William Vanderbloemen
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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Here's just one. The habit is called the curious. The top performers are always more interested in others than they are in themselves. Here's the quick life hack. If you want to be interesting to people, then start being interested in those people.
Thanks, Mike. I really appreciate you having me on.
Mike, what a good question. You said everybody's got advice and opinion. I don't know that you want to hear my advice or opinion. However... I do have data. And we have studied, we're an executive search firm, so we help people, we help companies find their top talent.
And we interviewed the very best, we've interviewed lots and lots and lots of people, but we found the very best, the top 1% of everybody we've interviewed, and that's for all kinds of jobs. And that's 30,000 people in that 1%. And we just asked the question, do these people have anything in common? And the answer was yes.
And so we did like empirical research to say, well, then what do they have in common? And the answer was exactly not what I thought it would be.
But it did give us a roadmap for saying, oh, here's how people can get ahead, how they can stand out in a really crowded world, how they can be that exception to the rule in whatever they do, whether they're a student or a custodian or a leader, whatever they're spending their day doing.
and what is that and what is that yeah so yeah we found so i thought mike that you know what are the best of the best have in common i figured it would be they're all over six feet tall and have fabulous hair and teeth and you know super high iqs and uh went to all the right schools it was none of that it was 12 habits that they had in common and all of those habits are really fundamentally
how these people are treating other humans I mean this was a selfish research project Mike we we started this saying could we find a way to identify top talent faster so we get our job done faster and better and what we stumbled upon was these 12 habits can all be learned And we were looking for a way to identify talent.
What we discovered was a roadmap for becoming that talent or becoming that standout or get ahead person. Anybody who wants to get ahead, if you study these 12 habits and apply them to your life, you will get ahead.
And what I mean by that is you send a message to somebody and you never hear back from them. This happens in people fill out forms, I'd like to buy your product, please have someone contact me. Well, it's staggering how uncommon it is for companies to actually get back to somebody that fills out that form. And when they do, they usually wait a day or two.
But studies have shown that if you get back to people within 60 seconds of that form coming in, And you do it not in a way a chatbot would or an AI program. If you do it in a really intentional human way, really quickly, you're almost certain to talk to that person again and maybe make whatever sale it is you're trying to make.
So unicorns get back to people really quickly and with intention, not like a chatbot. The rest of us just don't. And if you want to get ahead and stand out in the crowd in a way that is really remarkable, just get back to people quickly and with intention. Like mention something about their world or what they're doing, not just a, how can I help you today?
Um, you know, I think people are always like, like I go to a party and I'm like, I don't know if anyone's going to remember me. I'm not very...
memorable or interesting like how do i stand out in a way that whether it's a relationship with a family member or a co-worker or trying to get the next job how do i stand out in a room that's really crowded well here's here's one thing and i'll say it this simply the the habit is called the curious okay the the top performers are always more interested in others than they are in themselves they're curious they're asking questions so here's here's the quick life hack okay
if you want to be interesting to people, then start being interested in those people. So I used to work at a church where the people that went there were, almost all of them were literally the best in the world at what they did during the week. And I would try and ask them about themselves. And invariably the best leaders I met really never wanted to talk about themselves.
And they deflected the conversation back to me which made me like them even more. So there's a life hack here for people trying to get ahead. If you'll just be curious about the people you're interacting with, if you'll be interested in them, you'll be interesting to them.
Well, and it's not brown nosing the people. It's not like the super old black and white show, Leave it to Beaver. You had Eddie Haskell telling Beaver's mom, oh, what a nice dress you have on, Mrs. Cleaver. It's not that. It's just how many kids do you have? Oh, what do you like to do? Oh, whatever.
what do you really love about your job it's it's being interested in them and people like to talk about themselves so you've just opened the door to their favorite subject in a way that's not you know false compliments or that sort of thing it will open the door to further conversation and you will stand out in the crowd
I think all of us could work on self-awareness, and it's a pretty major blind spot. Self-aware was one of those 12 habits. And what's interesting is the unicorns are incredibly interested in learning more about what they're good at and what they're not.
um how the world perceives them and you know they're very good at this so when we surveyed all 30 000 of the unicorns we asked them to force rank what are you best at what are you worst at of these 12 right the list the the rankings were very different because everybody's wired differently like some had this at the top there wasn't a clear winner for most popular the only clear winner was last place
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