The Truth About Performance

Where there is attachment, there is interference.

The ultimate parenting becomes not being a parent at all... The ultimate parenting becomes one in which you divorce yourself from the need or the desire for an outcome.

As long as you focus your efforts upon trying to change the mind of another… you are wasting your time ... There are only so many years that we as humans live, and those years are most effectively spent perfecting ourselves. And if something is ever going to get across, it is going to get across through osmosis much less than instruction.

It isn’t about coaching; it’s about the coach; it's about the human. And to find a human who completely shatters the norm, who turns his back on everything, who rejects all norms and traditions—those types of humans are very, very rare.

I think it's much more effective and applicable and practical to talk about what it is that prevents performance much more than what it is that enhances it.

It’s easy to sell something when you know that selling it for any price at all is too low.

So, what is it that makes someone truly exceptional? And I think it really comes down to understanding—an understanding of how the game is played, an understanding of what things are standing in my way that have prevented me from getting to where I want to go.

The journey is in getting to the place where you are concerned only with you. If you are concerned only with you, that actually is the most selfless way to be.

I think what a person needs to learn is not the techniques of how to deal with pressure; what he needs to learn is the understanding and the insight as to why the pressure gets to him.

When a human being is exposed to the truth, something fundamental within him begins to change. And I don’t know how that alchemy happens, but it is an elixir that is too potent not to have an effect.

I think where a lot of it starts is the movement away from prescriptive ways of thinking. I think that is the greatest tectonic shift which occurs in a human being... the movement away from the how.

The thing about truth is that once you transform, you never transform back.