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563: Dr. Mike Massimino - A NASA Astronaut's Guide To Achieving The Impossible, Building Excellent Teams, Tweeting From Space, and Earning Your Dream Job

15 januari 2024 · 1 uur 2 min
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This is episode #563 of The Learning Leader Show. My guest is Dr. Mike Massimino.

The 3 Trusts - Trust your gear, trust your training, trust your team… And the 4th: trust yourself.

Mike persisted through 3 rejections over 7 years on his way to becoming an astronaut, including overcoming a medical disqualification by training his eyes and brain to see better.

Mike participated in a mission that significantly increased Hubble's discovery potential and led to the award of a Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of dark energy during a spacewalk.

Why Mike was chosen to be an astronaut: Mike has a great combination of competence (he knows his stuff) and high character. He's the type of guy that can get along and work with anyone. He's honest, humble, and authentic.

The power of having a deep passion for what you're doing. Mike watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon when he was six years old and then did whatever he could over the rest of his life to become an astronaut. His desire to become an astronaut led him to go to prestigious universities, earn his Ph.D., become a pilot, become scuba certified, develop great communication skills, and so much more. All of that work led to him accomplishing what he set out to do when he was just 6 years old.

"I knew right then that I wanted to be a part of something that meaningful. I wanted to have something I was so passionate about that I'd be willing to risk everything for it. I wanted to know that if I ever got killed, I got killed doing something worthwhile. The kid who looked up at the moon and wasn't afraid to dream - I decided that part of me deserved a chance. I sat there in that reception area, watching the crash footage play over and over again on the television, and that was when it hit home for me: you only have one life. You have to spend it doing something that matters."

What Mike l…
562: Nikki Glaser - Life as a Comedian, The Creative Process, Learning From Seinfeld, How To Respond When You Bomb on Stage, Roasting Robert DeNiro, & Telling The Truth

8 januari 2024 · 1 uur
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Nikki Glaser is one of the funniest female voices in comedy today. For nearly two decades at clubs across the country, stand-up comedian, actress, podcaster, and TV host. In July of 2022, she headlined her first HBO comedy special, GOOD CLEAN FILTH, which has been nominated for a Critics Choice Award for Best Comedy Special. Nikki was a standout at the Comedy Central Roasts of Alec Baldwin, Bruce Willis, and Rob Lowe, which led to her guest-hosting JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! Nikki is currently on her nationwide and international comedy tour, THE GOOD GIRL TOUR, which kicked off in January 2023. Before coming on The Learning Leader Show, Nikki has done in-depth interviews with Howard Stern, Marc Maron, Conan O'Brien, and Joe Rogan.

Notes:

When Nikki is bombing on stage, she has a great method to reset. "Just say what's true." "Everyone is putting on a mask. Everyone is trying to present in a different way. If you just say what's true, it's the funniest."

Nikki is a professional "noticer of things." This is why I think great stand-ups are modern-day philosophers. They notice things and then have a way to share them in a unique and funny way with all of us. We laugh because they've said what's true, but have done it in a way that we haven't thought of before. As leaders, we should be more aware and notice things more often.

The writing process:

"You need to pay attention constantly to everything to see what could potentially be a joke. Sometimes, in the middle of a conversation with a friend, I'll tell them to hold on because I need to take out my phone and type something funny that I just saw. If …
561: Bob Sutton - How Smart Leaders Make The Right Things Easier and The Wrong Things Harder (The Friction Project)

1 januari 2024 · 1 uur
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Commonalities of leaders who sustain excellence:

Curiosity (ask lots of questions)

Willingness to try something new

Compassion - Assume you don't know others' struggles

Bob worked with Ed Catmull (Pixar)

He was one of the best at combining curiosity, willingness to try new things, and having compassion for people

Good Boss vs. Bad Boss

Good bosses ask lots of questions and then make the call (John Hennessey, Stanford President)

The Jumbo Grocery Stores in Holland created "slow lanes" for those who wanted to talk… They didn't want efficiency or speed, they wanted a conversation. It's a good reminder that sometimes we should slow down and enjoy our surroundings and the people we're with…

Curiosity and Compassion are skills we can build. Take the experiment where they counted the number of questions versus statements and your talking time. Surround yourself with people who will give you direct feedback about your level of curiosity and compassion… When conversing with someone else, how often are you asking questions versus talking about yourself? Think about that…

It's not always right to be efficient… Bob shared the Jerry Seinfeld story… The network was considering bringing in McKinsey to help Jerry become more efficient when making his show. He asked, "Are they funny?" They said, no that's not what they do. And he said, "Then I don't need them." It's not always supposed to be efficient. Sometimes, the hard way is the right way… To get the best result, it usually is.

Some things Bob believes (we should all post an essay about what we believe):

Indifference is as important as passion.

The best leaders know what it feels like to work for them. They overcome the urge to focus attention on powerful superiors rather than their followers

The best leaders think and act as trustees of their employees' and customers' time. They are "friction fixe…
560: Dr. Barry Posner - Model the Way, Inspire a Shared Vision, Challenge the Process, Encourage Others to Act (The Leadership Challenge)

25 december 2023 · 51 min
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Dr. Barry Posner, author of The Leadership Challenge and The Truth About Leadership

The 4 characteristics of leaders whom we would most choose to follow:

Honest (trustworthy, they do what they say they're going to do)

Competent (Smart, and constantly learning)

Inspiring - Energetic, enthusiastic. Inspire means to breathe life in to...

Forward-looking - They have a sense of the future. They share a compelling vision

People all have values, but not everyone knows what they are. To know what our values are, we must be thoughtful and intentional about them and do the reflective work to understand what we value most.

What is Kouzes and Posner's leadership theory? Their research, which they conducted over almost 20 years, suggested that leadership is not a position, but a collection of practices and behaviors. These practices serve as guidance for leaders to accomplish their achievements or "to get extraordinary things done.

The Leadership Challenge – Leaders drive results and achieve goals. To face the obstacles of today and tomorrow, we need leaders at a high level. The Leadership Challenge gives everyone the tools and practices to Model the Way, Inspire a Shared Vision, Challenge the Process, Enable Others to Act, and Encourage the Hearts of those around them.

"In the middle of responding to an audience question one of us was saying, "I don't know what you call something that's been the same for twenty-five years, but…," and Ken Blanchard interrupted, exclaiming, 'I'd call it the truth.'"

The Truth About Leadership

The first truth is that You Make a Difference.

The second truth is that Credibility Is the Foundation of Leadership. If people don't believe in you, they won't willingly follow you.

The third truth is that Values Drive Commitment. People want to know what you stand for and believe in.

The fourth truth is that Focusing on the Futu…
559: Marshall Goldsmith - The Power of Executive Coaching, How To Give & Receive Feedback, & Attributes of The Best Leaders (What Got You Here Won't Get You There)

18 december 2023 · 49 min
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Notes from my conversation with Marshall Goldsmith:

Attributes of the best leaders he's worked with:

They are courageous, they have humility, and they are disciplined.

Do we all need a coach?

"I don't know, but if we're honest with ourselves, we all need help. And a coach can be someone to help…"

Happiness and achievement are independent variables.

I felt we kept going around in circles because I'm a prescriptive thinker and like actionable takeaways. And I feel like Marshall was helping me understand it's more of a mindset.

With a PhD from UCLA, Marshall is a pioneer of 360-degree feedback as a leadership development tool. His early efforts in providing feedback and then following-up with executives to measure changes in behavior were precursors to what eventually evolved as the field of executive coaching.

"Fate is the hand of cards we've been dealt. The choice is how we play the hand."

"Getting mad at people for being who they are makes as much sense as getting mad at a chair for being a chair."

"Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others."

"People who believe they can succeed see opportunities where others see threats."

"If we do not create and control our environment, our environment creates and controls us."

"A leader who cannot shoulder the blame is not someone we will follow blindly into battle. We instinctively question that individual's character, dependability, and loyalty to us. A…
558: Introducing Our New Book, "The Score That Matters," (With Brook Cupps)

14 december 2023 · 1 uur 3 min
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"The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard." - Warren Buffet – The inner scorecard is about eliminating comparison with others and living in alignment with what's most important to you. Your values and the behaviors to match those values.

The inner scorecard eliminates the comparison of things.

How to build trust? Laugh together, cry together, suffer together (do hard things).

Resume virtues versus Eulogy virtues. We'll get caught up in living for our resume (promotions, money, objects) if we're not intentional. We think it's better to live for your eulogy virtues (the impact you had on people, fulfilling your purpose, living in alignment with your true values)

Why a strong purpose beats a good plan: we explain how a strong purpose erases obstacles, is never about you, and is highlighted by considering death.

Why being the greatest is a mirage: While greatness is a process that is attainable for all, we share why becoming the greatest is a destination that no one can reach.

How to navigate the tricky art of building trust: Throughout 25 years of teaching and coaching Brook has refined the trust-building process to 3 simple actions every leader can use.

How to fight the poison of comparison: Our focus on a consistent process over the societal pursuit of results seems contradictory to excellence but just may lay the foundation for its at…
557: Hal Elrod - How To Create a Morning Routine That Works For You

11 december 2023 · 46 min
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The SAVERS acronym – Silence, Affirmations, Visualization, Exercise, Reading, and Scribing. If you implement that consistently, you'll probably do better.

72% of people said they were not a morning person before implementing SAVERS.

The makeup of a great sales professional:

They are coachable...

