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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

627: Breaking Through Your Mental Limitations to Grow Faster with Matt Norman

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Matt Norman discusses how to break the mental patterns that hinder our growth—and encourage healthier patterns. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) The thinking pattern that saps our energy 

2) Two questions to keep your thoughts from overwhelming you 

3) How to keep criticism from fazing you 


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— ABOUT MATT — 

Matt Norman is President & CEO of Norman & Associates, which offers Dale Carnegie programs in Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota. Through Norman & Associates, he helps people think and work together more effectively. Matt's mentorship has helped Fortune 100 corporations, non-profits, and entrepreneurs change the way they engage with their employees and clients. 

Matt has been named to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal 40 Under Forty list and the Minnesota Business (Real) Power 50. 

• Matt’s book: Four Patterns of Healthy People: How to Grow Past Your Rooted Behaviors, Discover a Deeper Connection with Others, and Reach Your Full Potential in Life and Business 

• Book website: FourPatterns.com 

• Matt’s website: MattNorman.com 

• Matt’s LinkedIn: Matt Norman 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Book: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie 

• Book: When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel Pink 

• Book: Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long by David Rock 

• Book: How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton Christensen 

• Book: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck 

• Book: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen 

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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.

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The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required

0:08.6

to flourish at work.

0:10.2

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.2

With your host, Pete LeCaites.

0:16.2

Hello, and thanks for joining us here for episode 627 with Matt Norman.

0:23.7

I think you're going to love this chat.

0:25.4

I had with Matt because we go deep into the particular thoughts you're having and how

0:31.6

those impact how you feel and perform.

0:35.4

It's nice in that we actually took the time to get that specific and in there.

0:40.1

So, you'll learn one, the thinking pattern that saps our energy, two, two questions to

0:44.9

keep your thoughts from overwhelming you, and three, how to keep criticism from phasing

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you.

0:49.9

So, if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that

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we mentioned here, you can drop on by awesome at your job.com slash EP 627.

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