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Eric Jorgensen

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Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Mastering Optimism: The Contrarian Lessons Naval, Elon, and Balaji Want You to Know | Eric Jorgenson

The recognition that you aren't the one saying that, you're the one hearing that, and you can choose how to react to it and how to interpret it and whether to agree with it is sort of the second level. The third is to sort of recognize, oh, I didn't want to hear that voice and I need to like hammer on that because I don't want that to be my reaction to events like this.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Mastering Optimism: The Contrarian Lessons Naval, Elon, and Balaji Want You to Know | Eric Jorgenson

The recognition that you aren't the one saying that, you're the one hearing that, and you can choose how to react to it and how to interpret it and whether to agree with it is sort of the second level. The third is to sort of recognize, oh, I didn't want to hear that voice and I need to like hammer on that because I don't want that to be my reaction to events like this.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Mastering Optimism: The Contrarian Lessons Naval, Elon, and Balaji Want You to Know | Eric Jorgenson

I want to be a person who says, well, at least it wasn't two or at least it wasn't my engine or I'm still so lucky to have a car or... Glad thing I've got a cell phone and there's a towing company right here and I've got enough money to pay for the tow. No big deal. 20 minutes out of my day. back to it. Really looking forward to, you know, having a cup of coffee when I get through with this.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Mastering Optimism: The Contrarian Lessons Naval, Elon, and Balaji Want You to Know | Eric Jorgenson

I want to be a person who says, well, at least it wasn't two or at least it wasn't my engine or I'm still so lucky to have a car or... Glad thing I've got a cell phone and there's a towing company right here and I've got enough money to pay for the tow. No big deal. 20 minutes out of my day. back to it. Really looking forward to, you know, having a cup of coffee when I get through with this.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Mastering Optimism: The Contrarian Lessons Naval, Elon, and Balaji Want You to Know | Eric Jorgenson

Like all of those things are the meta lesson that of all teaches that I think is the most important is that like, is basically skill issue, right? Like if you are not wealthy, you can develop the skill to become. So if you are not happy, you can develop the skill to become. So if you are not optimistic, you can develop the skill to become so. And so learning to

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Mastering Optimism: The Contrarian Lessons Naval, Elon, and Balaji Want You to Know | Eric Jorgenson

Like all of those things are the meta lesson that of all teaches that I think is the most important is that like, is basically skill issue, right? Like if you are not wealthy, you can develop the skill to become. So if you are not happy, you can develop the skill to become. So if you are not optimistic, you can develop the skill to become so. And so learning to

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Mastering Optimism: The Contrarian Lessons Naval, Elon, and Balaji Want You to Know | Eric Jorgenson

see that and control, create the environment that makes you into the person that you want to be. Like if you want to have an optimistic reaction to things, surround yourselves with people with optimistic reactions to things, follow people who are optimistic, read people who are optimistic, train yourself out of those pessimistic reactions. Like pay attention, do this exercise for a week.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Mastering Optimism: The Contrarian Lessons Naval, Elon, and Balaji Want You to Know | Eric Jorgenson

see that and control, create the environment that makes you into the person that you want to be. Like if you want to have an optimistic reaction to things, surround yourselves with people with optimistic reactions to things, follow people who are optimistic, read people who are optimistic, train yourself out of those pessimistic reactions. Like pay attention, do this exercise for a week.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Mastering Optimism: The Contrarian Lessons Naval, Elon, and Balaji Want You to Know | Eric Jorgenson

If you're listening to this and you want to start this, Everybody that I've noticed in my life tends to start their, like when you ask how are you or what's going on, there are people who will always, always, always start with a negative observation. Hey, how was your flight? Good to see you. Oh, it was fine. There was a baby behind me that was crying.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Mastering Optimism: The Contrarian Lessons Naval, Elon, and Balaji Want You to Know | Eric Jorgenson

If you're listening to this and you want to start this, Everybody that I've noticed in my life tends to start their, like when you ask how are you or what's going on, there are people who will always, always, always start with a negative observation. Hey, how was your flight? Good to see you. Oh, it was fine. There was a baby behind me that was crying.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Mastering Optimism: The Contrarian Lessons Naval, Elon, and Balaji Want You to Know | Eric Jorgenson

or they'll say it was great no issues everything was on time like there there are people who 80 20 90 10 or 10 out of 10 will always start with a negative versus always start with a positive and i at least try to always be a person who starts with a positive who observes or shares something positive about whatever i just went through and you know help other people see that if you see you know your your partner your business partner or whatever like

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Mastering Optimism: The Contrarian Lessons Naval, Elon, and Balaji Want You to Know | Eric Jorgenson

or they'll say it was great no issues everything was on time like there there are people who 80 20 90 10 or 10 out of 10 will always start with a negative versus always start with a positive and i at least try to always be a person who starts with a positive who observes or shares something positive about whatever i just went through and you know help other people see that if you see you know your your partner your business partner or whatever like

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Mastering Optimism: The Contrarian Lessons Naval, Elon, and Balaji Want You to Know | Eric Jorgenson

always starting with a negative, be like, do you, do you mean to do that? Like the last five times, like I wrote them down, I bet you can tallies. Like, do you want that?

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Mastering Optimism: The Contrarian Lessons Naval, Elon, and Balaji Want You to Know | Eric Jorgenson

always starting with a negative, be like, do you, do you mean to do that? Like the last five times, like I wrote them down, I bet you can tallies. Like, do you want that?

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Mastering Optimism: The Contrarian Lessons Naval, Elon, and Balaji Want You to Know | Eric Jorgenson

Yeah, all my personal stuff is at ejorgensen.com. There's a podcast, a newsletter, both links to all my books and my little investment fund. And then Scribe Media is where to go if you're interested.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Mastering Optimism: The Contrarian Lessons Naval, Elon, and Balaji Want You to Know | Eric Jorgenson

Yeah, all my personal stuff is at ejorgensen.com. There's a podcast, a newsletter, both links to all my books and my little investment fund. And then Scribe Media is where to go if you're interested.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Mastering Optimism: The Contrarian Lessons Naval, Elon, and Balaji Want You to Know | Eric Jorgenson

If you think you've got a book in you, if you've got an Apple Note somewhere with book outline, book ideas, book notes, or if you just have a sense that one would help you grow your business, we'd love to chat with you, scribemedia.com.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Mastering Optimism: The Contrarian Lessons Naval, Elon, and Balaji Want You to Know | Eric Jorgenson

If you think you've got a book in you, if you've got an Apple Note somewhere with book outline, book ideas, book notes, or if you just have a sense that one would help you grow your business, we'd love to chat with you, scribemedia.com.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Mastering Optimism: The Contrarian Lessons Naval, Elon, and Balaji Want You to Know | Eric Jorgenson

Thank you.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Mastering Optimism: The Contrarian Lessons Naval, Elon, and Balaji Want You to Know | Eric Jorgenson

Thank you.

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