Living a Life of Intention, Meaning and Purpose with AJ Leon

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2016

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

AJ Leon, founder of the creative agency Misfit Inc, returns to the show to discuss living a life of meaning, intention and purpose.

HIGHLIGHTS

Why you always have a choice in your life
Letting go of our need to prove people wrong
Evacuating a life plan that had gone horribly wrong
Why you should never stop asking for what you want
Understanding the difference between courage and defiance
The difference between starting a company and starting to live deliberately
Wisdom from AJ’s Cuban Grandmother

QUOTES

I’m not necessarily courageous, but I am defiant. @ajleon via @unmistakableCR https://bit.ly/1UrqkNU

You always have a choice. @ajleon via @unmistakableCR https://bit.ly/1UrqkNU

Sooner or later the person that you want to be will be merge into the person you are. @ajleon via @unmistakableCR https://bit.ly/1UrqkNU

If you’re good at what you do, people will want more of it. @ajleon via @unmistakableCR https://bit.ly/1UrqkNU

What I’m interested is not success, but significance. @ajleon via @unmistakableCR https://bit.ly/1UrqkNU

AJ Leon is the founder of Misft Inc, and the author of The Life and Times of Remarkable Misfit. You can follow him on twitter @aljeon

AJ Leon, founder of the creative agency Misfit Inc, returns to the show to discuss living a life of meaning, intention and purpose.

HIGHLIGHTS

Why you always have a choice in your life
Letting go of our need to prove people wrong
Evacuating a life plan that had gone horribly wrong
Why you should never stop asking for what you want
Understanding the difference between courage and defiance
The difference between starting a company and starting to live deliberately
Wisdom from AJ’s Cuban Grandmother

QUOTES

I’m not necessarily courageous, but I am defiant. @ajleon via @unmistakableCR https://bit.ly/1UrqkNU

You always have a choice. @ajleon via @unmistakableCR https://bit.ly/1UrqkNU

Sooner or later the person that you want to be will be merge into the person you are. @ajleon via @unmistakableCR https://bit.ly/1UrqkNU

If you’re good at what you do, people will want more of it. @ajleon via @unmistakableCR https://bit.ly/1UrqkNU

What I’m interested is not success, but significance. @ajleon via @unmistakableCR https://bit.ly/1UrqkNU

AJ Leon is the founder of Misft Inc, and the author of The Life and Times of Remarkable Misfit. You can follow him on twitter @aljeon

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1:59.0	It's the last inch that I won't give up, you know, like I'm not necessarily courageous, but I am defiant, you know, and that's like you know and those are those are wildly
2:06.8	different positions and and even in terms of stand like combatant stance like that's
2:11.4	wildly different a courageous person leans in right they're
2:15.2	going in for the fucking punch they're they're running right up to the enemy I don't
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