In Search Of Excellence Graham Weaver: How to Achieve Your Goals, Manage Your Time, and Live Purposefully | E140
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Dec 3, 2024 
Graham Weaver, founder and CEO of Alpine Investors and a distinguished lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business, discusses the nuances of leadership and personal growth. He shares how childhood experiences and parental influences shaped his work ethic and resilience. Graham reflects on quitting wrestling to learn about failure and persistence. He emphasizes setting goals in the present tense for success and explores the emotional impact of losing a close friend, rediscovering purpose, and the balance between ambition and mental well-being.
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Top Leadership Attributes
- The top three leadership attributes are will to win, persistence, and self-awareness.
- Will to win means carrying the company through challenges no matter what.
Self-Help Audiobooks Impact
- At 13, Graham found self-help audiobooks like Think and Grow Rich while mowing lawns.
- Listening to them repeatedly gave him an "answer key to life" about mindset and goal-setting.
Wrestling and Lessons on Failure
- Graham wrestled in high school, dropping 25 pounds to join varsity and reached number one in his league.
- After losing a key match, he quit wrestling and was haunted by that failure for years.
