231: How to Stay Motivated and On Track with Ed Latimore
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2017
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Professional boxer and physics student Ed Latimore teaches how to stop caring about what other people think and stoke the fires of motivation.
You’ll Learn:
1) How human behavior is subject to the laws of momentum
2) How to find motivation when it seems elusive
3) Why it’s better to focus on the process rather than the outcome
About Ed
Ed Latimore is a professional boxer, adult physics student at Duquesne University, a veteran of the United States Army National Guard, chess player, and author. Millions have learned from Ed’s insights at his blog, “The Mind and Fist” at mindandfist.com. He’s also very active on Twitter @EdLatimore.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Ed’s Website: EdLatimore.com
- Ed’s Book: Not Caring What Other People Think Is A Superpower
- App: Trello
- Book: The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin
- Personality: Jocko Willink
- Podcast Episode 209: How to Get Better at Anything with Tom Bilyeu
- Term: Feynman technique
- Term: Mithridatic / Mithridatism
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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. Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 231 with Ed Latimore. |
| 0:27.8 | I think this episode really packs a punch. |
| 0:30.3 | Oh, terrible pun there. It packs a punch because Ed is a professional boxer and physics student |
| 0:36.5 | and he has done some real thinking and cross-pollinating ideas in terms of what brings about |
| 0:41.9 | motivation and discipline and |
| 0:43.6 | resilience and toughness and all this good stuff that can be applied to being |
| 0:48.1 | awesome at your job. So you'll learn one why human behavior is subject to the |
| 0:52.0 | laws of momentum. |
| 0:53.2 | 2. How to find motivation when it seems elusive and 3. |
| 0:57.0 | Why it's better to focus on the process rather than the outcome. |
| 1:01.3 | So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript or the |
| 1:03.9 | links to items that we've referenced here you can find that on over at awesome at your |
| 1:07.2 | job.com slash f231 and while you're at awesome at your job dot com I encourage you to check out some of our cool resources. |
| 1:15.0 | One I'd point you to here is the 10 days to winning at work email course. |
| 1:18.0 | And this is a series of excerpts taken from my enhanced thinking and collaboration training programs which slash just |
| 1:25.2 | about 86 minutes per person per week of waste out of there when it comes to being smarter |
| 1:30.8 | about saying noted meetings and all kinds of little actionable tidbits |
| 1:34.8 | of taking those and made them as digestible as possible in a ten simple email so you get one a day. |
| 1:41.5 | So that's there over at awesome at your job |
| 1:43.5 | dot com and now here's ed story at latamore is a professional boxer adult physics |
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