Why High Performers Chase Hard Things

You need other people around you who are going to make it hard to challenge you. And as a high performer, you may not want that because you might like being the top dog. You might like not having anyone compete with you because your numbers are so high, but that's not going to make you better. And it takes a rare individual to put themselves in an acutely painful situation when they don't have to that's going to push themselves. But the elite do this. They find ways to make it really hard and sometimes over-tilt. You don't want to stay there too long, but you definitely want to put yourself in a challenging situation so that you can not only study how you're going to react to that, but you don't know what type of a challenge might take your level of performance to a whole other level that you never thought was possible. And I saw this in my company with so many people, and the results could, you know, they can multiply. You want to be around other people who are going to be able to kick your butt, and if you don't have that, then you need to find and figure out some way to find someone who will.