The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong with Eric Barker
The Science of Success
Matt Bodnar
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we ask what really produces success by looking at what separates truly successful people from the rest, we examine many common and conflicting “success maxims” and look at what the data actually says really works, we dig deep into the vital importance of knowing yourself and your own strengths, look at the power of aligning your work with your environment, and discuss the dangers of constantly overcommitting your time with Eric Barker.
Eric Barker is the creator of the blog “Barking Up The Wrong Tree” - with over 290,000 subscribers. His work is syndicated by Time Magazine, Business Insider and he has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and more. Just recently, his new book Barking up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong was named a Wall Street Journal Bestseller.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Science of Success with your host, Matt Bonner. |
| 0:12.3 | Welcome to the science of success. I'm your host, Matt Bodner. I'm an entrepreneur and investor in Nashville, Tennessee, and I'm obsessed with the mindset of success and the psychology |
| 0:21.9 | of performance. I've read hundreds of books, conducted countless hours of research and study, |
| 0:26.7 | and I'm going to take you on a journey into the human mind and what makes peak performers tick, |
| 0:31.1 | with a focus on always having our discussions rooted in psychological research and scientific fact, |
| 0:36.5 | not opinion. In this episode, we ask what really produces success by looking at what separates truly successful |
| 0:42.5 | people from the rest. |
| 0:43.7 | We examine many common and conflicting success maxims and look at what the data actually says |
| 0:49.5 | about what really works. |
| 0:51.3 | We dig deep into the vital importance of knowing yourself and your own strengths. |
| 0:55.9 | We look at the power of aligning your work with your environment and discuss the dangers of |
| 1:00.2 | constantly overcommitting your time with Eric Barker. The science of success continues to grow |
| 1:05.9 | with now more than a million downloads, listeners in over 100 countries, hitting number |
| 1:09.6 | a new, noteworthy, and more. I get listener comments and emails all the time asking me, Matt, how do you organize and remember all this incredible information? A lot of our listeners are curious about how I keep track of all the incredible knowledge I get from reading hundreds of books, interviewing amazing experts, listening to awesome podcasts, and more. Because of that, we've created an epic resource just for you, a detailed |
| 1:28.7 | guide called How to Organize and Remember Everything. And you can get it completely for free by texting |
| 1:33.9 | the word smarter to the number 44222. Again, it's a guide we created called How to Organize and Remember |
| 1:40.2 | Everything. All you have to do to get it is to text the word smarter to the number |
| 1:44.2 | 4422 or go to Successpodcast.com and join our email list. That's Successpodcast.com |
| 1:52.1 | and join our email list. In our previous episode, we discussed why people struggle to reach |
| 1:57.1 | outside of their comfort zones and why it's so critically important that you do. |
| 2:01.1 | We explored the five core psychological roadblocks stopping people from stepping outside their comfort |
| 2:05.6 | zones. We went deep on how you can become tougher, more resilient, and embrace this comfort, |
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