Do few things strikingly well. Most people right now are suffering, and I use the word suffering on purpose. They are suffering from massive levels of complexity, whether it’s on the social media, whether it’s diversion through their devices, or they have so many friends and they have so many books to read and they have so many social engagements, and they haven’t stepped back from the complexity of their lives to say, “Why am I doing all this?” They just think it’s normal. And actually, some of them have numbed themselves and it’s such so part of their normal lives, they really don’t know they’re doing it.And what I’m encouraging you to do is remember that history’s heroes were not complexitarians. They were minimalists. They had a few possessions. They had a few friends. They didn’t have five homes. They didn’t have seven cars. They didn’t have 40,000 followers in terms of the social media. These people kept it staggeringly simple.And I think that’s really, really important, because if you simplify versus go complex, what happens is you can then take your energy and your focus and your personal resources and focus them on the few things that will be most important. And that’s what the great ones do. They marshal and harness their resources, their mental focus, their physical energy, their personal willpower, their individual gifts, their time. I call those the five assets of elite performance, and they focus them on just a few things. And if you … I want you to think about it in your life. If you stripped away all the noise, you focused on the signal, you stripped away all the complexity, you got monomaniacally concentrated on just a few things, of course, you’d be brilliant at those few things.
