Ep. 22 - Actualizing with Ben Kovacs
Synchronicity with Noah Lampert
Noah Lampert
4.8 • 766 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2016
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking with Ben Kovacs who I'm gonna call an actualizer-extraordinaire.
Ben is a good old-fashioned renaissance man. In addition to working his day job at Twitter, Ben just founded Guardian Gym which aims to help urban populations and at-risk youth via martial arts. Ben also is co-founder of a marijuana accessory and lifestyle company called Myster. How's that for diversity?
In addition to practical tips about how he's been able to cultivate success in his life, Ben has an especially refreshing perspective on work, life, helping others and synthesizing all of those thing together.
Things Discussed In This Episode
- The genesis and mission behind Guardian Gym
- The importance of martial arts
- Being humble and developing confidence
- Having a purpose in life beyond making money
- Working at Twitter
- Ben's relationship with marijuana
- The future of marijuana (normalization)
- The benefits of microdosing LSD
- Yoga and marijuana
- How to cultivate happiness
- The practical benefits of following your passion and doing what you love
Follow Ben on Twitter here (@moobypong)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is synchronicity. This is synchronicity. This is synchronicity. Welcome to episode 21 of Synchronicity. My guest today is Ben Kovacs. And welcome since, |
| 0:27.2 | if you're getting these in real time, i.e. the day they are released, this is the second podcast |
| 0:35.3 | in two days. I'm on a tear here. The one yesterday was with |
| 0:40.1 | Danny Goldberg. It was the second podcast I had done with him because the first one cut off |
| 0:43.9 | about 45 minutes in. So we did that one. It was politically based. And today I have friend |
| 0:50.5 | and just who I'm going to call an actualizer extraordinaire, Ben Kovacs, a traditional |
| 0:57.5 | good old-fashioned Renaissance man, does a ton of stuff. And I'm going to tell you what that |
| 1:03.6 | stuff is. But first, but first, but first, let me give you an update. So if you're just tuning |
| 1:09.4 | in, you haven't been listening for the past few |
| 1:11.2 | episodes or you're just hearing this for the first time, welcome. Welcome to you. Welcome to you |
| 1:16.6 | who've been here too. Obviously, you know, I love you guys. I've been doing these book giveaway |
| 1:21.5 | contests. So basically what I'm doing is books I've read particularly in joy. I want to spread the love. So I |
| 1:30.1 | want you guys to read them too if you're interested. So I'm giving away brand new books, shipping them |
| 1:35.3 | directly from Amazon to you. So I've been doing this. It's been going great. We have had two |
| 1:41.4 | winners so far. We've had Adam, who won the first book, |
| 1:45.3 | which was Mir by Stars Caravan of No Despair. And then we had Derek, who won the last book |
| 1:50.8 | giveaway, which was The Supernatural by Whitley Striber and Jeffrey Kripal, Krippel, still. Still, |
| 1:59.1 | I don't know. I'm going to get his names. |
| 2:01.1 | Next time I say it, I'm going to know it correctly. |
| 2:03.4 | Sorry, Jeffrey. |
| 2:04.7 | And then this week, doing another one. |
| 2:07.2 | And this book is one of my favorite books. |
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