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Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory

How to Survive Your Crappy Job | Tom Bilyeu AMA

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory

Impact Theory

News, Business, News Commentary

4.75.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Tom answers questions from the community. Impact Theory is proudly sponsored by Skillshare. Start learning on Skillshare today at skillshare.com/impact Tom Bilyeu AMA’s are Live on Facebook and YouTube every Friday at 10 am PST. You can submit your questions in advance to connect@impacttheory.com, with the subject line “AMA Question”. BOOKS MENTIONED Grit by Angela Duckworth: https://amzn.to/2HW6Vbp [11:20] QUESTION TOPICS Tom addresses how to keep spirits up when working from job to job. [00:13] How Tom changes the question from giving value to doing things that make you feel most alive, then adding value. [02:28] Tom discusses two different types of people: one who does everything and on who does nothing. [04:58] Tom explains how you should act when given a "needs significant improvement" performance appraisal. [08:39-10:54] How Tom uses mediation to DO THE WORK! [10:54] Tom says that life is all about feeling good, feeling amazing. It's about fulfillment. [12:51] Tom explains dopamine as an anticipatory chemical and how it encourages bad habits. [15:41]

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Impact Theory podcast, your source of empowering ideas and actionable

0:07.6

techniques from the world's highest achievers.

0:10.5

Join host Tom Billiou, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of a billion dollar brand quest

0:15.8

nutrition on a journey to unlock your potential and realize your vision of success.

0:21.4

Welcome to Impact Theory.

0:23.8

Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of AMA.

0:27.2

I'm your host Tom Billiou and I'm going to be taking your questions.

0:30.7

Remember you can always submit them to connect at impacttheory.com.

0:35.7

Without further ado, the first question is from EJ.

0:38.4

I'm a musician and I'm trying to build a career from it as it is my what?

0:44.3

Trying to build a career from it as it is my absolute passion.

0:47.7

I feel I'm in a cycle of going from crappy random job to crappy random job so I can pay

0:52.2

my rent.

0:53.6

Do you have any advice for how I can keep my spirits up when I feel so down from working

0:58.0

these jobs?

0:59.6

Alright, so first of all, never be a slave to your emotions so just because you're going

1:04.0

through a hard time, don't let that occupy your thoughts.

1:06.7

You get what you focus on.

1:09.3

So if you focus on the things that are going wrong, you focus on how much you hate your job,

1:13.4

then your life is going to be filled with misery.

1:16.6

So what I want you to do is focus on the things about your job that might be useful, something

1:20.6

that you're learning, the people that you're meeting, whatever it is.

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