Magic Numbers: The Code Of Success
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“If you want to be the champion of the world, it’s actually pretty simple. It just has to be your every waking moment.”-John Kavanaugh
Success is math.
The following numbers are world class achievement, decoded.
Stand on the shoulders of giants and find the elite inside you.
- 1 Day, 1 Lifetime
- 1-3 Fundamentals
- 1-2 Strengths
- 10 Times Better
- 20x Capability
- 7x1x7 Rule
- 500 Books
- 6 Hours Of Reading Per Day
- 10 Years
- 10,000 Hours
- Ask 1,000 People
- 1300 Three Pointers A Day
- 700 Arrows
- 99%
- 8 Teams
- 1 Billion Dollars
- One Hundred And One Blows
1 Day, 1 Lifetime
The message I wish to convey is, please, live each day as if it is your entire life. If you start something today, finish it today; tomorrow is another world. Life live positively.Yusai Sakai, Marathon Monk
1-3 Fundamentals
Success in any endeavor (football medicine, marriage, parenting, leadership, rocket science, etc.) always comes down to about a half-dozen fundamentals. Then, narrow that down into your 2-3 vital functions and focus solely on those. Darren Hardy
1-2 Strengths
The superheroes you have in mind (titans, icons, billionaires) are nearly all walking flaws who have maximized 1-2 strengths. Tim Ferriss
10 Times Better
It’s often easier to make something 10 times better than 10% better. Go big or go home. It’s counterintuitive, but you can’t go too big. The bigger you go, the more inspired you will be personally. You will need to be inspired to get through the hard times that will hit you. The bigger you go, the more of a cause you can make it for the people you will need to attract. We’re going to make the world 5% better…I’ll stay at my current job. We’re going to make the world 10 times better or 100 times better…now you’ve got me. That’s the feeling that you need to be able to create in people in order for them to join you. Astro Teller, CEO GoogleX
20x Capability
You are capable of at least 20 times more than what you think you are. Mark Devine, ret. Navy SEAL Commander
7x1x7 Rule
One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you’ll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do. Earl Nightingale
500 Books
Earl Nightengale said that if you read 500 books on any topic, that will make you a world-renowned expert at that topic. So I read 4,000 books on personal success and business success. Larry Winget
6 Hours Of Reading Per Day
Warren Buffett spends five to six hours a day reading five newspapers and 500 pages of corporate reports.
10 Dark Years
The 10 Dark Years: the most successful people in the world have 10 dark years preparing that no one knows anything about (Tai Lopez)
The Running Years: to reach his goal of becoming a famous, well-paid cartoonist, for 10 years, Scott Adams didn’t take a day off. He worked 2 jobs and was writing a book. He ran everywhere, including to use the bathroom or get some food.
Bill Gates worked from age 20 to 30 without a day off.
10,000 Hours
10,000 hours of “deliberate practice” are required to become world class in any field. Malcolm Gladwell
The 10,000-hour rule is a fact. 3-4 hours a day for 10 years. This includes repetition as well as research. There is no way to get around it. Mastery is 20,000+ hours of focus. But if you are working on something you love, it doesn’t feel as long. Robert Greene
Ask 1,000 People
You can have anything you want in life if you’re willing to ask 1000 people. Byron Katie
1300 Three Pointers A Day
Elite performers know that they can have pretty much whatever they want if they are willing to pay the price. When Kobe Bryant wanted to be the best three point shooter he could be, he made 1300 three pointers every day during the off-season. What do you want in your life, do you believe you can have it if you pay the price, and what is the price you are willing to pay? Brian Johnson
700 Arrows
A young kid came to me a year and a half ago. His goal and dream in his life was to finish number one at the university archer championships in Britain. The best he has ever finished was 20th at a regional meet. He was firing 50 to 100 arrows a day. We set up a program and I beat him like a rented mule. I told if he fired 500-700 arrows a day for the next year, put 20 pounds of muscle on and fire a 120 pound bow, he would win. He was firing 600-700 arrows a day. His little arms would quiver and blisters cut through his hands. A couple months ago, he received first place in Britain. He’s the champ now. Your goal has to be high standards. Dan Peña
99%
Do what the 99% aren’t doing. Jordan Peterson
8 Teams
In his first team meeting as the new head football coach at the University of Utah, Meyer shared an intriguing secret with his players. “The first time he met with us,” former Ute safety Morgan Scalley recalled, “he said, ‘You know there are really only about eight teams in the nation that ever do things the right way. And we’re going to be one of those football teams.”
1 Billion Dollars
In the early 1970’s, Bob Proctor trained all the agents at Prudential Insurance of America. Bob believed you should focus on changing no more than two habits at a time, so he only taught them to form these two: 1) Get in front of a prospect before 9 a.m. 2) Ask everybody you talk to to purchase $100,000 worth of insurance (you don’t have to sell them, just give them the opportunity to say no). Just by forming these two simple habits, the sales in the company went up by close to a billion dollars.
One Hundred And One Blows
When nothing seems to help, I go back and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. Jacob Riis
