The Three S's of Success

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"I hold on to a little triangle in my mind. I call it the three S's of success," he says. "The first S is sales. This is chasing the capitalism dream, right? You made a million dollars." The second S is social. We often do things for social success, social proof points. But you're doing it because you want to be self-confident and confident about your work. And so how do you balance those things?"

Neil is the the author of nine books and journals including: The Book of Awesome, a spinning rolodex of simple pleasures based on his 100-million-hit, award-winning blog 1000 Awesome Things, The Happiness Equation, originally written as a 300-page love letter to his unborn son on how to live a happy life,

He also hosts an Apple “Best of” award-winning podcast called 3 Books where he is on an ‘epic 15-year-long quest to uncover the 1000 most formative books in the world. and he also shares his current writing on this blog and in a series of newsletters.

In this episode, Eric and Neil discuss his latest book, Our Book of Awesome: A Celebration of the Small Joys That Bring Us Together

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