239: Neil Strauss - The Long Road To Success • Compartmentalize Your Week • Your Community Shapes You
The Jesse Chappus Show
Jesse Chappus
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Neil Strauss (IG: @neil_strauss) is a seven-time New York Times best-selling author.
Neil was a music critic, cultural reporter, and columnist at The New York Times for a decade. He has also won awards for his cover stories for Rolling Stone.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Moving from West Hollywood to Malibu
- The community you're in shapes you in ways beyond what you know
- Working out without goals
- Do the things you love... even if they're hard
- How working out with a community has impacted Neil's writing
- Follow your interests and don't worry too much about the money
- The greatest education of Neil's life
- Success typically doesn't come quickly
- The 3 types of stuck
- You're not going to figure out your passion intellectually
- Say "yes and" to life if you're starting out
- You get successful by saying yes to things and stay there by saying no to things
- Compartmentalizing your week
- People respond to you how you train them to respond to you
- Creating systems to protect yourself from your weaknesses
- If you're suffering to make it... you'll be suffering when you've made it
- 2 trains theory
- Romantic relationships are the true litmus test of a persons psychology
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Neil Strauss - The Truth (book)
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Neil Strauss - The Game (book)
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| 0:00.0 | If you're not stoked to be there, you may be in the wrong place or you may have an eye on a prize that's not really going to fulfill you whatever that prize is. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and take your health to the next level. This week our featured guest is Neil Strauss. He's a seven-time |
| 0:24.7 | New York Times best-selling author. He was a music critic, cultural reporter, and columnist at the New York Times |
| 0:30.9 | for over a decade. Neil is also won awards for his cover stories for Rolling Stone. |
| 0:35.9 | Neil is a fascinating individual and he has a lot to say about a lot of things. |
| 0:40.4 | So here's some of what we get into. |
| 0:42.0 | We talk about the community you're in shapes you in ways beyond what you know, doing things that you love even if they are hard, what you should say yes to in life and what you should say no to, how to compartmentalize your week, and how to create systems to protect |
| 0:54.8 | yourself from your weaknesses. Neil will share what he does with his cell phone when he wants to keep |
| 0:59.8 | himself away from it. And we are so excited for you guys to hear this interview |
| 1:03.5 | lots of unique stuff because Neil is a unique individual so here we go with |
| 1:08.0 | Neil Strauss. Hi nail welcome to the podcast how are you today? |
| 1:11.0 | Hey good thanks for having me here. |
| 1:13.0 | Great to have you on the show, Neil. |
| 1:15.0 | This is going to be fun to kick off. |
| 1:16.0 | I want to talk about a big move you had actually about five years ago where you're living in West Hollywood |
| 1:22.0 | and you made the move out to Malibu and I just love for you to share first of all |
| 1:27.2 | Why did you make this move? So basically I would come up to Malibu just to work and I just found I was just happier here. |
| 1:34.7 | I just really enjoyed it and that's not specifically Malibu. |
| 1:37.7 | There's a part of Malibu where the further north and the further out of the city |
| 1:41.5 | go just the cleaner the areas and the |
| 1:43.5 | happier the people are. And you also had a community of people that you connected with in that |
| 1:48.3 | area as well, correct? Yeah, correct. I think that's one of the reasons I love it is |
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