Episodes

We have this basic activity where you set a goal. You’re trying to do something that you can’t do and you have a practice activit…

“When you’re truly unmistakable, the competition becomes completely irrelevant. You’re not the best option. You’re the only optio…

“There’s a necessary amount of suffering that needs to happen for new ideas or new work or change to happen. If I don’t suffer, I…

“I was always able to envision “as soon as I get to this spot, the bullshit in my head is going to leave. As soon as this happens…

Flow follows focus. The state can only show up when all our attention is focused in the right here, right now. Evolution shaped w…

“You have to find that thing that you want so badly that you’ll stand in the town square naked and let me people throw rotten tom…

“The realm of possibility is predicated on the idea that we create our lives. And of course, we’re not victims of anything. We ha…

What happens when our trust has been broken and we have been betrayed, it can cause us to feel a lack of confidence in ourselves.…

Particularly in America, we think that influence is bad. It’s not a four letter word but it’s pretty close. There’s this myth of …

“One of the hardest things to do is to separate your work  and the effort that you put in from the results that might come out of…

“I think one of the things is not looking at the result. Something that has grown very evident in me, and it came from being a te…

“A work of art is something new in the world that changes the world to allow itself to exist.  What that means is that the contex…

It starts at the core. A lot of times we can find our minds go the place of “when I have then I’ll be.” It’s kind of that context…

When we study people that are exceptional at risk taking, there are some clear functions that take part. There’s two phrases that…

It turns out when we do put ourselves at the edge of the water, visually our field of view is simplified. Auditorily our world is…

“Humans are emotional creatures. We all have the chance right now today to decide, and that word is so important, to decide to li…

“No one who is learning to play a musical instrument, no one who wants to learn a musical instrument would ever take a class wher…

“My first night in prison was the worst night of my life. I’ll never forget it because it was right around my birthday, a time th…

We as a society have collectively decided that there’s an appropriate way to show our commitment to our jobs. And that’s through …

I don’t help people launch into their trajectory. I show them what it likely is. Then it’s up to them to make the effort to do wh…

“That whole yoga sutras idea, the fact that the eagle spreads its wings, then brings its wings down, the cycle of life almost. Yo…

This is the first time in the history of the world where the risky thing is to do the traditional thing. That’s more risky than “…

How does what we know get in the way of what we don’t know, but need to learn? I felt like I finally knew stuff. But now I’m leav…

“For me it’s pretty obvious that what people are searching for is inside. I think we’re sold that it’s outside of us. People in t…