Mayur Bardolia argues that working at 100% causes burnout and worse performance. Carl Lewis won Olympic gold medals at 80% effort, and Lionel Messi's tracking data showed he mostly walked during matches yet still scored decisive goals. Operating at 85% capacity keeps you relaxed, creative, and injury-free.
Welcome to the video. My name is Mayur Bardolia from NorthStarAngel.com. Now, we believe in working at our full potential and giving our 100% all the time. Yet most of us fail to finish our tasks or reach our goals, and we are told by people to work harder and always hustle. In fact, we cannot improve our performance by working harder. Consistently. So in this video, we are going to find out how to improve our performance without pushing ourselves too hard. What is it that we need to do so that we can relax and still be able to achieve our goals? So let's find out how to increase our performance without feeling tired and exhausted. If you know Carl Lewis, so Carl Lewis is one of the world's greatest athletes of all time. His career started in 1979 and he played till 1996. And he's one of the very few who won 9 gold medals and 1 silver medal in the Olympic. Also, he won 10 world championship medals, including 8 gold medals. Surprisingly, Carl Lewis was not a good starter. He used to be behind his competitors at the halfway mark in the 100-meter race. But instead of hurrying up and pushing himself forward, he was looking relaxed. And still, he used to win. This is how he won not only one but 9 Olympic gold medals. And he was not pushing hard, and his breathing would not even change. He was often misunderstood that he is not putting efforts. He was actually putting in controlled efforts, and he was winning because of it. Let's talk about another example. So here's the other example. Adidas introduced the Mi Coach tracking chip in the shoes of famous footballer from Argentina, Lionel Messi. Now the chip could track certain things like how much ground Messi has covered on the soccer pitch and how fast he was running, how far he was running, and they were checking their movements in the ground. Now Adidas put this chip in Messi's shoes during a match between Argentina and Germany in 2012. Now Messi scored a goal and Argentina beat Germany by 3 to 1. The most interesting study found that in a 90-minute game, well, most football players except the goalkeeper cover the distance of around 12 to 15 kilometers per match. But Messi has covered only 8.5 kilometers. He also did not even cover half of the ground, and still he made an impact in that match. So when he was analyzed, it was found that he was not even running most of the time. Instead, he walked 70% of the time. There was another match where he was tracked. They were playing against, so they were playing for Barcelona team. So in a match against Real Madrid, he walked 80% of the time and ran only 5% of the time. Yet he scored the goal and brought victory to Barcelona. So what did Messi do? He did not waste his energy. He was saving his precious energy most of the time to use when he needs the most. He was perfectly utilizing his energy. And we all are doing wrong when we do time management. We focus on managing our task against time. And it's wrong. We all have a physical or mental battery that releases the energy when we want. And the energy is always limited in our body, just like our laptop or mobile phone. And if we work consistently using our full energy, we get exhausted and Burnout. Hence, we cannot find the energy when we need the most. And as discussed earlier in this video, the famous athlete Carl Lewis used the same technique. A coach of Carl Lewis studied him and found that Carl was using 80% of his energy most of the time. And when you work with 80 to 85% of the capacity, Your mind and body are relaxed. As a result, you perform better. So find a balance in your— in using your energy. Use only 85% of your energy, and if you use 100% of your energy, you will feel exhausted, and it can lead to physical injury as well as enormous mental stress. And eventually it leads to poor performance. And you should do the same in your daily life and business because it works. And if you use 100% of your limit, you won't have enough room to grow and find better and creative ideas and solutions. You can be creative when you relax, because to find creative ideas and solutions, you need some room in your mind and body to create them. You need to find the free time to work with relaxation. When we have relaxed and unhurried culture and work system, We can increase our output and performance. You can never perform better by pushing yourself too hard. So focus on using 85% of your energy instead of 100%. Sometimes you need to be lazy to be more productive and to be creative. So say no to things that suck your energy. And relax. This will help you in find ways to increase efficiency in your life, and that's what we need to aim for. That's the end of the video. If you want to know more about me, to watch more free videos, want to know about my upcoming workshops and seminars, visit www.mayurbardolia.com. Thank you. Northstarangel.com. In this description on YouTube, if you're watching on YouTube, you'll see the link to join my WhatsApp group. So you're always welcome to ask me any question that you want to ask. So reach out to me and I'm more than happy to answer you. Thank you very much for watching this video. This is Mayur Bardolia from northstarangel.com. Thank you.
