From Combat to Clarity: A Blueprint for Transformation | Wiley McGraw

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🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

This insightful conversation with Wiley McGraw, a former soldier turned high-performance coach, sheds light on the intersection of personal development and true fulfillment. McGraw's journey from military service to coaching high-profile clients reveals his unique approach to overcoming personal challenges and traumas for genuine performance. Through discussing the importance of confronting inner demons and finding foundational peace, McGraw critiques conventional self-help methods and shares his intensive, personalized coaching method. Limiting his client list to maintain quality, McGraw focuses on deep, transformative growth over superficial success. His candid discussion covers topics from happiness and stress to the impact of personal history on behavior, providing a profound look at achieving meaningful success and impact amid life's challenges.

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0:00.0	Wiley McGraw,
0:05.0	a very interesting guy.
0:10.0	He was a soldier for many years.
0:12.0	He went to Afghanistan, he went to Iraq. He's been in bloody military engagements.
0:19.5	And he's also kind of a unique kind of performance coach where he really tries to be disruptive in a way that many coaches are afraid to be in order to help his clients improve and
0:35.0	upscale their lives and so we talk about both things first I want I always want to
0:39.8	know this and I've spoken about this with Jock O Willink as well.
0:43.0	Like, are any wars ever justified?
0:47.2	So we kind of talk first about his military experience and I ask that question and we have a conversation
0:52.0	about it. And then we have a conversation about it.
0:52.8	And then we talk more specifically about what he does and how he's built.
0:57.6	I don't want to call him a coach.
0:58.6	He doesn't call himself a coach, but basically he's become a high performance experts for CEOs, celebrities, athletes and so on.
1:07.0	And I'm always curious about that business and industry and also how I can perform at a peak level,
1:12.0	which I feel I don't often do and I'm trying to get better
1:15.1	at least figure it out a little bit more. So here's Wiley McGraw and it's a
1:19.5	really engaging conversation on a bunch of different levels. he's not your average host. This is the James Altager show. Well, it's interesting we can see Mars, right? We can see billions of light years away, but for some reason our Wi-Fi is always a problem.
1:51.0	That's a 24- That is funny. Like why can't why can't like basic things be done but like really it's
1:58.5	seemingly impossible things can be done but not like they just can't get the internet to work.
2:03.0	Right, you wish you could figure out a problem solve the most basic necessities
2:06.8	that were, you know, when we depend on technology, it's like, okay, blows my mind.
2:11.9	Like I could ask AI make a video generated by AI of Wiley and
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