Brian Johnson contrasts average and elite performers: average people practice until they get it right, elite people practice until they can't get it wrong. He uses his own spear-throwing practice and references Lanny and Troy Basham's work to show why excellence requires pushing past competence.
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Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another Optimize plus one. In our last plus one, we talked about Zen in the Art of Spartan Spear Throwing and the recent installation of a spear throw setup in our backyard, complete with bales of hay, etc. Yes, again, we're all in at the Johnson House. How about you? Do you have a deep commitment to mastery in your life? Remember, even the most mundane practices can be a portal into optimizement, enlightenment, whatever you want to call it. So I'm in my backyard throwing my spear and thinking about Steven Pressfield's wisdom. As I had fun walking back and forth covering the 30ft between the hay bales and my starting point, I was also thinking about some Lanny and Troy Basham wisdom. As we've discussed, Lanny wrote a book called With Winning in Mind. Troy wrote a book called Attainment. We briefly talked about some of their wisdom on how average versus Elite performers practiced in our plus one on why Buddha kept on meditating after his enlightenment Short story Lanny and Troy tell us that average performers practice something until they can get it right. Elite performers, on the other hand, practice until they can't get it wrong. That's how to roll, and that's worth a repeat. Average performers practice something until they can get it right. Elite performers, on the other hand, practice until they can't get it wrong. So today's plus one. How are you approaching your life and the most salient aspects of it? Trying to get it right or working so hard you can't get it wrong? Let's avoid the meh I'm good enough zone of competence as we chase excellence. Let's go from average to elite to our optimist best. Then let's keep going.
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