Best of: How to Live Well and Die Well with Greg Hartle Pt. 1
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2017
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
In one of our best interviews ever, Greg Hartle joined us to share his wisdom on living life and why temporary circumstances don’t define our lives. Greg shares his thoughts on a multitude of topics, including why iconic figures may not be the best role models, why you should create a standard of excellence in every area of your life, and more. Take a listen to Part 1 of this two-part episode!
Greg Hartle is a an entrepreneur and smartist who has survived a misspent youth, a kidney transplant, and visited all 50 states using nothing more than ten dollars and a laptop. You can follow him on twitter @greghartle
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| 0:00.0 | As you probably notice, this month we're bringing you our Life of Purpose series and revisiting |
| 0:04.6 | some of our most transformative episodes. Tune in to explore expert insights and practical |
| 0:09.4 | strategies on help, performance, and community well-being, all aimed at helping you achieve |
| 0:14.4 | personal and professional fulfillment. If you sign up for the newsletter, you'll not only get |
| 0:18.5 | recaps of the key ideas in each interview, but at the end of the series, you'll receive our free Life of Purpose ebook. |
| 0:24.7 | What you have to do is go to UnmistakableCreative.com slash LifePurpose. |
| 0:28.0 | Again, that's UnmistakableCreative.com slash Life Purpose. |
| 0:32.1 | They were born in a way that they are just going to win no matter what. And so those people are not good models |
| 0:41.3 | to follow. For the rest of us, what we should be doing is we should be creating a safe environment |
| 0:49.7 | in which we can be as vulnerable as we need to be, |
| 0:56.7 | to not only hold on to the possible, |
| 1:01.0 | but to actually increase our chances of the probable. |
| 1:04.8 | And we don't create those environments for ourselves. As a society, as a government, as businesses, as a culture in America. We tend not to create vulnerable environments |
| 1:14.8 | that allow us to be safe enough, to be exposed enough to actually increase our probabilities. |
| 1:21.5 | So what we do is we, one, look at all these examples of people that don't need that, and we try to live like them. |
| 1:30.4 | And then we fail, and then we experience unnecessary suffering. |
| 1:35.3 | And then two, we hold on, we can't find the safe places to explore our vulnerabilities and our flaws and the fact that it's not probable for us to be like |
| 1:46.3 | them. So what we do is we go to the safe places. The safe places are the motivational events. |
| 1:54.0 | The safe places are the places where everyone else is pretending to be happy. The safe places |
| 1:59.8 | are the internet and the television and the happy commercials |
| 2:03.7 | and all the things that allow us to avoid looking at the things that are not increasing |
| 2:10.3 | our probabilities of success. |
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