668: Jon Acuff | The Gift of Done

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🗓️ 9 November 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Jon Acuff (@jonacuff) returns to the show to discuss his new book Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done. "If culture's doing its job, you shouldn't reward middle. You should reward finish." -Jon Acuff The Cheat Sheet: Why are only eight percent of new year's resolutions realized? (Incidentally, that's the same percentage of applicants accepted to Juilliard.) The harm perfectionism causes and what we can do to navigate through it. The Planning Fallacy and how it causes overachievers to fail before even beginning. Strategic Incompetence: why you should deliberately be terrible at some things. Secret Rules: what they are, how they're made, and how these invisible scripts affect our lives (and what we can do about it). And so much more... Full show notes at https://theartofcharm.com/668/ Find out more about the team who makes The Art of Charm podcast here! Four Sigmatic mushroom coffee with lion's mane gives you the boost of coffee with half the caffeine. Try Four Sigmatic's AoC coffee bundle here, and use code CHARM at checkout for free shipping! Are you trying to hire the right person for your business, but the best candidates keep slipping away? Let ZipRecruiter -- the fastest way to hire great people -- help you screen only the best here! As security breaches make headlines with increasing frequency, is your identity protected? Go to LifeLock.com or call 1-800-LIFELOCK and use promo code FORBES for 10% off your LifeLock membership! CastBox introduces an in-audio search capability that offers a brand new way to search for podcasts you may love based on words or topics. Download CastBox for iOS or Android now to try it out for yourself! Need a podcast that will help you 'begin living and thinking smarter not harder?' Check out Dexter Guff is Smarter Than You (And You Can Be Too) -- subscribe now to get your ears on Dexter's mouth! Does your business have an Internet presence? Now save a whopping 50% on new webhosting packages here with HostGator by using coupon code CHARM! Free yourself from typing notes, reports, and documents by going with the transcriptionists we trust here at AoC: TranscriptionOutsourcing.net -- 99% or higher accuracy guaranteed! HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dig the show, please subscribe in iTunes and write us a review! This is what helps us stand out from the crowd and help people find the credible advice they need. Review the show in iTunes! We rely on it! http://www.theartofcharm.com/mobilereview Stay Charming!

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0:00.0	My friend's mom had make your own sandwich night.
0:02.4	You talk about a sham like she's outsourcing the whole meal and the kids are like,
0:06.0	yay, make your own sandwich. I just have to scramble some eggs. You sucker.
0:11.9	Welcome to the art of charm. I'm Jordan Harbinger and I'm here with producer Jason
0:16.1	DeFilippo. On this episode we'll be talking with my friend John A.Cuff, author of Finish,
0:22.0	give yourself the gift of done. This is a book about perfectionism, what it does, the
0:26.2	harmit causes and what we can do to navigate through it. We'll explore a concept called the
0:31.1	planning fallacy and how overachievers like many of us shoot ourselves in the foot before we even
0:36.1	begin. A concept called strategic incompetence. Why you should deliberately suck at some things
0:42.4	and will uncover secret rules, what they are, how they're made and how these invisible scripts
0:48.0	affect our lives and what we can do about it. So enjoy this deliberately imperfect episode with
0:54.0	John A.Cuff. So tell us about your new gate care because do over is what we heard about before.
1:00.2	You had that book about starting. Now you got a book about finishing. There I say a little predictable,
1:05.0	but here's the problem. You got a book about starting. Obviously something did or did not happen
1:09.9	now that you have a book about finishing. So what's going on here? I had so many people come up to me
1:14.3	and go, hey, no offense. I like your book, but I've never had a problem starting. I started a
1:18.2	million things. Starting is easy. How do I actually finish? And two years ago, I didn't have an answer.
1:23.5	And so that's what kind of kicked off this idea was, all right, well, why do 92% of New Year's
1:28.8	resolutions fail? Like, why do people get P90X and do four days? Like, why did diets fail the
1:35.6	third week of January? And so that's where this book came from. I thought the start was the most
1:40.8	important thing. And it is important. It's just not as critical as the finish. Like, nobody gets
1:45.2	a medal in the middle of a race or they shouldn't. If culture is doing its job, you shouldn't reward
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