The Mindset Mentor - What It Takes to Be the Greatest Version of Yourself

Episode Date: June 24, 2026

Have you been focusing too much on the outcome and not enough on the process? In this episode, I’ll show you why greatness isn’t about talent, luck, or genetics—it’s built through daily discipline, mastering the fundamentals, and laying one brick at a time. If you want to become the greatest version of yourself, this episode will help you develop the mindset and habits that create extraordinary results over the long term. Feeling stuck? It's time to take back control. If you're ready to master your mind and create real, lasting change, click the link below and start transforming your life today. 👉 http://coachwithrob.com   The Mindset Mentor™ podcast is designed for anyone desiring motivation, direction, and focus in life.     Past guests of The Mindset Mentor include Tony Robbins, Matthew McConaughey, Jay Shetty, Andrew Huberman, Lewis Howes, Gregg Braden, Rich Roll, and Dr. Steven Gundry.   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcast. I am your host, Rob Dial. If you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so you never miss another episode. And if you're out there and you love this podcast, text me right now so you can get on my text messages for sporadic messages on mindset and tips and tricks to improve your life. That number is 512-8-9305. Once again, 512-9305. Today, I'm going to talk about how to develop yourself to be as great. as you possibly can be. Because this is something that I think every single person should have inside of them. A deep, deep desire to be as great as we possibly can. Not greater than somebody else, not better than your neighbor, not better than your coworkers or your brother or sister or your ex or whatever it is. I want you to have a deep desire to become the greatest version of yourself that you are capable of becoming. Because if we're being honest, what else are we here to do? Like you've got one life, one shot at this,

and one opportunity to inhabit this meat suit that you're currently walking around in, why wouldn't you want to see how far you can take it? Like, why wouldn't you want to see what you're actually made up? Why wouldn't you want to find out who you become when you stop making excuses, stop settling for good enough, and start showing up every single day with intention to be the best that you possibly can be.

Because I've worked with some of the greatest athletes that are out there. I've worked with people who have won Super Bowls. I've worked with people who have become all-stars. I've worked with some of the best NFL players, NBA players. I've worked also with some of the greatest CEOs that are worth millions to hundreds of millions, even into $4 billion in net worth. And here's what I've come to understand is the difference between the average person and somebody who is absolutely great,

is that greatness is not reserved for a few special people. It's not genetic. It's not luck. It's not talent. It's not something that you're born with. Greatness is the result of thousands of days stacked on top of each other. Thousands and thousands of hours. One of my favorite things that I love is called the 10,000 hour rule.

I love it so much that I literally got the Roman numeral for 10,000 tattooed on my wrist, so I see it every single day. And the 10,000 hour rule says it takes 10,000. thousand hours of deliberate practice, which means 10,000 hours of practice that is outside of your comfort zone, not just doing the same thing over and over and over again, but something out of your comfort zone for 10,000 hours until you master something. And I love the idea of being a human is we have the opportunity to master something, anything that we want. And people love to look at someone who's successful or someone who's great athlete or someone's an incredible business

owner and be like, oh, they're just so gifted. No, they were just so talented. I wish I would have gotten what they got. No, most of the time, they're just the most consistent human you've ever met. They've failed more than you will ever fail in your entire life. People look at someone who's fit and they're like, oh, they must have good genetics. Maybe they have some pretty good genetics, but I bet you they showed up and did the work when they didn't feel like it. People love to look at someone who's built an incredible business and be like, oh, they got lucky. Yeah, there's probably some luck involved, but I guarantee there are thousands of hours where they want, wanted to quit, but they didn't. And that's what I think greatness really is. The way I like to think

of greatness and developing a great life is like looking at a big, beautiful brick wall. I heard Will Smith talk about this years ago, and he talks about every day is basically like laying one brick. You can only lay one brick every single day. And what you want to do is lay that brick as perfectly as you can today. And then tomorrow, you'll get a new brick and you want to lay that as perfectly as you can today. And after 10, 20, 30, 40 years, you're going to look in and go, oh my gosh, I built the perfect wall. That's like your life. But you can only focus on laying the next brick as perfectly as you can. That's it. Today is one brick. Tomorrow is another brick. The next day is another. And eventually you turn around and realize you built something extraordinary

