426: The GAP and the GAIN with Dr. Benjamin Hardy

Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod

Hal Elrod

Self-improvement, Education, Business

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🗓️ 20 April 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Most people, especially highly ambitious people, are unhappy because of how they measure their progress. We all have an "ideal," a moving target that is always out of reach. When we measure ourselves against that ideal, we're in "the GAP." However, when we measure ourselves against our previous selves, we're in "the GAIN."

Today's guest, Dr. Benjamin Hardy, is one of my all-time favorite authors. In his new book, The GAP and the GAIN: The High Achievers' Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success, he delivers a masterclass on positive psychology, healthy relationships, mental well-being, and high-performance. He explores why unsuccessful, unhappy people focus on "the GAP," but successful, happy people focus on "the GAIN."

In this conversation, Benjamin makes his third appearance on the podcast to talk about how to stop focusing on the GAP and turn your biggest hurdles into massive gains, and what you can do to stay in the GAIN each and every day.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Why associating our emotional well-being with targets that are out of reach sets us up to be chronically unhappy.
Why you don't need to make millions of dollars to be in the GAIN.
How to reframe a situation to shift your focus and emphasize the positive.
Why focusing on the GAIN is not the same thing as dismissing pain or disappointment.
Why we're always moving beyond our former selves–and life as a whole takes on whatever meaning you give to it.
And much more…

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast, the show that empowers you to wake
0:06.1	up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams.
0:09.6	I am your host, Hal Elrod, and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable
0:14.3	strategies to take your life to the next level, as well as interview world-class experts
0:19.0	and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals themselves and we ask them to give you
0:23.9	a peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you need to do to do the same.
0:28.1	Ready?
0:29.1	Welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast.
0:38.8	This is your host Hal Elrod, and thank you so much for joining me today for a conversation
0:44.0	with Benjamin Hardy, that is sorry, Dr. Benjamin Hardy, and if you don't know Ben, he's been
0:49.4	on the show now.
0:50.4	This is third time.
0:51.4	He's one of the few guests I've ever had back three times, maybe the only author that
0:55.8	I've had back to talk about his books, specifically, he's one of my favorite authors.
1:00.1	I had him on a few years ago to talk about his book, Will Power Doesn't Work.
1:05.2	I had him back on to talk about his book, Personality Isn't Permanent, and then I'm having
1:09.4	him on today to talk about his new book, which is my favorite, honestly, my favorite of
1:13.2	any book he's written.
1:14.2	To me, it's the most actionable, it's the most practical, it's a game changer while
1:18.9	you read it.
1:19.9	It really changes your mindset.
1:21.5	It's called the gap in the gain, the high achievers guide to happiness, confidence, and
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