794: How to Get Comfortable with Discomfort with Sterling Hawkins

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How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Sterling Hawkins shows you how to turn discomfort into fuel for transformative change.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why we need to hunt discomfort

2) Why you need your own “street gang”

3) What to do when you feel like quitting

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— ABOUT STERLING —

Sterling Hawkins is an internationally recognized entrepreneur, motivational leader, and public speaker. His 2019 TED Talk, “Discomfort is Necessary for Innovation,” has been viewed more than 100,000 times.

Sterling serves as CEO and founder of the Sterling Hawkins Group, a research, training and development company focused on human and organizational growth. He has been seen in publications like Inc. Magazine, Fast Company, The New York Times and Forbes. Based in Colorado, Sterling is a proud uncle of three and a passionate adventurer that can often be found skydiving, climbing mountains, shark diving or even trekking the Sahara.

• Book: Hunting Discomfort: How to Get Breakthrough Results in Life and Business No Matter What

• TED Talk: Discomfort is Necessary for Innovation

• Website: SterlingHawkins.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.
0:04.2	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 with your host, Pete LeCaites.
0:19.2	Hello and welcome to episode 794 with Sterling Hawkins.
0:23.8	You've probably heard that we need to stretch and reach outside our comfort zones and you've
0:29.1	also probably felt, yeah, but I don't want to, that doesn't sound like fun, that doesn't
0:33.5	feel good.
0:34.5	Well, Sterling brings some excellent perspective on how to do that well, the importance and
0:39.4	how it can actually feel awesome and be super cool.
0:42.0	So you'll learn one, why we need to hunt discomfort to why you need your own street
0:47.1	gang and three, what to do when you feel like quitting.
0:50.6	So you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to pieces that
0:53.7	we mentioned here.
0:54.8	You can find us over at awesome at your job.com slash EP 794.
0:59.1	Check out some of their fun stuff over at awesome at your job.com while you're there, like
1:02.3	the full text transcripts which are searchable and tagged by the topic and competency covered.
1:06.6	The 10 days to winning at work email course and a lot of other goodies over at awesome at
1:10.4	your job.com.
1:11.4	Now here's Sterling Story.
1:13.0	Sterling Hawkins is an internationally recognized entrepreneur, motivational leader and public
1:16.7	speaker.
	...

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