Today we find out the secret to high achievement! Have you ever wanted to be the absolute best in your career? Become CEO? Win a world championship? Go to the Olympics?
Dr. Ruth Gotian, success expert, Chief Learning Officer and Assistant Professor of Education at Cornell Medicine, and author of The Success Factor: Developing the Mindset and Skillset for Peak Performance joins us to talk all about success, extreme achievers, and high-performers. She shares the secrets that those people at the top of their careers use to succeed and how we can apply them, too!
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Joining us today is Dr. Ruth Gotian to talk all about high achievement, success, extreme achievers, and high performers. She shares the secrets that those people at the top of their careers use to succeed and how we can apply them too! Dr. Gotian is a success expert, Chief Learning Officer and Assistant Professor of Education at Cornell Medicine, and author of The Success Factor: Developing the Mindset and Skillset for Peak Performance. She is a contributor to Psychology Today, Forbes, and Harvard Business Review.
You will see that I definitely nerd out on her info because, well, I don’t want to be average, and neither do you.
I cannot wait for you to hear from Dr. Ruth Gotian.
The Secret to High Achievement: The Success Factor
- The four elements of success that are consistent across all people that gain high achievement, no matter their industry (11:53)
- Why is it important to love what you do (12:33)
- The impact of intrinsic motivation (12:38)
- How billionaires become billionaires and what they do every day (14:03)
- How to consume new knowledge if you hate to read or simply don’t have time (14:33)
- Why is it important to have a mentor or, even better, a team of them (15:08)
- Do we actually need to practice once we become high-performing? (15:53)
- What type of work ethic is really necessary to succeed (16:43)
- Do the highest achievers struggle with balance and what do they do about it (18:48)
- How do high achievers manage energy (20:18)
- What if you don’t know what you are passionate about (24:08)
- Can you “take a leave of absence” or “fire yourself” from being overburdened with responsibilities and projects (25:08)
Interested in finding out more about high achievement, Dr. Ruth Gotian or The Success Factor? You can find her…
Website: www.ruthgotian.com
Do you want to do the Passion Audit she talked about? https://www.ruthgotian.com/resources
Preorder the Book: The Success Factor
Or find her on social media at…
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rgotian/
Dr. Ruth Gotian: Full Bio
Dr. Ruth Gotian is the Chief Learning Officer and Assistant Professor of Education in Anesthesiology and former Assistant Dean of Mentoring and Executive Director of the Mentoring Academy at Weill Cornell Medicine. She has been hailed by the journal Nature and Columbia University as an expert in mentorship and leadership development. In 2021, she was selected as one of 30 people worldwide to be named to the Thinkers50 Radar List, dubbed the Oscars of management thinking, and is a semi-finalist for the Forbes 50 Over 50 list. In addition to publishing in academic journals, she is a contributor to Forbes and Psychology Today where she writes about ‘optimizing success’. Her research is about the mindset and skillset of peak performers, including Nobel laureates, astronauts, and Olympic champions. Her book, The Success Factor, shares the stories of extreme high achievers and unlocks the path to success.
Dr. Gotian publishes on topics ranging from networking, mentoring, leadership development and optimizing success and has given keynote talks on these themes all over the globe. She regularly publishes in such journals as Nature, Scientific American, Academic Medicine, Psychology Today, Forbes and Harvard Business Review. She is the co-editor of a book on medical education, won numerous mentoring awards and is the author of The Success Factor – Developing the Mindset and Skillset for Peak Performance.
