuously excited
about her job and best of all she pushes
herself to keep growing and growing and
growing now the third element is risk
taking risk-taking is really interesting
within our company what we do for
risk-taking is to ensure that everyone
who's leading a team sets a goal for the
year that they know they have a 50
chance of failing at so let's think
about this for a moment you're not just
setting goals that you are aiming to hit
you're setting at least one out of four
goals that must have a 50 percent chance
of failing and if you are not failing
you're probably not thinking big enough
you're probably not taking enough risk a
classic example here is clement who
works at mindvalley clement looks at
potential ideas for new experimental
apps that we can launch he's working on
one right now it may take off and be
huge it could also likely fail but it
doesn't matter his job is to take that
risk and there is no punishment there is
no dishonor if you fail you celebrate
that failure and what you learned and
you move on so risk-taking is an
essential part of the habit of ferocity
the thought concept is rapid learning it
means constantly making yourself learn
to become a better and better and better
human being
one of the most beautiful things i've
seen in terms of learning is a guy in
our company called k minglani so while
holding down an important job at
mindvalley he was dashing off on
weekends to university to study for his
emba and he became the youngest person
in his class to finish that emba and
when he completed and got that degree he
brings it back into the company and
every few weeks or so he holds classes
for everyone else in the company to
teach them what he learned in his emba
not only is he learning but everyone
else is learning not surprisingly he's
had an incredible trajectory in the
company and become one of our most
valuable people and finally perseverance
or as kotler calls it grit so grit is
one of the things that we often forgot
that we need as a peak performer when
you're trying to do something big there
are going to be road bumps on the way so
how do you overcome those road bumps
there are numerous ways one of the
things that we do here is the practice
of gratitude so our learning experience
design team is constantly looking at
creating the best learning systems in
the world we want to have the world's
greatest learning platforms now that is
not an easy task and when you're working
with so many different technologies and
authors you hit road bumps it can get
stressful so what the team does is that
every morning before they start their
day they get on slack and they share
what they're grateful for everybody
celebrates one tiny aspect of their life
that lit them up and by sharing it with
everyone else they light up the rest of
the team this gives fuel gratitude gives
fuel to give you more grit and
passionate perseverance so those five
ideas when you put them together give
you a recipe for the habit of ferocity i
hope you saw some value in them and i
tried to give you really simple tangible
examples so that you can bring this into
your workplace and your company as soon
as this week but if you want to go
further if you want to really master the
habit of ferocity check out the new
master class that i just filmed with
steven cotner it's absolutely free it's
brilliant it's hilarious and i think
you're going to get a ton
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