They bring energy and enthusiasm to the job...

They are consistent. They can handle rejection and keep going. They focus on the process...

Affirmations: First, affirm what you're committed to. Next, why is it a must for you, and finally, affirm the specific actions you will take and when. That's how you bring affirmations to life…

Hal died for 6 minutes, broke 11 bones, suffered permanent brain damage, and was told by doctors that he would never walk again. Then, at age 37, he nearly died again when his heart, lungs, and kidneys were on the verge of failing, and he was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive form of cancer.

"Any time you find yourself "wishing" you were further along than you are, or comparing where you are with where someone else is, keep in mind that when you finally get to point you've been working towards for so long, you never wish it would have happened any sooner. Instead, you see that the journey and the timing are perfect. So be at peace with where you are while maintaining a healthy sense of urgency to make the consistent progress each day that will ensure you get to wherever it is that you want to go. "

"Those who only do what they feel like, don't do much. To be successful at anything you must take action even when you don't feel like it, knowing it is the action itself that will produce the motivation you need to follow through."

"It's…
556: Morgan Housel - A Guide To Human Behavior, Telling Great Stories, Becoming a Reasonable Optimist, Writing Advice, Mr. Beast, & What Never Changes

4 december 2023 · 56 min
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"Your personal experiences make up maybe 0.00000001% of what's happened in the world but maybe 80% of how you think the world works."

"All behaviors make sense with enough information."

The best story wins: Good stories have an extraordinary ability to inspire and evoke positive emotions, bringing insight and attention to topics that people tend to ignore when they've previously been presented with nothing but facts.

Stories are more powerful than statistics. And most statistics are incomplete props to justify a story. Stories are easier to remember, easier to relate to, and emotionally persuasive.

Progress requires optimism and pessimism to coexist: A rational optimist. - Save like a pessimist and invest like an optimist. - Plan like a pessimist and dream like an optimist.

"It's supposed to be hard." – Everything worth pursuing comes with a little pain. The trick is not minding it hurts.

It's impossible to plan for what you can't imagine. - Invest in preparedness, not in prediction. - Realize that if you're only preparing for the risks you can envision, you'll be unprepared for the risks you can't see every single time.

Fostering envy vs. admiration. Are you creating envy by what you post on social media?

"People admire you when you are pursuing something, not when you have it."

Reasonable Optimists: Once people believe in a better future – for themselves and others – they become willing to take risks, work hard, sacrifice near-term comfort, delay gratification, and cooperate with others, all of which are the raw ingredients of economic and social progress.

A realistic optimist is someone who knows that what happens in any given day, month, or…
555: Shane Parrish - Raising Your Standards, The Difference Between Nice & Kind Feedback, The Inner vs. Outer Scoreboard, & Turning Ordinary Moments Into Extraordinary Results (Clear Thinking)

27 november 2023 · 55 min
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The power of believing in someone. Mr. Duncan, Shane's high school English teacher was the first person to tell him that he believed in him. He changed the trajectory of Shane's life. We, as leaders, can do that for others. Let's proactively look for opportunities to tell the people we're leading that we believe in them.

The difference between Nice and Kind feedback. Too often, the people we ask for feedback are nice but not kind. Kind people will tell you things a nice person will not. A kind person will tell you that you have spinach on your teeth. A nice person won't because it's uncomfortable. A kind person will tell us what holds us back, even when it's uncomfortable. A nice person avoids giving us critical feedback because they're worried about hurting our feelings.

Champions: "Champions don't create the standards of excellence. The standards of excellence create champions." "Expecting high performance is a prerequisite to its achievement among those who work with you. Your high standards and optimistic anticipations will not guarantee a favorable outcome, but their absence will assuredly create the opposite."

The USS Benfold — was one of the worst-performing warships in the US Navy in 1996. The destiny of the USS Benfold changed the day Michael Abrashoff was named commander.

Shane was 13 years old. Shane was standing with a group of his friends after school and they were teasing one of his classmates and he was watching. Teachers intervened and it ended quickly. He didn't realize that your dad was parked nearby and was watching. You have to stand up for people who don't have a voice.

Warren Buffett: "The big question about how people behave i…
554: Tim Urban - Becoming a High-Rung Thinker, Being The Boss of The Ideas In Your Own Head, Writing Wait But Why, & The Best Advice He's Ever Received

20 november 2023 · 46 min
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How can I become a high-rung thinker?

High-rung thinking is independent thinking, leaving you free to revise your ideas or even discard them altogether. On the low rungs, it means you're working to dutifully serve your ideas, not the other way around.

How can I be the boss of the ideas in my own head?

When you're the boss of the ideas in your head, you're always willing to revise them. When there's no amount of evidence that will change your mind about something, it means that idea is your boss. Humility is the awareness that no idea is worthy of being your boss.

Best advice Tim has ever received:

"I met Chris Anderson, the head of TED, in 2015. He had read a few WBW posts and offered me the opportunity to give a TED Talk at the 2016 conference (which was six months away). Immediately full of both gratitude/excitement and dread/anxiety, I asked him if it might be better to wait a couple years until I had some more speaking experience. He paused thoughtfully for a few seconds before saying, "There's no time like the present." I took his advice. Since then, his voice saying those words has popped into my head again and again during hard decisions, and I'm yet to regret following them."

Great advice is sometimes great because it's totally original or framed in an original way. But, as in my story, a well-known platitude, at the perfect moment, can also make a huge impact. What makes Chris's advice so valuable to me wasn't that it was something new—it was that the lesson I learned from taking the advice in that particular moment turned a cliché into a mantra.

No one "builds a house." They lay one brick again and again and again and the end result is a…
553: Eric Potterat - Mental Disciplines for Leading and Winning from the World's Top Performers (Learned Excellence)

13 november 2023 · 58 min
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"Amateurs focus on outcome. Professionals focus on process." And if you want to change the process, focus on just one change at a time. He used the fly fishing analogy. You don't change all three at once. Try one change and re-evaluate.

I love the idea of creating a personal checklist for yourself much like pilots fill out every time before they fly a plane. We should all create our checklist and fill it out consistently. This is a great tool to become more self-aware.

Top performers have a thirst for feedback in victory and defeat. The leaders who sustain excellence over time are intentional about surrounding themselves with a kitchen cabinet who is there to regularly provide feedback so that they can iterate and improve. That's one of the biggest differences between those who sustain excellence over time and those who don't.

Goal Setting

34%-42% chance of hitting a goal if you ideate it

62% chance of hitting a goal if you write it down

75% chance of hitting a goal if you verbally share it with others

Eric developed a psychological "resilience" test that when combined with data on the candidate's physical characteristics became a very good predictor of who would fail BUD/S (97%).

While working with the Navy SEALs in San Diego, Eric frequently had guests come to observe the SEALs and how they worked. A lot of them were professional athletes like Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, Michael Phelps, and many more… While there, Eric asked to interview them. Over time he was able to build an extensive knowledge base of the mental approaches of the world's top performers.

"If your brain is firing, it's wiring." Learned from downhill skiers...

Commonalities…
552: Brian Johnson - How To Activate Your Heroic Potential, Develop Charisma, Become Intrinsically Motivated, Build Emotional Stamina, & Live With Arete

6 november 2023 · 57 min
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Charisma: Presence, Power, and Warmth - Show up, be fully there. In that moment with the person in front of you. Flip the switch. Understand your power. And deeply care for others. Be warm, not cold. And it's important that each of these is expressed with authenticity. That's how to develop more charisma.

How to develop our protocol - A simple exercise. Get a sheet of paper. On one side write "DO." On the other side, write "DON'T." Think of yourself at your best, what do you do? That's your protocol. And remember that the worse you feel, the more committed you need to be to your protocol

It's always day one. Brian thinks of his time spent with the Navy SEALs. They work to earn their trident every single day. Today is the day. It's always the right day to earn it. It's always day 1.

Arete – An ancient Greek word. We translate it into English as 'virtue' or 'excellence,' but it has a deeper meaning. Something closer to 'expressing the best version of yourself moment to moment to moment.'

Inter-leaving - The basic idea is simple: If you want to learn something, you're better off varying your practice rather than grooving one identical rep after another.

Epictetus - One of his students took great lecture notes and captured his wisdom in a manual called the Enchiridion. The Greek word for Enchiridion is translated as "handbook," and it's important to note that the word literally means "within" + "hand."

Intrinsic versus Extrinsic motivation – Which motivation leads to greater levels of happiness and flourishing? Why? It's why people who get to the peak of what David Brooks calls the "First Mountain" look around and wonder why they don't feel fulfilled. …
551: Greg Harden - How To Control The Controllables and Stay Sane in an Insane World (Tom Brady's Mentor)

30 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
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Greg Harden is best known for working with 7-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady. He also worked with Super Bowl MVP Desmond Howard, and 23-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps. Brady, Howard, and other athletes credit Harden with inspiring them to overcome obstacles and achieve success in their professional and personal lives. He's the author of Stay Sane in an Insane World: How to Control the Controllables and Thrive. The book debuted at #1 on all of Amazon and is a New York Times bestseller.

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Read my book, The Pursuit Of Excellence -- See why Patrick Lencioni said "This book is an absolute must-read if you care to live an excellent life."

