#26 - Break the Rules, Never Conform, & Find True Happiness
The Jay Ferruggia Show
Jay Ferruggia
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2014
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Chris Guilleabeau, best selling author of The Art of Non Conformity, The $100 Start Up and his new book, The Happiness of Pursuit joins Jay to discuss:
How to deal with and conquer your fears
The importance of having a quest
What you really need to have a fulfilled life
Do you really need a college education
Essential questions all people need to ask themselves
How to quit your job and do what you love
How to travel the world for cheap
Time wasting habits you should break
Why you should never conform
How he grew a small conference to over 3,000 attendees in just a few years
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| 0:00.0 | All right guys we are back our guests today on the show is Chris Gilliboe. He is the author of the art of not conformityity, a $100 startup, and a brand new book which comes out |
| 0:15.4 | September 9th, The Happiness of Pursuit. |
| 0:18.0 | Chris, thanks for being here. |
| 0:19.0 | Hey Jason, thanks for having me. |
| 0:20.5 | It's a huge honor. |
| 0:21.5 | Absolutely. Well, it's a huge honor for me because I'll honestly tell you the Art of Nonconformity |
| 0:25.9 | is one of my favorite books of all time. Everybody listening needs to hit pause right now and go to |
| 0:30.3 | Amazon and get that if you haven't read it yet. |
| 0:33.4 | So let's get right into it here. |
| 0:36.1 | What are some of the essential questions |
| 0:37.8 | people need to ask themselves in order |
| 0:39.6 | to start living the life they truly want? |
| 0:42.1 | Yeah, awesome question. |
| 0:43.0 | So thank you for the endorsement as well. |
| 0:45.0 | It's really kind. |
| 0:46.0 | I think, you know, a lot of people out there, I think they're probably coming to your work in particular because they are dissatisfied or |
| 0:54.0 | discontented which is not to say that they're you know unhappy or miserable or |
| 0:57.8 | anything but hopefully they want something more from their lives you know they |
| 1:02.0 | want to improve they want to grow they want to |
| 1:03.8 | challenge themselves which is why I think your work is great. So maybe the first |
| 1:07.4 | thing is you know asking themselves okay okay what's what's this all about for me |
| 1:11.7 | what do I want you know me? What do I want? |
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