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🗓️ 3 April 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Welcome to an inspiring episode of Unmistakable Creative, featuring the brilliant Michael Bungay Stanier, a renowned coach and author, as we explore the path to unlocking greatness by embracing challenges. Join us as we delve into the transformative power of working on hard things and how it leads to personal and professional growth.
Stanier shares his profound insights on the importance of tackling difficult tasks to unleash one's true potential. This episode is not just about productivity tips; it's about embracing discomfort and pushing boundaries to achieve extraordinary results in life and work.
Through engaging stories and practical advice, Stanier reveals strategies to overcome resistance and take meaningful actions toward self-improvement. Listeners will gain valuable tools to step out of their comfort zones, build resilience, and create a positive impact in their lives and the lives of others.
Whether you're seeking to enhance your performance at work, pursue your passions, or lead a more fulfilling life, this episode provides actionable wisdom to unlock your greatness. Stanier's expertise will empower you to navigate challenges with confidence and turn them into stepping stones for success.
Don't miss this episode to learn from a seasoned coach and author and discover how working on hard things can lead to personal and professional growth. Gain insights that could transform your approach to challenges and unlock your full potential with Michael Bungay Stanier.
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0:00.0 | As you probably notice, this month, we're bringing you our Life of Purpose series and revisiting |
0:04.6 | some of our most transformative episodes. Tune in to explore expert insights and practical |
0:09.4 | strategies on help, performance, and community well-being, all aimed at helping you achieve |
0:14.4 | personal and professional fulfillment. If you sign up for the newsletter, you'll not only get |
0:18.5 | recaps of the key ideas in each interview, but at the end of the series, you'll receive our free Life of Purpose ebook. |
0:24.5 | What you have to do is go to UnmistakableCreative.com slash Life Purpose. |
0:28.1 | Again, that's UnmistakableCreative.com slash Life Purpose. |
0:32.9 | One way to think about it or a metaphor for it is, if you know what a murmuration is, you know, one of these swirling clouds of birds of swallows, and you're like, how do, |
0:41.9 | how do those things work? Yeah, it's like, because clearly there isn't a bird with a to-do list |
0:47.5 | tape to its wing going, look, take a left, then take a right, then take a left. There's no |
0:51.1 | instruction booklet on how a swirling cloud of starlings |
0:55.9 | emerges and shapes and reshapes itself. But they work on principles. You know, the basic |
1:01.6 | principles are fly towards the center, flies as close to the other birds as possible, don't run |
1:07.5 | into any of the other birds. And those are three principles that are contradictory to each other, |
1:14.7 | and you're trying to find the best way of kind of balancing all three of those obligations. |
1:20.1 | The same is true with thrilling and important and daunting. |
1:23.4 | Thrilling is often at odds with important. |
1:27.1 | And if it's too much of one or too much of the other, |
1:29.5 | if it's too, if it's all just you and thrilling, then it's just a self-centered goal. And, |
1:34.3 | you know, there's plenty of that around, but I want it to be more than that. If it's just |
1:38.5 | important, then there's a way that you can get burnt out or get sacrificed on a cause if you |
1:43.6 | don't have that kind of intrinsic motivation that or get sacrificed on a cause if you don't have that kind |
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