The Hungry Ghost

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Never place your value as a human being on results. For two reasons, you don't control those results. And two, it doesn't bring long-term happiness. The Buddhist term for this is called the hungry ghost. I'm always eating, but I'm never full. That's an important thing when we get fixated on achievement. An old man sitting in a room surrounded by thousands of uneaten marshmallows said to himself: Where does the story end?

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Marshall Goldsmith joins Joe to discuss his latest book, The Earned Life and what he's learned about life and leadership over the course his career as an executive coach. Joe and Marshall cover a wide range of important topics to include why we need to understand what motivates us, the relationship between power and ego, and the difference between ambition and aspiration.

Marshall Goldsmith has been recognized as one of the Top Ten Business Thinkers in the World and the top-rated executive coach at the Thinkers50 ceremony in London since 2011. Published in 2015, his book Triggers is a Wall Street Journal and New York Times #1 Bestseller! He’s also the author of New York Times best seller and #1 Wall Street Journal Business Book What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, winner of the Harold Longman Award as Best Business Book of the Year.