Seeking Sageship: Beyond Leadership

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How People Still Fail Even When Performing At Their Best

How People Still Fail Even When Performing At Their Best

Why Many People Never Attain Their Potential

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How People Still Fail Even When Performing At Their Best

Why Many People Never Attain Their Potential

I've Known Many Peak Performers Over the Years...

They are Truly Capable of So Much.

Yet, often I find that they Still Fail.

Completely.

Even when they Attain Regular Peak Psychophysiological States, especially Flow States...

They Still Fail.

Why is this?

How Does It Happen?

It is Quite Simple to Understand in Theory...

Think about a Hose...

You want to get the Water to Hit a Target about 15 Feet Away while Standing Still.

How Do You Accomplish It?

Especially if the Hose Seems to Only Shoot about 10 Feet when You Hold It?

If You have Ever Played with a Hose, You Know that if You Focus the Water to go through a More Concentrated Hole...

Aka, You use Your Thumb to make a Smaller Hole...

Suddenly the Water can Shoot Further.

Using Your Thumb like this is Similar to Finding those Peak Psychophysiological States.

But the Problem for Most People?

The Fail to Aim the Hose at the Target.

Some People Shoot in the Wrong Direction.

Others will Disperse the Energy by Frantically Moving the Water in Different Directions, but Still Missing the Target.

Then there are Those who Aim Straight Up, and Get Themselves Soaked in the Process.

And Of Course, there are Those who Figured Out How to Use their Thumb...

But Simultaneous Poke Holes in the Hose...

Or Squeezing the Hose...

Or Turning Off the Hose Altogether.

If You Do any of these, Even "If" You are using Your Thumb to Perform Better...

You'll Still Fail to Hit the Target.

Now, Aiming the Hose is Just a Metaphor for the Reality of What People Do.

It Might Sound Surprising...

But I have Met Many Peak Performers...

Who are Doing Everything...

Except Aiming at their Target.

Self-Sabotage.

False Beliefs.

Listening to Terrible, Popular, Advice.

Spreading Themselves Too Thinly Across Projects.

Old Habits and Patterns that Continue to Play Out that are Not Beneficial.

Not Acting as a Human.

Yes, I Know that Last One Sounds Strange, but "Many" People Treat themselves more like Robots and Algorithms rather than Anything Organic.

All of these Contribute, and Frequently Combine, to Prevent People from Attaining their Goals...

Even when they are Performing their Best.

You will Never Reach Your Potential Unless You Successfully Direct Energy (Mg-ATP), or the Water, in the Right Direction.

It Must Be Purposeful...

Intentional...

In the Right Direction...

Focused...

Maintained for Long Enough...

At the Right Level of Effort...

In the Ways that Humans Work and Function Best...

Only Then will You Attain Your Goals and Potential.

Only in this Way will You Avoid Spraying all of Your Energy (Mg-ATP) around Uselessly like a Child who hasn't Learned how to Use a Hose Purposefully.

Do Not Waste Your Energy (Mg-ATP)...

Especially if You "Do" Know How to Get into Peak States of Performance.


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This article was inspired by something I noticed…

Not Once…

But Twice.

There is someone whose work I Regularly Follow.

I Do Not Agree with Everything They Say…

I Believe They are Stuck in the Brain Trap…

But they “Are” Making Amazing Strides in their Work within Psychophysiology.

Have Been for Years.

Now, this Individual I Follow has Built Two Companies with Two Different Co-Founders over the Years.

When I Looked at the Individual I Follow…

I Could See they Were Focused…

Determined…

Pointed at the Right Target.

But their Co-Founders?

I Just Did Not See It.

They were Smart.

Capable.

Clearly able to Attain Peak Performance within their Own Rights.

But I could Tell that Neither Co-Founder was even in the Same Ballpark as the Person I Follow.

The Question, “Why Them?” went through My Head.

I gave these Co-Founders the Benefit of the Doubt, though…

Perhaps I was missing something…

But I went through Two Different Training Programs, both Primarily Led by the Co-Founders, basing the Programs Off of the Work of the Person I Follow.

Both Programs were… Good.

But they Failed to Really “Add” Anything to the Work of the Person I Follow.

Before Long…

The Person I Follow Split from both of these Co-Founders (Different Times).

I have Seen the Work of the Co-Founders since those Splits, and they have left me…

Unimpressed.

They are like the Person Spraying Water without Hitting the Target.

Masters of their Work…

But Not Sages.

So, How Do We Avoid becoming like these Co-Founders?

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