Emiliano Valcanover of the Official Tony Robbins Community FB Group shares this interesting insight:

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐀𝐖 𝐎𝐅 𝐖𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐄𝐅𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐒

Lions only succeed in a quarter of their hunting attempts — which means they fail in 75% of their attempts and succeed in only 25% of them.

Despite this small percentage shared by most predators, they don't despair in their pursuit and hunting attempts.

The main reason for this is not because of hunger as some might think, but it is the understanding of the “Law of Wasted Efforts” that has been instinctively built into animals, a law in which nature is governed.

- Half of the eggs of fish are eaten...

- Half of the baby bears die before puberty...

- Most of the world's rains fall in oceans... and most of the seeds of trees are eaten by birds.

Scientists have found that animals, trees & other forces of nature are more receptive to the law of "wasted efforts".

Only humans think that the lack of success in a few attempts is a failure... but the truth is that:

We only fail when we "stop trying"

Success is not to have a life free of pitfalls and falls... but success is to walk over your mistakes and go beyond every stage where your efforts were wasted looking forward to the next stage.

SO:

- Continue all over again.

- Never stop at any stage of difficulty.

- Keep moving, keep thinking, keep trying.

And remember:

𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤 𝙛𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠!!

Go out and collect as many as possible so you can build your comeback from what you have been learning.

My Comments:

Thanks for sharing this interesting insight about the Law of Wasted Efforts.

I am nevertheless inclined to add this to my new understanding of this elegant quote, which now makes more sense, and also resonates well:

"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.

Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.

It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or gazelle. When the sun comes up, you'd better be running."

Frankly, I have never invested in a coach (this is not to imply that getting a coach is not a good option), but I have had taken wise heed of what Tony Robbins has asserted back in the early nineties:

“One of the things I’m best at is modeling. I find someone who is best at something I want to learn. Then I model them, and learn it myself. Then, when I’ve proven it to myself, I teach it to others.”

I have had several visual models over the years. This process has worked very well for me, partly attributed to my engineering training during my younger days.

My response to a picture posed in the Ultimate Breakthrough 2022 Challenge Original Tony Robbins Community:

Just sharing:

Books only give you "word experience"!

Only when you have put the acquired strategies and tools to work in your life, then you get "world experience".

That's to say, knowledge is not measured by what is stored in your head; it's always defined by your productivity, i.e. what you do and what you don't do.

As the Smartest Person of the 20th Century Albert Einstein put it so eloquently:

"Knowledge is Experience; Everything Else is just Information!"

To paraphrase Tony Robbins at the Ultimate Breakthrough 2022 Challenge:

"Let Your Lessons Lead to Actions! ...What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions & using your personal power & taking action." 

The best way to look at this scenario as Tony Robbins puts it, is to consider the Pareto Law or better known as the 80:20 Rule.

By the way, I remember vividly quality guru Joseph Juran often referred the Pareto's Law as "The Law of The Vital Few and the Trivial Many".

Nonetheless, the Pareto's Law should serve as a daily reminder to focus 80% of our time and energy on the 20% of our work that is really important.

Don't just "work smart", work smart on the right things.

What Dr Maxwell Maltz had asserted below is absolutely true!

Tony Robbins shares an interesting anecdote:

“My teacher Jim Rohn taught me a simple principle: every day, stand guard at the door of your mind, and you alone decide what thoughts and beliefs you let into your life.

For they will shape whether you feel rich or poor, cursed or blessed.”

He adds:

“The secret of living an extraordinary life is to take control of the mind, since this alone will determine whether you live in a suffering state or beautiful state."

He adds a warning, though:

"When you get in your head, you're dead!"

What he means is this:

"Self-doubt and limiting beliefs kill dreams and they start and end in the mind.

The brain is an incredible tool but sometimes you need to use your heart, embrace your passion and act on it in order to move yourself forward."

Thanks, Tony, for the lesson!

Here’s a quote that is particularly insightful and motivating:

''Any fool can know. The point is to understand.''

~ Albert Einstein, physicist and Nobel laureate;

I really love this quote, but I feel it should continue and end as follows:

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand and apply.”

It is often said that knowledge is power, but in reality, knowledge is only potential power.

It is only true power when it is applied in your life or work or business, like the rubber tyre meeting the macadamised road. In engineering terms, it's the delivered horsepower that matters.

Remember, it’s not enough to have knowledge. Any fool can have knowledge. The point is understand and apply the knowledge.

As a matter of fact, I would like to put it this way:

Applying what you know creates ''world'' experience, resulting in valuable feedback as to what works and what doesn't work. Everything else is just information, or ''word'' experience.

Think about it. Are you really applying your knowledge?

I like to highlight a very inspiring - and deeply insightful - quotation from Tony Robbins:

"The difference between those who succeed and those who fail isn't what they have - it's what they choose to see and do with their resources and experiences of life."

There are four key words or phrases, namely:

(1) choose to see...;

(2) (choose to)... do;

(3) ... resources;

(4) ... experiences of life;

Knowledge is not measured by what you have read from a book or gotten from a casual conversation or even from attending a seminar or workshop. This is only potential, or what is precisely stored in your head.

Interestingly, nowadays, there are a lot of fascinating seminars and workshops out in the marketplace.

Some are even available online.

I have often come across intelligent folks attending these seminars or workshops, and they often get caught by the in-class euphoria with other attendees, especially when the class environment is designed to be touchy-feely, and when these emotionally charged-up folks return to their workplaces, it's always back to square one, after they are left much to their personal devices.

What happens then? They start off with another or upgraded versions of the same seminar or workshop, and thus the vicious cycle continues, finally ending as, sad to say, seminar junkies.

I often get emails from friends-I-have-not-met in cyberspace, seeking my professional advice after having read my Amazon reviews and/or my personal weblogs.

Once I have reviewed their "problems", it then dawn on me that there are in fact intelligent folks out there who actually don't know how to convert their knowledge into action.

Naturally, this spell good business opportunities for those seminar or workshop purveyors.

I hate to say this: It's your executive productivity - what you actually do and what you don't - in the real world out there, that ultimately determines whether your knowledge is power.

To use an apt analogy, knowledge is indicated horsepower of an automobile. True or brake horsepower comes about when your rubber tyres meet the road.

Business strategists like to use the term, "execution premium" to denote the outcome.

For plain folks like us, it's simply making a decision, setting out a plan, putting all ideas to work, keeping track, obtaining feedback and monitoring progress, in our life or where we work or in our business.

The key to it is basically developing concrete action, or better still, sustained traction.

Creativity or rather coming up with many ideas is one thing - in fact, it's easy, but no action, talk only (that's NATO for short), still puts us back into inertia.

All ideas must be followed by - or rather converted - into action, plain and simple, even though putting ideas to work is oftentimes a laborious and tough task.

In real-world terms, and against my background as an engineer, I often like to call the endgame as creating "concrete deliverables" from your pet ideas.

The harsh reality is this: only Action produces Results.

I recall entrepreneur Nolan Bushnell, who founded both Atari, Inc., and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters chain, has summed up best my sentiment:

"Everyone who's ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes the difference."