We’ve found, in our work with executives at dozens of organizations, that it’s possible to build any given skill or capacity in the same systematic way we do a muscle: push past your comfort zone, and then rest.
Tony Schwartz at Harvard
Here, then, are the six keys to achieving excellence we’ve found are most effective for our clients:
- Pursue what you love.
- Do the hardest work first.
- Practice intensely.
- Seek expert feedback, in intermittent doses.
- Take regular renewal breaks.
- Ritualize practice.