Surplus Value Mindset: Become the Person Everyone Wants on Their Crew (w/ Chris Irwin & Mark England)
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Are you an asset to the people around you, or are you unknowingly becoming a burden? In this conversation with Chris Irwin and Mark England, we explore the surplus value mindset—the difference between those who add more than they take and those who don't. Discover how to become the person everyone wants on their team, in their family, and in their community.
We break down the simple question that transforms how you show up: in this situation, am I an asset or a burden? Learn how physical and mental fitness both come down to your capacity to respond, why breathing is the baseline skill for leadership and contribution, and how self-awareness is the first step toward creating real value in the world.
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| 1:03.9 | Okay, let's get into it. |
| 1:09.2 | Hello and welcome back to the show. |
| 1:13.3 | I have to thank you so much for joining me. |
| 1:15.2 | I have a very special episode here, one that I have been excited about for approximately a week |
| 1:19.6 | when I knew that this was going to happen. |
| 1:21.3 | I've got two friends of the show joining me today. |
| 1:24.1 | We've got Chris Irwin, who's been on the show a bunch, creator of Rare Sense. We did a |
| 1:29.3 | very long, very good, detailed episode relatively recently called The Five Mind Killers, where I |
| 1:35.3 | compiled four episodes into one. So if you want a three and a half hour deep dive on Chris's |
| 1:40.7 | concept of mind killers and countermeasures, I highly recommend you go check that out. Hi, Chris. How the heck are you? Good, man. Good to see you. Thanks for having me back. I keep, I'm doing enough here not to screw this up, so you keep inviting you back. I keep bringing you back. And then we've got Mark England, co-founder of Enlisted. Mark was on not too long ago, actually, to talk about Kidland's Law and about |
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