E179 - Omar Sharif: Stop looking up to people and start looking into them
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Omar Sharif is CEO and Founder of Omar Inspires, he is a speaker and consultant. In 2018 Omar won the Pride of Britain Award, he was then hand-picked to consult directly for the British royal family. After being heavily involved in gang crime and seeing three friends die as a result of knife crime, Omar sought to change his life. Jake, Damian and Omar discuss the events that led up to him changing his life and the struggle that followed that decision.
Omar shares how the idea of ‘being a man’ negatively impacted his life, and what recreating that blueprint means to him. He shares what he would add into the curriculum to help the young men struggling with anger and violence. They discuss how to decide who your friends are, why we delay happiness and how to forgive yourself.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, I'm Jake Cumpfrey and you're listening to High Performance. The podcast that reminds |
| 0:06.4 | you that it's within your ambition, your purpose, your story are all there. We just help |
| 0:11.8 | unlock it by turning the lived experiences of the planet's highest performers into your |
| 0:16.4 | life lessons. So right now, allow myself and Professor Damian Hughes to speak to one |
| 0:21.2 | of the most interesting people we've ever had on this show. This is what awaits you today. |
| 0:28.3 | We didn't wake up and choose struggle. We didn't wake up and choose we want to be the |
| 0:33.3 | guy on the streets at this time of the night, setting X, Y and Z or delivering or doing |
| 0:39.0 | anything like that. We wanted to be the guy who just felt like, hey, we're going to |
| 0:42.8 | give you a chance. It was a girl knocking my door and I thought I don't know this girl. |
| 0:49.1 | Let me go to the kitchen window. From the kitchen window, I can see who's coming in. There's |
| 0:52.6 | like four or five guys bending down, baseball bats. One's got a machete on him and I |
| 0:58.7 | knew who called those people to come to my house. That's why I became home. I literally |
| 1:03.4 | got my shit together, jumped out the back window and ran. That broke something in me. I'd |
| 1:08.0 | experience so much pain that the idea of not being this kind of guy anymore gave me enough |
| 1:13.5 | hope that said, Omar, just go, just get out now. For Omar to go from an ex-girl member |
| 1:19.8 | who nobody gave a shit about really besides his family and friends, sometimes not |
| 1:25.2 | over there, but I wasn't perfect growing up. But now I'm sitting in a room with King Charles. |
| 1:30.2 | I was with King Charles alone in a room for like half an hour and he told everyone |
| 1:32.9 | us to get out. We were just talking. He told me, don't give us all the credit for your |
| 1:37.6 | success. You showed up one time. You did the hard work. You've done this work. So the |
| 1:43.4 | question is, are you willing to do what it takes? Because some people will say to me, |
| 1:46.8 | well, I can't give that up. You're not ready for the change. |
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