Overcoming an Addiction to Money and Success with Sam Polk

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2014

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Sam Polk’s childhood ambitions of becoming rich led him to a career on Wall Street in which eventually he discovered that he had become addicted to money and success In this episode we discuss overcoming that addiction an the similarities that success and addiction have in common.

The influence that Sam’s dad had on his view of the world
A period of loneliness and depression in college
The challenges of pretending to be what we’re not
The disconnect between who we are and who we want to be
A series of inauthentic reinventions that failed
A relationship that made Sam choose a different path
What happens when we see the world as a dark scary place
Losing the belief that we’re inherently valuable
The exploration of core beliefs about your life
Why living your life from a complete deficit doesn’t lead to true success
A look at the meaning that we give to having money in our lives
The similarities between the pursuit of success and addiction
Dealing with two conflicting views of the world
The challenge of choosing between two paths
Choosing the path on which you can’t see the end
The motivation for creating the Groceryships non-profit
Why we can all create things that don’t exist

Sam Polk is a former hedge-fund trader and the founder of the nonprofit Groceryships.

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