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The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Overcoming Overthinking with Jon Acuff—Writer & Comedian

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9756 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Jon Acuff is a funny man, but he’s also a go-getter. A New York Times Best-Selling author, his newest book, Soundtracks, delivers insights into overcoming overthinking. Hint: it’s all about your soundtracks. This conversation will make you laugh, but it will also give you tools to push your life forward—that’s aggressive.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Brian. Welcome to the aggressive life. You know, the aggressive life, we are

0:11.8

redefining the word aggressive, at least helping us understand what it is. We're not talking

0:17.9

about running somebody over, beating somebody up,

0:21.0

or at least not somebody who doesn't deserve being beat up.

0:23.8

I'm kidding.

0:24.4

We don't mean getting my way no matter what the cost.

0:27.9

We're talking about going after the things that need to be gone after.

0:33.4

We're talking about having a life that defaults to action, not philosophy, a life that moves, a life that works, a life that is therefore aggressive.

0:44.2

So I want to talk to people who are about that, who are going different places, who are doing different things, who aren't just taking the passive weeny boy, weeny girl path of just allowing life to happen to them.

0:56.9

Today we've got John Acuff.

0:59.6

He's a man who gets things done.

1:02.6

He's a New York Times bestselling author of seven books.

1:05.1

He's an ink magazine top 100 leadership speakers who has led thousands of people toward not just thinking about their

1:13.0

goals and aspirations, but actually achieving them. He's worked with companies like FedEx, Chick-fil-A,

1:19.0

Comedy Central, and he's got a new book called Soundtracks. It's all about learning to stop

1:24.4

overthinking and actually act. Sounds like my kind of guy.

1:28.9

Sounds like my kind of book.

1:30.4

He's going to fire us up today.

1:31.6

I hope so.

1:32.8

Or else I'm going to cut this off really, really quick.

1:34.9

His name is John O'Cuff.

1:36.4

Welcome to the Accressive Life.

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