Kay:

Well, hello. Welcome back to the Mentorship Quest with Kay and Shi. We are so glad to have you back. Thanks for excusing us while we took a little bit of a break. The month of October in 2021 was crazy for us. We’re glad to be back with you now and excited to jump in here on episode 466.

Shi:

We enjoyed our time away, but we missed doing this and we missed all of you and adding value to you. We’ve had so much fun. Hopefully, you’ve been following along with us on social media. You saw that we got to have our annual leadership training with the restaurant company. We got to go to New York City for Hamilton on Broadway, and we got to go to Florida and be part of the 10X Incubator co-founder event. So, there was a lot happening and podcasts were impossible to schedule. So, thank you all for bearing with us. We hope you enjoyed the little blast from the past and some filler content that was still completely value-adding, but we are ready and raring to get back in. So, let’s give you today’s Monday Fun Day Run Day, Get It Done Day quote.

Kay:

It is November 15th and we’ve got an Elon Musk quote for you. He says, “I think it is very important to have a feedback loop where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.”

Shi:

The power of reflection. Elon Musk is a controversial character out there, but clearly a pioneer, an innovator, someone who has left a mark on this world and will have a legacy that outlives him long after he’s gone. When someone reaches that level of accomplishment, it’s worth listening to. What they say matters.

Kay:

Look, we are already hard-wired with feedback loops that come in our human biology, so, you don’t need somebody as big and fancy as Elon Musk to tell you that feedback matters. What happens when you get hungry? You get feedback. Your body sends you biofeedback. What happens when you’re about to do something for the very first time? You get nervous. Your body sends you feedback. So, you’re hardwired with the feedback in your physicality, and then our habits structures in our brain work on feedback loops as to whether we get positive or negative consequences from something. Those feedback signals build positive or negative neural pathways in our brain. So, this is not just something that’s esoteric or ethereal. It’s physical and biological and it’s really how you’re wired.

Shi:

Love that you pushed your glasses up your nose there, sis, and got a little scientific with us because there is that biological component. And if you struggle with the word feedback, something that we found helps is using the word input rather than feedback to feel encouraged. Or maybe, if you want to make that switch so that you can remove any mental blocks you have around the word feedback and use input instead, because as Kay mentioned the world, the physical world, is being reflected on the outside and our biological world is reflected on the inside. You get hungry, you get all these signs. You get this input from your body that tells you time to eat. And so, it’s no wonder that when we take this natural principle of success in the unfolding of creation and apply it to our mental faculties and our willpower, that we can become even greater and progress and advance even farther. Someone like Elon Musk, who’s advanced extremely far knows that if we take these kinds of natural patterns like feedback and input and apply them to what it is that we’re trying to achieve, it can help us get there faster. And so that’s the benefit. But we get so much emotion tied up in feedback that it can be hard to do.

Kay:

Well, input can hurt. It’s not necessarily comfortable to be hungry, that’s why you go and you eat to resolve that hunger feeling. So, I think that what you’re saying, Shi, is what Elon is wanting us to do here is take something natural and supercharge it, supercharge it with that human power of intention. Put intentional focus on the natural gifts of feedback and input and use that in order to help you. If you have experienced today and you gain experience tomorrow, you have yesterday’s experience and today’s experience. But if you have yesterday’s experience and you reflect today on yesterday and gain two days’ experience, you have yesterday’s experience multiplied plus today’s experience gained. So, when we think about experience gained, you know, experience added is experience gained. But experience reflected on is experience multiplied is really that idea of bringing that superpower of human intention to the naturally occurring feedback loop inside our life.

Shi:

That’s so beautiful. It’s kind of how we progress in a way that is intentional, and I love that you just brought that forward. And this is one of the books Kay and I love to recommend is Principles by Ray Dalio. And this is something that he talks about as well. If you don’t know who Ray Dalio is, you know of people like him. You just might not know his specific name, but he is one of the most successful hedge fund managers in the world and has learned a lot and lost a lot and gained a lot and done a lot and failed at a lot and then ultimately has built this algorithm that helps kind of read the stock market and has made his clients tons of money. In fact, he doesn’t even take new clients anymore because he’s already managing such a big load of wealth management and assets already for people.

But Ray talks about this, that you’ve got to have this system for reflection. What is that system for consistent reflection? How are you going to look back, reflect, and assess where you could have made improvements, what you did really well and what you want to stay steady on the course at, so that you can move forward in that intentional way that gets you those results.

Kay:

So, like Elon Musk tells us, “I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.”

Shi:

Alright. It’s quest time! And then, of course, it is, as you heard in the beginning, Monday Fun Day, Run Day, Get It Done Day. So, we’re going to help you get it done and create that feedback loop. We’re telling you tp explore what you’re striving for. Is the action you’re taking moving you towards or away from your goals? Take some time to reflect on the actions you’re taking, how they are helping you either advance or retreat from what it is that you want to achieve. This will help you figure out what you can do better and what you can improve. Are you ready?

Kay:

Let’s quest!