Ep. 76 Why You’re Struggling With Motivation And How To Fix It With John Amaechi OBE
Working Hard, Hardly Working
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4.4 • 738 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
It is an understatement to say that John Amaechi has had a career that has taken him places.
Not only is he an Organisational Psychologist, an OBE, a New York Times Bestselling Author, a Fellow of the Institute of Science and Technology, a Professor of Leadership, a non-executive director of an FTSE 250 company and the founder of organisational psychology consultancy APS.
He was also, more surprisingly, the first Briton to play professional basketball in the NBA league, a move which saw him leave his hometown of Stockport for the world of professional basketball aged just 18. And whilst playing, he was the first NBA player to come out as gay. Never afraid to stand up and speak out, his book made me question a lot of things I thought I knew about myself and the way I live and work.
Amaechi has spent years studying the world’s highest performers, in both the sporting and corporate world, and I’m so looking forward to everyone hearing his amazing techniques. I learnt so much in this chat and I’m sure you will too. I'd be so grateful if you could rate the podcast five stars.
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| 0:32.1 | I'm incredibly lazy, but I played in the NBA because I've built systems that stopped me. |
| 0:37.8 | Amici has spent years studying the world's highest performers in the sporting and corporate world. |
| 0:42.8 | He was also the first Britain to play professional basketball in the NBA. |
| 0:46.8 | I told them 45 minutes after I first put to my basketball, yeah, I'm going to play in the NBA. |
| 0:51.3 | And how did you get there? |
| 0:52.8 | You can actually work out, depending on your postcode, the number of minutes you have on this planet. |
| 0:58.4 | You've got this period of time to be remarkable, to be impactful, to be purposeful, to be joyful. |
| 1:03.6 | Don't waste those moments. |
| 1:04.7 | We're so inundated with so much information on how to live your life correctly and even most joyfully and most |
| 1:11.5 | profitably. |
| 1:12.1 | Really productive people. |
| 1:14.3 | It's no good reaching your goal as a husk. |
| 1:17.3 | I hope you're not doing that because it doesn't work. |
| 1:19.6 | I know. |
| 1:20.5 | If you ask human beings, 95% of people will say, I'm highly self-aware. |
| 1:24.8 | When you do a little bit of probing, 10 to 15% are actually self-aware. |
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