Shirzad Chamine (Positive Intelligence, Inc.) - The Enlightened Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Journey, Startups, Education, Stanford, Culture, Strategy, Stanford University, Entrepreneurship, Business, Life Lessons, Thought Leadership, Creativity, Etl, Challenges, Leadership, Innovation, Founders

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🗓️ 15 March 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Before Shirzad Chamine found his calling as a coach to today’s top CEOs and executive teams, he was a charismatic entrepreneur who turned into a hyper-critical tyrant without even knowing it. That dark chapter ignited his journey to understand how to conquer our self-sabotaging sides and live in the light of “Positive Intelligence” — the approach Chamine developed for mastering the mind and finding true happiness and success.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.3	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:17.8	Today's guest is Shurzad Shamin, best-selling author of Positive Intelligence.
0:22.6	He's developed a model and tools that allow each of us to perform at a much higher level,
0:28.4	no matter what our goals might be.
0:30.6	His work is used by leaders in organizations around the globe to tackle their greatest challenges.
0:36.9	I'm sure you'll enjoy this provocative lecture.
0:43.0	Thank you.
0:45.5	I'd like to start today.
0:48.0	I hear this a confidential place,
0:50.0	so I want to start with a confession of some kind.
0:53.3	And the confession I want to make is that I have a very, very dark character inside of me.
1:00.5	A really nasty guy, pretty destructive and pretty ugly.
1:06.3	And since I am a huge fan of Star Wars, you could call this character the Dark Vader.
1:17.6	Now, for those of you want to leave now, this is your last chance.
1:21.6	Actually, you can't because we've locked the doors for a while.
1:25.6	But really, that's just half of the story,
1:30.3	that confession of the dark side, the dark waiter,
1:33.3	is only half the story, because the other half of the story
1:36.3	is that, if I may say so myself,
1:38.3	I also have a brilliant, beautiful, positive,
1:41.3	incredibly creative, and wise, other character inside of myself.
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