382: Should I Move In with My Father-in-Law? | Feedback Friday
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 23 July 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
You and the spouse moved in with your father-in-law to emotionally support him when your mother-in-law passed away, but it's difficult to relax or work from home on a foldout bed in the dining room. How can you bring up the subject of bowing out to another (nearby) place -- by yourself for the time being if necessary -- without feeling insensitive? We'll try to help you out with this and more here on Feedback Friday!
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On This Week's Feedback Friday, We Discuss:- "A practical definition of opportunity cost: If you spend too much time working on good things, then you don’t have much time left to work on great things." -James Clear
- You and the spouse moved in with your father-in-law to emotionally support him when your mother-in-law passed away, but it's difficult to relax or work from home on a foldout bed in the dining room. How can you bring up the subject of finding another (nearby) place without feeling insensitive?
- When reconnecting with people you've lost touch with for ages, how can you diplomatically ask for exactly what you're looking for without sounding like a user or opportunist?
- Is your reluctance to take on a new job that would pay you four times more than you've ever made before due to legitimate concerns over your own competence, or are you just suffering from pangs of imposter syndrome?
- You lent a friend $63k on your credit card, and it's now clear you'll never see that money again. Even worse, you're stuck with the bill and can't even cover minimum payments. You could consolidate your debt or file for bankruptcy -- but are these really your only options?
- Working from home during quarantine made you realize you like being more present for your kids than commuting an hour each way to the office -- which the boss wants you to start doing again now that the state has decreed things "safe." Are you crazy for wanting to start your own business in these uncertain times?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. Today I'm here with Gabriel |
| 0:08.0 | Mizrahi as the use. On the Jordan Harbinger show we decode the stories, secrets and skills |
| 0:13.0 | of the world's most brilliant people and we turn their wisdom into practical advice that |
| 0:17.0 | you can use to impact your own life and those around you. I want to help you see the |
| 0:20.6 | Matrix when it comes to how these amazing people think and behave and our mission is |
| 0:23.9 | to help you become a better informed, more critical thinker so you can get a deeper understanding |
| 0:28.4 | of how the world works, make sense of what's really happening, sometimes even inside of your |
| 0:32.2 | own brain. If you're new to the show on Fridays we give you advice and answer listener questions. |
| 0:36.9 | Now it's not unsolicited advice, it's to view a Vaz4. If you're new to the show, it's |
| 0:41.6 | not just me pontificating. The rest of the week we have long form interviews and conversations |
| 0:46.1 | with a variety of amazing folks from spies to CEOs, athletes to authors, to thinkers |
| 0:51.3 | and performers. In this week we had Blake Mikauski, founder of Tom Shoes. Super successful, |
| 0:57.3 | entrepreneur, super successful business venture. Coming under discussed serial entrepreneurship, |
| 1:01.5 | social entrepreneurship, which is essentially those guys invented over there at times. We |
| 1:06.8 | also had Neil Brennan. You remember him Gabriel, three mics on Netflix? |
| 1:11.3 | Yeah, of course, Neil Brennan is one of the greatest writers working right now. |
| 1:15.4 | Yeah, I think so. He was the co-creator, the Chappelle show, if you know who Dave Chappelle |
| 1:20.5 | is maybe and Neil's a genius I think probably or comedic genius in any case. |
| 1:25.8 | I love that special. He combined storytelling, stand-up comedy and I don't know what you |
| 1:30.6 | would call it. Confessional sort of storytelling slash anecdote. It was so interesting. I love |
| 1:36.0 | him. He's a great writer. |
| 1:37.1 | We get behind that. We get a little bit in the weeds on that. As far as I can get in the |
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