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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

270: Reclaiming Workplace Inspiration with Scott Mautz

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

Sharpening, Self-improvement, Meaning, Winning, Development, Money, Interview, Writing, Health & Fitness, Speaking, Mental Health, Success, Wins, Fun, Skills, Business, Careers, Training, Education, Collaboration, Decisions, Career, Selfhelp, Mockaitis, Thinking

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Scott Mautz introduces the nine anti-muses and provides strategies for regaining inspiration at work.   You'll Learn: The difference between inspiration and motivation The nine anti-muses that drain inspiration from your work life Five ways to reframe the fear of failure   About Scott: Scott Mautz is a popular keynote speaker and author of "Find the Fire: Ignite Your Inspiration and Make Work Exciting Again". He's a Procter & Gamble veteran who successfully ran several of the company’s largest multi-billion dollar businesses. He's the CEO of Profound Performance LLC (a keynote, coaching, and training company), teaches at Indiana University, and has been named a "Top 50 Leadership Innovator" by Inc., where he also writes a weekly column for the national publication. He’s appeared in Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur, and many other national publications and podcasts.   View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep270 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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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 with your host, Pete Machitis.

0:17.0

Hello and thanks much for joining us here for episode 270 with Scott Mouts.

0:25.8

Scott has done tremendous research on what makes and breaks inspiration at work.

0:31.1

So you'll learn one, the difference between inspiration and motivation.

0:34.6

Two, the nine anti-muses that drain inspiration from your work life.

0:39.0

And three, five ways to reframe the fear of failure. So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcripts

0:44.4

or the links to items that we've referenced, it's over at awesome at your job.com slash F270. Now here's Scott's story. Scott Mouts is a popular keynote speaker and author of

0:54.5

Find The Fire, Ignite Your Inspiration, and Make Work Exciting Again. He's a Procter Gamble veteran

1:00.0

who successfully ran several of the company's largest multi-billion dollar businesses.

1:04.0

He's a CEO of Profound Performance LLC, a keynote coaching a training company.

1:09.0

He teaches at Indiana University and has been named a top 50 leadership innovator by Inc magazine

1:14.8

where he also writes a weekly column for the national publication he's appeared to

1:18.6

Harvard Business Review entrepreneur and many other national publications and

1:22.4

podcasts so big thanks to Scott for sharing and many other national publications and podcasts.

1:23.0

So big thanks to Scott for sharing his time with us and big thanks to our sponsors.

1:27.0

Check him out.

1:29.0

Here is Scott.

1:31.0

Scott, thanks so much for joining us here on the How to Be Awesome at your Job Podcast.

1:35.0

It is awesome to be here.

1:37.0

Well, I think we're going to have a whole lot of fun and I'm intrigued.

1:40.0

One thing I learned about you recently is that you have performed some... What's the back story? What's the backstory here?

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