High Performance Secrets from Theodore Roosevelt

Summary

How did a frail boy who suffered from many severe health problems transform his mind & Body and eventually become the President of the USA? In this video, I cover the 3 main high performance secrets from Theodore Roosevelt that you apply immediately in your life.

Transcript

How could an asthmatic boy born in the middle of the 19th century who suffered from severe abdominal and head pain, transform himself and become the President of the United States? Let's find out.

Hello everyone, Leon Castillo here, CEO & Founder of Selfmastered, we help entrepreneurs scale their businesses by accelerating their cognitive performance. If you're new to the channel, consider subscribing. We're just a few videos every week to help people just like you achieve incredible goals at record speed.

Today, I want to discuss the story of one of the most exciting politicians that I have ever studied, and I believe he is ranked in the top five presidents in the history of the United States. And I am talking, of course, about Theodore Roosevelt, the Colonel of the United States Army Commissioner of the New York Police, Governor of New York and finally President of the United States. T

there are three secrets that Theodore Roosevelt leveraged to become who he became Secret #1 Controlled Hormesis as the source of high performance. Hormesis is that process in which a low dose of a toxin or a stressor actually improves the system. In our terms, that's when you push outside of your comfort zone and trigger growth. And Theodore Roosevelt understood this intimately because he was born a very frail boy, but harbored great ambitions.

And in order to transform his health, he very soon in his life, undertook a severe training regime and learned horse riding, boxing, running and all the sports that he could practice frequently, in order to transform his body and deal with the severe health conditions that he had been born with. By understanding this concept of hormesis and pushing the limits of his ability, or in this case, pushing the limits of his health via exercise (that is the stressor that he chose), he was able to transform himself and evolve into a higher performing version of himself. Secret #2 Holistic understanding of the Self or a systematic understanding of the Self . See, for Roos for Roseville, it was very obvious that there was no such thing as the mind on the one side and the body. On the other side, he was deep into the mind body connection, the idea that all illnesses and physical condition have a psycho somatic component meaning that there's always an interplay between the body and the mind at everything that happens to us. And that interplay goes both ways. Most mental conditions can be effective and improved via physical conditioning, and vice versa.

Most physical problems can be overcome by using the power of the mind. And he was so clear about this, that we even once he overcame all his health problems of his youth and enter the army, he kept training and he kept improving his physical condition in even when he became a president, he's started to spar with famous boxes and invite famous sportsmen that he could exercise with in the White House. In order to keep his mind sharp, he understood that the best decisions will always come after a training session. And he make the point of always working both sides at the same time, both the mind and the body, which proves annalistic understanding of high performance.

And this is in fact one of the most important ideas because if you think at the current state of the productivity world, most productivity and performance coaches focus on just one thing, if you're a performance coach, they focus on the mental aspect of performance or the productivity coach, they focus on new tools or new systems or downloading notion or tactics that do not bode well with the rest of the things they try. In our methodology. We understand that it's not only about changing the tools someone has to work with, but also changing the narrative, changing the belief system, optimizing the emotions, the physical, also the focus protocols, and the planning and execution protocols as well.

By targeting everything, we make sure that we get the results we want. And that's exactly the same thinking that Theodore Roosevelt had when he was in office. And finally, and this is probably my favorite, number three is process over outcome. All talked before understand that what matters is not the goal you're chasing. But the process you were following. If you nail the process, the goals, the outcomes will take care of themselves, and is the mark of the amateur to focus too much on the goal and being upset or unhappy integral is not reach the true professional, the true top performer is always looking at the systems and processes that need to be followed and leverage to attain those goals.

There's an extremely beautiful quote by Theodore Roosevelt in a discourse that he gave in the La Sorbonne in Paris in 1913. I believe that encapsulates it is profound truth, that what matters is not the achievement of things, but the process that actually possibilities that thing. And that extract is called The Man in the Arena.

I'll read it says "It is not the critic who counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood Who strives valiantly, who airs who comes short, again and again.

Because there's no effort without error and shortcoming. But who does actually strive to do the deeds, who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement and who are the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be those cold and timid souls who neither know victory, nor defeat".

And this beautiful extract from that discourse proves that theatre understood that process was more important than goals, that the inputs is what we can control and what we should be focusing on. It doesn't matter what you achieve, what matters is what you try to do, and perfect because that's what's going to bring you the results you seek. I hope this was useful.

The story of Theodore Roosevelt is absolutely bonkers. I've read a few books about him. And please let me know in the comments, if you've read books about him, what do you think about this high performance secrets that we have unveil for all those lessons? And of course, if you want a proven framework on how to evolve into top performer and achieve incredible goals in 90 days, sign up for the Acceleration program, and we'll see if it makes sense that we onboard you.