Jon Acuff (@jonacuff) is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including his Wall Street Journal #1 bestseller, Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done. [Note: This is a previously broadcast episode from the vault that we felt deserved a fresh pass through your earholes!]
What We Discuss with Jon Acuff:
Why are only eight percent of new year’s resolutions realized? (Incidentally, that’s the same percentage of applicants accepted to Juilliard.)
The harm perfectionism causes and what we can do to navigate through it.
The Planning Fallacy and how it causes overachievers to fail before even beginning.
Strategic Incompetence: why you should deliberately be terrible at some things.
Secret Rules: what they are, how they’re made, and how these invisible scripts affect our lives (and what we can do about it).