Never quit. You hear that phrase i lot, too. W whyis it? When would it be a good idea to quit? We all quit things. We have to quit things. But the other thing is for us to realize that, you know, where are the hours for grit and deliberate practice going to come from? They're not going to magically appear. So strategically quitting things is vital to grit. To devote a lot of your time towards great deliberate practice inproving your skill was getting ahead at the things that were seriously r o i positive. It makes you feel alive. And also, if you just keep doubling down on what works and doubles down on what doesn't work
219: Eric Barker - Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
Eric Barker is a thought leader in the field of success. His humorous, practical blog, "Barking Up the Wrong Tree", presents science-based answers and expert insight on how to be awesome at life. Over 300,000 people subscribe to his weekly newsletter and his content is syndicated by Time Magazine, The Week, and Business Insider. He has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, and the Financial Times. Eric is also a sought-after speaker and interview subject, and has been invited to speak at MIT, Yale, West Point, the University of Pennsylvania, NPR affiliates, and on morning television.
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Show Notes:
- Sustained Excellence:
- Consistent habits and routines
- Experiment
- Evolve
- Learn/Grow
- Create a feedback loop
- Steve Martin -- "Being great isn't hard. Being consistent is." -- (Note: Watch the Steve Martin MasterClass) -- Meta principal for how people do things
- "Hit the ball every time. It's hard."
- Eric started the blog in 2009 -- He read abstracts, academic research
- He wanted to focus on things that were applicable to being awesome at life
- "The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed."
- How he went from unemployed --> MBA in 2009 --> Screenwriter in Hollywood for Disney, Fox --> Successful blog/book
- Advice to people who have a side hustle: "It's a hard road. Give 1 hour per day to it. If you really want to do it, there will be trade offs. You have to measure how you will spend your time and what's important to you."
- Book writing vs Blog writing -- Book = 5 days per week working on. Blog = 2 days per week.
- How can we find work life balance? -- "It did not previously exist for me."
- How to say NO like Warren Buffett
- Networking -- Who you know is very important... However there is a tradeoff and extroverts waste time "at the water cooler"
- Nice guys, Givers... There is a tight rope between confidence and delusion
- There is a problem: "Nobody likes narcissism and hubris, but some confident people have those qualities."
- When is it a good idea to quit?
- "It's unrealistic to never quit. We quit things all the time. Show GRIT on the things that are important to you."
- Make little bets -- Read Little Bets by Peter Sims
- Learning Leader = Humility
"People love having choices... But people hate making choices."
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