the substance.
In this episode, you’ll learn about:
- Stress-testing your life, realizing the stories we create and are living through, willfully, or not.
- The actual components of a good life
- How to manage responsibilities in your life responsibility
- Tackling human development & the human growth experience
- Building communities and companies that move culture
show notes.
[20:24] – What actually makes a ‘good life’
[54:45] – Why books actually matter.
[58:00] – What neuroscience tells us about entrepreneurship and unengaging from work
[1:05:21] – Parenting infrastructure & child development in 2020
[1:25:56] – The role of podcasts, and digesting information
[1:42:26] – Language and changing the structure of the brain
[2:03:35] – Changing the definition of success as a developed businessman
[2:15:04] – The human identity and what it means to be human
[2:25:25] How to build a community without putting walls around it
referenced.
guest bio.
My passion intersects between building things people care about and telling awesome stories about them. This has lead me to building companies, charities, projects, cultures and communities. I love the blank canvas and adventures that starting something new brings.
I have a natural curiosity about life,which often leads me to interesting situations most would not find themselves in. This also gives me some really good stories to tell. I believe that imagination and creativity are the two things we have in complete abundance and I use them as such. I encourage you to do the same.
I like to push boundaries on what I and others think can be done and I’ve [thankfully] come to realize just how short life is. For me, this isn’t something I find discomfort in, but rather it is my motivation to make the most of what I have.
I consider myself a designer – carefully planning the form, look and workings of a life I am passionate about living – and an author – writing the story of my life as I see fit, and sharing excerpts and glimpses along the way. I love adventures, surfing, long car rides, movement, yoga, health & fitness and anything that makes me feel alive.
And finally, while my goal may not be to live forever, it is to create things that will. If you are inspired by me, I am grateful. But please, don’t try to be like me. Be yourself. And be very good at being yourself.
