Dr. Benjamin Hardy is an organizational psychologist, keynote speaker and best-selling author who focuses on the psychology of exponential growth and transformation, future self science, and entrepreneurship. He wrote 8 books which have sold nearly 1M copies. Ben’s new book, 10X Is Easier Than 2X is now available for purchase at https://10xeasierbook.com. His work focuses on the psychology of exponential growth and transformation, future self science, and entrepreneurship. In 2018, he and his wife went from 0 to 5 kids in 1 year, adopting 3 from the foster system and having twins. They now have 6 kids and live in Orlando.

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3 Value Bombs

1) Bigger goals simplify the process enormously.

2) Unique ability is about stripping away everything that you think you need or everything you think other people think you need and solely focusing on what you most want, that which is most intrinsically motivating, that which is most exciting that which you think has infinite upside.

3) Deliberate practice is really the idea of purposeful practice towards a goal. It’s not about quantity of practice, it’s not about quantity of reps. It’s about the quality of those reps based on a goal or a standard that you’re working towards.

Show Notes

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Today’s Audio MASTERCLASS: 10x is Easier Than 2x with Benjamin Hardy

[1:39] – Benjamin shares something that he believes about becoming successful that most people disagree with.

He doesn’t believe that it’s good to always be seeking a future and to never feel satisfied.

[2:33] – Striving for impossible goals is easier than getting the small ones.

Bigger goals simplify the process enormously.
Having bigger goals is like having a truth filter. It immediately eliminates all the decision fatigue. It eliminates all the waste and it also highlights all the aspects of his current path.

[5:50] – What to do today to become 10x our current self.

One of the major differences between 10X versus 2X, if you’re gonna go for 2X growth in anything, then you’re operating from your past and you’re using your past to dictate your strategy for the future.
10X is not based on the past, It’s based on a seemingly impossible but really compelling and exciting future that you want.
Only the best 20% of what you’re now doing can stay. 80% of your current life situation like habits are irrelevant.
The 20% is what you want to go deep on, and if you go deep on that 20% and get 10 times better at that, than 10 times bigger takes care of itself.

[8:59] – Increasing quality and decreasing quantity of our actions.

It has a lot of it has to do with your attention. Most people’s attention is quite surface level these days.
We’re focused on quantity in today’s world over quality. So, if you want to go 10X, you really do want to focus on quality first, which is getting 10 times better at something.

[11:47] – A timeout to thank our sponsors!

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[13:48] – Clarifying our own unique ability that will increase the money we paid for disability.

Unique ability is one of the core ideas that help entrepreneurs peel away the layers.
Unique ability is about stripping away everything that you think you need or everything you think other people think you need and solely focusing on what you most want, that which is most intrinsically motivating, that which is most exciting that which you think has infinite upside.
If something doesn’t have massive potential of growth and opportunity and progression, then it’s probably not unique ability.

[16:28] – 10x-ing the creativity and the innovation that we’re currently experiencing, what are the steps?

The first step is taking the vision and making it bigger. It would help to have a much higher goal that would force down a different path. You’d have to get different mentors, different teachers.
Deliberate practice is really the idea of purposeful practice towards a goal. It’s not about quantity of practice, it’s not about quantity of reps. It’s about the quality of those reps based on a goal or a standard that you’re working towards.

[18:38] – What is self-managing company and why we need to think about creating one.

Self-managing team is a really epic way to build a company.
Even people who are running big companies, they’re still in the business, not working on the business and because they’re in it, they’re caught up in that 80%.
You’ve got to trust yourself first. And leadership is really about two things: It’s firstly about trust, secondly about transformation. But you have to trust yourself enough to free yourself into that 20%.
When a leader trusts themselves enough to free themselves, and they trust leaders or a team enough to handle things and even to make mistakes and to make decisions and to move things forward, then the team starts to trust themselves more and starts to take more initiative.

[21:58] – Benjamin key take away and call to action.

Benjamin Hardy Website – Check out Benjamin’s website.
10x is Easier Than 2x – How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less.
You can become ten times better and more valuable, more useful, then you are now and it’s an invitation to do that.

[24:20] – Thank you to our Sponsors!

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