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"You need to become the world's greatest expert on one subject. Yourself." We need to do the work to better understand who we are, what we're scared of, why we say the things to ourselves that we do, and how to improve. It's hard, but very necessary work. And the fun part about it is it never ends…

Courage is not about being fearless. Courage is about facing your fears. It's about turning that fear into fire and passion. For people to say that they are fearless… That isn't realistic. We all have fears. It's about how we handle them and the courage we show in the face of fear.

Commonalities of people who sustain excellence: commitment to continuous improvement, humble, hungry, coachable, and they continue to push. They are driven and it never stops.

"My real obsession is to…
550: Dan Patrick - The Art of Interviewing, Leaving ESPN, Working With Dave Matthews & Adam Sandler, Asking Better Questions, & Taking Care of Your Team

23 oktober 2023 · 49 min
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What makes a great interview?

They tell stories

It feels like your eavesdropping on their conversation (he takes you inside)

He disarms them with humor

Ask shorter questions…

Take care of your people… Dan has had the Dannettes with him for many years. He listens to his teammates, Makes them part of his show, and truly cares for him. In return, they are there for him every day. It seems obvious, but it's not. Dan is evidence that this approach works…

Dan has been influenced by Howard Stern's interviewing style of always being curious... And he makes his staff part of the show.

"I love being a voice in your head. You're in your car, driving, and I love being that voice in your head."

Interviewing... Manage the tension. "Shorter questions get better answers."

Dan met Adam Sandler at Madison Square Garden and agreed that he would be cast in his next movie... He has since been cast in many more.

Dan shares the story of meeting Dave Matthews, spilling his beer on him, and then later singing karaoke with him.

Dan is the author of The Occasionally Accurate Annals of Football: The NFL's Greatest Players, Plays, Scandals, and Screw-Ups (Plus Stuff We Totally Made Up)

Leaving ESPN – Dan admitted he was hurt when good friend, Sports Illustrated writer Rick Reilly (who would move to ESPN) wrote, "Patrick was making one of the top 5 biggest career mistakes in entertainment history," ranking right under Shelley Long's leaving Cheers and Katie Couric's leaving NBC's Today show for the CBS Evening News.

Life/Career advice:

Be humble, be hungry, have humility, and be ready to go when your opportunity presents itself. The old adage rings true, "You don't have…
549: Dr. Sara Kuburic - Take Ownership, Accept Hard Truths, Discover Your SELF, & Change Your Life (It's On Me)

16 oktober 2023 · 58 min
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Change happens when we feel empowered. It's on us to take responsibility for our lives and help others take responsibility for theirs. As leaders, change is more likely to happen for the people we are serving if we help them feel empowered.

Listening is not a passive activity. Take it seriously. It starts with genuinely caring for the person you're in conversation with.

"Being disliked is a rite of passage." Being disliked is normal. Being uncomfortable about being disliked is also normal. Reminding your Self that how you feel about your Self matters more than how others feel about you is key.

Sense of self – "Sense of self is not something that is found… We create our sense of self…"

"My interest in psychology stems from my personal experience living through wars, navigating complex relationships, and continually learning what it means to be human."

This book is about facing ourselves –whatever version that might be, regardless of whether or not we like the person we see reflected back to us. It's about what's possible once we realize that we are responsible for who we become and how we live our lives (a daunting, but profoundly liberating idea). IT'S ON US to figure out the two most essential questions: "Who am I" and "Why am I here?" and then live accordingly.

"I am thankful for my struggle because, without it, I wouldn't have stumbled across my strength."

Repeat out loud: "I will stop giving second chances to people who don't want it, won't use it, or don't deserve it."

"The deepest form of loneliness comes from being estranged from ourselves, not from others."

"Comparison doesn't just steal our joy, it also screws with our perspective."

"M…
548: Nick Maggiulli - The Power of Compounding, Creating a Writing Practice, Building Your Career, & Proven Ways To Build Wealth

9 oktober 2023 · 53 min
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What's the Matthew Effect? The Matthew effect explains how two people can start in nearly the same place and end up worlds apart. In these kinds of systems, initial conditions matter. And as time goes on, they matter more and more.

Instead of saving a fixed percentage of your income, save more when you earn more and less when you make less.

The best way to save more is to earn more, not cut expenses to the point of being miserable.

The real question money forces us to answer is what's important to us in life.

You should save what you can, when you can. Relying on a fixed, prescribed savings rate is nonsense.

The Dolly Varden trout, an Alaskan fish species, puzzled biologists for decades. Despite only having a brief window of plentiful food each year — when salmon laid eggs in their waters — the fish continued to thrive year-round. How did they do it? Eventually, scientists discovered that the fish shrink and grow their digestive organs depending on food availability. When the salmon show up, they speed up their metabolism so they can take in more calories. Then, when the other fish leave, they slow down digestion. This way, they get by with much less food throughout the remainder of the year.

Great Things Take Time – Focusing on the long term is more important than ever. The story of the "Dashrath Manjhi Breakthrough" – He carved a path through a mountain. He moved a little bit of rock each day for 20 years.

Nick committed to writing one blog per week in 2017. And it changed his life. He learned that storytelling is what captures a reader's attention. And the way to develop good stories is to read a lot, from a wide variety of sources. We all can …
547: Dr. Michael Gervais - How To Stop Worrying What Other People Think About You (Finding Mastery)

2 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
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The pursuit of mastery is part of a process. It's an orientation towards experience. It's about being fully absorbed in the moment.

Our fear of other people's opinions (FOPO) has become irrational and unproductive, and its negative effects reach far beyond performance. If you start paying less and less attention to what makes you you—your talents, beliefs, and values—and start conforming to what others may or may not think, you'll harm your potential.

Acknowledgments: "To Lisa, the love of my life. "It's because of you that I no longer pray for calm waters, but to rather test the strength of our sails."

Basing self-worth on performance – when the core motivation of pursuing excellence is proving our self-worth, mistakes, failures, opinions, and criticism are experienced as threats rather than learning opportunities.

A Learner's Mindset - A student came to a renowned monk and asked to learn about Zen Buddhism. Shortly after the monk launched into his discourse, the student interrupted him and said, "Oh, I already know that" in an attempt to impress the monk. The monk suggested they discuss the matter over tea. When the tea was ready, the monk poured the tea into a teacup, filled it to the brim—and then continued to pour—spilling tea over the sides of the cup and onto the table. The student watched the overflowing cup until he could no longer restrain himself, "Stop! You can't pour tea into a full cup." The monk set the teapot down and replied, "Exactly. Return to me when your cup is empty."

"Anchoring our sense of self in discovery is not a cop-out to avoid committing to who we are; rather, it's simply an acknowledgment that we change with time."

Ha…
546: Tim Ryan - Giving Stump Speeches, Using Meditation & Mindfulness, Playing Quarterback, Listening to Dave Matthews Band, and Running for President?

25 september 2023 · 58 min
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Gratitude – For Tim's last speech as a congressman, he said "It's an honor to be a citizen of the United States. I think we get out of this mess we're in, the polarization, the hate, the anger, the fear… The first step out of that is with gratitude."

Tim opens by sharing the impact his high school football coaches had on him and why playing quarterback at John F. Kennedy High School prepared him for life as a leader...

In 2002, Tim ran for the United States House of Representatives for the 17th District. Tim was initially seen as an underdog in a 6-way primary. He was elected at age 29.

"There is an exhausted majority in the country, and they feel like they don't have any political home at all," Ryan said, describing his target audience as those who have been "checking out." "That's maddening because that gives a bigger voice to those forces of division and hate and anger, so we want to build an organization that welcomes these people to participate."

AOC endorsed Tim for his Senate run in 2022. And he said, "It's not helpful here. Nor did I seek it."

David Axelrod said about Tim's 2022 Senate Run that "he's running the best campaign in the country. And the best campaign in the country may not be enough."

"Dave Matthews has inspired me to live a better life, to do what's right, that it's okay to care about each other."

"There may be some things where we don't agree, but I think we need to have decent people that care about us in government, and I think Tim is a decent man." -- Dave Matthews

"I'm honored to have Dave Matthews, one of my absolute favorite musicians, in the Buckeye State to fire up our team and bring this thing home."

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545: Will Guidara - The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect (Unreasonable Hospitality)

18 september 2023 · 58 min
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"Intention means every decision, from the most obviously significant to the seemingly mundane, matters."

"My dad says "The best way to learn is to teach." He taught me to study for tests as if I were going in to deliver a presentation. At EMP, I made teaching part of our culture."

"Public speaking is a leadership skill."

Excellence is about small details — A couple of examples of that were lighting and music.

"Maybe people don't notice every single individual detail, but in aggregate, they're powerful. In any great business, most of the details you closely attend to are ones that only a tiny, tiny percentage of people will notice."

"Some of the best advice I ever got about starting in a new organization is; Don't cannonball. Ease into the pool."

Magic: "Too many people approach creative brainstorming by taking what's practical into consideration way too early in the process. Start with what you want to achieve, instead of limiting yourself to what's realistic or sustainable."

"Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect." – Penn and Teller

"Often, the perfect moment to give someone more responsibility is before they're ready."

The daily 30-minute meeting: "A daily 30-minute meeting is where a collection of individuals becomes a team."

Find hidden treasures: Will's dad had his own platoon in Vietnam. It wasn't a great platoon. On it was a guy nicknamed Kentucky, Kentucky was lazy and wasn't in great shape. He wasn't that smart, but he was skilled directionally and had a great feel for being in the woods.

