Shane O'Donnell: I draw a picture on a piece of paper at the end of every month. It just says dashboard and I drive and it's a two by two. And in the center, I draw a circle and I write my icky guy. That's your guiding force. Now on the top, I've got two boxes. Top left is strong core. This is the stuff that pays your bills. Bottom right is best self. So if the top left is all green and the bottom right is all red, then guess what I'm telling myself next month? "I need to lean more into [my] best self," he says.
Shane's guest on this episode of the show is
New York Times bestselling author Neil Pasricha, who returns for his second appearance on The Knowledge Project. We discuss the importance of gratitude and how simple acts can change the way you feel, where confidence comes from, the specific routines and habits you can use to counter anxiety, the recipe for building resilience, and so much more. Pasricha is the author of seven books which collectively have sold over 2 million copies and spent over 200 weeks on bestseller lists, including
The Happiness Equation and
Two-Minute Mornings. His first TED talk, “The 3 A’s of Awesome,” is ranked as one of the 10 Most Inspiring of all time, and he also hosts a podcast called
3 Books, where he uncovers the 1,000 most formative books in the world. Neil previously appeared on Episode 72 of the The Knowledge Project, one of the show’s most downloaded conversations to date. His new book,
Our Book of Awesome, will be released Dec. 6.
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