Why optimism can be your secret superpower with Sahil Bloom (E241)
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
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🗓️ 19 February 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This episode explores the foundational principles that have guided Sahil’s journey towards personal growth and meaningful relationships.
Sahil Bloom is an investor, entrepreneur and writer, known for his newsletter The Curiosity Chronicle. In this episode, Sahil discusses with Jake why prioritising important relationships over career-driven success has been a crucial and formative decision. Sahil expresses his belief that the beauty of relationships can be found in the struggle, through overcoming hardships with a partner, you can find a new, more deepened strength.
He shares his method to achieving personal goals, how to analyse whether you’re going in the right direction and the important of patience. They debate the concept of luck, and the difference between acts of God and luck that can be influenced by our actions and awareness. Sahil shares an innovative approach to goal-setting, by introducing the ABC method as a framework for managing expectations and driving progress. A represents the aspirational, B the baseline and C the critical must-do level.
This episode is a reminder that true success lies not in financial, or career, gain but in the immeasurable value we bring to our relationships and communities.
During the conversation, Sahil refers to an op-ed written by a man who'd lost his son to a rare form of epilepsy, you can find that here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/its-later-than-you-think-j-r-storment/
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there you're listening to High Performance the show that unlocks the minds of some of the most |
| 0:06.1 | fascinating people on the planet. I'm J. Humphrey and alongside Damian Hughes, our expert in |
| 0:12.2 | high-performing team cultures, we learned from the stories, successes, |
| 0:16.3 | and struggles of our guests, allowing us all to explore, be challenged, and to grow. Here's what's coming up today. |
| 0:24.4 | It's one of the hardest things in the world. If you are surrounded by people who are telling you that you can't do |
| 0:30.6 | something, you're never going to go where you want to go in life. |
| 0:34.8 | And the hardest thing is when those people are your family. |
| 0:39.2 | What about when it's your spouse? What about when that's your parents? What about when it's your spouse what about when it's your sibling best friend |
| 0:45.8 | it's really really hard to make those changes one of the exercises I did encouraged |
| 0:52.0 | by a mentor of mine, was to envision my life at the end. |
| 0:56.8 | Basically, envision my ideal life at age 80. |
| 1:01.1 | And then you zoom back and think about, okay, what are the actions that I need to be taking on a daily basis today to create that ideal future? |
| 1:10.0 | My natural wiring is a psychopath. |
| 1:13.0 | If I got excited about something and I went head down on it, |
| 1:17.0 | you wouldn't see me for a year. |
| 1:19.0 | And a lot of my relationships would suffer |
| 1:21.0 | and a lot of every other area my life would suffer, but man, would I be dialed in on that. relationships would |
| 1:23.5 | I be dialed in on that thing. |
| 1:25.5 | All of this comes down to becoming more self-aware |
| 1:29.5 | over the course of your life, |
| 1:31.0 | figuring out what those sort of demons are that you have, |
| 1:35.1 | mine is this psychopath and figuring out how to manage that. |
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