Matt Michalewiczc: Life in Half a Second

Enter the Lionheart

Lawrence Dunning

Society & Culture, Business, Entrepreneurship, Philosophy

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Matt Michalewicz has an incredible resume; 20 years of international experience in entrepreneurship, innovation, and success psychology. As a serial entrepreneur he has started four businesses from scratch and sold them for tens of millions of dollars, using his proven formula for creating success. He has established boards that include former heads of state, Nobel Peace Prize winners, and Fortune 500 CEOs. Matt is also a Visiting Fellow at the University of Adelaide, where he lectures on the subject of entrepreneurship.

As an author, Matt has written books on "Winning Credibility", "Puzzle-Based Learning", and "Adaptive Business Intelligence". But it's his "Life in Half a Second", that is, in his own words, his masterpiece; It’s his take on what “success” is. Proven through thousands of studies and decades of research, Matt discusses the five doors you must walk through to achieve success in your career, business, or personal life.

“Life in Half a Second” is one of my all-time favorite books. I have probably given it to more friends than any other book. The main premise: living a life that you truly value, doing the things that you want to do, has profoundly influenced the way I live my life.

“The tragedy of life isn’t that we only have half a second. The tragedy is that we waste it.”

“If you do what's easy, your life will be hard.

However, if you do what's hard, your life will be easy.”

Buy "Life in Half a Second" on Amazon

Find out more about Michael here: www.Michalewicz.com.au

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0:00.0	A single theme is two-hour for great minds and daring hearts.
0:06.6	Get ready to enter the Lion Heart with your host, Lauren Stunning.
0:10.8	Hello and welcome back to End the Lion Heart Show.
0:20.2	Today's guest is a very special one for me.
0:22.8	He is Matt Michael Witch and is the author of one of my favorite all-time books called
0:27.4	Life in Half a Second.
0:29.7	The premise of the book is about the importance of time.
0:33.1	Planet Earth being four and a half billion years old and modern homo sapiens have been
0:37.2	around for about 200,000 years.
0:39.9	So said another way, if the planet was a year old, humanity had been around for about
0:44.7	23 minutes.
0:46.4	On that same scale, a human life of 80 years would amount to about half a second.
0:52.0	So in planetary time, our life on this Earth, this case scenario, is about half a second.
0:58.1	So the idea that time is finite, we have a limited and fixed amount of days left, assuming
1:03.4	we live a full life, so it's on us to decide how we'll maximize our time.
1:09.2	I've always been obsessed with the idea of time being the ultimate currency and Matt's
1:13.1	book felt like I was reading my innermost thoughts.
1:16.0	I recently reread it and I reached out to Matt to ask him to come on the show and as
1:19.6	I learned more about him, I realized he's so much more than just the author of one of
1:23.2	my favorite books.
1:24.8	He's a serial entrepreneur, he's an unbelievably successful and every traditional sense of
1:29.0	the word.
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