What creates a difference in people’s quality of results in any situation?

Competence surely is an answer. But what level of competence?

Seeing the references I have encountered so far: Greatness is tied to the level of your mastery of the
definite functions required during the performance.
Eg – During dancing, I need to stay on beat and pop if I am a popper. My angles shouldn’t be sloppy. My
movement should be clean. Now these are basic functions.
Some advanced functions may include concepts, levels, pop frequency, musicality, creativity etc.

Mastering a skill is essentially a never-ending path. You master the basic functions. You master more
advanced functions. You master further advanced functions. And on& on.

Your greatness in any skill is tied to the number and depth of the functions you have mastered in that
skill. You start to look crazy once you have mastered 4-5 functions and performing them simultaneously.

A treatise on mastering a function: When executing a function, you bump into what? Situations. You
need to create a pathway of maximization out of every situation you can possibly encounter. That
pathway needs to be discovered and then physically mastered. Again, I can’t over-emphasize the
importance of physical mastery, else it is a waste of time. This is where the concept of Situation-
Outcome Map comes into picture. You identify the problematic situations, you develop the right
outcomes and hence the appropriate solutions and behaviours and physically master them via
repetition.

Two keys now:

1. Mastery: Remember I said, ‘mastered’, not learned. It means physical mastery, not something
you know intellectually and perform sometimes. Greatness is tied to mastery. Mastery comes
from repetition. And repetition is a direct result of pigheaded discipline and determination.
2. Functions: If you master a function, you can run another system even if it has slightly different
controls. Eg – If I master how to drive a bike; I can ride another bike with slightly different
controls. If I master how to dance on 4 beats, I can dance on any song that has 4 beats – only the
music on the top of that has changed and I can manage that! If I master how to run a computer,
I can run a CT machine console, it won’t be that hard because the basic functions will be the
same (copy, paste, perform a scan, delete etc)

Once you have mastered the basic elements of a skill, the game becomes exciting. You can play around
with elements to see and create a new idea/insight. This is where you go from great to legendary.

What else is required apart from Competence?

I may not have the competence into the situation. What to do then?
What matters then is your ability to learn rapidly and start performing.

What to do when you don’t have the information required to learn?

You need to be able to create remarkable strategies that maximize returns and minimize risks.
(Essentially, the treatise on Explosive Strategies and Shotgun)

What to do when things don’t go as planned?

You need to solve the problems along the road.

The definite impact of state that I experienced today. When Dr. Kunal Pal visited our centre, I felt a
friend (or a bro) had come. When you are a bro, I am so relaxed and having fun around you! I took him
on a ride. I provided him with great hospitality. It all happened out of a great state that originated from
a meaning: He is a bro. Pick up a consciously decided meaning that generates the required state and the
result becomes effortless.

Until now, we have been focusing on a singular person being responsible for the result. The dynamics
entirely change when he enters into a Partnership. The magic of a great partnership is that people can
maximize their strengths and mitigate their weaknesses. They can perform different functions, which
one of them may not have mastered at all, expertly. In fact, its not just about developing competence or
developing relationships, its about developing resources (FORKSTM). Any highly developed resource
gives you access to other resources.