The Warrior Poet

Tired of running through brick walls? There may be a better way. Sri discusses when to exercise "tactical patience" and why WALL-E is terribly overrated. EXPLICIT EPISODE: If you have kids in the car, we hope you’ll choose another.Connect with Sri on Instagram: @sri_the_warrior_poet  + @sri_actually notesCover of the Wallflowers' "Sixth Avenue Heartache" is by von Bruecken (Youtube) Intro and/or outro music in most episodes is by Paul Sridhar ( Spotify ). Disclaimer: Any audio clips are included with every intent and steps taken to abide by Fair Use and serve the purpose(s) of illustration, education, augmentation, or promotion of source content.💬 Have a question? Shoot us a text! 📌 FEELING STUCK? LIMITED TIME: Book a free clarity call with Sri to get your priorities in order and start getting unstuck. 📩 Get free elite performance tools weekly through the Warrior Poet newsletter 👉 join ✅_____Follow Sri for elite leadership tips: ➡️ LinkedIn.com/in/andrewsridhar Connect on Instagram: @sri_the_warrior_poet + @sri_actually Intro and/or outro music in most episodes is by Paul Sridhar. 🎧 Disclaimer: Any audio clips are included with every intent and steps taken to abide by Fair Use and serve the purpose(s) of illustration, education, augmentation, or promotion of source content.

How do you know when you should stop analyzing and start executing? This is a hard problem, perhaps a philosophical one. Sri takes a stab with help from Canada. 💬 Have a question? Shoot us a text! 📌 FEELING STUCK? LIMITED TIME: Book a free clarity call with Sri to get your priorities in order and start getting unstuck. 📩 Get free elite performance tools weekly through the Warrior Poet newsletter 👉 join ✅_____Follow Sri for elite leadership tips: ➡️ LinkedIn.com/in/andrewsridhar Connect on Instagram: @sri_the_warrior_poet + @sri_actually Intro and/or outro music in most episodes is by Paul Sridhar. 🎧 Disclaimer: Any audio clips are included with every intent and steps taken to abide by Fair Use and serve the purpose(s) of illustration, education, augmentation, or promotion of source content.

When you're a midshipman at the Naval Academy, you often recalculate something called "the Happiness Factor" to encourage yourself (or torture said self, depending on the circumstances). The idea that one's happiness is a calculable quantity somehow distinct from the self is interesting on its own. Meanwhile, Sri discusses how happiness in the workplace might not be all it's cracked up to be. EXPLICIT EPISODE: If you have kids in the car, we hope you’ll choose another.Connect with Sri on Instagram: @sri_the_warrior_poet  + @sri_actually notesIntro and/or outro music in most episodes is by Paul Sridhar ( Spotify ). Episode thumbnail photo courtesy of Brett Jordan on UnsplashDisclaimer: Any audio clips are included with every intent and steps taken to abide by Fair Use and serve the purpose(s) of illustration, education, augmentation, or promotion of source content.💬 Have a question? Shoot us a text! 📌 FEELING STUCK? LIMITED TIME: Book a free clarity call with Sri to get your priorities in order and start getting unstuck. 📩 Get free elite performance tools weekly through the Warrior Poet newsletter 👉 join ✅_____Follow Sri for elite leadership tips: ➡️ LinkedIn.com/in/andrewsridhar Connect on Instagram: @sri_the_warrior_poet + @sri_actually Intro and/or outro music in most episodes is by Paul Sridhar. 🎧 Disclaimer: Any audio clips are included with every intent and steps taken to abide by Fair Use and serve the purpose(s) of illustration, education, augmentation, or promotion of source content.

Sri discusses the bestselling book The One Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan. Plus, what serving as an altar boy has to do with building assets. 💬 Have a question? Shoot us a text! 📌 FEELING STUCK? LIMITED TIME: Book a free clarity call with Sri to get your priorities in order and start getting unstuck. 📩 Get free elite performance tools weekly through the Warrior Poet newsletter 👉 join ✅_____Follow Sri for elite leadership tips: ➡️ LinkedIn.com/in/andrewsridhar Connect on Instagram: @sri_the_warrior_poet + @sri_actually Intro and/or outro music in most episodes is by Paul Sridhar. 🎧 Disclaimer: Any audio clips are included with every intent and steps taken to abide by Fair Use and serve the purpose(s) of illustration, education, augmentation, or promotion of source content.

