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- Have you ever wondered how asking one simple question could be the difference between staying stuck and winning Olympic gold?
- What if you could apply a single, high-performance filter to every decision you make to ensure you’re always moving toward your biggest goals?
- Are you curious about the mental strategy that allowed a struggling rowing team to cut through distractions and achieve the impossible?
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Key Takeaways from Will It Make the Boat Go Faster?
- Learn how to divide your aspirations into four distinct layers—the crazy, concrete, control, and everyday—to turn bold dreams into manageable daily actions.
- Discover why you must make the journey toward your goal entertaining and how active daydreaming builds the emotional attachment needed to push through tough times.
- Understand the importance of breaking your journey into transparent, measurable milestones to track your forward motion and sustain long-term motivation.
- Find out how to align a successful team by establishing common goals grounded in mutual desires and agreeing on an openly discussed set of behavioral rules.
- Master the art of focusing on your process rather than just the end results by identifying precisely what actions drive success and measuring how well your methods work.
Learning Tools
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Mind Map
Will It Make the Boat Go Faster?
Goal Setting (Four Layers)
Crazy Layer
Concrete Layer
Control Layer
Everyday Layer
Motivation & Mindset
Entertaining Path
Daydreaming
Transparent Milestones
Team Dynamics
Common Goal
Clear Rules
Deep Knowledge
Process Over Results
Curiosity
Sharpen Attention
Analyze Outcomes
Handling Setbacks
Identify Weaknesses
Accept the Uncontrollable
Reflect and Release
Risk Management
Unskew Your Scale
Evaluate Inaction
Ignore Outside Opinions
Quiz — Test Your Understanding
Question 1 of 6
What are the four layers into which Olympians divide their goals?
Will It Make the Boat Go Faster? — Full Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Recommendation
Chapter 2: Olympians break goals into four layers: the crazy, the concrete, the control and the everyday.
Chapter 3: To stay on track, make the path toward your goal enjoyable; and don’t forget to daydream often too!
Chapter 4: Great teams craft shared goals grounded in mutual desires, measurable milestones, and fair rules.
Chapter 5: To achieve your goals, focus your attention on the process, not merely the end results.
Chapter 6: Don’t let setbacks or problems destroy your motivation or momentum. Take a breath, then move forward!
Chapter 7: To take the right kind of risk, rebalance your scale and first clear your mind of others’ opinions.
Will It Make the Boat Go Faster? Summary & Overview
Will It Make the Boat Go Faster? (2011) shares with you the inspiration and strategies you need to succeed every day, as told through the emotionally charged experiences of a member of the gold medal-winning British rowing team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
Who Should Listen to Will It Make the Boat Go Faster??
- Anyone needing a powerful strategy to achieve their goals
- Anyone interested in how Olympic champions are made
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