Let's Turn This Year Around

The Yes Theory Podcast

Yes Theory

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

If 2020 was a question, it would be… how the heck do you make the best of a situation when you can’t even understand the situation? When we asked Harvard Professor and Atlantic columnist, Arthur Brooks, he said so matter of factly, “You have to be an entrepreneur about your life.” And when we asked Ozan Varol, the self-described perpetual dropout (but more importantly the rocket scientist, lawyer, professor, and author behind the book Think Like a Rocket Scientist), he told us the story of why he dropped out of a comfortable, well-paying career in the middle of a pandemic. Together, these two brilliant academics help us understand - is now the time to play it safe or take risks? What can we do to make the best of this year? How can we move through this vast uncertainty, and make 2020 a year worth remembering? Or should we just follow Thomas’s lead and ditch this whole year and find some buried treasure? This episode is sponsored by: Liquid I.V. - Get 25% off your first order when you use code YESTHEORY at LiquidIV.com. Green Chef - Visit GreenChef.com/yestheory80 and get $80 off your first month. Talkspace - Use promo code YESTHEORY at talkspace.com for $100 off your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Like many of you I had big plans going into 2020. None of them involved being locked
0:07.8	inside my house for months with no seeming and in sight. Even being cooped up with my best friends didn't make it better. My friends
0:16.7	Matt Amar and I run a YouTube channel called Yes Theory. It's how we make a living.
0:20.8	But we've always believed that Yes Theory was more than a YouTube channel.
0:24.4	It's a social movement based on the shared value of seeking discomfort. We
0:29.7	believe that the most meaningful connections with ourselves and others happen when we step
0:34.8	outside of our comfort zones. And it's way bigger than Matt Ammar and I. As 2019
0:41.0	came to a close we thought how could we do more?
0:45.0	Do better.
0:45.8	We plotted out some initiatives to bring you closer to discomfort,
0:49.3	a life event series, some stellar partnerships and ambitious programming.
0:53.0	But one by one, they all got cancelled.
0:57.0	The NBA have just announced that they are suspending play.
1:00.0	Tom Hanks and his wife got tested they have coronavars.
1:03.6	All LA County beaches, boardwalks and trails closed.
1:06.7	But we tried to look on the bright side.
1:09.4	We tried to think of new ways to still bring you closer to discomfort.
1:14.0	Amar thought that the lockdown was the perfect opportunity to revisit what launched
1:17.4	our channel Project 30, where we made a new video every single day for 30 days.
1:22.6	I just thought we had an amazing opportunity to show that seeking the internal
1:26.1	discomfort is just as powerful if not even more powerful than all the external
1:31.0	discomforts that we chase.
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