The Productivityist Podcast: Ideas And Tools For Personal Productivity | Time Management | Goals | Habits | Working Better

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