Marcus Buckingham: Weirdness Is The Key To Self Improvement
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, Marcus Buckingham takes on a journey through what makes the individual unique and why everyone should embrace their weirdness.
Marcus discusses the Norse concept of "WYRD," whereby everyone is born with a unique "Spirit" or "Daemon" that defines the life we subsequently lead.
"Red Threads" are the energy fields we should search out and harness to enjoy our life here on earth fully, and you notice those energy fields when time begins to pass so quickly that you don't see it.
Marcus Buckingham has devoted his career to understanding what makes people thrive at work. His new book, Love + Work, takes readers on a journey to discover where they are at their best—both at work and in life.
Marcus draws on years of research to explore the concept of "flow"—a state of peak performance in which we are fully engaged and lost in the moment. He shows us how to find our flow by uncovering our strengths and values and reveals the surprising secret to a fulfilled career: not finding our passion but loving our work.
With insights and stories from some of the world's most successful people, Marcus provides a roadmap for anyone who wants to achieve their full potential. Love + work is an essential guides to living a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling.
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | When was the last time that you lost track of time when you were incredibly engaged with what you're doing? |
| 0:12.1 | Or you found yourself really actively looking forward to something at work? |
| 0:18.7 | Well, I got news for you. |
| 0:19.8 | That is actually how it should be. And too many of us |
| 0:23.6 | go through life, never knowing who we are at our very best. Instead, we've felt defined by what was |
| 0:31.0 | wrong with us. Enter Marcus Buckingham. Now, Marcus, if you're not familiar with him, he is a research lead and New York |
| 0:41.1 | Times bestselling author focused specifically on increasing performance, unlocking strengths, |
| 0:47.5 | and pioneering the future of how people work. Marcus and I have a share similar story in |
| 0:54.0 | our entrepreneurial journey. Marcus also |
| 0:56.4 | leveraged his career into an amazing building a $100 million tech platform that's focused |
| 1:03.2 | specifically on work and then sold that to a large public company where he now heads up research |
| 1:09.6 | around these very topics. He's an amazing writer. New York Times |
| 1:13.5 | bestseller's most recent book we talk about called Love and Work in today's episode is focused |
| 1:19.5 | on specifically these things. I cannot wait for you to hear it. If you are fired up around ideas |
| 1:26.5 | of belonging, of connecting, of your own uniqueness, |
| 1:30.6 | if you've been turned off by your own uniqueness by other people saying you need to find |
| 1:35.0 | something down the middle of the road that's safe and good and easy and all these other things, |
| 1:40.1 | this episode is going to be a huge unlock for you. |
| 1:43.6 | So can't wait. |
| 1:44.7 | I'm going to get out of the way. |
| 1:45.6 | Yours truly in conversation with Marcus Buckingham. |
| 1:50.0 | This episode of the Chase Jarvis Live show is brought to you by Creative Live. |
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