compared to the average person. So when you wake up in the morning, do you think about how you can maximize this day? Maximize yourself. Try to expand your capacity just a little bit so that you're a tiny bit better tomorrow when you wake up than you were today when you woke up? Because the problem is most people don't want to lay the perfect brick. They don't want to spend the time and put in the hard work. They want the perfect wall. Everybody wants the results. They want the six-pack abs. They want the successful business. They want the million dollars in their bank account. They want the confidence. They want to be the best athlete. They want the money. They want the relationship. They want the outcome. But you do not get the outcome. If you

don't become obsessed with the process. Very few people in this world become obsessed with the process. The process is where your greatness lives. You cannot get the outcome unless you become obsessed with the process. So there's no perfect strategy or perfect morning routine or business model or perfect workout or book or mentor, any of that. You need to master the small little things in your life, the small little things in your industry. Your life probably needs you. you to get incredibly good at three to four fundamental things. That's probably it. You don't have to focus on a million things. Like, I look at people who completely transform their lives, and it's really because they mastered everything. It's because they mastered a few things. They were consistent.

They were disciplined. They were focused, and they mastered the fundamentals of their life. You know, it's funny. If you look at every elite performer on earth, they become obsessed with fundamentals. Like, if you look at just athletes, right? You look at like someone like, Kobe Bryant, for instance. He was famous for this. People want to know how Kobe became great. He was one of the greatest basketball players of all time. They think it's some secret training method or formula. But if you look at what Kobe actually did, it was the basics. Thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of shots every single day. And then the key of it is when everybody else got bored, he kept practicing. He went over and above, put in more work than all of his

competition. He was famous for working on every single morning at 4 a.m. Why? It wasn't because he was a morning person is because he knew that most of his competitors started their workout at 9 a.m. And they would work out from like 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and put in 6 hours. So he realized that if he could work out at 4 a.m. to about 9 a.m. and then, you know, take a little bit of a break, eat some food, and then go 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. every single day, he was getting one extra practice, one extra workout every single day, which meant that while his competition was getting one workout, he was getting two workouts, because he simply woke up when nobody else would. He was improving twice as fast as his competition

because he put in twice as much work as his competition. Are you willing to put in that much work in order to become great? And we will be right back. And now, back to the show. I remember watching a video of Dwayne Wade talking about the first time he went against Kobe Bryant. And he said he walked in

and he just watched him practice the exact same shot over and over and over again. To the left side corner of the key is all he did. And he's like, oh my God, I know exactly what Kobe's going to do. I'm going to be able to stop him. And he said because he mastered that shot, he mastered that play, even though he knew what he was going to do, Dwayne Wade could not stop him because he mastered the fundamentals.

When you look at someone like Steph Curry, right, everybody sees impossible three-pointers. What they don't see is millions of shots. He takes on average 350 shots a day, seven days a week. That's 2,450 shots a week. that's 73,500 shots a month. That's 882,000 shots a year. He's been in the league for 15 years.

That's 13.2 million shots that he's taken in practice, not counting the 21 years before he got drafted into the NBA. He's made 8,980 shots in the NBA. That means that he practiced 13.2 million shots to make 8,980 shots. Let that sink in. That means that he is, practice over 1,400 times more shots than shots that he's actually made in a game.

It's the daily repetitions. It's the hours of practice. It's the fundamentals. It's getting the motion down. It's getting the mechanics. It's getting all of that over and over and over and over and over again when everybody else gets bored. It's all about the work. It's all about the process. It's about becoming obsessed with bringing out your greatness with anything else. Most people see the success and they want it. They don't see the work. And, you know, I see it not just sports, but I see it on the outside of sports as well. Like if you look at some of the greatest business owners or business leaders, if you look at Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos or Warren Buffett or any of this Elon Musk,

if you love them or hate him, I don't really care what you think of them. They all have different personalities, different industries, different strengths. But these people became obsessed with doing simple things extraordinarily well. The fundamentals, the details, the process. And that's what I want you to really understand. your life changes when you stop chasing complexity and stop being on your phone every single day and distracting yourself

and you start trying to put in the work to master the simplicity, the fundamentals of whatever it is that you're trying to master. Do you want to become the greatest guitar player? You don't have to worry about doing all of the crazy shit. You just master the scales. You just make sure that you start speeding up with a metronome. You start mastering these little tiny things

and that's where great has come from. your life changes when you stop asking what else do I need to do and you just start going, how can I get better at the basics of whatever it is I'm trying to master? Because success isn't complicated. It's repetitive. And for most people, repetition is boring. But the greatest people find pleasure in being bored knowing that they're improving. The boredom, knowing that they're becoming the greatest that's why most people never become great because they won't allow themselves to be bored. Most people quit when it's repetitive. But greatness requires this maniacal obsession with the process and daily repetition when you know nobody else is going to put in that work.

