Will It Make the Boat Go Faster? by Ben Hunt-Davis & Harriet Beveridge Summary
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Olympic gold medalist Ben Hunt-Davis reveals the transformative question that propelled his team to victory: "Will it make the boat go faster?" Now a business performance bible with a 3.97 Goodreads rating, it's reshaping how organizations achieve impossible goals through laser-focused decision-making.
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One Question That Changed Everything
September 2000: Eight rowers cross the finish line in Sydney, claiming Olympic gold against every prediction. Just two years earlier, this same crew had finished seventh at the World Championships-nine seconds behind the leaders, dismissed as "leftovers" who'd never medal. What transformed them wasn't a magical training technique or sudden talent discovery. It was a single question that guided every decision: "Will it make the boat go faster?" That late-night party invitation? Will it make the boat go faster? That tempting dessert? Will it make the boat go faster? That experimental training method? Will it make the boat go faster? This deceptively simple filter cut through confusion, eliminated distractions, and created a clarity so powerful that Richard Branson later credited the approach as instrumental to his business thinking. But here's what makes this story truly remarkable: these weren't naturally gifted athletes destined for greatness. They were ordinary people who discovered something extraordinary about how goals actually work. Dreams without structure remain fantasies. Winning Olympic gold required four distinct layers working together like floors in a building. At the top sits what we might call the "Crazy Layer"-that bold, emotionally compelling vision that makes your heart race. For the crew, this was standing on an Olympic podium wearing gold medals. Notice the specificity: not "doing well" or "rowing fast," but gold medals at the Olympics. Beneath this dream lies the "Concrete Layer," transforming emotion into measurement. The crew needed to row 2,000 meters in 5:18 or faster. This precision eliminated wiggle room and vague interpretations of success. You either hit the time or you didn't.
Controlling What Matters and Ignoring What Doesn't
Building Belief and Blocking Negativity
Guarding Your Mental Territory From Toxic Interpretations
When Inspiration Fails and Systems Sustain
The Aggregation of Marginal Gains
Your Boat, Your Question, Your Gold
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"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
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