"A leader's responsibility is to identify the strengths of the people on their te…
544: Adam Bornstein - The Advisor for LeBron James, Cindy Crawford, & Arnold Schwarzenegger Shares How To Build Your Dream Job

11 september 2023 · 50 min
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Arnold Schwarzenegger wrote the foreword. "I've known Adam for more than 10 years. In addition to being one of the smartest people in nutrition I've met, he's the perfect person to blaze a better path that provides a more direct, realistic, and effective way to improve your health and mindset and achieve your goals."

Take the attitude of an intern. Adam shares how he impressed Arnold Schwarzenegger. Be kind. Show up. Be consistent. Do great work. Don't be greedy. Be generous. And keep going. That great work led to the introduction to LeBron James. Adam has done a great job of making the most of the luck he's received.

Self-perception: how changing your thoughts and releasing mental baggage make adopting new behaviors, such as eating healthy, easier.

This is a thorough examination of why most diet plans fail, including research and case studies that demonstrate the inefficacy of restriction.

Book Dedication: "Dad, You were given a death sentence and turned it into a life sentence. That's the power of a different mindset. Thanks for showing me the way. I love you." Adam's dad was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and he's been very optimistic in the face of it.

"Most people fail physically because they are broken mentally."

Inversion: Start at the end. Anticipate that you didn't achieve your goal, and ask why? And then ask, how do I prevent that from happening?

The three tactical things you can do:

Self-perception - Believe you can do it

Find things you love and don't remove them

Add 1 or 2 new behaviors that are easy to win

How to manage your diet:

Slow down your eating

Create a meal boundary (have open and closed kitchen times)

Low fat vs Low carbs - Protein and fiber are needed

Have no 0% weeks. Make progress.
543: Eric Musselman - Running Great Team Meetings, Developing Your People, Building a Championship Program (Head Men's Basketball Coach at The University of Arkansas)

4 september 2023 · 1 uur
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Eric Musselman is the head men's basketball coach at the University of Arkansas. Prior to his time at Arkansas, he was a head coach in the NBA with the Golden State Warriors and the Sacramento Kings. He's also spent time as the national coach for the Dominican Republic National Team and The Venezuela National Team.

Learn from others. Muss shared many examples of times he's gone to other practices to watch and learn. He prefers to watch how and NFL runs practice and he's modeled his practices after NFL teams. And sends his coaches to do the same. This is something we should do in corporate America. Connect with leaders at other companies and visit them. Watch their meetings, their 1 on 1s, and embed yourself in their culture for a few days.

When Muss got fired as the coach of the Golden State Warriors, he was offered office space (from Mike Lombardi) at the Oakland Raiders facility. While there, he learned the ins and outs of running a professional program and has modeled a lot of his system from that experience.

Leadership "Must-Haves" to be on his staff:

Loyalty

Will to win

Specialty area of expertise

Meetings: PREPARE a lot. Grab their attention. Keep them on their toes with surprises. All of these things can be done in business meetings… BUT it takes time and effort to do it well.

Muss's life philosophy is to be a constant learner AND a great communicator. He takes pages of notes with him to the gym every morning and reads, takes notes, and highlights the entire time. Then he synthesizes what he's learned and shares it with his team. We all can do this. Again, it takes intentional effort, but it's worth it.

At the beginning of each practice, he does a "classroom" session with his team. He teaches a life lesson or a lesson on basketball.

Family Coaching Legacy – Musselma…
542: Brad Stulberg - How To Excel When Everything Is Changing (Including You)

28 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
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How to respond instead of react… The 4 P's:

Pause

Process

Plan

Proceed — Using the 4 Ps will increase your chances of responding better than reacting quickly

Non-Dual thinking. It's not this OR that. It's this AND that. It's not self-discipline or self-compassion. It can be both. As we learn more, we become more reasonable. The world is not black and white. We can live in the gray and embrace it.

Brad's core values:

Life is the doing of his life (activities, health, workouts, showing up)

Love is the being of his life (family, being there for the most important people)

A new model for navigating change and disorder – A neuroscientist and a biologist coined the phrase allostasis. Allostasis comes from the Greek allo, which means "variable," and stasis, which means "standing." Allostasis is defined as "Stability through change."

When Brad went to the University of Michigan, he couldn't go to football games. "It felt pointless to be in the stands instead of on the field, too close to something the loss of which I was still grieving."

Science shows that when you fight change, your body releases the stress hormone cortisol.

Hard Times are always hard – But with practice, they get easier… In a multi-year study of more than 2,000 adults aged 18 to 101 published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, University of Buffalo psychologist, Mark Seery and colleagues found that people who had experienced medium levels of adversity were both higher-functioning and more satisfied with their lives than those who had experienced extremely high levels of adversity as well as those who had experienced hardly any adversity at all…

Five Questions for…
541: Matt Higgins - Burning The Boats, Handling Imposter Syndrome, Investing on Shark Tank, & The Most Important Ingredient To Professional Success

21 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 1 min
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Matt Higgins was an executive for the New York Jets and then the Miami Dolphins. He Co-Founded RSE Ventures with Miami Dolphins owner, Stephen Ross. Matt was a guest shark on ABC's Shark Tank (seasons 10-11), He is an executive fellow at Harvard Business School, and he recently published a book called, Burn The Boats, Toss Plan B Overboard and Unleash Your Full Potential...

Matt's Mom: "My mother, Linda, died with $100 in her bank account, but I inherited the most valuable gift a parent can give a child: limitless faith in my ability to figure anything out."

Matt gave the 2019 commencement speech at Queens College – According to Vanity Fair Contributing Editor Paul Goldberger, "This is a magnificent and truly inspiring speech that everyone should read. If you think commencement speeches are made of cliches, this one will change your mind."

The most important ingredient to professional success: "Make yourself indispensable at whatever task you're doing and you'll always have a job."

Research proves that the mere contemplation of Plan B statistically reduces the probability Plan A will ever materialize.

The advice Matt got from Daymond John on how to handle imposter syndrome on his first day of filming Shark Tank: "You belong here because you are here."

How to raise your kids to not be spoiled when you can provide anything they'd ever want?

There is nobility in work. Ensure they do hard things and do real work.

Matt's "must-have" qualities when hiring a leader:

Confidence + Humility

Empathy

They just "figure it out"

They are a servant leader -- They can "plug holes"

Matt's four-step process:

What's the worst that could happen?

If it doesn't …
540: Alex Hormozi - Creating Confidence, The Art of Selling, Marrying Well, Letting Go of The Need For Approval, Building a Profitable Business, & Never Skipping Dessert

14 augustus 2023 · 59 min
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Alex Hormozi is an entrepreneur, investor, and author of 3 bestselling books $100M Offers, Leads, and Money Models. He's founded and exited 3 companies, the largest for $46.2M in 2021. He and his wife Leila are the managing partners of Acquisition.com - a portfolio of companies that generate in aggregate $200M per year. He also makes mistakes and candidly shares his painful lessons with other entrepreneurs. Today he publicly documents his lessons on his path from $100M net worth to $1B.

Confidence: "You don't become confident by shouting affirmations in the mirror, but by having a stack of undeniable proof that you are who you say you are. Outwork your self-doubt."

Work: "The work works on you more than you work on it."

For anyone debating whether to marry a partner. These 2 lenses were useful:

How have my stats changed since they entered my life? (wealth, health, time)

Would I go to war with them?

They flow from what Alex wants:

Growth

Hard goals

Document your life more. Otherwise, you'll forget the details. And the details are what make it worth remembering. (homework for life)

Alex shared a vulnerable story about not wanting to live anymore when he was 21. He had graduated from Vanderbilt in 3 years (manga cum laude), had a great consulting job, and was on his way up the corporate ladder. And he hated it. He was living his dad's dream, not his own. So he quit. And didn't call his dad until he was well on his way to California to start over.

"A leading indicator that someone is not an independent thinker is that they agree (or disagree) with every single point of a political party. Also applies to seeing no fault (or 100% fault) in particula…
539: Jack Raines - Playing Infinite Games, Living Life Backwards, Building Your Platform, Traveling More, & Writing Young Money

7 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 10 min
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Jack Raines is a student at Columbia Business School and the writer of YoungMoney.co – Young Money is a finance blog that covers a wide variety of life topics like why we should travel more, timeless advice, the use of humor, the 6 types of wealth, and infinite games. Jack is one of my favorite writers on the internet…

Infinite Games – "The focus on outcome over everything leads to us discounting 99% of our lives for the sake of a few, small, fleeting moments that might provide some sense of satisfaction before the cycle begins anew."

It's not about getting to the top of the mountain, it's about the person you become along the way.

Why We Should Travel More – Rolf Potts, Vagabonding. "The explorer has no goal other than exploration itself."

The Opportunity Cost of Everything – The Journey IS the Destination. Life isn't a Pixar film. It's not a television series. Our life isn't some chain of events and decisions that leads to a climax. A final moment of victory. Life is the chain of events itself.

"Someday isn't a day."

The purpose of Jack's finance blog: "I write a finance blog that is really, like, idk? Maybe 40% finance? The rest is existential musings, satire, the occasional exclamation that Americans seriously need to travel more, and whatever random stuff comes through my brain."

Jack's LinkedIn satirical posts: "I take nothing seriously, but I do take the serious things pretty seriously. Linkedin isn't one of the serious things."

