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The Sam Ovens Podcast

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Aug 6, 2019 • 48min

67. Why Your Brain Is Messed Up

Get your thinking clean and win at life and business by mastering your brain, not just the tactics of business. Explore the importance of diet and sleep on brain function and decision-making abilities. Understand the significance of having a clearly defined long-term goal and choosing the right environment for success. Discover the role of randomness in nature and decision-making, and the importance of aligning actions with goals. Lastly, explore the power of inputs and how they impact our lives and brains.
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Jul 30, 2019 • 33min

66. Why You Can't Do The Work

Do you procrastinate? Problems with consistency and discipline? And... Do you have a hard time actually wanting to do the work?  This podcast explains WHY gravity is pulling against your will and how to fix it (with practical instructions). Give it a listen. Rather watch it and check out the resources mentioned in the podcast? --> https://www.consulting.com/channel/why-you-cant-do-the-work
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Jul 23, 2019 • 44min

65. What I've Been Doing Recently (BIG Change)

You might have noticed I've been quiet recently...  No weekly blog videos, no daily emails, no social posts, no live-stream Q&A's, no nothing... Just silence... For 90+ days... The question is: What have I been doing? Give this a listen.
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Jun 11, 2019 • 1h 17min

64. How To Grow Your Business (by doing less)

More With Less — A short piece of content on how to grow your business. Enjoy! Rather want to watch it? Click here --> https://youtu.be/ZsJ-2EOuyhA
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Mar 26, 2019 • 1h 1min

63. How To Play With Chaos (4 Laws)

Until you make the unknown known, it will dictate your life and you will call it "fate". We live in a world of complexity and chaos — you either drown in it, or you understand it. How do you understand the complexity and chaos? Through the use of mental models. Mental models are how we understand the world. Not only do they shape what we think and how we understand but they shape the connections and opportunities that we see. Mental models are how we simplify complexity, why we consider some things more relevant than others, and how we reason. A mental model is simply a representation of how something works. We cannot keep all of the details of the world in our brains, so we use models to simplify the complex into understandable and organizable chunks. Today's podcast is the first of a new "mental model mini-series". I plan to release new content weekly that covers different mental models I use to understand the world and make decisions. Today's mental model is "Chaos Theory", understanding the 4 universal laws from which infinite complexity emerges. This is a biggy! One podcast you seriously don't want to miss!
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Mar 19, 2019 • 33min

62. Success Has Ingredients: Garbage In Garbage Out

What are the "ingredients" of success, Intelligence, and skill? What are the constituent parts? The source materials? Most people believe success, intelligence and skill are natural things you're either born with or without and there's nothing you can do to change it. They're wrong. Success, intelligence and skill, like everything else in the universe, has "ingredients". The same way a chemical compound is made up of elements, success is made up of a different breed of elements. There's always building blocks, you've just got to know where to look! In this podcast, I share with you how to find them, in everything! If you've ever wondered why some people are considered successful, intelligent and skilled, while others aren't — this podcast will show you how to reverse engineer it back to its constituent parts. (this is a  valuable skill you can use for life!).
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Mar 5, 2019 • 1h 7min

61. The Genius Of Contradiction (15 Examples)

Normal people believe in one true "right" and "wrong". Geniuses, billionaires, and scientific revolutionaries believe in "contradiction". Normal people see what everybody else is thinking/doing, and then they adopt that as their own belief of what to think/do. They never think for themselves, they never agitate the crowd, they blindly obey. This isn't a problem if you're ok with losing. But, if you want to win, you need to think differently. You need to learn how to transcend binary logic and play with both sides of the spectrum. You need to become idiosyncratic. Isaac Newton, Einstein, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Steve Jobs, Michael Jordan, Mike Tyson, Schumacher — they're all idiosyncratic. They all defied the "sacred conventions", upset the orthodox, and changed the rules of the game.  If you've ever wondered why some people change the world and others just live in it, this video will show you how it starts by fundamentally changing the way you think. In this podcast, I show you how to play with fire!
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Feb 19, 2019 • 36min

60. Why I Get Away To Think (7 Things On My Mind)

What you see depends not only on WHAT you look at but also on WHERE you look from. This video shares how I use distance to think clearly + 7 important things I've been thinking about on my recent Salt Lake City vacation. These 7 things are recurring worries, thoughts, observations, and strategies that are currently on my mind. If you're an entrepreneur starting or growing a business, you'll probably find them interesting, and useful.  From market inversion to the constituent parts of value, product development, recruiting intelligent unorthodox athletes, David VS Goliath asymmetric warfare, playing Moneyball to win an unfair game, Egypt pyramids, and the next stage of my evolution.
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Feb 6, 2019 • 57min

59. What Does Perfection Look Like?

What problem are you solving? For who? With what solution? What makes your solution different? And most importantly: What would the perfect solution look like? These are the things you should be spending most of your time thinking about as an entrepreneur. NOT taking photos of your food, Gucci duffle bag, and shitty snakeskin loafers to get social media followers to think you're rich, and maybe buy your stuff. Right now the entrepreneur market is in a state of mass confusion. Why? I believe most people's targets and goals are vague undefined entities. And when you build a mind, business, and strategy based upon vagueness, you build nothing of value and cause confusion. This is why you need to think: What does perfection look like? Defining the perfect solution your customers would dream of in a world unconstrained with today's reality will open your eyes to what they really want. Your goal should be to make progress towards it. Innovation begins here!
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Jan 29, 2019 • 12min

58. Why Your Mind Is Full Of Weeds

Learn how to identify and eliminate distractions in your mind and focus on the main thing. Discover the importance of removing weeds to promote healthy business growth. Understand the significance of eliminating non-essential activities and creating value. Prioritize your main goal and simplify core aspects of your business for maximum focus and productivity.

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