298: Key Success Principles that Are Wrong (sort of) with Eric Barker

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 14 May 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Eric Barker busts the myths and uncovers truths behind some of the most popular maxims. You'll Learn: How alignment is a genuine key to success Why valedictorians don’t necessarily shape the world How to operate like a Navy Seal About Eric Eric Barker’s humorous, practical blog, "Barking Up the Wrong Tree", presents science-based answers and expert insight on how to be awesome at life. Over 320,000 people subscribe to his weekly newsletter and his content is syndicated by Time Magazine, The Week, and Business Insider. He has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, and the Financial Times. Eric is also a sought-after speaker and interview subject, and has given talks at MIT, Yale, Google, United States Military Central Command (CENTCOM), NASDAQ, and the Olympic Training Center. View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep298 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.
0:14.0	With your host, Pete McKitis.
0:19.0	Hello and thanks so much for joining us here.
0:21.0	For episode 298 with Eric Barker.
0:23.8	Eric is one of my favorite kinds of guests because he's deeply vested, invested,
0:29.1	interested. He's done the research, the studies, the real data behind the scenes to get to the truth of things.
0:34.9	He explores that and also makes it fun and approachable at the same time.
0:38.4	So you'll learn one, how alignment is a genuine key to success?
0:42.6	Two, why valedictorians don't necessarily shape the world.
0:46.0	And three, how to operate like a Navy seal.
0:48.8	So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript
0:50.8	or the links to items that we've referenced, you can find that over at awesome at your job.com
0:54.4	slash f-298.
0:56.1	Now here's Eric's story.
0:57.6	Eric Barker's humorous practical blog, barking up the wrong tree,
1:00.7	presents science-based answers and expert insight on how to be
1:04.4	awesome at life. I dig. Over 320,000 people subscribe to his weekly
1:09.2	newsletter and his content is syndicated by Time magazine, The Week and Business Insider.
1:14.0	He's been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Financial Times.
1:18.0	Eric is also a sought-after speaker and interview subject, and has given talks at MIT, Yale, Google, the United States Military Central
1:25.2	Command or Centcom, if you will, NASDAQ and the Olympic Training Center.
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