Jon Acuff on Changing Overthinking Into a Superpower to Achieve Your Goals
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
Erik Fisher
4.5 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Jon Acuff is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including his Wall Street Journal #1 bestseller, Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done. He's an INC Magazine Top 100 Leadership speaker and has spoken to hundreds of thousands of people at conferences and companies around the world.
His latest book is Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking. In this conversation he talks about identifying overthinking, calling it what it really is (fear), and offering a simple plan to turn it from a super problem into a superpower.
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| 1:29.9 | Hello, welcome back to another episode of Beyond the To Do List. |
| 1:34.4 | I'm your host, Eric Fisher, and this is the show where I talk to the people behind the productivity. This week I'm excited to revisit a conversation I had with John Acuff about his most recent book, |
| 1:41.1 | Soundtracks, A Surprising Solution to O overthinking. Now, that book's been out for |
| 1:46.1 | about a year. The book is amazing. I love this book, but I've been thinking about it a lot lately, |
| 1:51.1 | and ultimately what got me to revisit this conversation was the fact that I saw that John is |
| 1:56.0 | going to be creating a new version of the book with his two teenage daughters geared towards teenagers |
| 2:03.2 | and them using the soundtrack's approach to overthinking. And if you're not familiar with |
| 2:07.9 | soundtracks, brief synopsis, it's about identifying overthinking. It's about calling it what it |
| 2:13.0 | really is, fear, and then changing the playlist of those thoughts that play in your mind so that you can |
| 2:20.6 | stop self-sabotaging yourself and using that inner voice for good instead of derailing yourself. |
| 2:27.0 | I know that I'm personally going to be going through the book again myself and grabbing a copy |
| 2:31.4 | of the new version when that comes out to go over that with my daughter, |
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