Anthony Robbins teaches a concept that he calls the “Ultimate Success Formula”. Regardless of what you want to do or accomplish in life, you can use this formula to achieve it. This is the fourth of five installments explaining the details of this formula. Read part one, part two, and part three.
Step #4: Know What You Are Getting.
You must sense if what you are doing is giving you the result you want. But you must perceive it in excrutiating detail. Tony refers to this as “sensory acuity”, and says it is a keen form of intelligence.
(Editor’s Note: According to the University of Kansas Medical Center, acuity is the process of receiving the input, i.e. using your eyes, ears, and other sensory organs. Perception, on the other hand, is a person’s ability to understand the data they took in with their acuity. Therefore, to truly understand what they are getting, it seems a person would need both acuity and perception.)
Establish a feedback mechanism. It can be anything, as long as it allows you to measure, as quickly as possible, whether or not you are heading in the right direction. You need to check this from time to time.
The genius is in the details, so understand them. Tony gave an example where he described a marker: it could be a cylinder, a red gray cylinder, a short red gray cylinder with markings, or a bright red Sharpie Fine Point Permanent Market that never gets out of your clothes.
To further illustrate his point about sensory acuity, Tony explained how the Eskimos have twelve different words for “snow”. (While this makes a great point, it is not technically correct because Tony is comparing apples and oranges. As explained here, it has more to do with the root of the words than the actual words. Using the same logic, English has approximately 22 snow lexemes.)
Although his analogies were not “spot on”, Anthony Robbins still got his points across. In order to reach the outcomes you want, you must be able to evaluate whether or not what you are doing is working. The concept is quite simple, but can be difficult to judge in practice.
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