The High Performance Life

The Trait That Separates All High Performers | Rich Diviney

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In today's episode, I am joined by Rich Diviney. Rich draws upon 20+ years of experience as a Navy SEAL Officer. He completed more than 13 overseas deployments – 11 of which were to Iraq and Afghanistan. He achieved multiple leadership positions – including the Commanding Officer of a Navy SEAL Command. Rich was intimately involved in the world-renowned SEAL selection process, to find the most elite optimal performers. Rich was often surprised by which recruits washed out and which succeeded.

Through years of observation, Rich learned to identify a successful recruit's core Attributes, the innate traits for how a person performs as an individual and as part of a team. Rich now helps define the key Attributes for success for business leaders and everyday people -- including cunning, adaptability, even narcissism-- in fresh and surprising ways.

Key Points:
• Different fields require different attributes to excel
• Dormant attributes can be uncovered through experiences
• To achieve long-term goals, both discipline and self-discipline are necessary
• Competitive mindset looks for rules and conditions to win, while non-competitive mindset seeks new opportunities and ignores rules.
• Discipline and adaptability are important in education for promoting discomfort tolerance and preparing for real-world challenges.
• Open-mindedness and curiosity are essential attributes to cultivate for success.
• Having a growth mindset is crucial for living a high performance life.
 
Best Quotes:
12:17 - 12:22
• "Teaching him to swim was the easy part. Teaching him the skills was the easy part."
12:22 - 12:25
• "If you have the right attributes, you can always teach the skills."
16:53 - 17:06
• "I knew that it was the way to success, but applying it and then getting comfortable with it was something that I really felt was driven towards some of the old things that I just was very, very okay with."
31:28 - 31:35
• "The level of uncertainty, the level of discomfort, the level of challenge. I don't think it's not there, I think it's just changed."
35:07 - 35:14
• "The toughest part of parenthood, and this is where you can kinda see the helicopter parents versus the ones who are not, is letting kids take the fall."
41:06 - 41:09
• "When you're in tune with that rhythm of the vehicle, you can't be in tune with anything else."
53:19 - 53:24
• "And, and what I know about researching you is you're helping other companies to do that as well."