Elite Minds Summary

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1-Sentence-Summary: Elite Minds delves into the idea of success and teaches you how to
train your mind to tap into its highest potential, adopt a winning mentality, embrace the
gifts you’ve been given and improve mental toughness.

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Favorite quote from the author:

Our mind is the single most powerful tool in achieving performance of any kind. It’s an
undebatable fact that the brain controls the body. Our mind is therefore responsible for
everything the body does, whether it’s good or bad, much like software controls a computer,
but is made of its hardware.

Training the mind to become an asset and participate in achieving success, rather than
standing in the way of it, is essential in every field of activity. For this reason, Elite Minds
talks about strengthening the brain to become the competitive edge that you need to get
ahead in life, instead of letting it become an obstruction in your path.

Here are my three favorite lessons from the book:

1. The chances of you suffering from a mistaken identity are quite high.
2. Bad days and hardship on the way to success are a part of the process that you must
accept.
3. Kill fear and embrace your highest potential by taking that jump towards your dreams.

While this book is packed with many more useful lessons, we’ll stick to exploring these three
in detail one by one and offer you the starting frame for your path to success.

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Lesson 1: Achieving your potential might be delayed by your
mistaken identity.
What if you haven’t even met your best self? Chances are, no one has! Leading this
hypothesis further, it may look like no one really knows you, including yourself. However,
that’s not a bad thing necessarily.

Not living your life to its highest potential is a waste of talent and it’ll likely make you feel
miserable. That’s how you know that you don’t know your true self just yet. We are much
more than we think we are. As humans, we have a purpose to fulfill, a mission to commit to,
and talents to exploit.

However, we’re all brought to this world to fulfill this quest, not knowing how to, or even
without knowing what the final destination is. One thing is for sure: until we reach that stage,
we don’t really know ourselves. We rarely understand the power of a conscious mind.

Your mind is you, and that’s the only superpower you need to overcome obstacles and
hardship, and therefore achieve your potential. Understanding that is the first step. And then
strengthening your mind to look at the world objectively is the quest you must fulfill.

The fulfillment of all your goals is a direct result of your mind’s action over your
body. When that stage is reached, you’ll finally find your true self. Anything below your best
self is a mistaken identity, and you have to live with this idea in order to achieve success.

Lesson 2: Challenging times are part of the road to success.

The trend of perfectionism and high-performance anxiety is taking over the world, and it’s
driving people insane, unfortunately. Perfectionism makes people think that nothing they’ll
ever do is good enough for as long as they encounter failure and bad days. Wrong!

Those days are a natural part of the process. No successful individual got to the top without
encountering hardship on the way. Even once you achieve your goal, you’ll still have bad
days. It’s not part of your persona, it doesn’t mean that you’re doing something wrong. But
it’s simply a universal rule of life.

So how many bad days are we talking about? Well, everyone’s life is different and we all must
face our own demons. But studies on the best athletes in the world indicate that even they
have between three and six bad days a month. The best thing to do about it is nothing! Accept
failure as a lesson and hardship as a natural part of life. Free yourself from the curse of
perfectionism!

Lesson 3: Greatness arrives in your life when you learn how to kill
fear.

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Fear is the biggest opponent in achieving our dreams. In life, other people often tell us to be
rational, realistic, and careful. This type of advice prevents us from doing something
courageous and great. No one made something memorable out of fear. And this concept goes
back to ancient philosophy.

Aristotle believed that those who conquer their fear win in life. In fact, he said that courage is
the virtue to live by. And that only by being brave in your endeavors and chasing your end
goal you can reach the state of eudaimonia. A state of pure happiness, achievement, and self-
fulfillment.

Therefore, another step to mental toughness is conquering fear and chasing

your dreams despite the uncomfortable position it puts you in. Help yourself do so
by looking for extrinsic motivation, getting excited about the journey ahead, and going for
whatever scares you despite your instinct telling you otherwise.

Elite Minds Review

Elite Minds talks about the importance of training your mind to help you and stop self-
sabotage by using mental toughness to achieve goals. Conquering fear, going for whatever it
is that you want, achieving your higher purpose, and embracing failure, are all major aspects
the book discusses.

Reading this remarkable piece will teach you valuable ideas from ancient philosophy to
modern studies about the importance of training your mind and embracing the winning
mindset in your journey to success.

Who would I recommend the Elite Minds summary to?

The 30-year-old person who feels stuck in the mundane and wants to live a more meaningful
life, the 40-year-old who has achieved the average life they were striving for and wants to aim
for their higher purpose, or the 33-year-old who is intrigued by the power of the brain in
relation to sustained performance.

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