How Jack built a large following online: "I have published approximately 450,000 words of content in an 18-month period." Whatever it is that we want to do, in order to get good, we have to get going. We have to ge…
538: Dr. Julie Gurner - Setting High Standards, Being Relentlessly Resourceful, Achieving Huge Results (Compared to Wendy Rhoades of "Billions")

31 juli 2023 · 57 min
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Dr. Julie Gurner is a doctor of psychology and is a nationally recognized executive performance coach for individual and corporate clients primarily in finance and technology. Trusted by top percentile talent and their teams to help them achieve world-class performance in fast-paced, high-pressure, extremely competitive environments. She's been compared to Wendy Rhoades of "Billions" in The Wall Street Journal (2019), and named a "Game Changer" by IBM.

Notes:

High Standards: Holding a high bar is uncomfortable because it is "exclusionary," and most people want to make everyone around them happy & comfortable. If you hold a standard, it can't include everything... Figuring out your line & holding to it, will mean some tough conversations.

"I think that there are two ways of looking at things that have happened to you. You can be a victim or you can be a survivor. Those are two very different cognitive positions."

Balance: "People will tell you in books that you have to live a "balanced life," but if we are completely honest, almost all great things are born from periods of imbalance."

Staying Small: A concept I believe, is that most people stay small, or don't go for what they truly want...because they believe that "imaginary rules" are true

Be a Learner: The worst professionals, are the ones that stop learning the moment they graduate from school. And they are the majority. Being autodidactic - a self-learner - who also takes initiative, will have you in the top 10% of anything you take on.

Goals: If your goals are "realistic," you are operating in a box. Check yourself. "If you want to be a game changer, you can't blend in."

Know Yourself: When …
537: Aron Ralston - The Incredible Story Of The Hiker Who Cut Off His Own Arm After Being Trapped Under A Boulder For 5 Days (127 Hours)

24 juli 2023 · 1 uur
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Aron Ralston is a mountaineer, mechanical engineer, and best-selling author known for surviving a canyoneering accident by cutting off part of his own right arm. On April 26, 2003, during a solo descent of Bluejohn Canyon in southeastern Utah, he dislodged a boulder, pinning his right wrist to the side of the canyon wall. After five days, he had to break his forearm, amputate it with a dull pocket knife to break free, make his way through the rest of the canyon, rappel down a 65-foot drop, and hike 7 miles to safety. The incident is documented in Aron's autobiography Between a Rock and a Hard Place and is the subject of the 2010 film 127 Hours in which he is portrayed by James Franco. After the accident, Aron continued mountaineering and became the first person to ascend all of Colorado's fourteeners solo in winter.

"Turn boulders into blessings."

During this conversation, Aron takes us through the 127 hours from when his right arm was pinned under a boulder until he was resting safely in a hospital bed. Along the way, he shares key learnings that all of us can take from his experience.

In April 2003, Aron was canyoneering alone through Bluejohn Canyon, in Utah, just south of the Horseshoe Canyon unit of Canyonlands National Park. While he was descending the lower stretches of the slot canyon, a suspended boulder dislodged while he was climbing down from it. The boulder first smashed his left hand and then crushed his right hand against the canyon wall. Aron had not informed anyone of his hiking plans, nor did he have any way to call for help.

Assuming that he would die without intervention, he spent five days slowly sipping his small amount of remai…
536: Dave Berke - Leadership Lessons From A Top Gun Instructor (Chief Development Officer, Echelon Front)

17 juli 2023 · 1 uur
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Be on time. It's not okay to be late. As the leader, we have to set the right example.

There is a narrow path to Top Gun, but Dave made it...

Dave served as an ANGLICO Forward Air Controller supporting the Army's 1st Armored Division during extensive urban combat operations on the ground in Ramadi, Iraq in 2006. He led his supporting arms liaison team on scores of combat missions into the most dangerous neighborhoods and accompanied SEAL Task Unit Bruiser on virtually every major operation in the Battle of Ramadi. He was the only Marine selected to fly the F-22 Raptor having served as an exchange officer at the Air Force's 422nd Test and Evaluation Squadron as the Division Commander. He became the first operational pilot ever to fly and be qualified in the F-35B, serving as the Commanding Officer of the Marine Corps' first F-35 squadron from 2012-2014.

Balancing courage and confidence with humility - It's a must to surround yourself with others who continue to push you and keep your ego in check.

The attributes of a Top Gun instructor: Willing to learn and Able to teach. Great leaders seem to have those same qualities.

Dave's choice to volunteer to fight on the ground is what led him to meet Jocko Willink and thus change his life. Stepping up and doing a job that others don't want to do, and taking that responsibility can lead to amazing opportunities.

A Top Gun pilot must balance courage and confidence with humility.

You need a great support group around you to keep in check.

Your ego, however, can be helpful at times. "It allows you to do things that others say can't be done."

How to deal with negative self-talk?

"We all deal with it. Relax. …
535: Geron Stokes - How To Gain Clarity, Maximize People, and Live Your Purpose

10 juli 2023 · 1 uur 9 min
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Own it, live it, create it, see it, say it, change it, honor it, punish it, repeat it, evaluate it all. – The core components to building a world-class culture.

Who are your foxhole people? They are the ones who are there when it's hard and they're there to celebrate when it's great. They are honest, caring, and they love you. The best way to build a great foxhole group? Be a loving, caring, and honest friend to others.

How to build a great foundation which sets you up to build a great culture? Be trustworthy and trust-WILLING person. Be vulnerable, open, and honest, and create opportunities for shared suffering. It takes time and intentional effort, but it's worth it.

Geron was always leading the younger quarterbacks when he was in high school. "The quarterbacks stay. You need to know what's going on, for now, and in the future"

Coach Dave Carroll had a huge impact on how Geron coaches... Tough, demanding, high expectations. He wasn't for everyone.

From Brook Cupps: "From my perspective, it's been really cool to watch his progression from a self-serving arrogant kid to an ultra-impactful leader and father."

Geron's purpose is to maximize people. Here is how he lives that out...

Own It – Come to grips with my #1 Job - Get the most out of people. More than they can ever imagine. It HAS to be a love thing! Can I get them to work, care, execute, serve, give, and love more than they ever have in their life? My job. Not their's. Wake up every day knowing my responsibility. "I've gotta get the best out of these guys today."

Live It – I set the example for everything. I AM THE STANDARD! Have to be. Am I trying to maximize myself? Every. Day! How do I sh…
534: Dr. Will Cole - Healing The Shame Fueled Relationship Between What You Eat and How You Feel (Gut Feelings)

3 juli 2023 · 59 min
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You can't heal a body you hate. We only get one body. It's all we have. If it stops working or is working poorly, that affects all other elements of our lives. It's worth it to make this our top priority.

We're looking for optimal, not average. If you're listening to this podcast, you probably do not want to be average. And when it comes to the most important thing in your life (your body), I would hope that you don't want that to be average. To be an effective leader for others, our body needs to be in optimal shape.

Cut these 5 foods:

Gluten-containing grains

Industrial seed oils

Added sugar,

Conventional dairy

Alcohol

After over a decade as a functional medicine expert, Dr. Cole discerned that shame can cause gut inflammation and sabotage wellness through what he's named "Shameflammation." When you send signals to your brain that you are overwhelmed, overworked, or overtired, your body reacts. Shameflammation can be the cause of chronic health conditions such as autoimmune disorders, depression, and more.

Chronic stress is the ultimate junk food."

Too much sugar has consequences beyond the waistline.

Functional medicine is informed consent.

75% of your immune system is in your gut.

Get back on track. Days are long, years are short.

Testosterone Replacement Therapy? Work with a doctor, get labs, and choose to use based on what your doctor and your labs say.

"Use meals as a medicine and a meditation."

"Ask yourself... Does this food love me back?"
533: Jon Gordon - Elevate Your Mind, Unlock Your Power, Heal Your Soul (The One Truth)

26 juni 2023 · 50 min
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Consistency creates your future. Show up each day and do the work. Sounds simple, but it's much harder in practice. Consistency is not sexy, but it builds trust and it creates your future.

T.U.N.E. -

T = Trust and truth

U = Unite with love

N = Neutralize the negativity. "I do not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet." - Gandhi

E = Elevate your thinking. With gratitude, optimism, and belief

How to handle imposter syndrome - One sheet of paper. On one side write your negative thoughts. On the other side write words of encouragement. Again, this sounds basic, but it's been proven to work.

Navigate the Roller Coaster of our Mind: Take on our challenges in life with confidence and power instead of fear and insecurity.

Recognize & Overcome the Five Ds of Negative Thought: Doubt, Distortion, Discouragement, Distraction, and Division.

The root of the Greek word for anxious means "to separate and divide" When we are anxious, we feel divided. The key is to move towards "oneness".

Tune into More Positive Thoughts: Jon explains a revolutionary idea that the brain is an antenna, and we can elevate our minds with proven strategies. For example, we can't be stressed and thankful at the same time. When we appreciate, we elevate.

Override Fear with Love: Let love (the ultimate driver of grit) be the driving force behind our work and vocation, unlocking new levels of determination, devotion and success.

