How to Lose Regret and Choose Fulfillment with Marshall Goldsmith
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Marshall Goldsmith is the only two-time Thinkers 50 Award for #1 Leadership Thinker in the World. He has been ranked as the world’s #1 Executive Coach, a Top Ten Business Thinker for eight years, and was chosen as the inaugural winner of the Lifetime Award for Leadership by the Harvard Institute of Coaching. Marshall is the author or editor of 41 books, that have sold over 2.5 million copies, translated into 32 languages, and listed as bestsellers in 12 countries.
In this episode, Eric and Marshall discuss his book, The Earned Life: Lose Regret, Choose Fulfillment
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Marshall Goldsmith and I Discuss How to Lose Regret, Choose Fulfillment, and …
- His book, The Earned Life: Lose Regret, Choose Fulfillment
- The every breath paradigm in learning to lose regret
- Understanding the importance of asking for helping
- Some of the barriers that hold us back
- Differences between being comfortable and being fulfilled
- Problems that arise when we are too attached to outcomes
- The 3 A’s: action, ambition, aspiration
- How both finding meaning and enjoying the process leads to happiness
- Obligations and how they relate to our values
- The practice of daily questions that takes 3 minutes
- Remembering that aking change is easier when you have support
- The value in asking”Did I do my best to….”questions as they force you to take responsibility
- How it’s more challenging to make the effort in our personal life than our professional life
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| 0:00.0 | Our default reaction in life is inertia. |
| 0:02.9 | Our default in your life is not to be engaged, |
| 0:04.8 | it's not to be happy, it's not to find meaning, |
| 0:06.8 | it's inertia. We tend to do what we've been doing, |
| 0:08.8 | go what we've been going, say what we've been saying. |
| 0:18.4 | Welcome to the one you feed. |
| 0:20.5 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance |
| 0:23.5 | of the thoughts we have, quotes like, |
| 0:25.9 | garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, |
| 0:29.5 | ring true, and yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:34.9 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, |
| 0:37.7 | jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have, |
| 0:40.9 | instead of what we do, we think things that hold us back |
| 0:44.2 | and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking, |
| 0:48.0 | our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a |
| 0:52.7 | life worth living. This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving |
| 0:57.3 | in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf. |
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