Michael Bungay Stanier on Starting Well to Finish Well

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Michael Bungay Stanier is the author of 6 books that have, between them, sold more than a million copies. He’s perhaps best known for his self-published book, The Coaching Habit, which is the best-selling book on coaching this century and is already recognized as a classic. He founded the training and development company, Box of Crayons, which has taught coaching skills to hundreds of thousands of people around the world and he created a book in partnership with Seth Godin which raised $400,000 for Malaria No More.

In this episode, Eric and Michael Bungay Stanier discuss his new book, How to Begin.

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Michael Bungay Stanier and I Discuss Starting Well to Finish Well and…

His book, How to Begin
Tools to deal with fear and anxiety when they arise
Sitting with the tension of ambition and contentment
The secret is, once you have a goal, the key is to stop worrying about the goal
That we unlock our greatness by working on the hard things
The three steps that make up the foundation of actually beginning
The key of beginning well that helps you stick with a project
How to set a Worthy Goal
The ways Worthy Goals can evolve
How to the prizes and punishments of various commitments

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0:00.0	You have to get a goal that likes you up that you care about that you can invest in,
0:03.7	because you're talking about a chunk of time of your life that you're about to spend on this.
0:08.2	It's going to be meaningful for you.
0:17.8	Welcome to the one you feed.
0:19.8	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:24.4	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true, and yet for many of us
0:31.5	our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:38.9	We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and dampen our
0:44.4	spirit. But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent,
0:50.5	and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how other people keep
0:55.9	themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.
1:14.1	Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Michael Bungay-Stainier. He's the author of
1:19.2	six books which have between them sold more than a million copies. He's perhaps best known for the
1:24.7	book The Coaching Habit, which is the best-selling coaching book of the century and already
1:29.3	recognized as a classic. His new book How to Begin helps people be more ambitious for themselves
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