Adam Outland
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What walls have you encountered in building something? I love allowing our listeners insight that when you choose to take a risk, that it doesn't necessarily mean that it's a pathway paved in gold. It comes with a lot of potholes.
What walls have you encountered in building something? I love allowing our listeners insight that when you choose to take a risk, that it doesn't necessarily mean that it's a pathway paved in gold. It comes with a lot of potholes.
You know, I just want to spend one more minute on this. People and their relationship to risk is that they don't understand that a lot of life can be a little bit like a game of baseball and that if you're batting 20% to 30%, it's a good batting average. Yeah. Most of life, we're not trained to embrace rejection or misses or missed swings.
You know, I just want to spend one more minute on this. People and their relationship to risk is that they don't understand that a lot of life can be a little bit like a game of baseball and that if you're batting 20% to 30%, it's a good batting average. Yeah. Most of life, we're not trained to embrace rejection or misses or missed swings.
That way, we treat it as an ultimate failure, which then generally means I'm not good enough.
That way, we treat it as an ultimate failure, which then generally means I'm not good enough.
For you, where did this light switch flip? Or could you trace it back to say, this is the moment where I kind of changed my relationship to failure?
For you, where did this light switch flip? Or could you trace it back to say, this is the moment where I kind of changed my relationship to failure?
What do you think when you are spending time as an entrepreneur mentor for MIT or you're speaking at some universities and engaging with this next generation that's coming out? What do you see there? Do you see a group of young women and men that have that new definition of failure?
What do you think when you are spending time as an entrepreneur mentor for MIT or you're speaking at some universities and engaging with this next generation that's coming out? What do you see there? Do you see a group of young women and men that have that new definition of failure?
Or do you feel we need to be able to manufacture somehow for some of these people, maybe not a life-threatening situation, but something that shakes them up in how they perceive what we're discussing.
Or do you feel we need to be able to manufacture somehow for some of these people, maybe not a life-threatening situation, but something that shakes them up in how they perceive what we're discussing.
Yeah, I was at a longevity dinner and it was very interesting to hear people talk about how quickly and exponentially medical and health disruption is occurring. And that the key takeaway from this speaker was that if you can live 10 more years, you'll solve most of your problems that you'll have in the future and probably add another 20 to your life.
Yeah, I was at a longevity dinner and it was very interesting to hear people talk about how quickly and exponentially medical and health disruption is occurring. And that the key takeaway from this speaker was that if you can live 10 more years, you'll solve most of your problems that you'll have in the future and probably add another 20 to your life.
And stay tuned. We'll continue this conversation with Terrence in episode 479 of The Action Catalyst.
And stay tuned. We'll continue this conversation with Terrence in episode 479 of The Action Catalyst.
This is your host, Adam Outland. And outside of this podcast, I'm also the leader for a division of our company, Southwestern Consulting, and our division is the Southwestern Student Coaching Program. And that division, we started back in 2020 because the desire we had was to take all these skills that we've equipped executives with for
This is your host, Adam Outland. And outside of this podcast, I'm also the leader for a division of our company, Southwestern Consulting, and our division is the Southwestern Student Coaching Program. And that division, we started back in 2020 because the desire we had was to take all these skills that we've equipped executives with for
Over a decade, I've coached executives and managers and sales professionals on the skills, the habits, the motivation, and the systems to be successful in their job and in life.
Over a decade, I've coached executives and managers and sales professionals on the skills, the habits, the motivation, and the systems to be successful in their job and in life.