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We Study Billionaires - The Investor’s Podcast Network

TIP561: Discovering Your Hidden Genius w/ Polina Pompliano

We Study Billionaires - The Investor’s Podcast Network

Stig Brodersen

Education, Investing, Business

4.6 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Clay Finck and Polina Pompliano discuss her book "Hidden Genius," exploring mental frameworks of high performers to unlock their full potential.

After five years of writing The Profile, Polina Marinova Pompliano has studied hundreds of successful people and examined how they reason their way through problems, unleash their creativity, navigate relationships, and perform under extreme pressure.


IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

00:00 - Intro.

02:11 - How Polina defines success.

04:40 - What people-based learning is and why it’s so powerful.

06:41 - Why creativity is like a muscle that can be trained and improved upon.

14:47 - How we can master the skill of mental toughness.

27:16 - What an alter ego is and how it can be used to elevate our lives to the next level.

34:04 - Challenges Polina overcame to go from working at prestigious companies like CNN & Fortune to working for herself.

55:50 - How to ensure you have a healthy content diet.

63:14 - How to balance in-person and online relationships in the modern digital world.

65:16 - Polina’s lessons from studying MMA heavyweight world champion Francis Ngannou.

74:17 - Why you should bet on yourself by tying your identity to your name.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to TI-P.

0:03.2

On today's episode, I'm joined by Paulina Pompleano.

0:06.1

For the past five years, Paulina has been studying and profiling the most successful and

0:10.6

interesting people and companies in business, entertainment, tech, sports, and more.

0:16.0

She curated all of her most impactful findings into her new book called Hidden Genius, which

0:20.5

we'll be covering today.

0:22.2

During this episode, we discussed how Paulina defines success, how we can master the skill

0:26.9

of mental toughness, how to ensure we have a healthy

0:29.8

content diet, why you should bet on yourself by tying your identity to your name and

0:34.8

so much more.

0:36.2

Another topic I found really interesting during this discussion was the topic of creativity

0:40.6

and developing the ability to connect the dots between two different fields.

0:45.1

Charlie Munger has made famous the idea of developing a lattice work of mental models

0:49.8

and to develop the skill of connecting in a related disciplines.

0:53.6

That is one of the really fascinating things about Paulina's book.

0:56.6

The individuals covered in a book aren't really in related industries, but we can pull

1:00.5

the most useful lessons and implement them into our own lives which makes people based

1:04.8

learning so powerful.

1:06.8

Later in our conversation, Plina shares her own method for connecting the dots between

1:10.8

different disciplines and ideas.

1:13.1

I really enjoyed Plina's book and certainly will be revisiting it in the future.

1:17.8

With that, here is my conversation with Plina Pompleano.

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