933: How Building a Habit of Bravery Transforms Everything with Todd Henry
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Todd Henry shares how to build the courage to chase after opportunities amidst uncertainty.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How to muster courage in the moment
2) The biggest myth that holds us back
3) Five steps to feel braver every day
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— ABOUT TODD —
Todd Henry teaches leaders and organizations how to establish practices that lead to everyday brilliance. He is the author of seven books: The Accidental Creative, Die Empty, Louder Than Words, Herding Tigers, The Motivation Code, Daily Creative, The Brave Habit, which have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and he speaks and consults across dozens of industries on creativity, leadership, and passion for work.
With more than fifteen million downloads, his podcast offers weekly tips for how to stay prolific, brilliant, and healthy.
• Book: The Brave Habit: A Guide To Courageous Leadership
• Book: Die Empty: Unleash Your Best Work Every Day
• Book: The Accidental Creative: How to Be Brilliant at a Moment's Notice
• Podcast: The Daily Creative with Todd Henry
• Website: ToddHenry.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life" by Walter Isaacson
• Book: The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) by Seth Godin
• Book: The Complete Harvard Classics 2020 Edition
• Past episode: 614: Making Smarter Decisions When You Can’t Know Everything with Annie Duke
• Past episode: 798: How to Have Difficult Conversations about Race with Kwame Christian
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Bravery is not a baked in personality trait that bravery is actually a habit it's a discipline that we can |
| 0:14.0 | train ourselves to exhibit to conflate bravery with boldness and we also conflate |
| 0:21.6 | cowardice with wisdom. |
| 0:23.7 | In those moments when we're tempted with cowardice, |
| 0:27.1 | we can ask ourselves, okay, am I afraid to act |
| 0:30.3 | because I don't have a clear vision of where I'm going or I don't have a vision of a |
| 0:33.8 | better possible future or am I afraid to act because I don't trust that I have |
| 0:38.3 | agency to be able to create meaningful change in the direction of my vision. |
| 0:44.6 | That's Todd Henry. He shares his insights into creativity as an author, |
| 0:48.6 | keynote speaker, and podcaster to help folks be brave, focused, and brilliant. |
| 0:53.0 | Here, he's sharing powerful advice for overcoming fear and uncertainty from his latest book, The Brave Habit. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm Pete McKitis. |
| 1:00.0 | This is How to Be Awesome at your job. |
| 1:01.0 | And now, here's Todd. |
| 1:03.2 | Todd welcome back. |
| 1:04.4 | Pete it is so good to be back on this show. |
| 1:06.7 | Thanks for the kind invitation. |
| 1:08.3 | Oh, thank you. |
| 1:09.3 | You got a fresh book and you've studied a lot of interesting things and |
| 1:12.1 | written a lot of cool books. |
| 1:13.2 | I'm curious, why bravery as the topic now? |
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