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Multiply Your Results
2009-12-13 09:57:40
Tags: strength, zone, , timothy, ferriss, , strengths, , weaknesses
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2009-12-13 09:57:40
The choice is between multiplication of results using strengths or incremental improvement fixing weaknesses that will at best become mediocre. Timothy Ferriss
Timothy Ferriss is best known for his book "The 4-Hour Work Week". Although this book wasn't really about working in your areas of strength, Ferriss has provided several excellent examples of what can happen when we begin to leverage our strengths as opposed to just working on our weaknesses. The one example that stuck out in my mind was how he won the gold medal at the Chinese Kickboxing National Championships. He was able to do this because he had two areas of strength that no one else was able to exploit:
1) He was excellent at dehydration and rehydration techniques and was able to weigh into the 165 pound class and then hyperhydrate back to his regular 193 pounds (he now teaches this technique to other athletes). This gave him a huge weight advantage over those he was fighting against.
2) He understood the rules and knew that if he was able to force the other fighter out of the ring three times in a round that they would be disqualified and he would win.
He was able to leverage these two strengths to win the gold medal at the Chinese Kickboxing National Championships with only 4 weeks of training compared to 99% of the fighters who had 5 to 10 years of experience. He multiplied his results using his strengths!
Had he instead decided to work on his areas of weakness, punching and kicking and the fact that he thought he had a large head which made a great target, he would have never even qualified for the tournament. He would have been "reset" by his trainers and coaches and would have needed 5 to 10 years of traditional training so that his areas of weakness (punching, kicking and having a large head) could be improved to the point that he might have qualified for the tournament. This would be incremental improvement achieved through fixing weaknesses which would have made him a mediocre fighter at best.
Now, I understand that not everyone can have such dramatic results in the martial arts field but I do believe that everyone can have just as amazing results in their life if they are able to identify and leverage their Strength Zone in every role that they have in life. In doing this, they will be multiplying their results using their strengths instead of looking for incremental improvements by fixing their weaknesses.
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