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Deep, Provocative Success Strategies From the “Yoda of Silicon Valley” | Jerry Colonna
10% Happier with Dan Harris
Discussion on Leadership and Radical Self Inquiry
Leadership is not just for those in positions of power, but for everyone to realize that they have the potential to lead, even if it's just leading themselves. Radical self inquiry involves stripping away the personas we wear and the beliefs we hold about ourselves to gain deep psychological understanding and insight. This process is often supported by dedicated practices like meditation.
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Speaker 2
we'll get into it. Before we get into it, let's just lay some groundwork or level set for people who might not know much about your work. I'll put links in the show notes to your previous appearances, but in case people haven't had a chance to digest that, let's just start with some definitional things. You talk about leadership. Does that include everybody, or am I only in the target audience if I'm a boss? Oh,
Speaker 1
it definitely includes everybody. By including everybody, it's a subtle way of taking our standard definitions of leadership, that is association with power, and helping people realize that we each have the possibility of leading. And what does that mean? It means being able to affect those around us in some capacity. And even at a minimum, we have the possibility of leading ourselves. And that's a very broad definition, but thanks for that. This is not just for CEOs.
Speaker 2
Right. It's good to get that out there right at the jump. I'm not a CEO and I've found your work to be incredibly helpful. So let's talk about some of the, and again, before we dive into the new book, because the new book really builds on your prior work, including your last book. What is radical self-inquiry?
Speaker 1
Yeah, that's a sort of catchphrase I developed to describe in some ways, well, maybe because of this audience, they'll get it. psychological understanding of oneself, but also the insight that comes from a dedicated practice, sometimes showing up as meditation. The working definition that I play with is the process by which the masks that we wear are slowly and compassionately stripped away so that we have no place left to hide. And I focus on the radical piece of the self-inquiry process simply because we tend not to do it. We tend to wear a persona and worse yet, we tend to believe that persona and then we get into a lot of trouble. Yeah,
Speaker 2
I know people who do that. uh so
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