It is not a skill but an attitude.


The wikipedia says: 

"Excellence is a talent or quality which is unusually good and so surpasses ordinary standards. It is also an aimed for standard of performance."

It is a choice that anyone can make. But everything in this world needs dedication and sincerity.  To achieve excellence, sincerely dedicate yourself. This article is the gist of the lecture given by Mr. Tony Swartz in Harward Business School.


Here are few keys that can help you in the pursuit of excellence.





Pursue what you want: Passion an incredible motivator creates focus, resilience, and perseverance. Don't quit. Passion is the state in which your heart and mind is in unison.


 Do hardest work first: Most great performers follow this strategy. They take on the difficult work of practice in the mornings, before they do anything else. That's when most of us have the most energy and the fewest distractions.

Practice intensely: Without interruption for short periods of no longer than 90 minutes and then take a break. Ninety minutes appears to be the maximum amount of time that we can bring the highest level of focus to any given activity.


 Seek expert feedback, in intermittent doses: The simpler and more precise the feedback, the more equipped you are to make adjustments. Too much feedback, too continuously, however, can create interference.


Take regular renewal breaks: Relaxing after intense effort not only provides an opportunity to rejuvenate, but also to metabolize and embed learning. It's also during rest that the right hemisphere of brain becomes more dominant, which can lead to creative breakthroughs.

Ritualize practice: Will and discipline are wildly overrated. As the researcher Roy Baumeister has found, none of us have very much of it. The best way to insure you'll take on difficult tasks is to ritualize them — build specific, inviolable times at which you do them, so that over time you do them without having to squander energy thinking about them.


Well the above points seems to be simple and straight. Use the above keys to unlock the potential inside.