How To Figure Out Your Life’s Purpose, Improve Your Concentration, & Develop More Willpower with Dandapani

The Liz Moody Podcast

Liz Moody

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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I’m excited to welcome Dandapani to the podcast. Dandapani is a former monk, Hindu priest, and entrepreneur. After spending 10 years at a monastery in Hawaii, he now works with top world athletes, entrepreneurs, and companies, including Nike, McKinsey, and Bloomberg, helping them understand and leverage their minds. His TEDx talk on the power of focus has over 6.4 million views and his book The Power Of Unwavering Focus was released in early 2022. On this episode, we talk about: the benefits of living a focused life, from a former monk’s perspective the real cost of distraction on our relationships (that you might not be realizing) what everyone gets wrong about pursuing happiness the one thing you need to figure out to know what your purpose in life is pragmatic action steps for uncovering your life’s purpose an exact script for getting to know yourself better how to concentrate on whatever you WANT, and let go of things you don’t want to focus on a genius tip for building your ability to concentrate without adding any new tasks to your life the specific way to use social media to limit its negative impact on your brain three ways to develop more willpower the number one lesson he’s learned about living a meaningful life in years of being a monk & Hindu priest and so much more! We would LOVE to hear from you any thoughts, reactions, or takeaways you have as you’re listening, so definitely screenshot and tag me @lizmoody and Dandapani @dandapanillc on Instagram. To enter the giveaway to be one of the 10 winners of Dandapani’s new book, The Power of Unwavering Focus, comment on my most recent post mentioning something you loved or learned from the episode, and follow me @lizmoody and Dandapani @dandapanillc on Instagram. To join the Healthier Together Podcast Club Facebook group, go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/healthiertogetherpodcast. This episode is sponsored by Seed. You can get 15% off your first month's supply of Seed's DS-01™ Daily Synbiotic by going to https://seed.com/daily-synbiotic and using the code LIZMOODY. This episode is sponsored by AG1 by Athletic Greens. Visit athleticgreens.com/healthiertogether and get your FREE year supply of Vitamin D and 5 free travel packs today. This episode is sponsored by Paleovalley. Head over to paleovalley.com and use the code LIZM for 15% off. This episode is sponsored by Ritual. Get 10% off your first three months of Ritual when you visit ritual.com/healthier and add the Essential Protein to your order. Healthier Together cover art by Zack. Healthier Together music by Alex Ruimy.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Healthier Together podcast.
0:04.8	I'm your host, Liz Moody, and I'm a best-selling author and longtime journalist.
0:08.6	This podcast is all about helping you live your healthiest, happiest life, whether we're
0:12.5	learning how to set better boundaries, getting from a doctor about fighting burnout and getting
0:16.7	more energy, or busting aging myths to add literally years to our lives.
0:22.2	And yes, those are all real episodes of any of those topics down good to you, scroll
0:26.0	on back in the archives.
0:28.0	I have not been able to stop thinking about today's episode since I recorded it.
0:33.0	It's truly transformed how I think about things in my daily life, and I have been applying
0:37.4	a lot of what we talked about in terms of practicing concentration, and I've also been thinking
0:41.5	about the reverse practicing distraction, and building willpower in my daily life.
0:46.5	I also think it's such an important conversation to have because the question ultimately being
0:50.3	posed in this episode is, do we want to live a meaning-filled life?
0:55.0	So this conversation and the teachings of my brilliant guests generally are such critical
1:00.4	steps in that journey.
1:02.3	I am so excited to welcome Don DePonny to the podcast.
1:06.0	Don DePonny is a former monk who is now a Hindu priest and entrepreneur.
1:10.1	After spending 10 years at a monastery in Hawaii, he now works with top world athletes,
1:14.5	entrepreneurs and companies, including Nike, McKinsey, and Bloomberg, helping them understand
1:19.4	and leverage their minds.
1:21.3	His TEDx talk on the power of focus has over 6.4 million views, and his book, The Power
1:27.0	of Unwavering Focus, is absolutely brilliant and goes much deeper on a lot of the concepts
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