154) Sahil Bloom - Mental Models for a Happy & Successful Life

Today’s conversation is with Sahil Bloom, Investor, Entrepreneur, and Creator. Every week, his content reaches and impacts over 1 million people around the world. Sahil has over 700,000 followers on Twitter, 125,000 subscribers to his newsletter (The Curiosity Chronicle), and a rapidly growing Instagram. There’s so much to take in and learn from this podcast, including Sahil’s changing and evolving identity over the years from playing professional baseball and studying at Stanford, onto working in the finance world, to the relentless creator we now follow online and proud Dad. In this conversation, we talk about finding your zone of genius and purpose in your career and busiest, mental models for a successful life, mental errors people make, and paradoxes related to effort, choice, failure and more. Today's episode sponsor is previous podcast guest, Mike Samuels. Mike is a copywriter who's been responsible for over $170 Million in online sales for his clients, and now teachers others how to become what he calls 'Coffee Shop Copywriters.' He's personally guided over 300 people to the point where they're now earning their living as highly-paid, highly-respected copywriters, earning up to £350 per hour, and getting paid multiple times for one piece of work If this is something that interests you, and you like the idea of earning a great living from your laptop, while mastering an in-demand skill clients around the world happily pay for, head to www.thefreedomkickstarter.com/500templates to grab your templates and free class. Connect with Sahil: Twitter - https://twitter.com/SahilBloom Insta - www.instagram.com/sahilbloom Newsletter - https://sparklp.co/faa9ef56/ Connect with Col: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/col.cambro/ Email List - https://mailchi.mp/548e38ba5942/colincambro Support me: buymeacoffee.com/ColCamBro 00:15 How would Sahil define himself 01:32 Zone of genius 02:52 find yours 04:51  telic versus atelic activities 06:06 - Energy calendar 07:50 batching 08:40 education can be wasted on the young 12:12 common thread for highly successful people 13:19 benefits from reading fiction 15:38 baseball team at Stanford 16:40 High school 18:05 punched in the face 20:09 pleasure without pain 22: 36 sacrifice for pleasure 23:38 The wheel of time 28:21 be present 29:48 cold plunge routine 30:35 walking in silence 33:34 Lessons from fatherhood 35:30 Friction 40:28 family dinners 41:20 an easy life can be unhealthy 41:56 spotlight effect 43:27 80 and 10 year old self 46:59 Paradox of effort 49:21 Paradox of Choice 51:29 Failure Paradox 52:30 moment of failure 54:21 Content for Roman 55:44 The important thing in the world 57:19 One lesson that it took the longest to learn 59:22 Where to connect with Sahil

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