Greatness requires patience. It requires years. I want you to understand this. It's not days. It's not weeks. It's not month. It's years. Years. Change will not happen today. You can make a decision today. You can start today. But greatness doesn't happen today. Greatness happens through years, if not decades of showing up when nobody is around. It's like that Muhammad Ali quote where he talks about, the winning doesn't happen when you're in the ring. It happens before he dances in the lights and he's in the dark and he's training by himself and nobody else is around. That's when it is actually won, not when he is actually in the ring. It's years of keeping promises to yourself. It's years of showing up when you don't feel like. It's years of replacing bad habits with good habits. It's years of

rewiring yourself. And I want you to understand that. It's a not going to happen in days. Because we live in a world where everybody wants things immediately. They want transformation in 30 days. They want to be a professional athlete today. They want a million dollar business in six months. They want a dream body in the next two weeks. Process takes time. Growth takes time. Transformation takes time. Stop expecting to harvest your seeds that you planted a week ago. If somebody came out to me and said, Rob, what would I need to do to completely change my life? My answer would be super simple. For the next two or three years, become obsess. with the process of you working on becoming the best that you could possibly become.

Two to three years, not six months, not 30 days. Commit yourself fully. Change the bad habits. Get the good habits. Get your health right. Get your mindset right. Get your sleep right. Get your relationships right.

Learn emotional control. Learn discipline. Learn consistency. Learn how to work when nobody else is willing to show up. Learn how to get pleasure knowing that you're showing up when 99% of people will not. And you just keep showing up day after. day, day after day. And eventually it compounds. What's hard for you now will be easy for you in the future. What people will be amazed by by you in five years is something that you don't have right now.

And it's something that you do not have now, but it will become automatic for you through years of dedicating yourself to some sort of process. And one day you'll look in the mirror and you realize, holy shit, I'm not the same person anymore because of these 10,000 tiny moments where it was me in me. That's how greatness is built. One choice at a time, one habit at a time, one action at a time. And so here's what I want to leave you with. Please develop a burning desire to be great. Because greatness honors the gifts that you've been given. You have gifts. You have talents. You have abilities. You have potential. But you have a purpose of being here. And I think one of the greatest tragedies in life is reaching the end and realizing how much more that you are capable of

becoming. And you don't even have to think about 50 years from Tay. You could think about five years from today. If you don't work hard today, there will be regrets in five years, I promise you that. Say, for instance, you're a college athlete. Say you play on the offensive line for my favorite team, the Florida Gators. If you don't put everything that you have into every single fucking day, you will look back and think, ah, shit, like, I really messed that up. I should have worked harder and dedicated myself more. If you're starting a business and you don't go all in, you will look back in five years and think, oh, shit, I really messed that up. I wish I would have dedicated myself more. A quote that I used to tell myself when I was in my early 20s and I was trying

to rewire myself from like a lazy stoner surfer. And I was trying to rewire myself and as somebody who could work hard and put in the work and build a great life. This was the quote. The only thing harder than the pain of hard work is the pain of regret. I would tell myself that 50 times a day. Whenever I had to do something I didn't want to do, I just didn't want to look back in the future and regret that I had this moment to maximize and completely changed the course of my life and I didn't do it because I was afraid of putting in the hard work. Putting in the hard work is a choice that I had. That's what I want you to realize. So start asking yourself, did I lay my brick as perfectly as I could today? If the answer is yes, then do it again tomorrow. And then again, and then again. And if it's not, how can I make adjustments to be better tomorrow? because greatness is one day at a time. It's thousands of days in a row. And if you keep laying those bricks long enough,

one day you will turn around, look back and realize that you've built a masterpiece because you decided that you were going to become the greatest version of yourself and that it was your responsibility to change. And you honored that responsibility every single day by working your ass off and you built an amazing life.

So that is what I have for you for today's episode. If you love this episode, please share it on the Instagram stories. Tag me in it, Rob Dial Jr., R-B-D-I-L-J-R. And once again, if you want to join my text message group, text me right now, 512-5-8-0-9305. And with that, I'm going to leave you the same way I leave you every single episode. Make it your mission to make somebody else's day better. I appreciate you, and I hope that you have an amazing day.