26: Getting Excited without Banking on the Outcome | Feedback Friday
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Jordan (@JordanHarbinger) and Jason (@jpdef) are back to banter every week and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday on The Jordan Harbinger Show!
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On This Week's Feedback Friday, We Discuss:- How do you maintain the momentum of your self-improvement milestones in the wake of a difficult breakup?
- Do you need continuous novelty in your professional life?
- In any industry, it's better to spend eight hours to miss the chance to work for a narcissist than eight months -- or eight years. But sometimes it's hard to spot them when the industry is entertainment.
- How do you approach someone cold and build rapid trust with them when you're an INTJ who only knows how to flirt with disaster?
- Is getting your hopes up just a recipe for disappointment, or should you embrace the motivation of excitement when it strikes?
- How do you keep your feelings in check when you have an unrequited crush on a colleague who flirts with people who aren't you?
- What's the best (and worst) way of asking for advice from us?
- Recommendation of the Week: Scam City
- Quick shoutout (and happy birthday wishes) to The Gabe!
- Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? Drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com!
- Connect with Jordan on Twitter at @JordanHarbinger and Instagram at @jordanharbinger, and check out Jason's (@jpdef) other show: Grumpy Old Geeks. You can also find him on Instagram at JPD.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Feedback Friday. I am your host Jordan Harbinger. I'm here with producer Jason |
| 0:04.7 | DeFilippo here on the Jordan Harbinger show and we love having conversations with our guests. |
| 0:09.4 | You know, that's what we do twice a week and our primary purpose, of course, is to pass along their |
| 0:15.1 | experiences, their insights and our experiences and insights along to you. In other words, |
| 0:20.3 | the real purpose of the show is to have conversations directly with you and that's what we're going to |
| 0:25.0 | do today and every Friday here on Feedback Friday. You can reach us Friday at Jordan Harbinger.com |
| 0:32.8 | and Jen and I are both in that Feedback Friday inbox and we used to reply with, hey, |
| 0:37.6 | this is Jen here, but 90% of the time it's me. I appreciate all the notes, all the letters, |
| 0:42.3 | everything does reach me Friday at Jordan Harbinger.com and this week is usual. We got some fun ones |
| 0:48.1 | and we got some doosies and we can't wait to dive in. So Jason, what is the first thing out of this |
| 0:53.8 | mailbag here? Hi Jordan and Jason, I made the hardest decision in my life today. I decided to |
| 0:59.3 | break up with my long-term girlfriend of multiple years. We just weren't right for each other. |
| 1:04.0 | She's not herself and she spent most of our time together unhappy about her life. She would |
| 1:08.6 | constantly keep oversleeping, procrastinating or stress eating. I feel like a failure. I wanted |
| 1:14.0 | to be there for her through everything, but then I realized that I'm just as unhappy when it comes |
| 1:18.4 | to the relationship. When we first got together, I wasn't as disciplined as I am now. I've since found |
| 1:23.4 | a good job that challenges me and more importantly, I've lost 125 pounds, which kick started |
| 1:29.4 | everything for me. Congratulations. Yeah, it's huge. Literally. Literally. I had no fun and send it, |
| 1:34.9 | yeah. I found a new sense of myself, but that's where the problem started. I feel my girlfriend |
| 1:39.5 | started to use my successes for an excuse as to why she couldn't complete hers. I made it look too |
| 1:44.8 | easy, which anybody who's accomplished a big task knows that's not the reality of the situation. |
| 1:50.4 | Our relationship ended with some harsh truths. I changed so much of myself for you. I don't know |
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