The document discusses overcoming oneself as the biggest challenge. It suggests that high performers are willing to push beyond their limits through hard work, adversity, and discomfort to achieve success. While pushing oneself, it is important not to go too far and risk injury. The main enemies of success are making excuses rather than taking responsibility. To succeed long-term requires going beyond instincts to avoid pain and seek pleasure. Strategies include minimizing temptation, pushing discomfort only in short bursts, and focusing on important challenges for no more than 90 minutes at a time. The conclusion emphasizes that improving oneself is the fastest way to achieve success and happiness.

1. The Biggest Challenge
How to Overcome Yourself

2. The Biggest Challenge - Yourself
Introduction
What do all people who
achieve excellence and high
performance have in
common?
Willingness to push
themselves beyond
their limits

3. The Biggest Challenge - Yourself
Important
Many High Performers
work really hard and face
adversity, discomfort and
uncertainty to achieve
Success.
Hard Work
High Performance
Adversity
Success
Discomfort

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Be Careful – Don´t Push Too Far!
• We should not push ourselves
too far.
• The evidences suggest if we
do it we can hurt ourselves
badly.
• The key is intensity and
training, not exhaustion.

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Our Main Enemies
• Many people look for
interesting or unfair excuses
to explain their lack of
success or failure:
– Bad luck.
– Being from a poor family
background.
– Prejudice.
– Unfair life approach.
– Lack of opportunity, etc.

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Why is it Difficult to Succeed?
• As human beings we hold two
powerful instincts:
– Instinct 01 - Avoid pain,
– Instinct 02 - Move towards
pleasure.
• Such instincts help us to achieve
mediate results.
• And in most cases, Success is a
long term result that requires
more than instincts.

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Strategy 01 – Minimize Temptation
• Anyone succumbs in front of
temptation and it will defeat us
if we expose ourselves to it for
too long.
• We need to avoid any kind of
risky situation that could lead us
to failure or inertia.

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Strategy 02 – Under a Short Period of Time
• Push yourself to discomfort
only for relatively short
period of time.
• Interval training is built on
short bursts of high intensity
exercise offset by rest and
recovery.

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Strategy 03 – Important Challenges
• Try beginning the day by
focusing without interruption
on the most important
challenge in front of you, for
no more than 90 minutes, and
then take a real renewal break.
• It's much easier to tolerate
discomfort in short doses.

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Main Personal Life Approach
• Be focused: without
focus you have a life
with no direction.
• Be positive: a positive
and optimistic approach
will help elevate your
view of any task you set
out to achieve.

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Main Personal Life Approach
• Be action oriented: to
achieve it is important
to take action, since
only action creates
results.
• Be aware: don’t be a
horse leading a
carriage.

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Conclusion
• Many people spend their lives
without looking for ways to improve
themselves.
• We know that it is not an easy task
and our routine can kill our desire for
improvements.
• But we need to keep in mind that
improving ourselves is the fast way to
achieve Success and Happiness.

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