Consistently Good Not Occasionally Great - Nick Bare - #488

Modern Wisdom

06/18/22

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84m

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Nick Bare is the founder of Bare Performance Nutrition, an endurance racer, YouTuber and a podcaster.

Being consistently good will beat being occasionally great. But consistency is hard to find when life throws setbacks, business failures, injuries and babies at you. However, Nick has found a way to balance everything and today we get to discover how.

Expect to learn why doubters shouldn't affect your performance, why Go One More is a useful rule for everything in life, how Nick avoids burnout when juggling lots of projects, where the drive to get up at 5am every day comes from, how gut instinct can beat brain-power and much more...

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (00:43) Nick’s Marathon Progress (08:46) Preparations for Fatherhood (14:04) Choose What to Suck At (18:29) How to Avoid Burnout (22:18) Hiring the Right People (34:15) Framework for Being Consistent (41:04) Modern Definition of Success (49:16) Consistency in Hard Times (1:02:40) Define Personal Success (1:08:14) Moving Towards Intentional Parenting (1:18:18) The Price Paid for Success (1:23:41) Where to Find Nick

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How To Identify Your Internal Fears - Corey Wilks - #487

June 16, 2022

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67m

Corey Wilks is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Executive Coach.

Fears hold us back. They encourage us to shy away from challenges, they cause us to fall short of our potential and make life miserable while they’re at it. Corey has created a framework of identifying and overcoming our internal fears from a decade of clinical and coaching experience with some of the world’s highest performers.

Expect to learn why 76% of people talk about not facing their fears as a deathbed regret, the four categories of fears Corey has most commonly found with his clients, how self-sabotaging behaviour is driven by internal worries, how procrastination, perfectionism and complacency are all part of the same equation and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (01:19) From Therapist to Coach (10:08) Are Successful People Fearless? (20:15) Spotting Self-Sabotaging Behaviour (30:36) Problems of Independent Workers (35:07) Dealing with Complacency (44:19) Being Raised in a Low-Income Home (50:07) Strategies to Mitigate Internal Fears (55:04) Importance of a Support Group (1:06:12) Where to Find Corey

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How To Deal With Being Anxiously Attached - Jessica Baum - #489

June 20, 2022

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Jessica Baum is a Licensed Mental Health Counsellor, Relationship Expert and an author.

Attachment styles have become a hot topic recently, they underpin much of why we behave the way we do in relationships. Anxious attachment can be a serious challenge to overcome and gets in the way of everything, so working out how to defeat these dating demons is an important insight to uncover.

Expect to learn what the science is behind attachment styles, why anxious attachment develops, whether you can fix your attachment style while you're single, how to communicate with an anxiously attached partner more effectively, how to control your body and mind if you feel anxious, why Love Island's promo photos aren't that bad and much more...

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