986: How Planning to Fail is Your Key to Success by Benjamin Hardy

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Education, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 23 August 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Benjamin Hardy shares why planning to fail is your key to success. Episode 986: How Planning to Fail is Your Key to Success by Benjamin Hardy (Implementation Intentions & Creating New Triggers). Benjamin Hardy has been the top writer on Medium.com since late 2015. He focuses on self-improvement, motivation, and entrepreneurship. His writing is fueled by his personal experiences, self-directed education, and formal education. His research focuses on the psychological differences of "wantrepreneurs" and actual entrepreneurs. He lives in Clemson, South Carolina with his wife and they are the foster parents of 3 children. The original post is located here: https://medium.com/the-mission/how-planning-to-fail-is-your-key-to-being-successful-989a8ac459ad Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 986.
0:03.4	How Planning to Fail is Your Key to Success
0:06.7	by Benjamin Hardy of Benjamin Hardy.com and I'm Justin Mollick.
0:10.5	The guy who's been reading articles, book excerpts, and even student essays to you every day,
0:15.5	including all the days, for two and a half years,
0:18.8	today's author is Benjamin Hardy, a top writer on medium.com.
0:23.2	For now let's get right to it and start optimizing your life.
0:30.8	How Planning to Fail is Your Key to Success
0:33.6	by Benjamin Hardy of Benjamin Hardy.com
0:37.6	In his 1999 bestseller, The Monk who sold his Ferrari,
0:41.4	Robin Sharma tells a story of a group of monks in India
0:44.7	who whenever they have a negative thought,
0:46.9	make a treacherous hike to a large waterfall.
0:50.1	They stand underneath the pounding, freezing water until the negative thought is,
0:54.1	quote unquote, washed away from them.
0:56.4	This may sound a little extreme and chances are you don't have a waterfall
0:59.9	on your block to go stand under any time you screw something up,
1:03.3	but modern psychologists are now figuring out that these monks
1:06.9	may have been onto something.
1:09.1	Implementation Intentions and Creating Triggers
1:12.7	How do you stay on track to reaching a goal when you're struggling to stay motivated?
1:16.8	One answer that psychologists have hit upon is called Implementation Intentions.
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