Ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work. Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. Energy, resources, and time should go instead to making a competent person into a star performer.
One should waste as little effort as possible on improving areas of low competence.It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.Comparing your expectations with your results also indicates what not to do.Go to work on acquiring the skills and knowledge you need to fully realize your strengths.Discover where your intellectual arrogance is causing disabling ignorance and overcome it.It will also show the gaps in your knowledge-and those can usually be filled. Analysis will rapidly show where you need to improve skills or acquire new ones. Put yourself where your strengths can produce results. Nine or 12 months later, compare the actual results with your expectations. Whenever you make a key decision or take a key action, write down what you expect will happen. The only way to discover your strengths is through feedback analysis.One cannot build performance on weaknesses, let alone on something one cannot do at all.That, in large measure, is what makes them great achievers. History’s great achievers – a Napoléon, a da Vinci, a Mozart – have always managed themselves. The author’s words are in normal font, while my interpretations are in italics. Don’t be surprised if it has changed between visits. I keep updating the summary when I revisit it, and occasionally may edit it to reduce summary length. Note: This summary is made up of my notes, thoughts and highlights of important passages while reading the book.
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