in today's video we're going to be
looking at the book managing oneself by
peter drucker so if you look at people
throughout history that are considered
the great achievers like Leonardo
DaVinci Mozart Napoleon for today
someone like Elon Musk
the one thing that they all have in
common is their ability to manage
themselves what this essentially means
is that because each one of us is
different we have to make sure that we
completely understand ourselves and live
our lives according to our strengths and
not somebody else's this is the only way
in which we can bring the most value
possible to the world and have the best
chances of success in our personal lives
the author says the reason for that is
that we can ever build our greatness on
our weaknesses only on the things that
were already at least a little bit above
average the problem that most of us face
is that we never really find out what
our unique talents and gifts are the
reason for that is that our environment
usually tries to point out our
weaknesses like in school were you in
general have to spend a lot of time on
classes that you're not talented
for example studying harder for a test
or tutoring after school instead of
spending more time further improving in
a subject that you're naturally good at
another example our commercials that
always try to point out the things that
you suck at or need to have in order to
be happy and normal like everybody else
which obviously just has a goal of
making money on your insecurities but
even worse is that we quite often stand
in our own ways as well like the math
genius who thinks that it's his duty to
lack any type of social skills just
defeat an old stereotype where the
talented athlete who thinks that he
needs to struggle academically because
that's just how athletes are in that way
we never give ourselves permission to
discover hidden strengths and abilities
that could lead to greater opportunities
and success in the future
now in order to really get to know
ourselves we have to do something called
feedback analysis is peter drucker
described in the book so what you do is
you set a certain goal for a period of
around nine to 12 months and by the end
of it you compare the results to your
expectations
you actually have to write down your
expectation now what this does is it
shows you how good you are already in a
particular area and if there's any
chance for you to become a master at it
and what you would need to do it to
become great at it with this message you
can discover your strengths and
weaknesses in a matter of two to three
years which will serve you well
a great return on investment for the
rest of your life but drunker explains
that's not the only way to know our town
we also need to learn how we perform and
learn most effectively for example you
might find out that you need to read
about things in order to understand them
the best others will find that they need
to listen and there are a few other ways
like talking to yourself taking notes or
learning by doing
you just have to be more self-aware and
you can do this by feedback analysis the
problem with the big systems today like
the school system for example is that
everything is generalized and only
applies to a small group of people
the rest are forced to function in ways
that go against their natural
inclination and therefore give them a
lot of disadvantages in their day-to-day
life and do not like to perform in the
best of their abilities is peter drucker
rights do not try to change yourself you
are unlikely to succeed but work hard to
improve the way that you actually
perform and try not to take your work
that you cannot perform or that you will
only perform poorly i love this quote
the next thing poker suggest after you
identify your strengths is tying them
into your values instead of what a lot
of people do going against them
he himself for example was working as a
successful investment banker in london
in the nineteen thirties and even though
he was making plenty of money in very
unstable times he decided to quit with
no prospect of any other jobs in order
to become a writer as that was what he
truly saw himself as being an investment
banker his strengths did not align with
values so we followed his heart and went
on to a pass for two things can merge
with each other
he chose the thing with which he thought
he could make the biggest contribution
possible to mankind the possibility of
asking yourself what contribution you
can make to the world is relatively new
and contain freedom that can often
overwhelm us throughout history up until
this point from the day that you were
born you know what your life is going to
be about if your family was a farmer you
are going to be a farmer like them and
artists like your parents or a monarch
like your parents you never had to
decide what you wanted to do with your
time on this earth and obviously it is
an incredible luxury to be able to
choose we have amazing opportunity now
but we have to use the methods in this
book to select the right patch for us
and take our future into our own hands
most people nowadays sort of wander
around with no clear vision your goals
which is the absolute worst of all
options not making a decision is also a
decision with our lifespans massively
increasing it's often not enough to
choose only one career in our life
there's a reason for this thing called
midlife crisis it's our body telling us
that we need new goals and challenges
which makes a lot of sense considering
that people that used to live until the
mid 30s are now able to well live into
the nineties or above have amazing
opportunity here
this book has all kinds of gold nuggets
in it and it's a pretty short book but i
highly recommend reading it and if you
don't read it at least try feedback
analysis write down on a piece of paper
right now what you think you're good at
and what your expectations for the
future are one year from now and then
one year from now is what you wrote down
actually happening or better or is it
works because it's worse you might need
to change what you're working on it
writing it down once you leave it in the
comment below and in the year i will
reply to all of you
oh yeah by the way I think I mentioned
this in the beginning of the video but
I've actually done this book review
before it was almost a year ago and you
can go back and watch that video I'm
going to put it in the end screen and
you can see how much I have improved in
one year on this channel in that video
there's a ton more technical detail
about this book so i suggest you to go
watch it even though the quality wasn't
near what it is now I think you guys
will get some amazing inspiration
looking at where I was a year ago to
where i got to now I hope you guys
enjoyed this video and if you want more
like this subscribe hey this is going to
be an animated book review of the book
managing oneself by peter drucker which
this is actually in the Harvard Business
Review and he says that after he has
done this a few times she realized that
he's not as always as good at what he
thinks he's at and he goes into after
you find a strength you need to improve
that a little nugget of knowledge of
heelys in here is that remember ideas
don't move mountains bulldozers with
mountains