RPM stands for Result driven – Purpose oriented – Massive action plan (Rapid Planning Method)
Tony Robbins have created RPM , it is outstanding thinking process and System.
It can be used anywhere to produce outstanding results. I mean literally anything.
Just 3 simple steps
Results/ Outcome
First Precisely and exactly define what you want ? What’s your the ultimate vision
You must be able to measure the outcome.
If you can’t major it , you can’t improve it. – Tony Robbins
Purpose
All the reasons Why you want it ? Find as many as reasons that why you want to do this
Massive Action Plan
Brainstorm as many as ways you can find.
Remember the John Lasseter’s concept , always come up with at least 3 awesome ideas.
Same way have at least 3 ways to do that.
so if one doesn’t work , you will have at least other two.
Don’t feel bad if plan doesn’t , most often it doesn’t ,we just have to concentrate on our Outcome and change our approach, as long as we don’t
get our outcome.
RPM is amazingly useful for producing results in any area.
You can use it for planning the animation scene, directing the animation short, modeling character , animation story writing , literally for anything you want.
Let me tell you the hardest part of RPM
Defining exactly precise what we want , the ultimate vision.
See most often we have no idea what exactly we want , we think know what we want , we don’t.
You might say ,” I know what I want , I want to join best animation institute ”
” I want best Coach”
Right ?
No ,That’s not the OUTCOME , you don’t want best animation institute , you don’t want Best Coach
YOUR OUTCOME IS
to learn and master specific skills and improve those consistently and produce outstanding character animation
If you can learn those skills without any Institute or coach , WHY NOT ??
Believe me , defining what we want precisely is really hard part ,
sometimes we feel bad that we don’t have enough money so that we can learn from Awesome coaches , but that’s not the reason to feel bad ,
WE SHOULD FEEL EVEN MORE BAD IF WE haven’t animated anything in a whole day.
Most of the times people think to do something is their job and that’s Insane.
Teacher’s think completing syllabus is their job.
Students think to complete the assignment is their job.
I mean , come on , that’s not the real “Outcome”.
Let me tell you the example –
At the time construction of our house, the stairs had to be built yet for getting from one floor to other , so worker had created the
Wooden ladder.
When I climb over the ladder , I found out that distance between horizontal rods of ladder was far too much and uneven , it was really dangerous climbing over
that ladder.
Guess what ?
The worker thinks that his Outcome is to build wooden ladder
BUT his Actual Outcome is
Getting Safely from one floor to other
While Animating scene, planning the scene , directing the scene , drawing or for anything
DEFINING ACTUAL OUTCOME IS REALLY IMPORTANT
Same way to do Some animation assignment is not our actual OUTCOME
most often student think
TO DO ball bounce is outcome , its easy and everyone has to do it before animating anything.
That’s not the OUTCOME , to learn some specific things from that assignment is the Actual Outcome.
We animate ball bounce, we take feedback, we do improvements until it looks good and we move on , very few ever take time to think what exactly they learned.
Assignments are designed to learn some specific skills , that’s the real OUTCOME .
In movie The Karate Kid , he learns all the skills of karate through unconventional Assignment of picking up jacket .
His coach knows the exact OUTCOME , PURPOSE and he knows the Perfect action Plan.
So This is RPM tool.
RESULT / OUTCOME (What)
PURPOSE (Why)
MASSIVE ACTION PLAN (How)
In this small video Tony talks about RPM, you must watch it.
