Your mental focus and concentration, your ability to control your environment and the heartbeat of others, determines whether you succeed or fail. Grover explains that primal indulgence has two important roles: It encourages relentlessness, and it encourages instinctual action. Primal Indulgence Encourages Relentlessness Every day, you have to do something you don’t want to do. Every day. Challenge yourself to be uncomfortable, push past the apathy and laziness and fear. Grover’s second principle for developing the Unstoppable need to succeed is constantly putting intense pressure on yourself. Grover agrees with the commonly observed phenomenon that people perform better under pressure, and that being under pressure forces you to find ways to rise to whatever challenge you’re facing.

Being a Cleaner has almost nothing to do with talent . Everyone has some degree of talent ; it doesn’t always lead to success . Those who reach this level of excellence don’t coast on their talent . They’re completely focused on taking responsibility and taking charge , whether they’re competing in sports or managing a family or running a business or driving a bus ; they decide how to get the job done , and then they do whatever is necessary to make it happen . Don't focus on what you can't do. Find out what you can do and put yourself in a system where you can succeed.

PDF Summary Part 1: Defining Relentlessness | Chapter 1: What Relentlessness Is and Isn’t

We’ve just explored the first main quality of the Unstoppable, the need to succeed, and discussed how you can productively fulfill this need. Now, we’ll explore Grover’s secondUnstoppable quality: the ability to direct your instincts—that is, the ability to use your natural animal instincts to accomplish the complex goals required by your field or discipline. After defining relentlessness, Grover notes three categories of people defined by how often they act relentlessly: Rarely or never relentless people are “Good,” people who are relentless in specific circumstances are “Great,” and people who are always relentless are “Unstoppable.” Defining the Good Don't talk. I am guilty of this one. I like to talk about my success, about how hard a worker I am, whatever things I have accomplished etc... If your talking that means that your results don't speak for themselves.

In this section, we’ll examine three areas Grover says to direct your instincts—knowledge, emotions, and your primal self as well as how doing so will help you become Unstoppable. Instinctively Using Knowledge We’ve just explored the first main quality of the Unstoppable, the need to succeed, and discussed how you can productively fulfill this need. Now we’ll explore the second Unstoppable quality: the ability to direct your instincts—that is, the ability to use your natural animal instincts to accomplish the complex goals your field requires. In this part of the guide, we’ll examine three areas where Grover says you’ll need to direct your instincts—knowledge, emotions, and your primal self—as well as how doing so will help you become Unstoppable. And that’s what happens in most people’s lives: they stagnate… because they never push themselves beyond their safety and comfort. What Does it Mean to Be “Relentless”? “The word relentless is used in sports to describe the most intense competitors and achievers imaginable, those who stop at nothing to get to the end result. In sports, being relentless is measurable by victories and trophies and championships and rings.” “In real life, being relentless is a state of mind that can give you the strength to achieve, to survive, to overcome, to be strong when others are not.” “The ability to be relentless is in all of us.”

PDF Summary Chapter 6: Controlling Emotions

Coolers are good. Closers are great. Cleaners – people such as Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and Dwayne Wade – are unstoppable. With options, people usually choose the easier route. So I'm not giving you options. Let me do the thinking for the both of us.Show up. Work hard. Listen. Your job is to do the work. Icon's skim the positive stats and focus on how to improve the negative one's. Micheal Jordan after a game would look over the point totals, whether he got a triple double or not, but he would FIXATE on what he could improve. Always strive for improvement over celebration in life, because having the ability to improve is the most glorious celebration of being alive. After a pretty much perfect day at the office, the key is to now build on this and ensure it's not simply a one-off. Focus on the football