142: Exceptional Perceptiveness for Exceptional Achievement with Isaac Lidsky

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🗓️ 12 April 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Construction entrepreneur Isaac Lidsky challenges us to take control of our lives and speaks on the impact of accountability and perception. You'll Learn: How you misperceive yourself and your own life How to make wise choices with awareness and accountability Why there are no such things as heroes and villains About Isaac: Isaac Lidsky is a motivational speaker, an author, and runs ODC Construction, a hugely successful construction company in Florida. He was a child star for the sitcom Saved By the Bell before being diagnosed with a rare degenerative blinding disease. That spurred Isaac to go to Harvard and graduate by the age of 19 with an honors degree in mathematics and computer science. He then returned to Harvard to study law and graduated as magna cum laude, and went on to clerk for two US Supreme Court Justices. View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep142 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.
0:10.0	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.
0:14.0	With your host, Pete McKitis.
0:16.0	Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 142 with Isaac Lidsky.
0:26.5	Isaac is an extraordinarily accomplished man and he did it all as he was going blind and he's currently blind and nonetheless is a force in terms of business and writing and inspiration.
0:41.0	I think this is an episode you very well may want to listen to multiple times as well as his TED Talk it's just that good so you're gonna walk away learning one
0:50.0	How you misperceive yourself in your own life.
0:53.0	2. How to make optimal wise choices with awareness and accountability.
0:58.0	And 3. Why there are no such things as heroes and villains in your story.
1:03.4	So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript, the references to pieces
1:07.2	we talk about including his TED Talk, drop by awesome at your job.com slash Epp 142. Here's Isaac's story.
1:15.0	Isaac Litzky is a motivational speaker, author, and runs ODC Construction, a hugely successful
1:21.0	construction company in Florida.
1:23.1	He was a child star for the sitcom saved by the Belton New Class before being diagnosed
1:27.4	with a rare degenerative blinding disease.
1:31.1	That spurred Isaac to go to Harvard and graduate by the age of 19 with an
1:34.7	honors degree in mathematics and computer science. He then returned to Harvard to
1:38.2	study law and graduated magna cum laude and went on to clerk for two US Supreme Court justices and so much more.
1:45.7	Here's Isaac.
1:47.7	Isaac, thanks so much for joining us here on the How to Be Awesome at your job podcast.
1:51.6	Thanks for having me.
1:53.0	Oh boy, well you have so much of a rich, fun history and career, so I would just open it up at an easy
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