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  • The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

    699: Jack Raines - How to Build Your Career, Increase Your Surface Area For Luck, and Find Your Purpose | Why Memories Compound Faster Than Money

    02/08/2026 | 49min
    The Learning Leader Show with Ryan Hawk
    www.LearningLeader.com
    This is brought to you by Insight Global. If you need to hire one person, hire a team of people, or transform your business through Talent or Technical Services, Insight Global's team of 30,000 people around the world has the hustle and grit to deliver.
    My Guest: Jack Raines is a writer and investor. At 24, he quit his corporate finance job at UPS, bought a one-way ticket to Barcelona, and spent the next year traveling through 25 countries while writing a newsletter that grew to hundreds of thousands of readers. He went on to earn an MBA from Columbia, help build Sherwood News at Robinhood, and join the venture capital firm Slow Ventures, where he invests in creators. His first book, Young Money: A Field Guide to Finding Wealth and Purpose in Your Twenties, is out now.
    Key Learnings
    Jack's Grandma Ruth took him to Africa when he was 11. She was in her late 60s. She had the money. She said: "I can spend it on you now or leave it to you when I'm dead. This is better."
    Money has no value until you exchange it for something. We need to decide what we want that to be.
    Every year of your 20s is worth $10 million. (Nikita Bier) You'll never have this window of flexibility again.
    Say yes to interesting experiences in your 20s. Your income is going to climb exponentially anyway. Don't save $500 at the cost of a memory.
    Move to where the action is. Jack moved to New York for business school. Then San Francisco for a job. Then back to New York. High slope of learning. High slope of contact with good people.
    Network amplifies ability. It doesn't create it. A million times zero is still zero. A million times two is two million.
    The only real risk is not doing anything.
    Every opportunity in life comes through a person.
    The best networking tool is doing great work. How did Gracie Abrams open for Taylor Swift on the Eras Tour? She wrote great music. Taylor noticed. Taylor called.
    In your 20s, potential is valued at a premium. In your 30s and beyond, proof of work matters more.
    Experimenting when you are young speed-runs the learning curve. You develop the skill of taking shots. That skill compounds. 
    It's much harder to start being risk-on at 35 if you weren't risk-on at 25.
    Personal finance is simple. Spend less than you make. Build a six-month emergency fund. Take the 401(k) match. Contribute to your IRA. Don't gamble on individual stocks. Stay invested. Stay employed. Don't go into credit card debt. Don't get divorced.
    User error interrupts compounding more than anything else. Set up the boring foundation. Then stop touching it.
    Most retirees never touch the principal. (Nick Maggiulli) They stack money out of fear, then die with more than they started with.
    Daniel Kahneman on loss aversion: the pain of losing $100 is twice as strong as the joy of gaining $100. That's why people over-save.
    Your burn rate at 70 is way lower than at 45. No kids at home. No tuition. Less energy to do stuff. Plan accordingly.
    Bill Perkins' Die with Zero philosophy... A useful insight was in the first chapter: his best friend took a payday loan at 23 to backpack Europe for three months. Same career trajectory as Bill. Just way more fun at 24.
    People don't want to think about their mortality. So they focus on making the number go up. If you actually internalized that you're going to die, you'd be more intentional about your time and money.
    Jack's champagne moment a year from now: He sells a ton of copies of it. And it's still relevant.
    Reflection Questions
    Where are you spending your best years earning money you'll never actually enjoy? What would change if you accepted that your peak-energy window is closing?
    Where are you standing still because the risk of moving feels bigger than the risk of staying? What does the only real risk (not doing anything) look like in your life right now?
    What is the great work you could do that would make the right person notice you? 
    More Learning
    #539: Jack Raines - Playing Infinite Games, Living Life Backwards & Building Your Platform
    #548: Nick Maggiulli - The Power of Compounding
    #373: Bill Perkins - How To Get All You Can From Your Money & Your Life
    Podcast Chapters
    00:00 The Price of Becoming - Pre-Order Now! 
    01:38 Meet Jack Raines 
    03:27 Grandma Ruth Took Him to Africa When He Was 11 
    08:04 Why Every Year of Your 20s Is Worth $10 Million 
    12:12 Quitting UPS at 24 for a One-Way Ticket to Barcelona 
    15:10 How to Increase Your Surface Area for Luck 
    20:00 Where You Live Is Who You Become 
    22:00 Why Memories Compound Faster Than Money 
    26:23 The Financial Stability Basics Nobody Wants to Hear 
    29:00 Get the Boring Stuff on Autopilot 
    31:15 Why Retirees Never Touch the Principal 
    34:02 The Bad Trade of Saving During Your Best Years 
    37:36 The Bill Perkins Die With Zero Debate 
    39:15 Experimentation, Agency, and the Only Real Risk 
    42:53 The Best Networking Tool in the World: Do Great Work 
    44:10 The Champagne Question: Making the Book Matter a Year From Now 
    45:53 EOPC
  • The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

