Why the Best of the Best Always Have Teachers

为什么最优秀的人总是有老师

Good Life Project

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2016-08-11

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What does it ACTUALLY take to be great? Over the last decades, we’ve learned that practice, alone, isn’t enough. You need to make your practice “deliberate,” with a fierce focus on assessing and improving. In this sense, becoming mesmerizingly good might have more to do with being purposeful than obsessed. Thing is, this type of […]The post Why the Best of the Best Always Have Teachers appeared first on Good LifeProject. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • So it's been a little while since I've done a good life project riff, and we've slowly been shifting the schedule around.

  • You probably noticed it so that we're doing actually fewer episodes, and now we're going to make that final shift.

  • And this is in response to a survey that we gave to you guys a couple months back where you said, hey, this is what we really want.

  • So we're going to move over to a once a week format with a riff and a once a week with a long form conversation, and that's gonna keep rolling as of today.

  • Today's riff is entitled you're never too good to ask for help.

  • And it unfolds in four acts.

  • Act one, stripped bear.

  • So I'm standing in the middle of Michael Port's pretty cavernous living room in New Hope, Pennsylvania, with vaulted ceilings and a towering wall of windows open to the woods behind it.

  • And Port is in his typical jeans and black t shirt, and he's sitting in a chair, silhouetted against the glass, glasses on and facing in.

  • I am, in no uncertain terms, completely and utterly on display, which is also exactly where I've asked to be.

  • With great unease, he watches my every move, listens to my every word notepad in his lap, observing and scribbling.

  • And I flail about, and I'm fumbling for words, awkwardly moving, working desperately to maintain even a modicum of respect.

  • And he stops me over and over and over and over.

  • Look out, not down.

  • Don't move unless you have a reason.

  • Stay here for just a moment longer, then move slowly.

  • Stage or kitchen?

  • Right.

  • What if we told it this way instead of that way?

  • Good, good.