You want to hardwire in strengthening scenarios. And all that means is on your game plan, just like a Navy Seal, like a SWAT Team, and I mention that because those are people who are BIW at execution, because lives are at stake in a military scenario. In a military, you know the word I’m talking about here, in a military campaign. And so you want to look at your plan and then you want to say, wow, this is going to be difficult today, but you do it. And if you do it every single day, here’s what’s going to happen.
The power that you gave to those difficult things that you’ve been procrastinating around, you take your power back. This is how you build power. You say, here are the things I’ve been avoiding, now I must do them because these are things that I do want to do and they will get me closer to where I want to be 100 years from today.
And the more you do it, the more you start to set up these neurocircuits in your brain. These
neurocircuits are a lot like a grassy meadow. If you do it every day the meadow becomes a trail. If you walk the trail every day through your daily behavior around these key pursuits, the grassy meadow turns into the trail and the trail becomes a road. And if you do it every single day, 3.44 hours a day for 10,000 hours, which is the starting point, the necessary work you need to do to reach world-class performance, what happens? The meadow turns into a trail. The trail becomes a road. And guess what?
Neuroscientists will tell you what you do every day consistently over time becomes a super highway in terms of your neurocircuitry. And that’s why Gretzky could go to where, could see where the puck was going versus where the puck was. That’s why Beckham could bend the ball like Beckham. That’s why Stephen King can write the way Stephen King writes. That’s why Jean-Michel Basquiat could create the art he did. That’s why Kevin Systrom over at Instagram, that’s why Travis Kalanick took over at Uber, that’s why Zuckerberg can see around corners. It’s not because they’re gifted, it’s because they practiced just a few pursuits.
They built the neural super highway. They literally had otherworldly powers because
of what their brain could see and your behavior always follows what’s going on in your brain.