Episode #196
Stop seeking judgment and start asking for advice; it creates allies who become invested in your success.
You don’t need a perfect idea to start—take small, scaffolded actions (e.g., begin with calls to friends/family, use scripts), iterate, and momentum will follow.
Discipline is built by SIDCHAs (self-imposed daily challenging healthy activities); doing them daily removes decision fatigue and compounds growth.
If you ask people for judgment, they will judge you.
Ask for money and you get advice. Ask for advice and you get money.
If Mandela can do it, I can do it.
How to create initiative (52:19)
Joshua Spodek, PhD, MBA, TEDx speaker, wrote the #1 bestselling Leadership Step by Step, hosts the award-winning Leadership and the Environment podcast, is a professor at NYU, writes a column for Inc., and blogs daily at joshuaspodek.com.
He holds five Ivy League degrees, including a PhD in astrophysics and an MBA from Columbia, where he studied under a Nobel Laureate.
He teaches and coaches leadership and entrepreneurship at NYU and Columbia Business School. He has spoken at Harvard, Princeton, West Point, MIT, IBM and other recognizable places.
Josh has appeared on every major network, the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, and more, he has been called “best and brightest” in Esquire’s Genius issue.
He visited North Korea twice, swam across the Hudson River, has done burpees daily since 2011 (130,000 and counting).
For those of you listening who are Pathfinders, Josh is the inventor of the SIDCHA.
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I love talking to Josh so much! One of the guests I’ve really built a relationship with. He was also a guest in episode #58 and #89.
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