Episode #403
Action before analysis: small experiments (no packaged food, no flying, 24 hours off-grid) build skills and show sustainable living can enhance quality of life.
The hardest parts are social and behavioral, not technological—habits like seasonal shopping, fermenting, and non-refrigeration matter more than gadgets.
Sustainability aligns with conservative values of personal responsibility and protecting life, liberty, and property; energy dependence undermines security and freedom.
No one lived connected to an electric grid more than a century ago, and most of the world doesn't now.
Can you imagine someone who never wrestled and just read books about wrestling teaching wrestling?
Pollution fundamentally destroys life, liberty, and property.
Are you someone who has big dreams but struggles with taking action? Do you find yourself constantly waiting for the perfect moment to start something, only to realize that moment never comes?
Join me and bestselling author Joshua Spodek in this episode of the Success Through Failure podcast as we explore the power of just getting started, even when success seems uncertain.
With a PhD in astrophysics and an MBA from Columbia, Joshua has accomplished many impressive feats. He’s the host of the award-winning podcast, “This Sustainable Life,” he’s a 4x TEDx speaker, he’s a professor at NYU, he has five Ivy League degrees, and he’s been published in The New Yorker, Time Magazine Inc., Psychology Today, and has been called the “best and brightest” by Esquire’s Genius issue.
These achievements were only possible because he took action and didn’t let fear hold him back.
Through the lens of sustainability, Joshua encourages you to live by your values and start small, and that success is the byproduct of taking action and learning from failure.
Discover how to overcome analysis paralysis and start living your best life— sustainably! Tune in now.
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