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The School of Greatness

678 Happiness Through Hardship with Chris Guillebeau

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

Mindset, Relationships, Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Education, Greatness, Fitness, Celebrity, Health, Inspiration, Success, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Business, Money, Self Care, Celebrity Interview

4.822K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2018

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

WHAT IS YOUR UNDERLYING MOTIVATION? We’ve all been through a lot in life. I know there’s been a lot of times you’ve felt tested, and even just beat down. As you’ve gone through these challenges you’ve acquired sets of skills to help you get through them. Those are important skills that have helped you along your journey, whether you realize it or not. Unfortunately, though, your skills may not help you with what’s next. Life is about continually growing your tool box and being adaptive and not giving up on what you were meant to do. Even though it may be hard to know what that is, you just have to follow your heart. Live for yourself, not for others. That doesn’t mean be malicious. You still need compassion and companionship. Just know you can do good for yourself and others at the same time. On this episode of 5 Minute Friday, I wanted to bring you back and episode from Chris Guillebeau. Chris is a NY TImes Best Selling Author, a modern day explorer, and has been to nearly every country in the world. He’s certainly faced an overwhelming amount of challenges, some we can only imagine. That’s why I felt he was the best person to dive even deeper into this lesson. Learn all about compassion and building your skill sets through your personal trials, on Episode 678. In This Episode You Will Learn: What makes a true quest (00:42) How to know when to continue the quest and when to stop (1:39) Why you need to keep building skill sets (2:24) Something you should give that’s better than advice (3:49) If Chris feels he’s been getting enough companionship (4:16) Chris’ definition of happiness (5:18)

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is five minute Friday!

0:05.4

I'm very excited to be on with you guys in this episode and thank you guys for being

0:14.1

here.

0:15.1

We've got my good friend Chris Gillibault.

0:17.9

For those who don't know who Chris is, he is a New York Times best thing author and a

0:21.4

modern day explorer.

0:23.5

He's traveled to every country in the world and every summer in Portland, he hosts the

0:28.5

World Domination Summit.

0:30.1

He's also the founder of Pioneer Nation, unconventional guides, the travel hacking cartel, and numerous

0:36.4

other creative projects.

0:43.0

I think though sometimes something unpredictable happens.

0:46.4

Yeah.

0:47.4

In these situations, everything you just express, it's going to be terrible and it's going

0:50.6

to be okay.

0:51.9

Just like in a quest, any good quest, there's this progress toward a goal, there is an

0:56.0

end point, etc.

0:57.0

But if it's a true quest, something happens along the way that changes things and you don't

1:02.7

necessarily know what that is.

1:04.4

And despite all the skills that you have, despite all the life experience that you have,

1:08.2

it's going to be put to the test, actually.

1:10.8

Because whatever this unpredictable thing is, by its nature, you didn't know it was going

1:15.1

to happen and you didn't necessarily say, okay, here's where I was going to be sad or

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