Improve Mental Health & Relationships: Move from disconnection, loneliness and isolation to connection, healing, and wholeness. Whether you're a recent graduate, executive, artist, parent, engineer, teacher, spouse, athlete or coach, once you k…
532: Michelle "Mace" Curran - Handling Perfectionism, Overcoming Imposter Syndrome, & Becoming A Thunderbird Pilot

23 juni 2023 · 1 uur 3 min
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Notes: Michelle "Mace" Curran has led an impressive career as a Fighter Pilot during her 13 years in the United States Air Force. From 2019-2021, she flew as the only female pilot for the Air Force Thunderbirds and performed for millions across the country and internationally. Before joining the Thunderbirds, Michelle was a combat-proven fighter pilot completing missions across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

What inspired Michelle to join the Air Force?

"I had a grandpa who was a lieutenant in the Navy. I went through his World War II trunk and tried on uniforms and looked at postcards. He got to travel all over the world. I grew up in a small town and I wanted to travel. I've always been drawn to flying. I hadn't done a lot of flying aside from commercially, but I loved it, so the Air Force seemed like a natural fit. I was also honestly looking for a scholarship for college, so the three things kind of came together."

"C3" Comm – That's clear, concise, and correct communication. How that plays a role as a pilot and how we can use that as leaders outside of the airplane.

For the solo opposing passes, each pilot is traveling at 500mph, that's 1000mph of closure toward each other. The timing that makes sure the aircraft safely pass each other at the center point directly in front of the crowd is all done through radio calls. Every call must communicate clearly, concisely, and correctly.

There are a lot of benefits to having a beginner's mindset.

What does Michelle say to young girls?

"You have to exceed people's expectations. People are going to set expectations for you based on where you grew up, the family you came from, your gender — there ar…
531: Dr. Angus Fletcher - Building Confidence, Responding To Adversity, Telling Your Story, Exhibiting Vulnerability, & The New Science of Narrative Intelligence

19 juni 2023 · 1 uur 1 min
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Dr. Angus Fletcher has dual degrees in neuroscience (BS, University of Michigan) and literature (Ph.D., Yale). His research employs a mix of laboratory experiment, literary history, and rhetorical theory to explore the psychological effects—cognitive, behavioral, therapeutic—of different narrative technologies. He's the best-selling author of multiple books including Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature, and Storythinking: The New Science of Narrative Intelligence.

"The story you tell yourself needs to be the true story of yourself."

How Angus tells his story:

Build trust

Listen

Demonstrate courage - Angus told a group of special forces operators one of the most embarrassing stories of his life. After that, he said, "I'm not scared of anything."

You must be genuinely humble to learn from your mistakes.

"Real leaders activate the leader within you."

Being a leader is all about contemplating fear. Stepping up when adversity strikes is why we exist as leaders. It's easy to lead when everything is going well. We want to be known as the leader who is there when it's hard.

Dr. Fletcher's ultimate goal of using the power of story to bring us closer to self-actualization. Seems like that's a good first step to being a great leader.

Confidence is earned by creating evidence for yourself that you can do hard things. Angus did this when he shared his story of not making it through Marine Corps boot camp. Angus's vulnerability earned trust with the military leaders.

"For the longer we suspend our judgments, the more accurate our subsequent verdicts become. This valuable fact has been uncovered by researchers who've spe…
530: Katty Kay - How Power Impacts Our Careers, Friends, & Marriages (The Power Code)

12 juni 2023 · 59 min
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Katty Kay is a US correspondent for the BBC and a regular contributor on MSNBC. Katty grew up in the Middle East, where her father was a British diplomat. She studied French and Italian at Oxford University and worked as a foreign correspondent in Africa and Japan before moving to The US in 1996. Katty is the best-selling author of many books. Her latest is called "The Power Code."

Notes:

The definition of power – The ability to exercise one's will, influence others, and effect change.

The ability to exercise our will—More Joy. Influencing (not controlling) others—Less Ego. Effecting change—Maximum Impact.

Redefining Power - In the past, it seems to be about dominance. About something you hold over something (people, or resources). Instead, we want it to be used to effect positive change. Let's use power for good.

Promoting on promise versus promoting on performance. The research states that more men are promoted on promise than women. And women are mostly promoted based on performance. As leaders, let's think about promise versus performance. As Frank Slootman said in a previous conversation, let's hire people "Ahead of their curve.

Most women today don't want power. The path to getting it, as it exists today, involves too many sacrifices, and power itself is unappealing, full of egos and competition. Women have all the skills, but we'd rather opt out.

Women and men don't define power in the same way. Men think of power as a finite commodity, part of a hierarchical, zero-sum game that involves having power over people. Women aren't competitive about power, and we focus more on the end result, the change we can affect with power. It's the differen…
529: James Clear - Becoming an Optimist, Building Better Habits, Creating Your System, & Setting Up Your Future Self (Atomic Habits)

5 juni 2023 · 1 uur 9 min
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James Clear is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Atomic Habits, which has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. His newsletter, 3-2-1 is shipped to more than 2 million people every Thursday.

Notes:

"The key, if you want to build habits that last, is to join a group where the desired behavior is the normal behavior."

We should champion good ideas. You need to bet on something. Bet on a business. Bet on a relationship. Bet on something. You may have less risk being a pessimist or not going all in on something, but you also limit your upside. It's worth being a champion of good ideas.

A Chilean saying: "Criticizing a musician is easy, but it is more difficult when you have a guitar in your hand." -- Don't criticize someone else unless you're willing to do the work.

Quantity and Quality – The parable of the pottery class – The University of Florida film photography professor, Jerry Uelsmann, divided his class into two groups. What happened with that experiment? We have to get going to get good. Quantity leads to quality. Be consistent. Show up, and do the work.

Priorities – We all should ask ourselves this question: If someone could only see my actions and not hear my words, what would they say my priorities are?

Steven Pressfield says the difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits.

3 things that help luck:

Deconstructing your craft, so you know what good opportunities look like.

Remaining vigilant, so you notice when lucky breaks come your way.

Acting quickly, so you are more likely to seize luck when it arrives.

"You do not rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems."

"Habits are like the atoms of our lives, each one is a fundamental unit that contributes to yo…
528: Seth Godin - A New Manifesto For Teams: Innovation, Creativity, Hiring, Firing, & The Power of Speed (The Song of Significance)

29 mei 2023 · 53 min
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Seth Godin is the author of 20 international bestsellers that have changed the way people think about marketing, leadership, and work. His blog (which you can find by typing "seth" into Google) is the most viewed marketing blog in the world. Some of my favorite books of his are… Tribes, Linchpin, Purple Cow, and most recently The Song of Significance.

Notes:

Hiring Leaders — when deciding who to hire for a leadership role: look at the careers of the people who have worked for them. And look at the careers of the people they've led. Leaders aren't managers with fancy titles. Leaders are planting the seeds for generations of impact to come.

Let's get real or let's not play.

Tension is what we seek.

It's important to show up early.

Frederick Taylor met Henry Ford and management was created.

Study bees - They leave their home and have 72 hours to find their next one.

Matt Mullenweg (Automatic CEO) - "Create the conditions for forward motion."

To create the environment for the people they're leading to flourish. How are you intentionally creating the environment for the people you're leading to do their best work?

Management doesn't just exist. It was invented. When you race to the bottom, You see people as resources, not as people. (I don't like the term human capital management)

When Paul Orfalea was building kinkos (which he later sold to fed ex for $2B), he said his best technique for growing the business was simple. He would walk into their stores and ask someone there to tell him about an innovation they've recently made. And then he'd tell all the other stores about it…

"Real value is no longer created by traditional measures of productivit…
527: Sally Jenkins - What Sports Can Teach Us About Leadership, Excellence, & Life (How To Make The Right Call)

22 mei 2023 · 51 min
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Notes:

Tony Dungy's quiet strength - He never criticized without an adequate solution. As leaders, it's on us to be thoughtful about how we help our people get better. Just yelling that someone messed up is not helpful. We need to provide an adequate solution.

Dianna Nyad – She swam for 53 hours from Cuba to Florida. It looked like a solo mission. It was anything but. She needed a full team to make it happen. We need other people to help us accomplish big missions.

A lot of people are afraid to win. They are afraid to put it all on the line and risk not being enough. Too many of us want to look cool and play it safe in case we lose. The people who sustain excellence over time commit 100% to what they're doing even though they might lose. It's worth it.

It is "kind of a sin" to waste potential and the real champions never committed it. - Dan Jenkins

Advice from her dad (legendary sports writer, Dan Jenkins): "Never let a thing go until it's as good as you can make it."

"Interest yourself first before you'll interest anyone else."

Key learning from Brian Daboll - Winning organizations are made up of people who've been doubted in the past.

The "greats are a result of construction." We must be intentional.

Go all in. Preparation. Practice. There must be a dept of preparation. "Never leave the field wishing you'd prepared more."

"Pressure is what you feel when don't know what the hell to do."

Michael Phelps was not born with an innate sense to swim fast. His body was well suited to swim but not much more than any other Olympian.

"The work is what made him great."

Day-to-day consistency leads to excellence. Derek Jeter built his schedule around be…
526: Mark Miller (VP of Chick-fil-A High Performance Leaderships) - How Chick-fil-A Built A World Class Culture

15 mei 2023 · 1 uur 1 min
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Mark Miller started his Chick-fil-A career working as an hourly team member in 1977. Mark's cell phone number is 678-612-8441. He asked that you text him your thoughts on this episode. In 1978, he joined the corporate staff working in the warehouse and mailroom. Since that time, he has provided leadership for Corporate Communications, Field Operations, Quality and Customer Satisfaction, Training and Development, and Leadership Development. During his tenure with Chick-fil-A, the company has grown from 75 restaurants to over 2,300 locations with annual sales approaching $10 billion. Mark began writing almost twenty years ago when he teamed up with Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager, to write The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do. He's now written 11 books that have sold over 1 million copies. His latest is called Culture Rules.

