External Validation Isn't The Answer | TOMS Founder, Blake Mycoskie

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Sport Psychology, Finding Mastery, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Business, Self Help, Michael Gervais, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

This week's conversation is with Blake Mycoskie, a social entrepreneur and the founder of TOMS.

Blake started TOMS in 2006 and revolutionized the way companies give back by giving shoes to a child in need for every pair purchased.

With all his focus going to TOMS, Blake realized he stopped taking care of himself and was diagnosed with mild depression.

With this diagnoses, he began exploring how he could better show up for himself and others and that ultimately led to his newest venture, Madefor, where he’s helping people gain control of their lives.

We cover so much in this conversation.

Blake shares how he got started in entrepreneurship, what’s been key to his success, and why his initial concept of success proved to be offbase.

The external factors, the money, the fame, the status all came with Blake’s business accomplishments but when he got everything he was chasing, he realized it wasn’t what he was actually interested in.

My hope is that if you only take one thing from this conversation, it’s that none of us have it all figured out, no matter how successful we may appear on the outside.

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0:00.0	If there's one piece of advice that you could give me as an entrepreneur as a young man is going out into the world, what would it be?
0:07.0	And he pulled out a piece of paper and he wrote, the more you give, the more you live, and he handed me the piece of paper.
0:14.0	What's so fascinating is I think had he not planted that seed,
0:18.6	Tom's never would have happened.
0:19.7	Like I just would have kept on starting businesses to make money but at some things six years after he planted that seed and he had passed away
0:28.0	I I just had this feeling of yeah the more you give the more you live and that event has shaped you know my career and now pretty much everything I spend my time on. Okay, welcome back, or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast,' Mastery Podcast, I'm a sport and performance psychologist.
0:57.0	So the whole idea behind these conversations behind this podcast is to learn from people who are on the path of mastery,
1:03.0	to better understand what they are searching for,
1:06.0	to understand their psychological framework,
1:09.0	how they organize their inner life,
1:11.0	how do they see the world, How do they make sense of events that take
1:15.2	place? How do they understand themselves in the world? And we also want to dig and understand
1:20.2	the mental skills that they use to build and refine their craft.
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