A short recorded conversation (YouTube) arguing that 'focus on success' is a learnable skill requiring effort and deliberate practice. The speaker emphasizes leaders setting the mental focus, using positive framing rather than dwelling on failures, and cites the 10,000‑hour mastery idea and personal anecdotes (pilot training) to illustrate that repeated, focused effort — not endless practice — produces results.
With respects to, I guess, success. What Larry, in your opinion is maybe one skill that we developed and did pretty well would have a great positive impact in our careers here?
Well, you're right, and a pretty good one right there. One skill is focus on success. Do you know the thing about success stories? If you want to make people laugh, you tell jokes. If you want to make people successful, you talk about success. See, it's what you. First, you got to talk things into it, into reality. So what you talk about is what you're thinking about. But you as the leader can control to a large extent what people think about and what's on their mind. People want to please the leader. So if they see the leader talking about success, talking about great things happening, they want to do the do the things they hear about so they can get talked about. Even in your own mind, when you're, you know, you're by yourself, you're driving around, you wake up in the morning, you go to bed at night, focus on success, focus on moving forward. Focus on the people who are getting the thing done. See, if you do this, it makes an effort. The reason it's a skill is it takes effort. Things that are not skills or things that just come naturally. And it comes naturally just to gripe and groan. But I would focus on success in any area of your life you want to focus on how do people take that part of their life and turn it into a plus? How do they get it done, have the most success in the shortest period of time? You know, everything takes time, takes repetitions. But they don't have to take it unlimited. You know, like they say it takes, you know, this whole thing, it takes 10,000 mastery. Master a subject or a skill, they say 10,000 times. Where that came from was. They found. They took a music school over in Europe and they studied the students and how much time they put in, how much energy they put in. They found out the ones who went out and became, let's say concert level performers, they had put in the 10,000. The people who went on become the teachers and people who played in amateur bands and this, that and the other, never did anything big with it. Maybe locally they played at a club or something. Every now they're the ones who put in 5,000 hours during their, their college years while they were at the servatory. So there you go. So what happens? So that's just a rough thing. It comes out there. But the thing is, if it takes 10,000, you don't want to spend 100,000 and you're still no better than the guy who's done here. Put 5,000. You. You don't want to be like, how I did my flying. You know, I hear, like, to get your pilot's license, to get a pilot's license anymore, I don't think it takes, you know, you hear about people, like, nine hours, and they soloed. You know, I think now you have to have a minimum of 40 hours. Well, when I did mine, I was up to 140 hours before I even soloed because it was stopping and starting, and I was traveling and I was up in North Carolina, and the weather would be bad when I was in town for a week, and that'd be gone for two weeks. Weeks. And I'd come back, then I'd get a couple hours in, and then the plane would be down and the instructor would be gone 140 hours. Finally, I just said, forget it. You know, this is just not happening for me. And so you want to spend your time, but then you want to get it over with. And so if you're focusing on success, you're focusing on the best and brightest. See, the people who fail are full of ways to fail. Never, never get caught up. Don't even read them. Never read these lists of the top 40 ways people screw up their finances. They. How they fail with their finances. You don't want that. No. Because the truth of it is there's 400,000 ways people. There's too many ways in all phases of life. There's too many ways people do it wrong, and there's very few ways to do it right. It's like the Bible says, broad is a path that leads to destruction, not narrow is the way that leads to God. You know, so let's just focus on the best way, how the top people do it. It's not shortcut. It's just staying on the main road. So does that help?
Yes, Larry, Definitely. You know what? Actually, I didn't really view success in that nature. I mean, what you just said, the reason it is a skill, the reason that it is a skill, that it takes effort and that things that are not skills are things that come naturally. And I think it's very, very easy to complain and moan and, you know, things of that nature. And it does take a lot of effort to stay positive to focus on success. So I definitely think that that did help a lot. Thank you.
Yeah. And as you're listening to television, as you're listening to people talk, you can be do, like, role playing in your mind of how they should look at it because everybody looks at things that happen to them wrong. They always see the bad side. They they get beat but they react in ways that are going to cause them to get beat again. But work it out in your mind. Say if that happened to me how would I look at it? That way you learn from other people's failure but you program yourself for success just by saying no. That ain't the way to look at it. Look at it this way but that's how you're elevating yourself. You elevate yourself first by elevating your thinking and your outlook and your approach but then when you have that you can pass it on to people because dwelling on negatives and failures does not get you where you want to go you know so you want to keep your eye on the prior. You know that's a cliche. There's a reason we have cliches because they work. Eye on the prize thanks everybody.