Sri and The Gang from Always Sunny bring the ABCs of leadership back again from Motown to Philly. Keith Rabois is a highly successful startup leader, venture capitalist, and member of the Paypal mafia. Sri goes over some of Keith's leadership lessons and compares those from the military. Hat tip to Delian Asparouhov, who distilled his in-person lessons from Mr. Rabois into a helpful blog post called "How to be an Effective Executive." It is one of a series on leaderrship in the startup world. Not in the series but also worth reading is Delian's acclaimed "Everyone Poops," a story of love and loss involving Sergey Brin. notesMotownphilly | Boyz II Men | Music Video Cover by Elisium - YouTubeIt’s Always Sunny - The Gang sings “Motown Philly” by Boyz II Men - YouTubehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_BivinsHigh Output Management by Andy Grove💬 Have a question? Shoot us a text! 📌 FEELING STUCK? LIMITED TIME: Book a free clarity call with Sri to get your priorities in order and start getting unstuck. 📩 Get free elite performance tools weekly through the Warrior Poet newsletter 👉 join ✅_____Follow Sri for elite leadership tips: ➡️ LinkedIn.com/in/andrewsridhar Connect on Instagram: @sri_the_warrior_poet + @sri_actually Intro and/or outro music in most episodes is by Paul Sridhar. 🎧 Disclaimer: Any audio clips are included with every intent and steps taken to abide by Fair Use and serve the purpose(s) of illustration, education, augmentation, or promotion of source content.

Is it possible to choose things you want to believe even if you currently think they're ludicrous? And then even come to actually believe them just by reciting what originally was nonsense? This is what Don Gately mulls over while in an AA session in David Foster Wallace's book Infinite Jest. While Gately happens to be a fictional character, the success of AA, religion, and military training suggest that we can actually succeed by "going through the motions."notes Books by Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club (though you probably already saw the movie) Choke, which I really likedRelated episodes: #29: Train Your Spotlight #39: (the next one after this -- coming soon!)Connect with Sri on Instagram: @sri_the_warrior_poet  + @sri_actually Intro and/or outro music in most episodes is by Paul Sridhar ( Spotify ). Disclaimer: Any audio clips are included with every intent and steps taken to abide by Fair Use and serve the purpose(s) of illustration, education, augmentation, or promotion of source content.💬 Have a question? Shoot us a text! 📌 FEELING STUCK? LIMITED TIME: Book a free clarity call with Sri to get your priorities in order and start getting unstuck. 📩 Get free elite performance tools weekly through the Warrior Poet newsletter 👉 join ✅_____Follow Sri for elite leadership tips: ➡️ LinkedIn.com/in/andrewsridhar Connect on Instagram: @sri_the_warrior_poet + @sri_actually Intro and/or outro music in most episodes is by Paul Sridhar. 🎧 Disclaimer: Any audio clips are included with every intent and steps taken to abide by Fair Use and serve the purpose(s) of illustration, education, augmentation, or promotion of source content.

"Burning in" is a euphemism for what happens when your parachute doesn't open. In a shorter form than usual Sri muses on what carpe diem really means. 💬 Have a question? Shoot us a text! 📌 FEELING STUCK? LIMITED TIME: Book a free clarity call with Sri to get your priorities in order and start getting unstuck. 📩 Get free elite performance tools weekly through the Warrior Poet newsletter 👉 join ✅_____Follow Sri for elite leadership tips: ➡️ LinkedIn.com/in/andrewsridhar Connect on Instagram: @sri_the_warrior_poet + @sri_actually Intro and/or outro music in most episodes is by Paul Sridhar. 🎧 Disclaimer: Any audio clips are included with every intent and steps taken to abide by Fair Use and serve the purpose(s) of illustration, education, augmentation, or promotion of source content.

