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The Jordan Harbinger Show

334: I Was Supposed to Die Five Years Ago | Feedback Friday

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Business, Education, Science

4.812.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

A brain tumor had doctors guessing you should have died five years ago, but hard work and luck have reduced it by 50 percent and arrested its progress. Would it be wishful thinking to start long-term planning and getting your life back on track? We'll tackle this and more here on Feedback Friday!

And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger (@JordanHarbinger) and Jason DeFillippo (@jpdef) banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week! If you want us to answer your question, register your feedback, or tell your story on one of our upcoming weekly Feedback Friday episodes, drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com. Now let's dive in!

Full show notes and resources can be found here: https://jordanharbinger.com/334.

On This Week's Feedback Friday, We Discuss:
  • A brain tumor had doctors guessing you should have died five years ago, but hard work and luck have reduced it by 50 percent and arrested its progress. Would it be wishful thinking to start long-term planning and getting your life back on track?
  • How can you encourage someone to make a business out of a hobby they're really good at? More important: should you?
  • In a world where nobody seems to listen for longer than five seconds, how can you politely have a conversation with people in a way that won’t just lead to temporary change?
  • Your side hustle is related to your main job. Is it reasonable to leverage your paid time to work on things that benefit you personally?
  • When your significant other had a traumatic childhood and shares the dark thoughts that haunt them with you, what can you do as a partner to be supportive without turning into a surrogate parent or therapist?
  • You want to be able to work with anyone, but you have a passive-aggressive and prickly coworker who refuses to engage with you. What can you do to defuse the tension and build a proper work relationship?
  • Life Pro Tip: If you are under a mandatory shelter-in-place order and feel the need to leave the house, blood donation is a qualified reason to leave. Not only are you getting out of the house and having some human contact, but you are providing society with a much-needed service. Set up an appointment and fill out the questionnaire beforehand. (Obviously don’t do this if you are feeling ill!)
  • (Anti-)Recommendation of the Week: 100 Humans (It's a fun watch, but filled with junk science and biased politics. Don't go into this expecting anything beyond entertainment and you should be fine.)
  • A quick shout out to Heather Lewis, who says episodes 246 and 321 helped give her the power to deal with the narcissists in her life and the means to secure high-level connections in her network!
  • Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? Drop...

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Feedback Friday.

0:04.8

I'm your host Jordan Harbinger, and I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo.

0:08.7

On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills of the world's

0:12.5

most brilliant people, and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to

0:17.2

impact your own life and those around you.

0:19.9

If you're new to the show on Fridays, we give advice to you and answer listener questions.

0:23.7

The rest of the week, we have long-form interviews and conversations with a variety of amazing

0:28.0

folks from spies to CEOs, athletes to authors, thinkers, and performers.

0:33.0

This week we had Rachel Den Hollander, who blew open the USA Gymnastic scandal, resulting

0:37.8

in hundreds of victims taking down their accuser and Isaac Lidsky.

0:42.5

The only blind person to serve is a lock clerk for the US Supreme Court.

0:45.4

He's also an entrepreneur who wants a child actor on a popular 90s sitcom, which is, you

0:49.8

know, random to say the least.

0:51.4

But he considers going blind in his 20s a blessing, and we discuss how our brains construct reality

0:56.6

based on our own mental models, some of which we can control.

1:00.8

It's a great exercise in reframing luck in events that seem negative to work in our advantage.

1:06.1

I just thought he was a fascinating guy.

1:08.1

Super smart, and he can read like 700 words a minute by listening.

1:11.9

Just a really interesting cat, and I think you should check out that episode as well as

1:15.1

the other episode with Rachel that we did for you this week.

1:17.4

I also write every so often on the blog.

1:19.8

The latest post is about why your network is actually the best insurance policy.

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