Crisis brings the potential for extraordinary transformation. And I say potential because most people really do allow failure to crush them. But the game changer is vastly different. She or he leverages. Leverages. Leverages is the key word, adversity to grow them. And it’s just a belief they install and then a decision they practice. And just as the violinist who trains daily gets better, and the chess champion who practices regularly becomes greater, and the boxer who does the workouts every morning while the world is asleep grows stronger, using difficulty to your advantage is a skill that you will definitely become brilliant at with daily devotion and practice. And that’s one of the great things about practice. Every single workout makes you a little bit better. And small daily optimizations and improvements over time lead to legendary results. The victim will say, “I’m having a bad day, or a bad decade or a bad life.” Or the fixed mindset entrepreneur will say, “Oh, why me?” and get stuck. The growth mindset entrepreneur and the real changer will practice developing a mindset and an emotional architecture and a way of being. And again, it’s not something that’s quick fix, but it happens inevitably over weeks and months until it becomes your automatic default, which is exciting for you because it’s within your choice and you will get there as you do the work. But the big idea is you will get to a mindset where when you get knocked down, you automatically get up. You will get to a mindset where you actually see hardship opportunity and beautiful possibility to make yourself and your results even greater.So please just remember this principle, a problem only becomes a problem if you’re running the software and have installed the hard-wiring architecture and operating system that says problems are problems. And I totally get that you say, “But Robin, isn’t feeling the pain or getting discouraged during a difficult time, isn’t that part of being human?” And I’d say to you, “That’s an old way of being human.’And what I’m inviting you to start playing with and being a game changer is human nature 2.0. And I want you to start feeling that, yeah, it’s human nature in the past for most human beings according to those old beliefs, to feel that intense hardship is hard. It is at times. And I agree, it’s definitely just top 5% thinking to see that something difficult and feeling stuck that has knocked you down can actually lift you up. And I get that this way of being definitely takes practice over the coming days, weeks, and months until you get there. But it’s so worth it. I mean, if this was easy, everyone would be doing it. If being world-class was easy, everyone would be doing it. If being in the best fitness of your life was easy, everyone would be in the best fitness of their lives. If doing world-class work that stuns your industry was easy, everyone would be a Jordan or a Picasso or an Elon Musk or the Mother Teresa of what it is that they do or the Misty Copeland of their industry. And that’s the opportunity, because so few people are willing to do the work and go deeper. It’s because so few people believe that they can rise to [inaudible 00:03:39]. You have that opportunity here today. So what I’m suggesting to you is as you do the practice and do the training and do the work, you will feel confident, positive, happy and peaceful on the inside no matter what’s going on on the outside, and that is a great place to be. Your inner state of grace and power will no longer be conditional on everything in your outer world being perfect, and that’s an amazing place to be. And if you’re still resisting me on this idea that you really have it within you to get to a place where no matter if your outer world is falling apart, you are graceful, powerful, and strong within, please just think about this. Everything you now find easy, you once found heart. And that’s the very nature of developing any skill. See, all of this is developing a skill. Unconditional bravery is the skill we’re talking about. And of course, it’s going to be hard at first, of course it’s going to be messy in the middle as all your false beliefs get torn down and make way for better beliefs, and it’s going to be ever so gorgeous at the end, which is the state of mastery.
