Robert Glazer

Intellectual capacity is about how you improve your ability to think, learn, plan, and execute with discipline.

This is like your personal operating system.

How do you get better at something?

How do you learn something so you do it better tomorrow and faster and smarter and don't make the same mistakes?

Physical capacity is your health, well-being, and physical performance.

then emotional capacity is how you react to challenging situations your mindset and the quality of your relationship so if this was a race car spiritual capacity would be designing it intellectual capacity would be building it physical capacity would be like taking it on a practice track but then emotional capacity is like what happens when other people are driving their cars at 200 miles an hour right now it takes on a whole different thing and so i think for all of us

working on those four pieces interconnected are how we improve.

And we're always a little out of whack, but some of us are really out of whack in a couple of these areas.

Elevate actually was a Friday Forward compilation that got rejected because the editor said, look, you've already written all these things.

I love the compilation, which I ended up writing later.

But like, what's the story behind the story?

And when I realized all these Friday Forwards I read, what were the themes?

And so I went and extracted them.

I said, oh, each one of these things touches one of these themes.

And this is actually the process I've used to make huge improvements in my life and what I've seen other people do as well.

The people I see killing it have these four themes.

elements well then at the same time we were really struggling with the company was growing really quickly some people were growing along with it or even getting better some people were kind of falling off the cliff as i'm sure you've seen as your organization grows fast and i was super frustrated i couldn't figure out who was who and which was which and why that was and eventually i realized it was actually the same formula and that the people that could grow with the company

Elevate actually was a Friday Forward compilation that got rejected because the editor said, look, you've already written all these things.

had built the ability to build their capacity at an equal or greater rate to the organization.

I love the compilation, which I ended up writing later.