425: This Is How You Maximize the Length and Quality of Your Life | Jon Levy
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2021
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/jonlevy425
Jon Levy (IG: @jonlevytlb) is a behavioral scientist best known for his work in human connection, trust and influence.
He's the Author of the recently released New York Times bestseller, You’re Invited: The Art & Science of Cultivating Influence. In it Jon explores how our ability to impact anything from longevity, and business, to social causes are a byproduct of our relationships, trust and a sense of belonging.
In this episode, we discuss:
- What defines the quality of our lives?
- Growing up an outcast and longing for a meaningful community
- What is locus of control?
- It's easy to get people's attention, it's hard to get their interest
- Generous people are successful
- The four qualities that get the attention of industry leaders and draw them in
- The first Influencers Dinner
- The Ikea Effect
- Bringing together extraordinary people
- How to connect with influential people
- Applying behavioural science to real life
- The secret to managing quality relationships
- The vulnerability loop
- Ask a quick question first
- Find ways to invest effort into one another
- How many friends do you have?
- Who do you giggle with?
- Introducing Jon's wife to the Influencers Community
- Connect with people over shared interests
- Is this activity awe inspiring?
- Networking sucks
- Broken heart syndrome
- Modern life isn’t healthy
- Invite someone for a walk
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Related links:
Jon Levy - You're Invited (book)
Follow Jon Levy on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Jon Levy - 2 AM Principle (book)
Adam Grant - Give and Take (book)
Jennifer Miller - Want To Meet Influential New Yorkers, Invite Them To Dinner (article)
What Makes Us Influential? (Ted Talk)
Paul Zak - Trust Factor (book)
Related episodes:
Tal Ben-Shahar on the Science of Being Happier (#409)
Arianna Huffington on Ending Burnout and Increasing Well-Being With Microsteps (#399)
378: Marta Zaraska – Growing Young Through Friendship, Optimism & Kindness
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the Ultimate Health podcast. |
| 0:02.4 | Just go take a walk with one person, |
| 0:04.2 | have a conversation and remember how nice it is |
| 0:07.1 | to connect with people. |
| 0:08.6 | And the reason I emphasize this is that |
| 0:10.6 | you don't need to do things at a large scale |
| 0:13.2 | to really improve the quality of your life. |
| 0:15.2 | And what's nice about a walk is that if you run out |
| 0:18.2 | of things to say, there'll be beautiful things |
| 0:20.4 | in the environment or at least interesting things |
| 0:22.4 | in the environment that you can talk about |
| 0:24.6 | or you could just enjoy walking. |
| 0:26.3 | You don't have to fill the silence all the time. |
| 0:28.4 | Whereas if you need for drinks, |
| 0:30.7 | you've got to, like, you feel obligated to talk |
| 0:32.5 | at each other. |
| 0:33.3 | The Ultimate Health podcast, episode 425, I'm Jesse Chapus, |
| 0:44.0 | and I'm here to take your help to the next level. |
| 0:46.5 | Each week I'll bring you deep conversations |
| 0:48.5 | with health and wellness leaders from around the world. |
| 0:50.8 | This week I'm speaking with John Levy. |
| 0:52.7 | He's a behavioral scientist, best known |
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