Podcast #961: The Mundanity of Excellence

Forty years in the past, now retired professor of sociology Daniel Chambliss carried out a subject research by which he noticed an elite swim workforce to determine what it was that led to excellence in any endeavor.

As Chambliss shared in a paper entitled “The Mundanity of Excellence,” the key he found is that there actually is not any secret, and that success is extra peculiar than mystical.

As mundane because the components and qualities that result in excellence actually are, they’ll nonetheless run opposite to what we generally assume makes for top achievement. In the present day on the present, I unpack the generally surprising parts of excellence with Daniel. We talk about how want is extra vital than self-discipline, the central function of 1’s social group and surrounding your self with the perfect of the perfect, the outsized significance of the small issues, why you should make being good your job, why motivation is mundane, and why you should hold a way of mundanity whilst you develop into wonderful.

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