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A Bit of Optimism

Ask Simon Anything: Part Two

A Bit of Optimism

The Optimism Company from Simon Sinek

Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Management, Education

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

New year, new opportunities, new questions! We’re ringing in 2023 with more answers to the hundreds of questions our listeners sent in from all over the world. This is… A Bit of Optimism.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to part two of Ask Simon.

0:08.8

For the holidays, we decided to gather a whole bunch of questions and take an opportunity

0:12.1

to answer them.

0:13.1

So, hope you enjoyed part two.

0:15.2

This is a bit of optimism.

0:20.4

I have a member of my team here, say hi, Zach.

0:23.3

Hey, Simon, thanks for having me, and Zach is going to ask the questions that have been

0:27.2

coming in.

0:28.2

Let's jump right in.

0:29.4

When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do?

0:32.4

You'll hear this as it's a repeating pattern in a lot of my answers, but when there is

0:36.2

an emotional, anything going on, an overwhelmed is emotional, I reach out to a friend.

0:42.0

I find somebody that I can call and I say, hey, I am overwhelmed.

0:45.8

What that does is it helps me make me feel not alone in my overwhelm, which for some

0:49.8

reason helps me feel that I can tackle whatever I'm dealing with.

0:54.0

Sometimes they'll offer me some strategies, but the best thing is also when I'm feeling

0:57.3

overwhelmed to recognize that overwhelm comes from looking at everything that I have to

1:02.3

do and thinking, how am I going to get it all done?

1:05.3

And so my strategy for beating overwhelm is to not look at everything, but to look at

1:09.8

one thing.

1:10.8

Okay, I'm just going to do this one thing.

1:12.5

Think of it like a marathon.

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