Let's Try to Define It
Dr. Michael Gervais: What is high performance and how do you define it? After this video, we’re going to ask you to post an image that captures high performance for you, and we’re going to ask you to begin to shape your definition of high performance.

Now, this conversation, it’s challenging. It can also be agitating. In all the years that we’ve been asking this question, it stimulates conversations with no easy answer. And because of that, it seems like this natural place for us to start. If in fact you’re interested in high performance, of possibly designing a high performance way of living, let’s begin with exploring a working definition.

Look at these pictures. What is high performance? Is it about going fast? Is it about being out front? Is it about straining and striving to reach your limits? Is it about doing the ugly work that most people don’t want to do? And can you bring it into your daily life when it’s busy and chaotic and the path isn’t always clear? And is it about sharing ideas or is it about executing ideas? Is it about being bold and playing it safe? Is it about building? And if so, what are you building? Are you building walls? Are you building thoughts and ideas and actions that line up with each other?

Sometimes, it’s about laying it on the edge, about exploring boundaries, and really laying it on the edge. Does it require going backwards, being flexible, adjusting to what you didn’t know was coming? Sometimes it’s just a wild ride; and sometimes those edges, they are not traditional.

Our experience is that we never do it alone. It really is an orchestration of people and ideas pulling in the same direction.

And then the last question we want to ask you: Is this high performance? Do you have to be the single best person in the world at your craft to be a high performer? So really, who determines high performance? Those are very central questions for us. It’s not just action. It’s in how you use your words as well. So, high performance comes in many different forms. And we do know that the path is not easy. It’s just not easy. You have to stretch and adjust to endless demands, unwavering challenges. And so, is high performance something that we do every single day? Or is it just a mark that you hit once? Is it only about the results, getting from A to B? I don’t think so. But that certainly is involved in it. And does it come down to small moments or big moments? We want to talk about big moments and small moments. The way we see things is that there’s no such thing as a big moment. Every moment that we have is equally significant.

Now, it’s your turn. In this next activity, you’ll find and share some images that represent best for you what is high performance. And we look forward to seeing what you come up with.
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