Pat Flynn
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147 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Again, it could be a bad thing because if my self-worth is based on whether or not Lewis says thanks to me tonight, that could be a dangerous state. But I mean.
I appreciate it.
What are you basing the appreciation and value in return from? If it is from likes or comments, that can be very dangerous. if you know that what you're putting out there is of service to people, then oftentimes you just have to believe that there are people out there who are benefiting from it.
And I remember for my podcast in 2011, I had it running for a year and a half and it was feeling like the machine. And I was like, you know, kind of, it wasn't growing as fast as the blog was at the time. So I was questioning the work and the time it took to edit and put together the podcast. And I was close to giving up on the show, you know, 50, 60 episodes in.
And right around this time, I got an email from a guy named Michal from Poland. And the subject line of this email was, Pat, please read You Saved My Life. And I was like, dang, that's a good subject line. I'm going to open that for sure. And so I read it. It was like an essay. He had found my show in the early days. Again, I never met this or didn't even know this person existed.
He had found my show early on. when he was bedridden because he got in a skiing accident. And he included x-rays of his ankles with nails and plates in them. And he said that he felt like he was letting his family down because he couldn't go to work. He felt like he was letting his kids down and it was just crushing him.
And he found my show and he said he would listen to it every day and it would encourage him to keep trying and keep going. And he said that there was one particular episode where when I talk about goal setting, I often say go for the almost impossible. And he said with two broken legs that he was gonna go run a marathon.
And there was a marathon a year later after he discovered my show, it was the Warsaw Marathon, 26.2 miles. And at the bottom of this email, there's a picture of him crossing the finish line, holding up a sign. And the sign said in Polish, so he translated it for me and said, thank you, Gabby, his wife and his kids, and Pat Flynn.
And, I mean, I'm bawling. My mascara's dripping on the keyboard. And I realized that that's just one person who was listening to the show that I didn't even know existed. How many more people like him were out there? So I'm going to keep going no matter what.
I wrote it for my kids. My son is 15. I don't, admire him for the world that he's growing up in right now. And my daughter's 12. It is so confusing, so overwhelming. It is astronomically harder, it feels, to know what the heck you're going to do.
And I know a lot of us are falling in that same path, whether you're 15 or 50, that you just are overwhelmed and confused with everything that's available out there to you. Because like I said, information is no longer scarce. It is everywhere. We're not just at a buffet line. And as humans, we hoard information. It's like food in the wilderness that we just we see a fruit tree.
We take every fruit because we might not come across another tree like that. We're just overwhelmed. Our brains aren't evolved enough to handle the world that we live in. And so this book is an answer to that. It's how to understand how to navigate learning today. And the story that I tell in the beginning of the book is about my son when he was in preschool.
His teacher had sent an email that was really odd. because during the day, apparently, in the hot San Diego sun, I'm from San Diego as well. Woo, let's go. I'm so grateful that you're here for the last leg of your trip, man. I'm so, so thankful for you. So imagine near summer, super hot, and when these preschoolers have an ant infestation in their classroom, so they have to eat lunch outside.
but they usually eat inside. San Diego's basically a giant ant hill, we all know this, right? And they're burning up out there. So the teacher drops everything they're doing, and I'm learning this after the fact. They spend the whole afternoon after lunch brainstorming with the entire class, the teachers leading this. She writes all the ideas that the kids have and pastes them on the whiteboard.
There's like dozens of ideas of how to solve this problem. How do we fix going outside and eating lunch and not burning? Somebody said, let's just eat the ants. Which, this is a clever answer. Some countries, maybe. But they eventually take, you know, all ideas are good. Cool, they're all out there. The kids are seeing their own ideas up there.
And together, the teacher goes, okay, which of these ideas seem like they would actually work? So she's doing what we do as entrepreneurs, right, when we brainstorm something. And eventually, it's one post-it note where they're gonna build a sunshade out of blankets and PVC pipes. So this email was, hey parents,
If you have any leftover blankets or sheets or anything, please bring them to school tomorrow. We have people bringing PVC pipes. They're going to be building a project. And we're just like, this is interesting. What about math? Well, we arrived the next day after school to pick up. and we see these giant sunshades in the middle of the courtyard where they have lunch and I'm just like blown away.
And I know it doesn't seem like much, but if you're five years old and you have a problem and then you solve that problem in a way that you'd never thought possible before, that is life changing, bro. And I've seen what that kind of style of teaching has done for my kids and the way that they handle the world today.
And so this book passes forward a lot of those strategies and strategies that I've learned to accomplish a lot of things in a short period of time. Lean learning how to achieve more by learning less. And dude, this is supposed to be about your book, bro.
Look at that. Of course, yours is bigger than mine. Why did I say that? I don't know why I said that.
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