226: Dr. Anna Akbari: Startup Your Life - How To Hustle & Hack Your Way To Happiness
Legendary Life | Transform Your Body, Upgrade Your Health & Live Your Best Life
Ted Ryce
4.8 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2016
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Brief Bio:
Dr. Anna Akbari is a sociologist, entrepreneur, innovation consultant, and writer. She is a former professor in the department of Media, Culture, and Communication and the department of Art and Art Professions at New York University, as well as the Art and Design History and Theory department at Parsons The New School for Design. Her research focuses on visual and virtual self-presentation, technology and human intersects, dating and interpersonal relationships, and happiness and well-being.
Akbari is the founder of Sociology of Style, which takes an intelligent approach to image and well-being and offers holistic image consulting and life coaching services. She also created the Sociology of TV, which offers videos and white papers on the social significance of television media in public spaces.
A prominent thought leader, she is a frequent guest and writer for such outlets as TED, CNN, The Atlantic, DailyWorth, The Bulletproof Executive, Huffington Post, and the Financial Times, as well as a keynote speaker and lecturer at universities, professional conferences, and corporate events.
In this episode, you'll learn:
- 3 Powerful habits to optimize your life (10:14)
- Why positive thinking is not enough (11:18)
- How to embrace failure in order to become successful (12:50)
- Why the biggest risk is not taking one (15:00)
- Why do so many people hate their jobs (18:56)
- Why instant gratification doesn't create lasting happiness (27:23)
- Why age is really just a number when it comes to success (31:30)
- 3 Tips for a lasting, loving relationship (33:01)
- The importance of play in our adult life (16:45)
- 5 Things you can learn from pick-up artists (38:50)
Resources:
Startup Your Life: Hustle and Hack Your Way to Happiness
Connect with Anna:
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of the Legendary Life Podcast. I'm your host Ted Rice and this is the show that's all |
| 0:15.1 | about taking your health, body, and life to that next level. I've got a fantastic |
| 0:19.6 | episode for you today on how to hustle and hack your way to happiness. We'll get to the |
| 0:25.1 | interview with our special guest in a moment but before we get to that I want to |
| 0:30.1 | tell you about what we have going on. First, check out our store. We're having a holiday sale. We have a meal plan. So if you're interested in learning exactly what you should be eating, the types of recipes |
| 0:46.0 | you should be following, go to LegendaryLife Podcast.com slash store and check that out. Also we have a Fitness and Nutrition Made Simple for Busy People video course. |
| 0:59.0 | This is something I spent hours of researching and then hours of putting it together and also editing. |
| 1:07.1 | It's a fantastic course and if you're looking to get a jump start on getting your health and fitness handled. |
| 1:15.2 | This is the course for you. |
| 1:17.2 | That's on sale as well. |
| 1:18.8 | So again, Legendary Live Podcast.com |
| 1:21.5 | slash store. And don't forget to get your bio hack guide |
| 1:26.0 | from the home page. |
| 1:28.0 | I did that episode last Wednesday |
| 1:30.0 | and if you'd like all the resources in a PDF downloadable format for free of course because I hook you up like that. |
| 1:39.0 | Make sure you go to our website. I don't think I need to say the URL again, but and download your free guide. |
| 1:46.7 | I also want to tell you on the website that you can join the waiting list for CEO strength which will be starting I have the date |
| 1:56.8 | January 11th we have a limited amount of spots because I can't take hundreds of people the quality would go down |
| 2:06.2 | very quickly so we do have limited spots available and if you've been waiting if you've |
| 2:11.0 | been listening to the show you've been hearing the success stories about people who've joined the coaching group. |
| 2:16.7 | If you want to participate, the new app is incredible. |
| 2:20.6 | It's a course, it's not even a coaching. It's a course with me as your coach. |
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