How to Live Well and Die Well With Greg Hartle- Part 1

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2015

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

In this special 2 part episode, Greg Hartle, a mentor and friend who played played an instrumental role in the development of Unmistakable Creative returns to the show for one of the year’s most riveting and thought provoking conversations about how to live well and die well. This episode is filled with so much wisdom, you’ll likely want to revisit it again and again.

HIGHLIGHTS

How Labels Limit What we can Accomplish in Our Lives
Why our Temporary Circumstances Don’t have to Define Us
Dealing With The Challenges of Overcoming Our Environment
How the “Observer Effect” can Change What We See in Ourselves
Why We are Perceived as a Threat When we Rise Above Our Environment
How We Put Ourselves In a Position to Shape Our Environment
Why Your Problems Don’t Go Away With Success
The Role That Intelligence and Talent play in success
The Differentiating Factor Between People Who Get Past Difficult Experiences And The Ones Who Don’t
Learning to Respond Instead of React
How Difficult Experiences Create Layers That Enable Us Handle New Situations with Resiliency
Creating a Standard of Excellence in Every Area of Your Life
What Leads to an Inevitability of Success
Why Iconic Figures May not be Our Best Role Models
Understanding the Difference Between Probability of Success and Possibility
Why We Need to Create Environments in Which People Can Tell us the Truth
A Look at the Process of How to Rebuild Your Life During a Significant Transition
Why We Need to Come up With Our Own Beliefs About Money
Exploring Things in a Way that We don’t ave to Attach Our Identity to Them
Starting From a Place Where You Have Significant Advantages
Learning to Let Things Inform You Rather Than Define You
Navigating a World of Ambiguity
One Simple Question That Can Transform Every Moment of Your Life
The Difference Between Inviting Participation and Demanding It
The Dangers of Extrapolating People’s Advice as a Formula

BOOKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED

Wes Moore

The Soulpancake Animated Series

Chris Sacca’s Interview with Tim Ferriss

Chris Sacca’s Commencement Speech

The Psychology of Visionaries with Justine Musk

Greg’s Hartle’s Web Site

QUOTES

The problems don’t go away. They only magnify. What changes is your capacity to handle them.

If possible isn’t tempered with probable, we unnecessarily suffer.

You can not go to any place further than that which you are attached to

Don’t just jump off a cliff and try to build a parachute on the way down

Greg Hartle is a an entrepreneur and smartist who has survived a misspent youth, a kidney transplant, and visited all 50 states using nothing more than Ten Dollars and a Laptop. You can follow him on twitter @greghartle

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0:00.0	They were born in a way that they are just going to win no matter what.
0:06.0	And so those people are not good models to follow.
0:10.0	For the rest of us, what we should be doing is we should be creating a safe
0:16.4	environment in which we can be as vulnerable as we need to be to not only hold on to the possible, but to actually increase our chances of the probable.
0:29.0	And we don't create those environments for ourselves.
0:33.0	As a society, as a government, as businesses,
0:36.7	as a culture in America.
0:39.3	We tend not to create vulnerable environments that allow us to be safe enough, to be exposed enough
0:47.2	to actually increase our probabilities.
0:49.8	So what we do is we, one, look at all these examples of people that don't need that and we try to live like them.
0:58.0	And then we fail and then we experience unnecessary suffering. And then two, we experience unnecessary suffering.
1:03.0	And then two, we hold on, we can't find the safe places to explore our vulnerabilities
1:10.0	and our flaws and the fact that it's not probable for us to be like them.
1:15.0	So what we do is we go to the safe places.
1:17.8	The safe places are the motivational events.
1:21.8	The safe places are the places where everyone else is
1:24.9	pretending to be happy. The safe places are the internet and the television and
1:30.3	the happy commercials and all the things that allow us to avoid looking at the things
1:36.8	that are not increasing our probabilities of success. We tend to not do it because it's very vulnerable and hard and exposing and we don't have the
1:48.9	places to play that out. It's only happening in the recesses of our own mind and that's a very lonely
1:54.3	place to be.
1:57.0	I'm Srenny Rao and this is the unmistakable creative
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