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The Jordan Harbinger Show

343: Is My Little Brother a Lost Cause? | Feedback Friday

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Education, Science, Business

4.812.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

You have a family history of addiction, and now your clinically depressed little brother is using drugs and alcohol to a degree that goes well beyond rebellious teenage mischief. With parental guidance being nonexistent, can you do something, or is your brother a lost cause? We'll try to address 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/343.

On This Week's Feedback Friday, We Discuss:
  • Your father has definite ideas of how your educational future should play out and where your career should be headed, but you've chosen otherwise. How do you break the news without breaking his heart?
  • Every time you find a new interest, you initially obsess over it. But after a few months, you lose interest and move on to something else. How can you stick to something long enough to get results?
  • How do you build your network without some contacts getting the wrong idea about your romantic interest/disinterest?
  • You have a family history of addiction, and now your clinically depressed little brother is using drugs and alcohol to a degree that goes well beyond rebellious teenage mischief. With parental guidance being nonexistent, can you do something, or is your brother a lost cause?
  • How can you obtain mentorship or establish great networks when you're financially incapable of hiring a coach or attending high-value networking events? How do you identify what you have to offer to the person from whom you want mentorship? What should you do if you have nothing to offer for the time being?
  • Self-quarantining, you want to start a podcast as a way to step outside your comfort zone and become more social. Using Six-Minute Networking tips, responses from potential guests have been positive. What further advice do we have for a new podcaster?
  • Life Pro Tip: Go start your car and drive it around for 15-20 minutes if it's been a while!
  • Recommendation of the Week: Operation Toussaint
  • A quick shout out to Igor Pavic from Washington for being the first person to report bugs on our brand new website!
  • Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? Drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com!
  • Connect with Jordan on Twitter at @JordanHarbinger and Instagram at @jordanharbinger.
  • Connect with Jason on Twitter at @jpdef...

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:30.0

Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger and I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo.

0:38.0

On the Jordan Harbinger show we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's most brilliant people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to impact your own life and those around you.

0:49.0

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

0:53.0

The rest of the week we have long form interviews and conversations with a variety of amazing folks from spies to CEOs, athletes to authors to thinkers and performers.

1:02.0

This week we had Julie Gerberting, former director of the CDC, the Center for Disease Control Weeks. Basically broke the promise that we made last week about not talking about coronavirus and just asked your all of our coronavirus questions.

1:14.0

Because as soon as I got that opportunity and put it up on social media, you guys pounced on it like crazy. We got hundreds of questions before finally closing it.

1:24.0

She's an expert on vaccines, viruses and planning for pandemics. So she was a great, great guest.

1:31.0

So it was a really interesting interview and there's a lot of questions and myths busted in that episode.

1:36.0

We also had David Epstein with us where we explore why in an age of hyper specialized education and careers that generalists and those with broad experience might actually solve the toughest problems.

1:47.0

This is great if you're planning your career and or managing the careers of others. Also write every so often on the blog. The latest post is about how to stay productive under quarantine working from home and getting things done as taught by those with decades of experience running remote teens.

2:03.0

And not just some clickbait article from bloggers that we've been seeing online. So make sure you've had a look and a listen to everything we created for you here this week.

2:11.0

Of course, our primary mission here on the Jordan Harbinger show is to pass along our guests and our own experiences and insights along to you.

2:18.0

In other words, the real purpose of the show is to have conversations directly with you and that's what we're going to do today and every Friday here on Feedback Friday.

2:26.0

I just want to place one break in the structure that makes up your life. That's what this podcast is about. You can reach us at Friday at Jordan Harbinger dot com.

2:34.0

People have been asking me how I'm staying calm during COVID-19. This is business as usual for me so far. I mean, I don't mean that I don't care or anything like that. Of course, there's a lot going on in the world.

2:43.0

But as far as our workflow Jason, I don't know. Is your workflow even changed at all?

2:47.0

Yeah, it actually has. I'm busier than I've ever been because everybody's staying at home and making podcasts now. So that's true.

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