345: Kamal Ravikant - Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It

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🗓️ 30 December 2019

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#345: Kamal Ravikant - Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It

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Commonalities of leaders who have sustained excellence:
- A belief in the power of commitment to self:
  - WHO am I going to be that day?
  - Don't just float through life
  - "Excellence means continuing through imperfect days." --> Moving forward: It's a mindset
How to learn how to keep pushing forward?
- "Don't wait until you're qualified to do it. Jump in, learn to swim."
Kamal's process for selling: "You have to believe it."
Writing process -- Forced Kamal to deal with rejection... It was part of the process to get better.
- Studied the greats: Hemingway - Clear, simple, prose.
- "Writing is more rewarding than anything. It's just you and the blank page."
"Love yourself like your life depends on it." It's story about responding to failure.
How does this work with someone who already feels great about themselves?
- "Fundamentally, this is about how to be better. Learn from the maps of humanity." It's all about what's intside.
  - "The internal impacts the external."
Kamal had to come to terms with his tough childhood. He appreciates the strength developed from sleeping in a car (temporarily homeless)
What was learned from boot camp (in the Army)?
- "I can handle anything thrown at me." It teaches the value of mission and responsibility.
Leading a team in business:
- "Hire people for what they're best at." And then support them to do that work.
- "The best leaders are those that have actually done stuff." They understand the nuance of the industry and the work.
- Must be hungry.
Why walk across Spain?
- Having the mentality of, "No matter what, I'll figure it out... Take chances in life. Go beyond comfort zones."
How has a life altering event (a surgery that went bad) impacted perspective on life?
- "I feel blessed and lucky."
- "You can become a mess or become awesome."
What Kamal learned from spending time with monks?
- "The construct of self disappears."
- "Love and compassion."
Advice: "Excellence requires persistence."

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0:00.0	Excellence requires persistence.
0:02.6	There is no way around it.
0:04.6	You don't wake up and be excellent or something.
0:07.2	You wake up and you work at it, you become excellent over time, right?
0:11.6	So, you know, whatever your thing is, and if you don't know what your thing is, then pick the
0:16.5	one that interests you the most and go all in on it, you will grow and you will find through it what your thing is. And that, you know, it's extremely doing that we find it.
0:25.0	After five plus years, more than 350 interviews, and much more vulnerability than I'm comfortable with, my
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1:06.5	Go to learning leader.com, opt-in, and pre-order my book, Welcome to Management, How to Go From Top Performer to Excellent Leader.
1:17.6	Go to learning leader.com. Welcome to the Learning Leader Show presented by Rixie and Meyer. I am Ryan Hawk. Thank you so much for being here.
1:35.9	Text learners to 442-22 in order to join tens of thousands of learning leaders
1:41.5	from all over the world received mindful Monday updates when I'm reading, writing, watching, thinking about text learners to 442, 2.2.
1:52.0	Now on tonight's featured leader, the great Kamal Ravakant.
1:55.0	He's meditated with monks in the Himalayas, served as a U.S. Army infantry soldier walked 550 miles across Spain and co-founded
2:07.6	several companies and a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, also author of multiple books including many
2:16.4	best-sellers. Most recently, love yourself like your life depends on it. Few are the topics we discussed.
2:25.0	What specific qualities he looks for
2:29.0	when investing in a leader?
2:32.0	Then why you should never wait until you are ready to get started. This
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