How to master your emotions, w/Sam Harris
Masters of Scale
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4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The biggest challenge for founders often isn’t winning the strategic game – it’s winning the mental game. For a master class in mastering your emotions, we turn to Sam Harris, author, neuroscientist, and philosopher. His podcast “Making Sense,” his app “Waking Up,” and his many books have drawn a devoted following among entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and beyond. Leadership experts often talk about the importance of adding new skills to your metaphorical toolbox, but less attention is paid to the actual toolbox itself: your mind. Sam shares how you can manage your own emotions, and master your own runaway thoughts, to not only make it through the entrepreneurial journey but learn more, and scale faster along the way.
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| 0:31.2 | I'll see you on the other side. |
| 0:34.0 | I had at that point, |
| 0:37.0 | I had at that point virtually no wilderness experience right so I was really just |
| 0:47.3 | totally green and not in good shape and I bought a new pair of boots that I had never hiked in and they admonish you to break in your boots. |
| 0:57.3 | So I got just Prisoner of War level blisters the first days hiking. It was just it was awful and |
| 1:05.2 | the trip just unraveled from there. That's Sam Harris describing an outward |
| 1:12.1 | bound trip he took at the age of 16. |
| 1:14.8 | Those blisters on his feet would heal, but there was another trauma from that excursion |
| 1:19.5 | that left a more lasting impression on him. One of their signature maneuvers on these trips was to put people on what they call the solo, |
| 1:29.0 | which was three days of solitude, where were just camped out, in my case by a lake, very high |
| 1:36.3 | up maybe at around 11,000 feet or so, and told to do more or less nothing other than write in your journal. |
| 1:45.0 | You were given no tools by which to distract yourself, |
| 1:49.0 | you didn't have any books, and you fast it. |
| 1:52.0 | So it was three days of just drinking water, which also was something that I think I had never done before. |
| 1:57.0 | So my mind just became totally unhinged. |
| 2:03.3 | I wouldn't say I went mad, but I was mad with unhappiness, |
| 2:12.1 | with longing to be back to my life in the world, right? |
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