219: Eric Barker - Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk
Ryan Hawk
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🗓️ 20 August 2017
⏱️ 57 minutes
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219: Eric Barker - Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
Eric Barker is a thought leader in the field of success. His humorous, practical blog, "Barking Up the Wrong Tree", presents science-based answers and expert insight on how to be awesome at life. Over 300,000 people subscribe to his weekly newsletter and his content is syndicated by Time Magazine, The Week, and Business Insider. He has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, and the Financial Times. Eric is also a sought-after speaker and interview subject, and has been invited to speak at MIT, Yale, West Point, the University of Pennsylvania, NPR affiliates, and on morning television.
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Show Notes:
- Sustained Excellence:
- Consistent habits and routines
- Experiment
- Evolve
- Learn/Grow
- Create a feedback loop
- Steve Martin -- "Being great isn't hard. Being consistent is." -- (Note: Watch the Steve Martin MasterClass) -- Meta principal for how people do things
- "Hit the ball every time. It's hard."
- Eric started the blog in 2009 -- He read abstracts, academic research
- He wanted to focus on things that were applicable to being awesome at life
- "The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed."
- How he went from unemployed --> MBA in 2009 --> Screenwriter in Hollywood for Disney, Fox --> Successful blog/book
- Advice to people who have a side hustle: "It's a hard road. Give 1 hour per day to it. If you really want to do it, there will be trade offs. You have to measure how you will spend your time and what's important to you."
- Book writing vs Blog writing -- Book = 5 days per week working on. Blog = 2 days per week.
- How can we find work life balance? -- "It did not previously exist for me."
- How to say NO like Warren Buffett
- Networking -- Who you know is very important... However there is a tradeoff and extroverts waste time "at the water cooler"
- Nice guys, Givers... There is a tight rope between confidence and delusion
- There is a problem: "Nobody likes narcissism and hubris, but some confident people have those qualities."
- When is it a good idea to quit?
- "It's unrealistic to never quit. We quit things all the time. Show GRIT on the things that are important to you."
- Make little bets -- Read Little Bets by Peter Sims
- Learning Leader = Humility
"People love having choices... But people hate making choices."
Social Media:
- Read: Barking Up The Wrong Tree
- Follow Eric on Twitter: @bakadesuyo
- Connect with me on LinkedIn
- Join our Facebook Group: The Learning Leader Community
- To Follow Me on Twitter: @RyanHawk12
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Episode 179: How To Sustain Excellence - The Best Answers From 178 Questions
Episode 107: Simon Sinek – Leadership: It Starts With Why
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| 0:00.0 | Now you are able to work 24-7 so everything is at odds every hour that you spend with your kids is an hour you're not working and every hour that you're working is an hour you're not spending with your kids. |
| 0:10.1 | Their trade-offs you only have 24 hours in a day. You know, so before you could go home and be largely uninterrupted in your personal life. |
| 0:20.0 | Now that's not the case. So basically what's happened is the default has flipped, you know, where before the lines of business and personal were rather clear. |
| 0:38.4 | Now you have to decide them and that is really hard. This episode is brought to you by my friends at Callaway Golf. |
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| 2:17.0 | I am Ryan Hawk. |
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