The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

Episode #293: Brent Beshore - How To Get Rich Slow & Live An Optimal Life

Commonalities of sustaining excellence:
- The usual things like: integrity and hard work
- But the best... "know how messy they are, they challenge themselves, they have high level of self-awareness, they need people around them to help. They acknowledge their imperfections, and they give others grace for their imperfections."
How to develop self awareness?
- Surround yourself with people who will tell you the truth -- "We are all highly imperfect."
- Give people a true open invitation to criticize, but they also must be constructive, loving, kind, thoughtful people.
  - "They need to be rooting for you."\

What do you look for in someone to work with?
- Curiosity - an inherent desire to know more, learn, reconstruct reality
- Self awareness - genuine intellectual honesty
- Integrity - function of consistency over time. Have to reconstruct it