Sitting near a high performer boosts your work by 15%, but near a low performer cuts it by 30%. Negative emotions spread fast. Choose your five closest people deliberately, because they shape your outcomes more than you think.
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If you sit within 25 feet of a high performer, your own performance improves by 15%. Here's the kicker. If you sit within 25 feet of a low performer, your own performance decreases by 30%. This means that our negative emotions are more contagious, that if you're around people who are low performers, whatever that means to you, who have negative cues, who are feeling anxious or tired or low confident, you could catch those cues and that affects your own performance. This is why it is incredibly critical to invest in the 5 people who you spend the most time with.
My kid's baseball coach, every practice and every game, he's like, the thing I care about the most is your effort and your attitude out there. Whether we win or lose is irrelevant. If we win and you have bad effort and bad attitude, I'm not excited, and vice versa. So simple concepts.