Hi. It’s Robin Sharma and I’m doing my Second Wind Workout. This is my nature walk that I do at the end of most days, sort of to download the day and to just get a second workout, so I set myself up for a wonderful evening with my loved ones, so I have lots of energy and presence, focus and peacefulness.
And as I’ve been walking, I’ve been thinking about the importance of installing a pharmacy of mastery in your brain. You’ve heard me say many times that genius is not about genetics, genius is about your habits. And so I wanted to walk you through a quick piece, which is why developing monomaniacal focus is so important.
So when you start to focus and you delete distraction from your life and you start to get
seriously invested in doing one thing staggeringly well, and you practice that one thing over and over, a term to think about is mundanity, you do one simple seemingly insignificant thing every day around your main skill and it’s very mundane, but small daily improvements over time lead to world-class results.
Well, here’s what happens in your brain. You start to isolate a single neurocircuit around that skill. And that starts to trigger a certain type of brain cell called an oligodendrocyte, which then releases myelin. Myelin is a fatty tissue that starts to wrap around that single neurocircuit related to that main skill you’ve been practicing. And when myelin starts to wrap around the brain circuit, what happens is you have accelerated learning times, you can see more quickly, heightened perception, and you’ll learn more quickly.
And that is really the quote-unquote secret of the great producers. It’s not a result of some natural gift, but their daily practice, their relentlessness and their grit, their work ethic, and their singular focus and sacrifice. All of those things come together over time to create world-class performance.
Hope that’s been helpful.