271: Phil Hellmuth - From Poker Brat To #Positivity. 15 Time World Champion

The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

Ryan Hawk

Careers, Management, Business

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🗓️ 19 August 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

Episode #271: Phil Hellmuth - From Poker Brat To #Positivity. 15 Time World Champion

The Learning Leader Show

"Therapy is very helpful. I want to know what I am doing wrong."

Show Notes:

Commonalities of sustaining excellence:
- They believe they can do great things. That have energy, buzz, and confidence
- They have drive, intelligence, and the will to get it done
- Elon Musk, Bill Lee are examples
Phil is known for having a legendary ego... He shares why that's not true
Why didn't he have friends for many years?
His midwest roots and being ridiculed for having an ego
Why does he verbally berate people at the poker table?
- "That is 1% of what happens, but it always gets shown on TV."
Most great poker players never tell the bad players they are bad, they just take their money. Why does Phil tell them how bad they are and how good he is?
- "It's because of my own insecurity."
I asked if he goes to therapy... "Yes, if I can get 2 1/2 hours a week, that is great. Therapy is very helpful. I want to know what I'm doing wrong."
How Phil felt that he could never live up to his Dad's lofty expectations (get good grades, be good at sports... Phil didn't do either) and how that impacted him
"I'm like Draymond Green and John McEnroe... I lose it sometimes"
"The poker brat made me famous"
His friendship with Daniel Negreanu... And how it's grown over the years
How to tell if someone is lying?
- "It's instinctual. Everyone has physical tells."
- "Look for thumbs and pinkies together as a power move"
- "There's always a full story. I put it all together and rely on my instincts from that story."
Your instincts can be developed with a lot of repetition
"The art of reading people is lost on the new generation."
"Look into their eyes!"
#Positivity -- New book focused on being in the right place at the right time
- Write your goals and tape them on your mirror
- Write your blessings and tape them on your mirror
Why joining The Learning Leader Circle is a good idea
Use the "Get To Know You Document"

"The art of reading people is lost on the new generation."

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0:00.0	So some guys they don't want to hear what they're doing right or wrong or they just like they become defensive
0:05.4	But I want to know because I want to get better and better and because my primary relationship has changed because we've been working hard in therapy since
0:12.4	O2 because we've been working hard in therapy since
0:12.6	oh two because I've gotten smarter with relationships it's extended to
0:16.6	every relationship I have I think that I'm one of the most authentic people in
0:20.8	I think my authenticity is 99%.
0:24.5	For better or for worse, you know, and there's some bad stuff in there too about being
0:28.4	too authentic, but people like that.
0:31.0	They're not going to deal with any backhandedness, they're not going to deal with any BS. They're not going to deal
0:35.6	with any, oh I love you and then tell everybody else. I hate you. I'm just straight up.
0:41.0	And I think people really like that.
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1:08.1	Don't believe it.
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1:15.0	Most small businesses don't have an HR expert,
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