World-class tennis players. I’m talking about BIW, best in the world tennis players were observed. And here’s what they found. What made the best tennis players in the world the best was not really what they did on the court. It was what they did between points. It was their recovery rituals that made them great. If you look at many of the best athletes in other sports, what made them world-class was not their natural talent, it was not even their willpower. It was that they had the ability to install a series of rituals, which when they ran them, allowed for a legendary performance. Now, here’s a really, really, really key point. I hope you’re excited to learn it because it really is a game-changer. University College of London has discovered that it takes 66 days of daily practice on a specific habit or a specific skill or a specific ritual to reach a point that they call automaticity. And the automaticity point simply means that you reach a level where it’s easier to do the new ritual than not to do the new ritual. And I’ll repeat that again because it’s so important. 66 days of practicing the new ritual or habit that you want to install until you get to a point where it’s actually easier to do the new thing than not to do the new thing. And that’s called automaticity. Share that with your friends later today. But the point is really this, your brain is the result of 6 million years of evolution. Your brain is sort of a mental miracle. And most of us don’t know how to use our brains. But your brain has a phenomenon or gift called neuroplasticity. And so your brain is actually designed to grow and to shift and to evolve and to build new skills. So please don’t say, “Robin, I’ve tried new things and it didn’t work.” Maybe you didn’t do the work until the new ritual became automatic.
