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The Reality Distortion Field can SUPERCHARGE your business and life. A Top 5% Achiever's Secret
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Before I get started, I have an ask. We've had 95,000 downloads in the past 30 days, but only 3% of you follow us. Which would help grow our community of growth oriented kindred souls who are eager to drive impact in their life and their career. Give us a follow on Spotify, Apple or any platform that you use to listen to your podcast. My personal mission is to be able to bring the light that people need, the light in this world. And I'm putting my 20 year career at your service. So thank you. Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello. Driving impact collective the top 5% method this is Kathleen, your podcast host. I want to talk about some of the archetypes around the top 5% top performers and achievers in this world, which sometimes are in health, in sports and science. Now let's talk about business. There's one principle that many top achievers have, I mean many, some of the most known top achievers and it's called rdf. And what is rdf? It's the reality bending principle that has made a couple of people, among which Steve Jobs, widely successful because it's the reality distortion field. Apple's engineer Bud Tribble in 1981 described jobs ability to convince himself and the people around him, his followers, to believe in and also work towards seemingly impossible goals. How he did that, it's a combination, magical combination of charisma, of intense passion, persuasive rhetoric and also an unyielding belief. The first principle we talked about, charisma and persuasion. Job was supposed to make people believe in his vision and often pushing them to achieve what they thought was impossible. So one of the principle was disregarding the impossible. And his teams were able to accomplish tasks, task on timelines that seemed utterly unrealistic and oftentimes because the energy and the frequency and the excitement was contagious. Second principle we talked about visionary leadership. So Jobs, a reality distortion field also helped him look at his capacity and looked at him visualizing a future that did not exist. So he was able to create from nothing and to communicate a vision of a future that did not exist that was so compelling that people would work relentlessly to make it happen. That's enrollment. Thirdly, reframing and mental model. So he was able to like really innovate in terms of like what are the possible mental models to leverage. So he was able to reframe the problems and also change how the people's mental models that they leverage to be able to test, bank and to help them change their frame of thought and change their Solutions such that they could innovate that those are the three first principles. The fourth principle is help people shield themselves from doubt. Because we know that oftentimes people are doubtful and doubt can really make you feel stifled. So RDF really acted as a psychological shield that blocks fears, doubts and also negativity to that tends to make you sabotage any type of bold, big hairy initiatives that you might have. So both Jobs and his tribe or his followers were able to leverage the shield from doubt and that enabled them to focus on achieving these seemingly impossible and very ambitious goals. Then lastly, you gotta be persistent, you gotta have some willpower. So Jobs had this unwavering belief in his vision and that really led him to go all in to bend facts and sometimes ignore conventional limitations and conventional wisdom. And sometimes people would say that he was self deceiving himself. But also that created the world changing breakthroughs. So now let's listen in to what our friend B. Scott Taylor shares about how sometimes you have to be young, sometimes you have to be foolish to just disregard the impossible and just go for what you want and negotiate a bigger, broader exit for your business. The bold guy in the room.
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I was stupid. When you're young, man, you do crazy.
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How old were you at the time?
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32, I think. 32 and so, but I had no experience, so I didn't go to Wharton. I was selling copy machines and then I was selling long distance and I was a jet mechanic. Like what the hell do I know about anything? I'm just on the fly. And so I said, okay, well we have to change this again. He goes, listen, I can't send this back again. We have, you know, printers like going into business office of this change it.
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On the old school computer, printed on the fax.
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He goes, okay, if I do this for you, is that it? And I go, I swear, no more changes. That's it. So he literally takes a pen, scribbles out 15 months, writes in 90 days, he initials it, I initial it and we shake hands.
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Welcome to Driving Impact.