E247. The Fastest Path To Success Is Failure - Zack Arnold

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🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Zack Arnold, film & TV editor as well as a career strategist, coach, and the founder of Optimize Yourself , sits down with Bridget for a conversation about being in the trenches in Hollywood for over 20 years, the writers' and actors' strikes, and the piece nobody is talking about - the fact that our entire culture is going through a major identity crisis because our collective sense of self is intertwined with what we do for a living. They discuss how we’re conditioned to believe that our identity is associated with our level of productivity, whether content creation is still a viable way to make a living, the rise of the generalists and how we need to diversify, how everything feels broken, the one thing AI cannot replicate, the value of authenticity, and why if authenticity is a strategy it’s not authentic. They also cover the burden of being a provider, protecting your sense of self and sense of authenticity at all costs, the mental exercise of reframing the fear and being able to confront and control that fear, redefining success and failure, changing your systems to achieve small goals, and why his willingness to fail faster than everyone else is the secret to his success. Sponsor Links: Patriot Gold - Call 888-614-9238 AG1 - https://bit.ly/AG1-WiW The Dr. Drew Podcast - https://bit.ly/DrDrew-WiW Progressive Insurance - https://pgrs.in/3Dp5ZIW

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0:00.0	This week on the podcast, we welcome film and TV editor and founder of Optimize yourself, Zach Arnold.
0:07.9	I'm a big believer that the fastest path to success is failure.
0:13.2	And I don't think that there's anything special or unique about me as a human being, as an editor, as a creative, as a parent, whatever it might be.
0:20.1	But whenever I get the questions, specifically in my industry, if I'm on a podcast or a panel, like what's the secret to success or what can people do similar to what you did?
0:29.2	And I said, what sets me apart is my willingness to fail faster than everybody else.
0:34.0	I see failure as something that allows me to learn faster.
0:37.0	It shortens my learning curve.
0:38.8	But in order to be able to do that, you need to, you have to have the ability to get your ego out of the way.
0:44.2	I have to be okay with failing publicly.
0:46.3	And that was one of the things that I ran into at the beginning of 2017, and why I had that impostor syndrome.
0:51.5	Is that in the language of the copy on my website and the work that I was doing as a podcast, I was trying to position myself as a quote unquote expert.
0:58.6	And that was the biggest mistake that I could have made because that was not an alignment with authenticity.
1:03.3	This is Watkins. Welcome with Bridget Pettasy and Bridget Pettasy and you are welcome.
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1:50.0	I'm with Zach Arnold. Everybody. Welcome to Watkins. Welcome.
1:54.7	Yeah, I'm very, very excited. I really appreciate the opportunity to have what looks like is going to be a very engrossing conversation as opposed to an interview. I'm a big fan of conversations. So why I feel like I'm in the right place right now.
2:05.9	Yeah, this is always more of a conversation than an interview. I definitely have some questions, but I'm more I'm more interested in conversations to I think that they I like the kind of free flowing nature of conversation where you're not, you know,
2:23.4	talking points and asking gotcha questions and it's not really not really my favorite kind of listening or interviewing style.
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