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The Kevin Miller Podcast

736: How do we rate ourselves on playing it safe or going for it?

The Kevin Miller Podcast

Kevin Miller

Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Social Sciences, Education, How To, Society & Culture, Science, Medicine, Life Sciences, Spirituality, Nutrition, Self-improvement, Mental Health, Relationships

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

As a listener of The Ziglar Show I know you are a more “aspiring” person than the norm, as are our other listeners. So how do we all rate ourselves in our endeavors? In show 727 I talked with Neil Pasricha whose latest book, “You Are Awesome” just debuted as the #1 international bestseller. He asks why in our culture today where we have more conveniences and amenities than ever, are we playing it safe. It was from this I asked the Ziglar audience, “In your job or business, on a scale from 1-10, how would you rate yourself for playing it safe (1) or totally going for the gusto (10), and why?” Let me tell you this, we only had two people rate themselves as a 10, and we had plenty of threes and fours. I had Neil join me to co-host this Q&A and as usual, the comments and my guest’s responses were just profound. You’ll come away with a better understanding of your own propensities and why you may be going after things in one area of your life, and not others. He explains the very real role of “cognitive entrenchment” I believe you will very much resonate with. Neil also expounded on the issue of following our passions and made this brilliant comment that flies in the face of having work that is all fun and play, he said the point is finding work “You love so much you’ll endure the pain and punishment.” Absolutely. This was as solid a show as I’ve ever done regarding relevant issues we are all dealing with today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is a Glass Box Media Podcast.

0:05.0

Welcome everyone, I'm Kevin Miller and this is the Ziggler show, inspired by the grandfather

0:11.0

of inspiration himself Zigg Zigg

0:13.3

We've surpassed 40 million downloads because we bring messages that help people make the

0:18.0

change they need to get the results they want in this episode, how do we rate ourselves on playing it safe or going for it?

0:27.4

As a listener of the Ziegler show, I know you are a more aspiring person than the norm,

0:31.7

as are all of our listeners. So how do we all raid ourselves in our

0:37.0

endeavors? And so 727 I talked with Neil Pass Richer whose latest You Are Awesome, just debuted as the number one international

0:45.1

bestseller.

0:46.3

He asked why in our culture today where we have more conveniences and amenities than ever,

0:51.3

are we playing it so safe? and it was from this that I asked

0:54.4

the Ziegler audience in your job or business on a scale from one to ten how would you

0:58.8

rate yourself or playing it safe or totally going for the guessto and why. And let me tell you this we only had

1:05.8

two people rate themselves high as a ten and we had plenty of lower threes and fours. So I had

1:12.3

Neil join me to co-host this Q&A and as usual the comments and my

1:16.0

guests responses were just profound. You'll come away with I think a better understanding

1:21.0

of your own propensities and why you may be going after things

1:24.4

in one area of your life and not so much in others.

1:27.3

And he explains the very real role of cognitive entrenchment that we deal with. I resonated with that a lot. He also expounded on the

1:35.6

issue of following our passions and made this brilliant comment that flies in the

1:40.2

face of having work that's just all fun and play. He's at the point he's finding work that you love so much,

1:44.9

you'll endure the pain and punishment.

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