    698: Joanna Stern - How to Think for Yourself in the Age of AI, Why Deep Work Still Matters, Making Career Decisions With ChatGPT, and How to Stay Human on Purpose

    26/07/2026 | 55min
    The Learning Leader Show with Ryan Hawk
    www.LearningLeader.com
    New Book - The Price of Becoming - www.LearningLeader.com/Becoming
    This is brought to you by Insight Global. If you need to hire one person, hire a team of people, or transform your business through Talent or Technical Services, Insight Global's team of 30,000 people around the world has the hustle and grit to deliver.
    My Guest: Joanna Stern is an Emmy Award-winning technology journalist, chief technology analyst for NBC News, and founder of the independent media company, "New Things." She is best known for her 12-year tenure at The Wall Street Journal, and for authoring the New York Times bestseller I Am Not a Robot.
    Key Learnings 
    Joanna dedicated her book to her parents "who taught me to think for myself, and the AIs, robots, and machines that made me wonder if I really was." In an age when AI can do the thinking for us, the most valuable thing we can teach our kids is to think for themselves.
    Walt Mossberg invented tech journalism for humans. His first column: "Computers are too hard to use, and it's not your fault." Without Walt, we don't have a category where technology built for humans is reviewed by humans.
    AI won't replace the radiologist. It'll make them better. Joanna sat with her doctor while AI scanned her mammogram. The AI flagged three suspicious spots. Two the doctor had already dismissed as benign. But one was something the doctor hadn't caught. She marked it for follow-up. Then the doctor pointed to other cases where SHE had caught things the AI missed. It's not a replacement. It's a partnership.
    The same technology that finds cancer is the same technology that can autonomously send missiles. That's the great tension of our time. Every powerful technology has good and bad uses.
    AI colleagues are coming. Joanna has two employees and one AI agent. She predicts that within a year, she'll have full AI employees. Great management books haven't been written yet about how to lead a mixed team of humans and agents. Someone is going to write them.
    Concert ticket prices tell you everything about human connection right now. Every artist is selling out football stadiums. People are craving in-person interaction more than ever.
    Bot Girl Summer. Joanna tried to have an emotional relationship with a chatbot boyfriend named Evan for 48 hours. She didn't fall in love. But she noticed how easy it was to talk to something that only wanted to hear about her problems and told her she was great at everything. That's the danger.
    The AI therapist shut itself down when it realized there was a real therapist in the room. Joanna brought her AI therapist "Ash" into her actual therapy session. Halfway through, Ash said, "I'm sorry, I can't continue this conversation. It sounds like there are multiple people in the room."
    AI won't replace therapists. It'll help with the shortage and the stigma. Some people don't want to walk into a therapist's office. But they'll open their phones. That's a bridge to real help for people who wouldn't otherwise get it.
    Kara Swisher's career advice to Joanna: "Leave your fucking job." That was the shortest, cleanest advice Joanna got when deciding whether to leave the Wall Street Journal after 12 years.
    Joanna used AI as a co-founder for the biggest decision of her career. She uploaded 12 years of notes into ChatGPT and asked it to help her decide whether to leave the Journal. It didn't decide for her. But it structured the risk analysis, laid out the escape hatches, and helped her see the shape of the decision.
    The muscles atrophy if you don't use them. Writing is meant to be hard. Thinking is meant to be hard. If you outsource the hard work, you stop getting stronger at the hard work.
    Research is where you learn the most. If you have AI pull the memo for you and you get up and read it, you don't know what you're really talking about. You have to do the reps to know the material.
    AEI: Already Enough Intelligence. Sam Altman is obsessed with building superintelligence. Joanna proposes we already have enough intelligence to work with. Maybe the goal isn't to build smarter models. Maybe it's to figure out what to do with what we already have.
    The AI on-ramp for leaders: Take one document you make all the time (a memo, a PowerPoint, an email template). Upload it. Ask AI to make a template out of it. Next time you need it, you're twice as fast. 
    Push yourself to do the harder work. Joanna's analogy: marathon runners are insane. They just want to run. Nobody wants to do the harder work. But that's where the growth is.
    Joanna's champagne moment a year from now: milestones for her new company. She's already hit 100,000 YouTube subscribers three months after her first video. But she also just wants a nap.
    Reflection Questions
    Where in your work are you outsourcing the thinking to AI? Are the muscles you actually need atrophying because you're skipping the reps?
    If you accepted that you already have enough intelligence to work with, what would you actually build with what's in front of you right now?
    More Learning
    #679: Kat Cole - The Four Mindsets Every Leader Needs
    #605: Seth Godin - The Power of Remarkable Ideas
    #697: Dan Smith & Ryan Hawk - The Price of Becoming
    Podcast Chapters
    00:00 The Price of Becoming - Pre-Order Now! 
    01:44 Meet Joanna Stern 
    02:31 Teach Your Kids to Think in the Age of AI 
    03:25 The Parents and Mentors Who Shaped Her Career 
    04:16 Lessons From Walt Mossberg 
    05:55 Why Joanna Spent a Year Living With AI 
    14:47 How AI Can Make You a Better Leader 
    17:30 Why People Crave Human Connection More Than Ever 
    21:00 Bot Girl Summer: Dating a Chatbot Named Evan 
    25:13 The AI Therapist Trial
    29:51 Using ChatGPT for a Career Change
    33:29 Don't Let Your Thinking Muscles Atrophy 
    40:20 Sam Altman on Superintelligence, and Joanna's Case for "AEI" 
    42:51 Joanna's Advice for College Students 
    45:29 How Joanna Actually Uses AI to Write 
    47:17 Practical AI for the Fortune 500 VP 
    50:17 The Champagne Question
    52:43 EOPC
  • The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

