Episode 32: 5 Ways to Hack Your Mind For Success
About the Episode
The way you think about the world and your place in it can have a huge impact on your life. And yet, when it comes to evaluating the way we think, we’re rarely able to smell our own bullshit.
So today, Drew and I break down five different mindsets you can adopt to live a more examined, successful life. This requires you to reject many of the mindless beliefs you’ve been force fed your entire life.
Let’s do it.
Quotes From the Episode
You can’t teach yourself to like a bowl of shit that you don’t actually like. There are things you just naturally enjoy doing that most people hate. That’s the secret sauce.
Injecting a modest amount of chaos into your life can ignite a lot of insight, growth, and excitement.
Big goals are more exciting and sexier. They push you closer to your real capacity.
Focus on fewer things for longer periods of time. The hidden overhead tax of task switching is more draining than you realize.
Episode Notes
Referenced in This Episode
- Get one month of Shopify for $1
- Use code IDGAF to get 10% of services at Marek Health
- Three Body Problem (book series)
- How to Live by Derek Sivers
- Locus of Control
- Will Smith
- Ramit Sethi
- Podcast: Cal Newport
- Range by David Epstein
- Steve Jobs
- Roger Federer
- Magnus Carlson
- How to Be Everything by Emilie Wapnick