The Killer App Is You: A Good Life Riff
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2015
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
This episode is a Good Life Project "Riff."
What's that? A short, punchy riff on one particular topic that matters to a life well lived. Generally no more than 5 to 10 minutes.
As always, these won't replace our weekly in-depth conversations, but if you like them, we may produce more and add them in as supplements to the weekly conversations. So let us know if you want more over on Facebook or Twitter.
This week's Good Life Riff is entitled - The Killer App is You. It's about the mistake we've all made when we try to make a mad grab at success by doing the wrong things and relying on delusion and illusion.
Here's a quick excerpt:
The best of the best, the people who are now and will in the future eat you for lunch, build themselves, through fierce effort and expert guidance, into unstoppable human engines of intelligence, creativity, intuition, compassion, service, expression and heart. Then, they build a culture that empowers the people they bring into their endeavors to do the same.
They exalt self-knowledge, personal growth and meaningful expression as the heartbeat of success.
And they are hyper-aware that they, on an individual level, are both the keys to the castle and the sand in the machine. Equally capable of fueling acceleration and impact or delusion and collapse.
"If you really want to invest in something, invest in you."
If you'd like to read the entire essay, the story was originally told on Jonathan's blog.
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| 0:00.0 | So we're going to change in New England to experiment with some kind of fun different formats. |
| 0:10.6 | This is the first we're going to call a good life riff. |
| 0:13.2 | This is a shorter format, kind of a spoken more just me thinking telling a story and talking |
| 0:17.5 | about one particular topic. |
| 0:18.8 | And as always, it doesn't replace the in-depth conversations that we'll be sharing with you |
| 0:24.4 | every week. |
| 0:25.4 | We're just looking for ways to share a little bit more with you and potentially go to |
| 0:30.0 | a more frequent format in a way that's totally digestible for you and that gives you great |
| 0:35.2 | value and doesn't leave you feeling overwhelmed like you have to catch up at any time. |
| 0:40.3 | So our first good life riff is something called the Killer App is You. |
| 0:45.0 | And it's a bit of a spoken more piece. |
| 0:47.6 | So here we go. |
| 0:53.6 | The ad said something like this ride will very likely kill you or at least seriously |
| 0:58.5 | injure you and your ego. |
| 1:01.0 | The ride described it was a week long guided mountain bike trek and it started with the |
| 1:05.4 | famed Cokapelli Trail from Grand Junction, Colorado to Moab, Utah. |
| 1:10.3 | And then it took you along the razor edge of elevated moonscapes and maces. |
| 1:14.8 | It was massively technical, physically grueling and there were points where one wrong move |
| 1:20.4 | would have led to pretty perilous outcomes. |
| 1:23.8 | So there were six of us that came together for the first time at the trailhead and were |
| 1:27.0 | sizing each other up. |
| 1:29.0 | We did the usual how to do it with the question on everybody's mind was who can actually |
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