Hasan Kubba, a business coach and author of 'The Unfair Advantage,' shares his insights on overcoming limiting beliefs and achieving personal goals. He introduces coaching frameworks that listeners can apply in their lives, encouraging self-discovery and clarity. The conversation touches on balancing self-identity with creative ambitions, building confidence through connections, and navigating the challenges of feedback during a book launch. Hasan also offers practical tips for enhancing non-fiction writing and emphasizes the importance of community and collaboration.
Identify limiting beliefs, boost productivity, and gain confidence through coaching frameworks without a coach.
Embrace criticism without seeking external validation, expecting pushback facilitates effective handling of negative feedback.
Define roles, leverage strengths, and prioritize mutual understanding for successful co-authoring of a book.
Deep dives
Understanding Unfair Advantages
Having unfair advantages in business is explored, emphasizing the need for genuine advantages over merely unethical shortcuts. The podcast discusses how to distinguish between unfair advantages and earned advantages, advocating a focus on one's strengths and unique attributes.
Overcoming Negative Reviews
Dealing with negative reviews for the podcast is discussed, highlighting the importance of not seeking validation externally. The speaker reflects on how expecting pushback and being pleasantly surprised by the lack of it helped in handling criticism effectively.
Writing Strategies and Co-Authoring
The challenges of co-authoring a book with specific roles are explained. The process of defining individual strengths and contributions in writing the book is detailed, emphasizing the importance of mutual understanding and collaboration.
Setting Goals and Embracing the Journey
The podcast delves into goal-setting strategies, emphasizing the concept of destination-focused goals. It suggests reframing goals as destinations to stay motivated and to concentrate on the controllable aspects of the journey, rather than fixating on the end result.
Using Mental Models for Simplification and Utility
Employing mental models such as the left brain-right brain analogy, the podcast discusses the importance of using simplified models for understanding complex information. Despite some models not being scientifically accurate, their utility in simplifying concepts for practical application is emphasized. The speaker shares personal insights on setting achievable goals over harder ones, highlighting the value of simplification for effective decision-making and behavior change.
Value of Personalized Transformation and Innovative Teaching Approaches
The podcast delves into the concept of personalized transformation and the effectiveness of tailored advice for different audiences. It suggests testing book ideas on diverse groups to gauge responsiveness and improve messaging. Additionally, it explores innovative teaching methods by integrating book content into educational settings or live sessions for real-time feedback. The speaker emphasizes the significance of engaging with an audience to refine and enhance the impact of the book's transformative message.
All of us have different areas of our lives that we'd like to improve. But investing in a life coach isn't always an option. Hasan Kubba is my business coach and the author of the business book of the year 2021 ‘The Unfair Advantage: How You Already Have What It Takes To Succeed’. In the conversation we talk about some of the concepts in his book as well as having a mini coaching session so you can apply coaching frameworks to your own life without needing to hire a coach yourself. We talk about realising your limiting beliefs, productivity, confidence and finish by chatting through some of my current predicaments about writing my book.
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