Ron Friedman is an award-winning social psychologist who specializes in human motivation. He is a frequent contributor to HBR, CNN, Fast Company, and Psychology Today, as well as the author of multiple books including ‘Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success’.

Find out how athletes, artists and entrepreneurs succeed so you can create your own breakthrough formula. Ron is on the show to discuss keeping score of success, how to creatively copy, finding your meaningful metrics – and Macklemore’s ‘Ten Thousand Hours’.

Talking Points

How to reverse engineer greatness

The stigma of copying

The curse of creativity and the confusion with originality

The Scoreboard Principle

Setting desirable and undesirable metrics

Why reverse engineering extends to all areas of society

Quote

"Make an established idea different."

Helpful Links

‘Decoding Greatness’ by Ron Friedman

‘Four Thousand Weeks’ by Oliver Burkeman 

Cal Newport – ‘Take Control of Your Time’

DecodingGreatnessBook.com

Ignite80.com

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