    697: The Price of Becoming - The Compounding Practices of High Performance (My New Book is Now Available!). "Have a Plan. Work the Plan. Plan for the Unexpected."

    19/07/2026 | 1h 14min
    Go to www.LearningLeader.com
    The Learning Leader Show with Ryan Hawk
    Buy my new book, The Price of Becoming
    www.LearningLeader.com/Becoming
    This is brought to you by Insight Global. If you need to hire one person, hire a team of people, or transform your business through Talent or Technical Services, Insight Global's team of 30,000 people around the world has the hustle and grit to deliver.
    Get The Price of Becoming: The Price of Becoming is available now wherever books are sold.  
    "Have a plan, work the plan, plan for the unexpected." From my old Miami football coach, Terry Hoeppner. It was posted in the locker room. He said it every day. I still think about it all the time.
    There is no hack. There is no one thing. At many keynote Q&As, someone asks me for a quick fix. The only answer is the power of compounding. Consistency, dependability, and reliability are the least sexy words of all time. And they're the whole game.
    Take your work seriously. Don't take yourself seriously. The best leaders go hard at the work but laugh at themselves. It's important to be able to laugh with your team.
    Optionality is overrated. 
    "I'm trying to beef up my obituary. I'm not going to dabble." - Ed Latimore (Ep. 648)
    Live like a hawk. Hawks have eyesight eight times better than humans. They glide and observe constantly. But once they see what they want, they commit with everything they have. Be a professional noticer. Then commit fully.
    Talk to your people before big decisions. My dad. Miranda. And the wide network of high-caliber people I've built over 700 podcast episodes. Be specific. Off the record. Long conversations. Then trust your gut.
    Take bits and pieces from the best. Then find your own voice. As a brand new sales rep at LexisNexis, Rex Caswell had me interview and sit with the ten best reps in the company. I took a piece from each, mashed it together with my own personality, and eventually found my own voice. I still use that formula today.
    Use social media to create in-person moments. Organize dinners, meetups, coffees. Get in the room with people. Concert ticket prices and The World Cup tell you everything you need to know about how much people are craving in-person connection right now.
    Don't outsource your thinking to AI. You can't walk into the weight room, look around, and expect to build muscle. You have to move the weights. Use AI as a tool. Don't let it do the thinking for you.
    Your job is to add value to other people's lives. Coach Hoeppner sat 19-year-old me down with the other quarterback and pointed at both of us: "He adds more value to our team than you do. He gives us a better chance to win. That's why he's going to play." It was brutal. It was a very lucky moment for me to experience that in my formative years.
    I fell into the AI trap. The Be a Pro section originally started as a LinkedIn post that was heavily influenced by Claude. It went well on Twitter too. People DM'd me praising it. It felt great. And it scared me. I was getting the rewards without doing the work.
    The good old days are right now. I try to work hard when my family is asleep or at school. Between those hours, I go as hard as I can. Outside those hours, I try not to work too much. I've talked with so many dads who are older now, and their kids are out of the house. They miss the time when they were with their kids so much. I try to think of that daily.
    Making positive dents in the world. Leave people, places, and things better than you found them.  That's how you make a positive dent, one person at a time.
    My philosophy on keynotes and writing: story, science, and practical application. Great storytelling to move people to the edge of their seat. Empirical evidence to make it true. Practical application to answer, "So what? Why should I care?" You have to have all 3.
    Our edge in coaching leadership teams: my coaches actively live what they teach. They didn't attend a seminar and get certified. They're still active coaches themselves, still leading teams in real time. That's what separates authentic teaching from performance.
    Push your edges. Find your Goldilocks zone. James Clear told me you don't get better at tennis by playing Roger Federer. He'll destroy you. But you also don't get better by playing a five-year-old. You need to be uncomfortable, but not so uncomfortable that you break.
    Shane Gillis walked off stage looking exhausted. Dan saw him live in Cincinnati. On stage, effortless. The second he stepped behind the curtain, his shoulders slumped like he was ready to fall asleep. That's what the great ones do. They make it look easy because of the price they paid to get there.
    My productive paranoia. Our team has to earn it every session. It creates a productive paranoia knowing that continuous improvement is necessary.
    The reward is bigger than the cost. It's the greatest gig in the world. I bet on myself and the team every single day because if we keep adding value, I like our chances.
    Reflection Questions
    Where are you dabbling right now? What would 100% commitment actually look like, and what's stopping you from making the call?
    My end-of-day prompts: What did I do today to add value to others' lives? What did I do today to push my edges?
    Get The Price of Becoming: The Price of Becoming is available now at learningleader.com/becoming or on Amazon. 
    More Learning
    #529: James Clear - Becoming an Optimist & Building Better Habits 
    #648: Ed Latimore -  Discipline Over Feelings, Don't Dabble Your Way Through Life

