Rob Dial

And they just assume that it must've been like some sort of secret, right?

There's some breakthrough, something I can study about them to try to learn about them.

There's some

magical morning routine that they do that changed everything for them.

But when you really look at high performers, like the highest performers,

they're really fucking boring, like they are.

They just do the same things over and over and over again, and eventually those actions, and they are needle moving actions in their life, compound, and after a year, five years, 10 years, then that's the hockey stick moment where everything explodes.

They're just consistent, day after day, week after week, year after year, boring, boring, boring, boring, boring, and they can outlast everybody.

If you were to watch the most successful people, like watch them build what they've built, you would probably be bored out of your mind because success is rarely built through like intensity and like a beautiful performance.

It's just consistency, brutal consistency to do what nobody else is willing to do for long enough until you get what it is that you want.

Most people like dramatically overestimate what they can accomplish in a month and they underestimate what they can accomplish in 10 years, 15 years.

And so you don't want to rely on motivation.

Like winners don't rely on motivation.

They rely on repetition.

They understand that motivation is just an emotion.

Consistency, showing up every single day.

That's an identity.

I do it because that's who I am.

That's a very different thing than waiting for motivation.

Motivation's like, oh, I'll do it when I feel like it.