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BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

256: The Surprising (Scientific) Truth Behind What Makes You Successful with Eric Barker

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

BiggerPockets

Education, Business, Investing

4.816.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2017

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Why do some people achieve incredible success while most others struggle? Why do some reach their goals while others give up within days of setting them? Why do some people make WAY more money at work while others are stuck in the mailroom for 40 years? Those topics, among many others, are the focus of today’s episode of The BiggerPockets Podcast, where we sit down with Eric Barker, author of the WSJ bestseller Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) WrongW. Eric spends his life exploring the science and psychology behind what actually makes an individual successful, and today we explore those often-surprising truths as they relate to real estate, business, and all areas of life! In This Episode We Cover: Eric’s background What you should know about his book How to align yourself with what you’re good at The issue of grit The “3 Ps” (personal, permanent, and pervasive) The secret to forming habits How to create external accountability A discussion on systems vs. goals What you should know about introverts vs. extroverts How financial success can serve as a great defense Tips for not taking the day for granted How to become a super connector What makes somebody successful at work What “work-life balance” truly means The 4 metrics of success And SO much more! Links from the Show BiggerPockets Forums BiggerPockets’ Low Budget (Youtube Series) BiggerPockets Youtube Channel Stickk Fincon Noah Kagan Marginal Revolution Ryan Holiday Tim Urban’s Wait but Why? Josh Kaufman The Vietnam War Icarus Netflix Original The Armstrong Lie Command and Control The Bomb Gym Pact App Books Mentioned in this Show Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod The One Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan Deep Work by Carl Newport The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman Drive by Dan Pink The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz Give and Take by Adam Grant Tweetable Topics: “The single most motivating thing is the feeling of progress.” (Tweet This!) “The importance of the habit is consistency.” (Tweet This!) “In the end, it’s generally better to set up systems as opposed to goals.” (Tweet This!) “There is no fear with boredom.” (Tweet This!) Connect with Eric Eric’s Blog Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is the BiggerPockets Podcast.

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So taking even your negative qualities and saying what context would allow these to be strengths?

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You know, all these are really critical so I think success comes

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down to alignment between your unique abilities and an environment that

0:19.1

rewards them. You're listening to Bigger Pockets radio simplifying real estate for investors large and small

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who have benefited from bigger pockets.com. Your home for real estate investing online.

0:41.6

What is going on everyone?

0:43.2

This is Brandon Turner.

0:44.8

Today's host of the BiggerPockets podcast

0:48.1

here with my guest co-host.

0:52.0

Is that okay, you're the co-host today? I'm usually you're the

0:54.3

Yeah I know you're usually the co-host right? Usually but today I don't know. I just took it you know what

0:59.6

are you gonna do about it? Yeah no you own it I'm definitely whatever the inferior one is. That's me. I'm the co-host.

1:06.9

Anyway, I'm David Meyer. And I have been... I think I was... I've done a couple of these these but I think I was sent back down to the minor leagues for a while

1:16.8

Get some training and now I've been called back up to do this one spot start for for Josh because he's not able to be here today.

1:24.1

Well good well I'm glad that you're here I guess up from the miners if you say that I

1:27.8

thought you were I thought you had graduated on to like I don't know sitting in

1:32.2

the yeah that's well let's tell people yeah okay

1:34.3

I'm too important now to be posting the podcast I'm doing crazy things

1:40.1

well today was a good episode to have you back on today I thought was actually one of my favorite

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