The Key to Avoiding Failure | Robin Sharma

Hi, it's Robin Sharma, the author of the Leader who had no title. Well, welcome to my hotel room here in gorgeous Zurich. And the idea behind this session is a very simple one, but a game changing one. If you really wrap your brain cells around it and it's nothing fails like success. What do I mean by that? Well, what I mean is nothing fails like success. When you are successful, whether it's in your business, in your finances, in your fitness, in your family life, in your spiritual, your productivity, it's very easy to stop doing the things that made you successful in the first place. When you become successful, it's easy to lose the fire in the belly. When you become successful, it's easy to become arrogant, to stop maintaining that beginner's mind, to stop learning, to stop out working the competition, to stop out innovating and out thinking and outperforming everyone around you. Two examples I want to share with you. Number one. About 12 years ago, one of my friends told me something I've never forgotten. Little anecdote. It was about a billionaire. And my friend told me this billionaire had an interesting strategy that he used to keep him on the razor's edge and sharp. Mentally, emotionally, physically, professionally. The billionaire had the best seats in this sporting stadium. He had these box seats. So what he would do is he'd go to the sporting event, he'd go down to his box seats and then he'd leave his passes with the people in the box seats and the people around him, including my friend, said, where are you going? And you need your pass if you're going to leave. And the billionaire told my friend, he said, no, I want to leave the stadium and try to get back into these box seats, the best seats in the house, just by my wits, just by talking my way through security, just by staying sharp, just by sort of out thinking and innovating and being on the razor's edge. Shall I get back to these box seats? Nothing fails like success. That billionaire understood that the riskiest thing you could possibly do is not take risks. Second example, to bring the point home to you.