Notes:

"Your capacity to grow determines your capacity to lead."

You must make the choice to be a learner...

Let's start with a story told by the late philosopher, David Foster Wallace. He said, "There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way who nods at them and says, "Morning boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, "What the hell is water?"

Mark Miller conducted research with more than 6,000 individuals from ten countries that revealed that 71% of U.S. leaders believe culture is their most powerful tool to drive performance. However, the study revealed that enhancing workplace culture ranked eleventh on the leader's priority list.

"If your heart is not …
525: Frank Slootman (CEO of Snowflake) - Raising Your Standards, Pushing The Pace, Hiring Ahead Of The Curve, & Amping It Up

8 mei 2023 · 1 uur 6 min
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Frank Slootman is the CEO at Snowflake. Frank has over 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur and executive in the enterprise software industry. Frank served as CEO of ServiceNow from 2011 to 2017, taking the organization from $100M in revenue, through an IPO, to $1.4B. Prior to that, Frank served as President at EMC following an acquisition of Data Domain Corporation, where he served as the CEO, leading the company through an IPO to its acquisition by EMC for $2.4B. He's also the best-selling author of Amp It Up.

Notes:

Frank's work ethic was developed as a child in the Netherlands. In his teens, he had summer jobs harvesting tulip bulbs and walking behind a tractor ten hours a day. He also cleaned factory toilets one summer in the plant where his dad worked.

"The Man In The Arena" Theodore Roosevelt – Frank put this at the beginning of Amp It Up.

After retiring from ServiceNow in 2017, Frank had no intention of taking another CEO role, but people like him "have a hard time leaving the arena." It's exciting to be back in a CEO role with Snowflake.

Hiring -- "Hire people ahead of their own curve." Hire more for aptitude than experience and give people the career opportunity of a lifetime.

NO MBO -- "Another source of misalignment is management by objective (MBO). Which I have eliminated at every company I've joined in the last 20 years."

Push the pace -- Leaders set the pace. "Instead of getting back to me in a week, I asked, "Why not tomorrow?" Change the cadence. Push the pace.

The leadership "must-have" qualities:

A need to prove something

Unbalanced

They want to show the world something... They have passion

High trust

Need some ego, b…
524: Oscar Munoz (Former CEO of United Airlines) - Listening To Your Employees, Responding From Tragedy, Swinging Easy, & Turning Around A Failing Company

1 mei 2023 · 1 uur 5 min
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Oscar Munoz served as CEO and chairman of United Airlines, previously holding several executive leadership positions at CSX, AT&T, US West, PepsiCo, and Coca-Cola.

Listen, Learn, AND THEN Lead… The purpose of the listening tour was to hear from people at the ground level, listen, learn, and then make decisions.

I love the simplicity in the question to his team, "Hey, what are the 10 dumbest rules we've put in place?" And then changing them… This is something we all should think about periodically.

The father-daughter bond Oscar has with his daughter, Jessica. The traits he sees in her that are also in him are "tenacity and refusal to give in no matter what."

Before Oscar became CEO, the culture was based on a "cost-cutting, rule-obsessed, disciplinary-heavy culture."

Listening Tour - In 2015, After becoming CEO of United Airlines, Munoz embarked on a "listening tour" of the company, meeting with disgruntled employees around the United States and discussing their concerns. While this phase was intended to last for the first 90 days of the job, Oscar was hospitalized after having a heart attack in October 2015, 38 days into the job.

In 2015, Oscar was one of two Hispanic CEOs in the top 100 of the Fortune 500 list. Munoz has been named among the "100 Most Influential Hispanics" by Hispanic Business magazine. In March 2017, Oscar was named "Communicator of the Year for 2017" by PRWeek.

How to be both a great dad and a great CEO?

"Model the right behavior for your kids."

Advice: Swing easy. Be yourself.
523: Derek Thompson - The Meaning Of Work, Responding To Rejection, Earning Your Dream Job, Impressing Bill Simmons, & How To Find The Next Great QB

24 april 2023 · 1 uur 18 min
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Derek Thompson is a staff writer at The Atlantic and author of the books Hit Makers and On Work: Money, Meaning, Identity, and the host of the podcast Plain English.

Notes:

Before graduating from high school, Derek appeared in several theatrical productions at the Folger Shakespeare Theater and the Shakespeare Theater.

Why do Americans care so much about work?

workism is "the belief that work is not only necessary to economic production but also the centerpiece of one's identity and life's purpose."

Jobs, Careers, or Callings: One theory of work holds that people tend to see themselves in jobs, careers, or callings…

The Bow and Arrow metaphor… We need stress, but we need to let it go. You pull back on the bow and arrow… Then you let it go. Stress + Rest = Growth

"Happiness means being balanced between busyness and leisure."

The mark of a good leader? Don't be afraid to ask the ignorant question… Have the confidence to ask it.

Derek had breakfast with the prominent CEO… The CEO was deeply curious about Derek. Asked him a lot of questions, listened intently, and asked great follow-ups. Great leaders make their conversations about the other person. Follow your curiosity with great rigor.

That same leader also had the emotional intelligence to not bother Derek Jeter while he was having breakfast. He knew there would be a better time to meet.

The book, an anthology of Thompson's articles for The Atlantic, includes a new adaptation of his essay on workism, a term that he defines as "the belief that work is not only necessary to economic production but also the centerpiece of one's identity and life's purpose."

"The decline of traditional faith in A…
522: Kevin Kelly - Excellent Advice For Living, The Best Way To Learn, Building Better Habits, Becoming A Better Listener, Being On Time, & Making The Big Ask

17 april 2023 · 55 min
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Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He is also the editor and publisher of the Cool Tools website, which gets half a million unique visitors per month. He co-founded Wired in 1993 and served as its Executive Editor from its inception until 1999. During Kevin's tenure, Wired won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence (the industry's equivalent of two Oscars). He is the best-selling author of many books including New Rules for the New Economy, The Inevitable, and his latest is called Excellent Advice For Living - Wisdom I wish I'd Known Earlier.

You lead by letting others know what you expect of them, which may exceed what they themselves expect. Provide them a reputation to live up to.

Habit is far more dependable than inspiration. Don't focus on getting into shape. Focus on becoming the kind of person who never misses a workout.

"Every great and difficult thing has required a strong sense of optimism,"

Prototype your life. Try stuff instead of making grand plans.

The best way to learn anything is to try to teach what you know.

Don't create things to make money; make money so you can create things. The reward for good work is more work.

The more you are interested in others, the more interesting they'll find you. To be interesting, be interested.

Promptness is a sign of respect.

The consistency of your endeavors (exercise, companionship, work) is more important than the quantity. Nothing beats small things done every day, which is way more important than what you do occasionally.
521: Celebrating The 8th Birthday of The Learning Leader Show - Listener AMA: Consistency > Intensity, Following Your Curiosity, How To Be Prepared For Big Moments, Life As A Former Athlete, & Building Relationships With Your Heroes

10 april 2023 · 51 min
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The Learning Leader Show was first published on April 9, 2015. TODAY marks the show's 8th birthday! To celebrate, I kick off the episode by sharing some key learnings I've gathered over the past 8 years... And then I answer YOUR questions and did a full AMA (Ask Me Anything). If you'd like me to do more AMAs, send me an email: Ryan (at) LearningLeader dot com

Here are some key things I've learned after publishing The Learning Leader Show for 8 years...

Consistency > Intensity. Showing up to do the work (prep) each day is key. Become part of your routine as a listener. Consistency builds trust. You know you're going to have a new show for your Monday morning walk or commute.

Following your genuine curiosity is attractive. This parasocial relationship is built because as the listener you know I'm following what I'm actually curious about. I own guest selection 100%. They are all my call and my call alone. I only choose guests that I'm deeply curious about.

The curiosity-judgemental spectrum. Talking with more people with a wide range of life experiences has helped me view the world from their eyes and be less judgemental. All the way back to episode 3 with Maurice Clarett. Approach people with curiosity, not judgment.

The prep works as a forcing function to learn. Same with mindful Monday. I have systems in place to ensure I'm getting a little bit wiser each day. And that learning compounds over time. Create forcing functions on your life to intentionally get better. Don't just wander from meeting to meeting each week. What are you doing to ensure your learning is compounding? The Charlie Munger quote; go to bed a little wiser than when you woke up. I…
520: Dan Lyons - The Power of Shutting Up, Earning Attention, & Becoming a Better Listener

3 april 2023 · 52 min
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Dan Lyons is the New York Times bestselling author of "Disrupted," "Lab Rats," and "STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World." Dan was a writer for HBO's hit comedy, "Silicon Valley," and before that was a journalist at Newsweek, Forbes, and Fortune.

The best sales reps spend 54 percent of the call listening and 46 percent talking. The worst reps talked 72 percent of the time. They made calls feel like conversations.

A company called Gong uses machine learning software that analyzes sales calls to find out what works and what doesn't. Its software vacuums up millions of hours of audio data and then analyzes it to figure out how the best sales reps operate. Gong's customers use this information to train new sales reps and help underperformers improve. In 2017 Gong analyzed more than five hundred thousand calls and found that sales calls with the best close rates were ones in which reps knew how to be quiet and ask questions instead of making a sales pitch. To be precise, the most successful reps asked eleven to fourteen questions. Fewer than that, and you're not digging deep enough. More than that, the call starts to feel like an interrogation.

