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Season 7 Roundup17 January 2024

6 Mindset Shifts To Make 2024 The Best Year Of Your Life - Season 7 Roundup

5Frameworks
18Insights

Frameworks in this episode

Insights & moments

The myth-busts, hot takes, explainers, and tools worth keeping.

Myth Buster· 2

Myth Buster14:30

There is no truth — a belief is just a thought you hold with certainty

“a belief is just a thought that we I that that we hold with some level of certainty”

Ali Abdaal · 14:30

“I find it helpful to imagine the idea that there is no truth it's just a matter of a thought that we believe because we…”

Ali Abdaal · 15:00
Myth Buster31:30

You don't have to create content to build a personal brand

“I don't think you need to create content yourself but I think in today's world you definitely need to be you need to be in…”

Chris Ducker · 32:30

“one of the easiest ways for us to spread our message our opinions our ideas and our thoughts today is doing exactly what we're doing…”

Chris Ducker · 31:30

Hot Take· 3

Hot Take08:30

A calm Chimp is a disadvantage, not a gift

“if you're got a calm chimp it may seem an advantage but actually in the long run it's a negative because it's meant to be…”

Steve Peters · 08:30
Hot Take24:30

Doing it 'properly' is why big companies become irrelevant

“businesses that have been going a very long time they've got like policy and HR and procedures and stuff they have to do so they…”

Jodie Cook · 24:30
Hot Take31:30

Be Marmite: every creator should be love-it-or-hate-it

“I'm a little m right I people either like me or they don't like me there's not a lot of messy Middle with me and…”

Chris Ducker · 31:30

Explainer· 2

Explainer07:00

Why the Chimp brain wins: it had a head start in the womb

“when you look at the development of the brain it has a head start in the fetus so it's all already operating in fetal life…”

Steve Peters · 07:00
Explainer09:30

Byron Katie's four questions and the turnaround

“question number one is this true and then just asking yourself yes or no like you know the the body will have a response to…”

Ali Abdaal · 09:30

“and then you do like a a turnaround I think she calls it where you sort of write down the exact opposite”

Ali Abdaal · 10:30

Story· 5

Story17:30

Jeff Bezos's success system: idea, one-page press release, ship it

“he will think of an idea he will write a one-page press release about it he will see how that goes down with a very…”

Jodie Cook · 17:30

“Amazon's got like 157 businesses that it's started that didn't go anywhere like you remember the dash buttons and the um and the fire phone”

Jodie Cook · 18:00
Story19:30

£350k from a Starbucks journal entry three weeks earlier

“I had the idea while I was sitting in a Starbucks in Cambridge journaling in a physical pen and paper”

Ali Abdaal · 19:30

“three weeks later the course was live and made 3 350k and that was more money than I'd ever seen before in my life”

Ali Abdaal · 20:00
Story22:30

50,000 words in a week vs 10,000 in two years

“I was just like I'm just going to write the chapter and I wrote like 50,000 words that week”

Ali Abdaal · 22:30

“whereas it took like 2 years to write 10,000 because I was just like overthinking and outline all this sort of stuff”

Ali Abdaal · 22:30
Story29:00

Chris Ducker didn't know he had a personal brand until the book deal

“I didn't even realize I had a personal brand until I got my first book deal”

Chris Ducker · 29:00

“I got the book deal because I was publishing content three times a week on my blog and I was podcasting every week”

Chris Ducker · 30:30
Story37:00

Nobody could say anything: the hotel room after the injury

“players would come through coaches would come through to but they couldn't say anything there's nothing that they could say could change this and it…”

Dan Carter · 37:30

“all those thoughts of why me why now why such a serious injury nothing made sense in my mind at all”

Dan Carter · 36:30

Q&A· 1

Q&A27:30

Building a personal brand inside a traditional job — get the green light first

“I'd be really really upfront with my boss and I'd say hey I'm thinking of starting a YouTube channel”

Chris Ducker · 27:30

“you're better off being upfront with that and getting the green light from your boss then you would do putting an entire year into it…”

Chris Ducker · 28:00

Takeaway· 5

Takeaway07:30

Distract a distressed child, don't reason with one

“if you want to help a child that's distressed distract it yeah you know and we know that works best don't reason with it because…”

Steve Peters · 07:30
Takeaway20:30

Ideas arrive away from the laptop, with space and a pen

“the initial idea comes from you having the space being somewhere different having a pen and paper”

Ali Abdaal · 20:30
Takeaway23:00

Write a disgusting first draft and treat it as a scene in the movie of your life

“taking away the pressure of it being good and being okay with it being like this is a disgusting first draft but like it doesn't…”

Julie Smith · 23:00

“I quite like to think about like the movie of your life like if this was a movie of your life right now then you…”

Julie Smith · 23:00
Takeaway33:30

Dan Carter: the setbacks, not the trophies, made the person

“a lot of people look at my career and just focus on the success but I firmly believe the person that I am today it's…”

Dan Carter · 34:00
Takeaway40:30

Four years later, the setbacks finally made sense

“all of a sudden four years earlier when things weren't making any sense they all made sense now um all those moments and setbacks were…”

Dan Carter · 40:30