1134: Creating the Moments that Make Work Come Alive with Daniel Coyle

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Daniel Coyle shares how to infuse ordinary work moments with greater meaning, joy, and fulfillment.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why shared improvement beats self-improvement

2) The three minute visualization that liberates tremendous clarity

3) Why vulnerability comes before trust–not after

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— ABOUT DANIEL —

Daniel Coyle is the New York Times bestselling author of The Culture Code, which was named Best Business Book of the Year by Bloomberg, BookPal, and Business Insider. Coyle has served as an advisor to many high-performing organizations, including the Navy SEALs, Microsoft, Google, and the Cleveland Guardians. His other books include The Talent Code, The Secret Race, The Little Book of Talent, and Hardball: A Season in the Projects, which was made into a movie starring Keanu Reeves.

Coyle was raised in Anchorage, Alaska, and now lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, during the school year and in Homer, Alaska, during the summer with his wife, Jenny, and their four children.

• Book: Flourish: The Art of Building Meaning, Joy, and Fulfillment

• Website: DanielCoyle.com

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• Past episode: 732: How Aspiring Leaders Can Succeed Today with Clay Scroggins

• Past episode: 830: Lessons Learned from the World’s Longest Scientific Study on Happiness with Dr. Robert Waldinger

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Think about a time where you grew the most.
0:13.0	Was it a time where you didn't fail?
0:14.6	No, it was probably a time where you failed a decent percentage of the time, right?
0:17.9	Was it a time where you understood or you could execute every
0:20.9	single plan that you came up with? No, it was a time where you were probably forced to
0:24.8	improvise a little bit. That's Daniel Coyle. He's an award-winning author of multiple New York
0:34.4	Times bestsellers that explore how people and groups grow, perform, and thrive. He combines immersive field reporting with behavioral science to create practical
0:41.6	frameworks for building skill, culture, and meaningful connection. His new book, Flourish,
0:46.0	the art of building meaning, joy, and fulfillment, reveals what it takes to cultivate a life
0:50.4	and a work experience that's full of joy and vitality. So you'll learn one, why shared improvement beat self-improvement. Two, the three-minute visualization that liberates tremendous clarity. And three, why a vulnerability comes before trust, not after. And if you want a quick summary write-up of the actual takeaways that Daniel shares, I recommend you sign up for the free Golden Nugget email newsletter found at awesome at your job.com. I'm Pete McItis. This is how to be
1:14.7	awesome at your job. And now, here's Daniel. Daniel, welcome back. Hey, it's good to be back. Pete.
1:24.0	Thanks for having me. Well, I'm excited to talk about flourishing. You've done
1:28.2	some great work here with your book and a lot of research. Could you kick us off by sharing
1:32.1	what's perhaps one of the most surprising and fascinating discoveries you've made about us,
1:37.4	humans and workers, and flourishing? Two of them. What is it? It's still happening. It feels like we're
1:42.3	living in this dystopia sometimes.
1:49.9	But man, there's a lot of good stories of human flourishing. And by flourishing, we should kind of define it, I guess, which is joyful, meaningful growth, joyful, meaningful growth, like the
1:55.2	highlights of our lives, the thing we all want for ourselves and our kids and our work and our
1:59.5	colleagues. And the biggest surprise
2:01.6	of it, when I went into this sort of researching, finding people who were flourishing,
2:06.8	I had the assumption that I had learned, which was that kind of you flourish alone. Like,
2:12.1	it's up to you, right? We're in this individualistic culture. It's like my deal. And what I found over and over again was
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