Look, you can have a great idea. You can be incredibly enthusiastic. You’re ‘I Can,’ can be larger than your ‘I Can’t,’ but here’s the thing that ultimately will make you a genius level entrepreneur, it’s skill, it’s acumen. I mean, when I work with the billionaires as their private advisor, to help them exponentially grow their businesses or craft world-class lives that make history. When I work with the best of the best, I mean, a lot of NFL athletes, NBA athletes, football superstars who follow my work, here’s the one thing they all have in common; they have other worldly levels of acumen.
They have practiced well past the 10,000 hours that Anders Ericsson has taught us is the
beginning of exceptional performance. They practiced the 3.44 hours of training every single day. They have invested so much of their energy and their time and skills in not only practicing their craft, but learning about their craft and populating their life with peers who are world-class and they have really made the sacrifices required so that the one thing they want to be best in world that has become their dominant obsession. And the result of that when they do that, every single day is literally other worldly acumen. And what I mean by that is when you see them on the football field, or when you see them as an entrepreneur, when you see them doing the work that they do, you literally step back and go, “They’re other worldly good. I’ve never seen someone with that level of insight. I’ve never seen someone lead or work that way. I’ve never seen someone bend the ball like Beckham used to bend the ball.”
Beckham’s father said Beckham used to spend every single night on the playing field when he
was a little kid. We look at the Brazilian footballers and we say, “Oh, they must be genetically gifted.” No, ever since. I mean, the whole culture in Brazil is little kids play football so that by t
he time they’re 13, they’ve touched the ball millions of times. Of course, North Americans can’t touch their acumen. So other worldly acumen born of deep and daily deliberate practice.