Dr. Jeff Spencer
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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Well, I think the goal clarity, it goes back going through the right goal criteria because if you're answering in the affirmative, All of those because you're taking the time to really answer the questions as they're intentionally provocative to hold you accountable for being able to stand behind what you're proposing to do. And as I said earlier, I think a lot of people are way too casual.
They look at the goal as the giver of something to me later, like the home, the house, the security or whatever. But it has to be more than that to be able to stay in the game and to be able to stay in belief and to stay in commitment when the inevitable challenges always surface within a goal. And if you do not have that...
then you cannot have and do not have the conviction necessary to do what has to go right in critical moments where you may be doubting yourself or even questioning whether you should continue to pursue the goal itself.
Well, the blind spots are things that we cannot outrun and every one of us has got them. I can only tell you that.
And that's why I feel like there's an important space to be held for some corner man type of accessibility to make sure that we're seeing everything that we need to see without the presumption that we know everything, because that's a catastrophic perspective that unfortunately is taking a lot of people, unfortunately, out of the game that they could have won
had they had the insight to see what their liabilities and their risks are. And a point I want to make here is that no prolific achiever in any discipline does not look at it through the eyes of what can go right, what can go wrong. What are the probabilities? And there's a certain category of person that feels, well, you know, if I cast doubt on this, then I'm drawing doubt into reality.
And therefore, I'm shortcutting myself when I should not be thinking about anything that could be adversarial to me in this process. And I can tell you that is absolutely unadulterated garbage. I don't know anybody that's a prolific achiever that does not always take a full and thorough inventory of of what the probability of risks are so that they leverage themselves against success.
They don't deleverage themselves in favor of failure. I've never seen that. Complete mythology.
First, I would say let's not use the word mindset because mindset makes it sound like there's a rigid set of things that if applied guarantee an outcome. That's not true. That's like, oh, I'll just think good thoughts and somehow everything will backfill and manifest. That's not true. It's all about actions and the things that are done.
So I kind of look at this through the eyes of the champion's mind. meaning the champions have a mind, meaning that the mind is like a three-dimensional entity that has the capacity to look at, think, evaluate, collate, transmit, share, and store information in a very thoughtful way that represents reality. And that's the way that all the prolific achievers do it.
They look at the way that I advance things forward is not a way of thinking. We're taking action on the evidence that we see in front of us, that history has informed us that if we execute this, then it will take us here. I think that's the most important thing. We begin to forget that aspirational achievement. It's actually a verb. It's not a passive noun. It's a presence of being.
It's the actions that are taken. Therefore, I just suggest that we take the time to really look at the relevance and the sources that we refer to to get our information and about what it is that we should be doing because many times what we think it is is not what it is at all, but it sounds good to our human mindset.
It's touchy-feely nice, but historically it can't necessarily deliver on what we hope it to be. And that, again, why I feel it's really important that we have the right level of corner man influence as we're learning the process of achievement, which is actually, it's a learned skill. It's not something that we're born with.
Well, I think there's a set of things that we should be looking at. Number one, given an opportunity, you have to look at, well, how are you perceiving the opportunity? Are you looking at it based upon what you believe you stand to lose? Well, if that's the way you're doing it, don't do it because that's not going to take you to where you want to get to.
There has to be a vision of what the outcome of the manifest goal will represent to not only us, the individual, but to our legacy and also what this will say and mean to other people viewing it and what the impact on humanity and the planet at large will have. I do feel that we need to look at that in advance to measure the probability of how that might be answered with our achieved goal.
I think that that's really important. The other thing I would say is that don't try to be perfect. Perfect doesn't get you to where you want to get to because then you're obsessing on all the things that could go wrong, where it shouldn't be that. You should be looking at the one or two things that have to go right to keep things moving forward. I mean, that's what the champions do.
They prepare, what do I need to do right now that has to go right, that everything else is dependent upon? So it becomes much, much simpler. I think the idea of fear also is another side to this. I mean, people think, well, I have to be fear-free before I get started. Well, no, you don't. I mean, generally, anybody that has high aspirations is going to have a certain level of fear.
Like, you know, when I work with you two, you know, before they go on stage, I mean, yeah, they all had butterflies. It's like, well, look, Bono, you don't need to have butterflies because you're Bono. Well, he did have them. Okay, well, he just knew what to do with it. It was a sign of biologic readiness. So a lot of how we're interpreting our experience in my
My experience is that it's not done correctly. So, yeah, we should... be observant of the fear, but recognize it's our friend, to be able to put in our highest level of physical output, there has to be a certain level of fear present. Otherwise, we're going to be asleep at the wheel. But we should also realize that you can apply what has to go right despite your fear.
So again, that's another point of mythology that I think that is really important to be mindful of as well.
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