Eavesdropping on happiness: The research showed that people who spent more time having substantive conversations were happier than those who spent more time having small talk, and weather conversations.

Always Say Less Than Necessary – "When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. Powerful people …
519: Dr. Mat Duerden - Designing a World-Class Experience, Transformational Learning, The Wonder Switch, & Earning a High NPS Score

27 maart 2023 · 54 min
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Dr. Mat Duerden is a Professor of Experience Design and Management at Brigham Young University. His teaching focuses on experience design and design thinking. He is the best-selling author of Designing Experiences. His research focuses on experience design in both work and non-work contexts. Mat's publications have appeared in a variety of journals including Leisure Sciences, Journal of Environmental Psychology, Journal of Adolescent Research, and Journal of Leisure Research. Mat Duerden received a Ph.D. in Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences from Texas A&M University and an M.S. in Youth and Family Recreation from Brigham Young University.

Transformational Learning – "The future intrinsic use of the content." Going from theory to putting it into practice. It's the implementation of the learning that codifies it.

What to do at your next leadership retreat? Ask yourself the question, "What do you want them to say when they walk away from the experience?" And design the event based on your answer to that question.

One of the must-have qualities needed to be hired as a team leader is humility and curiosity. Curiosity is the fuel for creativity and innovation. Having a broad range of interests is a good sign of curiosity.

What do Apple, Costco, and Walt Disney have in common? A high NPS Score...

What is NPS? Your Net Promoter Score is the percentage of customers who are promoters (those who scored 9 or 10) minus the percentage who are detractors (those who scored 0 to 6).

They have a uniform type of experience

Harmonizing Ques...

There should be a narrative structure:

Build rising action... -- Anticipation, Participation, Reflection, Climax.

It'…
518: Colin Coggins & Garrett Brown - Becoming A World-Class Sales Professional, Avoiding The Peter Principle, Loving Your Customers, & Living By The Unsold Mindset

20 maart 2023 · 1 uur 3 min
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Colin Coggins and Garrett Brown are adjunct professors of entrepreneurship at USC's Marshall School of Business where they teach the popular class they created, "Sales Mindset for Entrepreneurs. " They are also authors, speakers, longtime sales professionals, and best friends who met while working at enterprise software startup Bitium, which they helped lead to an acquisition by Google. This odd couple first connected over their shared obsession with the importance of selling, and have made it their mission to uncover the unexpected and inspiring mindset of the highest-achieving sellers on the planet.

The most impactful sales professionals are learners. They consume information and ask lots of questions that they are deeply curious to know the answers to. They don't go down the list of sales discovery questions. It's from a place of curiosity.

"Noone has ever changed the world without moving people." That's sales.

An abundance mindset — Collin was meeting with a new sales rep named Matt that worked for you at Bitium. Matt sat down on the couch and loved it. He asked who made it and Collin didn't know. So he flipped over the cushion, saw who made it, realized they were a potential customer and made a note in his phone to connect with them on LinkedIn and call them. Matt has an abundance mindset.

"Great sellers see opportunity where others don't."

World-Class sales professionals love the process.

When making promotional hires/decisions, "create a culture that's not pulled up. It's pushed up."

When promoting someone to be a manager, look at those who are known to help others. They are pushed to management by the members of the team because they are s…
517: David Lieberman - How To Never Be Lied To Again, Decipher What People Really Think, What They Really Want, & Who They Really Are (Mind Reader)

13 maart 2023 · 1 uur
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David Lieberman, Ph.D., is a renowned psychotherapist and the author of eleven books, including the New York Times bestsellers Get Anyone to Do Anything and Never Be Lied to Again. He has trained personnel in the U.S.

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: "People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character." A person looks at the world as a reflection of themselves. If they see the world as corrupt, they feel on some level that they are corrupt. If they see honest working people, that is frequently how they see themselves.

"How someone treats you is a reflection of their own emotional health and says everything about them and nothing about you."

Speaking negatively behind someone's back orients you to look for the negative in others. Wouldn't we rather spend time with people who seek the greatness in others?

"The less emotionally healthy a person is, the more they denigrate the world to accommodate their own insecurities."

Knowledge is not power. Knowledge is a tool. How it is wielded makes all of the difference. Real power is the responsible application of knowledge.

Word usage: Let's take the example of giving a compliment. A woman who believes what she's saying is more likely to use a personal pronoun. For instance, "I really liked your presentation." However, a person offering insincere flattery might say, "Nice presentation," or "Looks like you did a lot of research." In the second case, she has removed herself from the equation.

The Art of reading the bluff - When a person is bluffing, they are managing others' impressions to convey the "right" effect and serve a personal agenda. Conversely, the authentic pe…
516: Matt Mochary - The Components Of A Coaching Conversation, Making Better Hiring Decisions, Holding Yourself (& Others) Accountable, & Giving Useful Feedback

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Matt Mochary is an operator and an investor. Matt is known as the coach of Silicon Valley's best CEOs. He works with leaders at many companies, including Coinbase, Opendoor, Bolt, and Clearbit. After selling his startup in 1999 for millions, he surfed, made movies, and then developed the Mochary Method to help leaders excel.

Matt's life mantra: "Make Money, Have Fun, Do Good"

Matt has coached the leaders of Angelist, Brex, Coinbase, Sequoia, Grammarly, Attentive Mobile, Flexport, Plaid, and Reddit.

I was not expecting so much emotion from him when talking about coaching. It's evident that Matt finds great joy in what he does. I find that inspiring.

The components to a coaching conversation... Hold each other accountable. Declare the highest priority actions. Unpack the problems. Ask them how they are complicit in creating those problems? Help provide solutions & action items for each. Then share feedback.

Instead of looking for a specific class, find the best teachers and go to them. That's where the learning happens. In college and out in the real world.

"Matt's coaching has brought me clarity, focus, organization, less stress, and higher performance (me and the team). I have always been skeptical of coaches but I think he can 10x the output of a lot of people and I hope he does!" -- Sam Altman (CEO, OpenAI)

"It's often easy to make a decision, but it can be much harder to get your team to invest emotionally in that decision." "You create buy-in when you make people feel that they are part of the decision and that their input contributes to the final outcome."

"Most companies spend extraordinary resources of time, money, and equity to bring on a…
515: Kim "KC" Campbell - How To Respond To Rejection, Earn a Promotion, Find Your Purpose, & Lead With Courage

6 maart 2023 · 1 uur 1 min
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Kim "KC" Campbell (KC = "Killer Chick") is a retired Air Force Colonel who served in the Air Force for over 24 years. She has flown 1,800 hours in the A-10 Warthog, including more than 100 combat missions protecting troops on the ground in both Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2003, Kim was even awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for Heroism after successfully recovering her battle-damaged airplane after an intense close air support mission in Baghdad. Kim is the author of Flying in the Face of Fear: A Fighter Pilot's Lessons on Leading with Courage.

Notes:

On January 28, 1986, the challenger rocket exploded (killing all astronauts on board). On that day, Kim learned what it meant to serve something bigger than yourself. She decided she wanted to be an astronaut and serve something bigger than herself.

A big influence in Kim's life was a high school teacher named Mrs. Kennett. She helped Kim on the speech and debate team. One of her arguments was about women being allowed to be combat pilots.

Mrs. Kennett worked to create "power women."

Response to Rejection: Initially Kim got rejected by the Air Force Academy because of a low SAT score. In response, instead of quitting and moving on, she wrote a letter to them every week stating why they should accept her... Which they eventually did.

"The tough moments make you better." The initial rejection was a blessing in disguise.

How to crush the interview process?

Prepare... Walk through potential questions and rehearse your stories. Role play with a mentor.

Be you. Be real. Be authentic

Create a connection with all in the room. Look them in the eye. Be genuine.

Like father, Like daughter — just before Ki…
514: Jason Feifer - How To Embrace Change, Adapt Fast, Future-Proof Your Career, & Build For Tomorrow

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Jason Feifer is the editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur magazine. He is also the author of a great new book called, Build for Tomorrow: An Action Plan for Embracing Change, Adapting Fast, and Future-Proofing Your Career.

Notes:

Define yourself… What is your one sentence? Jason's is "I tell stories in my own voice." That's what he does as the editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur magazine. That's what he does when he writes books. Records podcasts… Everything. What is your one sentence? What do you do?

How to lead through change – Remember... You've had time to think about it prior to the meeting, they haven't. Show some grace. Communicate why the change is happening and how it impacts them.

And… "People hate new things, but they love better versions of old things." People hate loss. Remind them of what's staying the same, but getting better.

In 1348, The Bubonic Plague happened... What occurred as a result? 60% of Europeans died. It led to an opportunity for employment. Prior to that, there were the rich and the poor. The rich had the poor work for them, but did not pay them money.

"If a city isn't growing, it's dying. The same is true for people."

In your career, "Don't ask for the opportunity... BE the opportunity."

The Four Distinct Phases:

Panic

Adaptation

New Normal

Wouldn't Go Back

The first thing a person should do when navigating change is to identify the thing about themself that is not going to change. This is tough because we naturally identify with the output of our work. If somebody at a party asks you what you do, you're either going to tell them your job title, your role, the way in which you do your work, or the thing that you create. …

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