Skip to main content

Insane Productivity by Darren Hardy Review

Here are my notes on Darren Hardy's seminar called Insane Productivity.  Darren Hardy is just a speaker, author and publisher of Success Magazine.  This presentation was given at a Trans America conference.

In the 1930's Andrew Carnage commissioned Napoleon Hill to interview people like Henry Ford, Charles Schwab, King Gillette, Woodrow Wilson, William Taft, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, William Wrigley, John D Rockefeller, and Harvey Firestone.  Hill became the publisher of Success magazine.  In 2007 Darren Hardy became the publisher of Success and surely got to interview people like Richard Branson, Donald Trump, Tony Hawk, Steve Jobs, Harrison Ford, Warren Buffet and Bill Gates.  You can find 4 kinds of people if you made 4 boxes with the vertical axis being Results and the Horizontal being Time and Effort you'd get:  Low Results-Low Effort that's the Unengaged, Low Results-High Effort could be the Over Motivated Underachiever, High Results-High Effort could be the Over Whelmed Overachiever and High Results-Low Effort could be the Super Achiever.  Distractions are what's in how to be a Super Achiever.  Especially in modern times the main thing you need to know is to manage your attention.  We need to be able to scale our skills at the exact same rate that individuals are scaling progress within our society.  We need to discover ways to weed out unneeded solicitations on our time.  It's not what Super Achiever's do that makes them successful.  It's what they do not do.   You have to master saying “no”.  Warren Buffet is quoted as saying, “For each 100 great opportunities which are brought to me, I say no 99 times”.   Steve Jobs said, “Deciding what not to accomplish is really as important as deciding things to do”.  It doesn't help to accomplish something efficiently that individuals should not have been doing at all.  We need to be great at two things in place of average at many.  We need to “give up” on certain things to make room for time to be great at several things. Some items on Hardy's “give up” list were television, news, watching sports, music, body building, and mechanics.  Take that time to master the skills you want https://www.ggmoneyonline.com/darren-hardy-insane-productivity/. You can find vital few functions, vital few priorities, vital few metrics and vital few improvements.  The vital few functions are those things that matter probably the most for your career.  There may be activities that have plenty of steps but just a few of those steps are vital that want your specific great skill.  Leave the remainder to the team to complete.  Focus on what make the money.  In real estate he dedicated to prospecting and negotiating the sale though there are many steps which are needed included in the process.  Determine what your 3 vital functions are and spend 90% of your own time on that and either delegate or discontinue the rest.  What is usually the one activity that you do well that a lot of impacts your success.  A function can be an activity that you have do.  A priority will be the over-arching goal.  Focus on only 3 strategic priorities.  We are distracted once every 3 minutes but it requires us 11 minutes to return to a situation of concentration.  There is no true multi-tasking.  That which you are actually doing is switching back and forth from multiple tasks.  It has actually be shown to decrease your intelligence.  Don't mistake activity for productivity.  You can't be Concentra tingly productive for a lot more than 90 minutes at a time.  You have to isolate yourself from distractions, you'll need to employ a countdown clock and then you have to recover.   The vital metrics will be the 3 goals you'll need to reach to perform your objective.  Only give attention to those 3 goals.  What're the 2 or 3 things needed to perform those goals?  Then track those tasks on a daily basis.  We need to set our “Personal Development Set Point” higher.  This is our standard for such things as health, money, and relationships.  For things to change and improve you should change and improve.  Learn less and study more. What is your #1 goal and what's the #1 skill necessary to reach that goal?  Once a quarter he targets that skill by reading 5 books, hearing 3 CDs or DVDs and attending 1 seminar.  Every day he reads for 30 minutes and while his driving, walking or exercising he listens to audio books for 30 minutes.  Of each dollar your take advantage 10% to help others and 10% to help yourself.  You have to don't succeed.  You can't be afraid of failure. Note, I am unsure what the 2nd “5” is in the formula.

Hardy is a good speaker.  He offers you the data he promises.  Many speakers just give you one teaser after another to stop you listening but there's never any payoff.  Hardy offers you the data he promises in an appropriate manner with a style that's light and engaging.  He provides personal stories but he doesn't drag them on or get side-tracked. I would suggest him for seminars and speaking engagements.

Comments