Hey, how we doing? Good morning.

This is not going to be your typical keynote speech. This is going to be unlike anything you have ever seen. It's going to be fun. It's going to be rowdy. You can pull out your phone, you can take video, you can cheer. I'm going to share with you proprietary research on high performance, but we're going to wrap it in a metaphor of ninja warrior. I think ninja warrior is an incredible metaphor for high performance in your world. And so I've invited my two sons, Tanner and Drew, who are nationally ranked ninjas, to come on and be part of this.

I'm going to bring them out here in just a second. They're going to give you a preview. But here's what I've found as we've traveled all around the country giving this presentation, we. What I've found is this. If you as the audience, the louder you cheer, the better they do. Okay? So please put your hands together and welcome Tanner and Drew Bennett.

Let's go, T. Yeah. Looking for a better way to get up out of bed instead of getting on the Internet and checking a new hippie. Get up. Yeah, dude.

Nice job. All right, it's your turn. You ready? Actually, I think the funniest reaction to this speech I've ever gotten was from my accountant. He said, ty, every speaker writes their kids off on their taxes, but you actually make yours work for it. Tanner and Drew are two of my five kids. I'm from Utah, and.

Yeah, where are my Utah friends? All right. Yes.

And because she's here, I want to recognize the star of our family. My wife Sarah is somewhere over this direction.

Give her a hand.

Let me start with what I already know about you. This is the most talented, the most driven group I have ever spoken to. And yet, if you're here today, if you came to influence, it's because you want to be better. That doesn't mean that you're not great. It means that there's something inside of you. A drive, a curiosity, a passion. Something that puts. Pushes you to want to grow.

And here's the truth. If we want to be more relevant, if we want to be more influential, if we want to have bigger impact with our words, we have to raise our level of performance. So that's why we conducted a national research study on high performance, one of the biggest of its kind. Led by a team of PhDs, we dove into every aspect of high performance. What drives it, what stops it, what holds us back. And how do you and I unlock it? And so this morning, I'm going to share with you three insights from that research to help you level up in uncommon ways. Because the reality is high performance isn't common in any industry. But when you study high performers, there's commonalities that they share and that we can observe and then adopt to raise our level of performance.

Here's a question for you. Do you think high performance has more to do with mindset or skillset? Okay, I'm hearing a little bit of both. The research showed us is actually both because skill without mindset gets stuck, but mindset without skill falls flat. And so we're going to dive into both the habits and the head space to take our performance to another level. And we're going to wrap it in this metaphor of Ninja warrior. Here's why I was introduced to the show and the sport of Ninja Warrior on November 22, 2018. That's the day that Tanner and Drew, as 8 and 10 year old boys, watched the show for the very first time. Now, you might wonder why I know that date well, because we celebrate November 22nd as Ninja Warrior Day at our house.

I don't know what you celebrate, maybe Thanksgiving. But for us, it's Ninja Warrior Day. They watch the show and what started as an obsession turned into training. And we built some obstacles in our basement in our backyard. And then it expanded, and now we own two Ninja Warrior gyms. One is the largest in the world. This has taken over our lives, but I've watched Tanner and Drew become elite athletes, nationally ranked ninjas, some of the best in the world at their sport. It's been incredible.