#298 - Polina Pompliano - David Goggins & Elon Musk's Performance Secrets
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Polina Pompliano is a writer, author & founder of The Profile.
Polina spends her time assessing the world's highest performing & most interesting individuals. Today we break down some of the common traits of her favourite subjects.
Expect to learn how David Goggins used post-it notes to change himself, why Elon Musk is able to have truly unique thoughts, what Polina learned from The Rock, how the highest performers on earth spend their time wisely and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends, welcome back. My guest today is Palina Pompleano and we are talking about the secrets |
| 0:05.5 | of the world's highest performing and most interesting individuals. Palina spends a time assessing |
| 0:12.0 | humans like David Goggins and Elon Musk and Charlie Munga Warren Buffett's business partner |
| 0:18.0 | and she breaks down exactly what they're doing. What are the tools and the tactics that they use |
| 0:23.2 | to get the outcomes in life that we want? So today, expect to learn how David Goggins used |
| 0:29.2 | post-it notes to change himself. Why Elon Musk is able to have truly unique thoughts? What |
| 0:35.1 | Palina learned from the rock? How the highest performers on Earth spend their time wisely and much more? |
| 0:43.0 | I'm so interested in peering behind the curtain at different and unique humans, people like David |
| 0:50.8 | Goggins and Elon Musk and given that Palina spent so much time immersed in what these people do and |
| 0:57.9 | not just like a biography of he grew up in this place and went to this school and studied this thing. |
| 1:03.2 | It's like the daily routines and the actual habits of what they get up to. It's all the interesting |
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