Feeling stuck? You can use the tactics for responding to an ambush to propel you in a productive direction (any direction). Sri shows you how. Plus, the interesting group Massive Attack. And what hospital show has the best theme song. Connect with Sri on Instagram: @sri_the_warrior_poet  + @sri_actually notes Cover of Massive Attack's song "Angel" is by Mikka Almeida et al via YoutubeBooksStrategy: A History by Lawrence Freedman How Music Works by David ByrneThanks to “amholma” for the wave crash fill (Freesound).Intro and/or outro music in most episodes is by Paul Sridhar ( Spotify ). Disclaimer: Any audio clips are included with every intent and steps taken to abide by Fair Use and serve the purpose(s) of illustration, education, augmentation, or promotion of source content.💬 Have a question? Shoot us a text! 📌 FEELING STUCK? LIMITED TIME: Book a free clarity call with Sri to get your priorities in order and start getting unstuck. 📩 Get free elite performance tools weekly through the Warrior Poet newsletter 👉 join ✅_____Follow Sri for elite leadership tips: ➡️ LinkedIn.com/in/andrewsridhar Connect on Instagram: @sri_the_warrior_poet + @sri_actually Intro and/or outro music in most episodes is by Paul Sridhar. 🎧 Disclaimer: Any audio clips are included with every intent and steps taken to abide by Fair Use and serve the purpose(s) of illustration, education, augmentation, or promotion of source content.

Marty McFly in the Back to the Future movies is the perfect caricature of our own gut reactions to others in life and work. Marty's nemesis, Biff had a recurring line throughout the trilogy: "What's a matter, McFly -- are ya chicken?!" Many of us fall for this kind of challenge all too easily. And what's worse is that clever manipulators are *much* more subtle than Biff. Sri's no replacement for Doc Brown, but he's here to help. Connect with Sri on Instagram: @sri_the_warrior_poet  + @sri_actually notesBooks: Presuasion by Cialdini (Amazon)The Infinite Game by Simon SinekRelated episodes: #7: Screenwriting Cover of the theme song from Back to the Future was by Niall Stenson via YoutubeIntro and/or outro music in most episodes is by Paul Sridhar ( Spotify ). Disclaimer: Any audio clips are included with every intent and steps taken to abide by Fair Use and serve the purpose(s) of illustration, education, augmentation, or promotion of source content.💬 Have a question? Shoot us a text! 📌 FEELING STUCK? LIMITED TIME: Book a free clarity call with Sri to get your priorities in order and start getting unstuck. 📩 Get free elite performance tools weekly through the Warrior Poet newsletter 👉 join ✅_____Follow Sri for elite leadership tips: ➡️ LinkedIn.com/in/andrewsridhar Connect on Instagram: @sri_the_warrior_poet + @sri_actually Intro and/or outro music in most episodes is by Paul Sridhar. 🎧 Disclaimer: Any audio clips are included with every intent and steps taken to abide by Fair Use and serve the purpose(s) of illustration, education, augmentation, or promotion of source content.

Why do we not listen to common sense? Do you ever "discover" lessons that Ben Franklin made catch-phrases of long ago or that your parents preached to you?Sri suggests ways to better internalize such principles. Connect with Sri on Instagram: @sri_the_warrior_poet  + @sri_actually notesThe Underground Sounds Of America: Bars Of Gold — Kerrang!Highly recommend this TV series in which Saffron Burrows plays a major role: Mozart in the Jungle (Amazon Prime Video) “Bunko artists” are explained by Ken Jennings and his cohost in the podcast The OmnibusInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan HolidayThe Code of Conduct | Association of the United States ArmyA live performance by the band Madness, surprisingly cool and touring after all this years, doing their hit “Our House” (Youtube)Related episodes: #3: Outbreak #33: Different StrokesIntro and/or outro music in most episodes is by Paul Sridhar ( Spotify ). Disclaimer: Any audio clips are included with every intent and steps taken to abide by Fair Use and serve the purpose(s) of illustration, education, augmentation, or promotion of source content.💬 Have a question? Shoot us a text! 📌 FEELING STUCK? LIMITED TIME: Book a free clarity call with Sri to get your priorities in order and start getting unstuck. 📩 Get free elite performance tools weekly through the Warrior Poet newsletter 👉 join ✅_____Follow Sri for elite leadership tips: ➡️ LinkedIn.com/in/andrewsridhar Connect on Instagram: @sri_the_warrior_poet + @sri_actually Intro and/or outro music in most episodes is by Paul Sridhar. 🎧 Disclaimer: Any audio clips are included with every intent and steps taken to abide by Fair Use and serve the purpose(s) of illustration, education, augmentation, or promotion of source content.