Bob Burg On How You Can Succeed Despite OCD
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2015
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Show notes:
- Bob's OCD story (2:20)
- The types of therapy/medication Bob has done (7:30)
- Bob's advice on Exposure and Response Prevention therapy (ERP) (9:30)
- Bob's advice on therapy (11:40)
- OCD Stigma (13:10)
- Bob's advice for business people with OCD (16:30)
- How to get motivated in an OCD spike. Action precedes motivation (19:40)
- Bob's morning routine (22:18)
- OCD and exercise (24:25)
- What OCD has taught Bob (25:40)
- Being happy despite OCD (30:30)
- Success mindset vs fixed minset for recovery. The importance of personal development (31:30)
- Bob's one key piece of business advice (34:25)
- Bob's additional advice on dealing with OCD (36:00)
- What Bob would want written on a billboard (37:00)
Find out more about Bob:
- Website: http://www.burg.com
- Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bobburg
Resources:
- The Go-Giver by Bob Burg
- IOCDF.org - International OCD Foundation
- ACT book mentioned in the episode: The Acceptance Field Guide
Bob's OCD story in written format >>
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, so welcome to episode two of the OCD stories dot-com podcast. Now last |
| 0:06.7 | night I interviewed a best-selling author of Bob Burke. He offered the book Go-giver |
| 0:11.8 | as well as about eight others. |
| 0:14.0 | He's an international speaker on business success, |
| 0:17.0 | speaking to crowds as large as 16,000. |
| 0:20.0 | Now, I've read Bob's stuff quite a while ago and it really inspired me to give back more |
| 0:25.2 | both with OCD and just any area of my life and I have seen incredible results because of that. |
| 0:33.5 | So I was a big fan of Bob anyway, but when I heard that he had O.C. |
| 0:38.3 | I knew I had to get him on the podcast. |
| 0:40.6 | He also wrote his story for the O.CD stories com blog that would be in the show notes of this episode is he does have a personal development background and you know I love personal |
| 0:54.1 | development for like well over a decade now and I love his attitude of succeeding in |
| 0:59.0 | spite of OCD not because of it I think he has some wonderful lessons to share with us. I think you'll get a lot out of it. |
| 1:07.0 | Enjoy. |
| 1:08.0 | Hi everyone, my guest today is none other than Bob Berg. Bob is a best-selling author and speaker on business success. Bob speaks all over the world |
| 1:16.0 | to crowds the largest 16,000 people. He is offered, I believe, nine books and most notably |
| 1:21.0 | the Go-Giver, a parable of stratospheric success which has sold |
| 1:25.2 | more than 500,000 copies. |
| 1:28.0 | Welcome to the O. C. D. Stories podcast Bob. |
| 1:30.0 | Thank you Stuart. |
| 1:32.0 | So it's a pleasure to have you here. |
| 1:33.3 | I mean, I read the Go Give Up, just over a year ago now. |
| 1:37.7 | A friend recommended it to me several years ago, but I didn't get around to reading it, then when I finally did I kind of regret not reading it sooner. |
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