    #602: The Learning Leader Squad - Helping Teams Become Elite & People Become Excellent
     
    Episode Chapters
    00:00 A Special Launch Episode: The Price of Becoming 
    02:29 Have a Plan, Work the Plan, Plan for the Unexpected 
    05:15 There Is No Hack. Just the Power of Compounding. 
    08:04 Take Your Work Seriously. But Not Yourself
    12:31 Optionality Is Overrated: Why You Should Stop Dabbling 
    16:13 How I Make Big Decisions 
    20:34 Using Social Media to Build Real In-Person Relationships 
    23:27 The Danger of Using AI to Write
    34:16 How I Structure My Work Days
    40:47 The One at a Time Moments That Signal a Positive Dent 
    42:04 Leave People, Places, and Things Better Than You Found Them 
    50:52 Story, Science, and Practical Application 
    55:14 What Makes The Learning Leader Team Different
    57:39 Push Your Edges: The Goldilocks Zone 
    01:06:24 The Real Cost of Betting on Yourself 
    01:10:45 EOPC
  • The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

    696: Dr. Zeke Emanuel - The Six Rules for Health & Longevity, The Harvard Study on Happiness, The Truth About Biohacking, Social Connection, and How to Avoid Being a Schmuck

    12/07/2026 | 54min
    The Learning Leader Show with Ryan Hawk
    www.LearningLeader.com
    New Book - The Price of Becoming - www.LearningLeader.com/Becoming
    This is brought to you by Insight Global. If you need to hire one person, hire a team of people, or transform your business through Talent or Technical Services, Insight Global's team of 30,000 people around the world has the hustle and grit to deliver.
    My guest: Ezekiel J. "Zeke" Emanuel, MD, PhD, is a prominent oncologist, bioethicist, and health policy expert. Currently Vice Provost for Global Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania, he was instrumental in shaping the Affordable Care Act and served as the founding chair of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health.
    Key Learnings
    Zeke's dad was called "Speedy." He was a Chicago pediatrician who worked 24-hour call, walked so fast the nurses had to run to keep up, and had a rule: the fourth child in any family was free. He recognized the financial strain on families and just wouldn't charge.
    Zeke's mom was the definition of the anti-helicopter parent. At the playground, she sat on the bench. At the beach, she dropped the boys off with a blanket and a snack. "You go play. Something goes wrong? Okay, that's how it goes." That's how three future powerhouse leaders learned to negotiate, create, and figure it out.
    The Emanuel brothers' group text is full of bragging. Zeke posted his 51.9 VO2 max score at 68 years old, asking, "Do I win in the family?" His kids replied that they don't even read the articles Zeke and Rahm forward anymore. Close doesn't mean uncompetitive.
    A dozen years ago, Zeke wrote his most famous article, "Why I Hope to Die at 75." He still stands by it. The point wasn't that he wants to die. The point is that after 75, he won't take medical treatments meant to prolong life. 
    By age 75, 30% of adults have Alzheimer's or cognitive impairment. By 80, it's 40%. Zeke doesn't want to be remembered as a doddering old man who can't recognize his own family.
    Living a long time is a means, not an end. It's not the goal of life. It's what allows you to be present, engaged, and useful for the years you have.
    Biohacking is a lie: It suggests you know better than millions of years of evolution and the entire medical profession. The body isn't about maxing. It's about balance. Too much immune response gives you autoimmunity. Too little makes you sick. The body finds health in the median.
    You're not going to be perfect over decades. Wellness isn't a four-minute figure skating routine graded on execution. It's a lifetime practice. So build habits you enjoy and can sustain without thinking about them.
    Zeke's six simple rules for a long and healthy life:
    Don't be a schmuck. Avoid activities riskier than driving. Smoking, vaping, base jumping, climbing Everest.
    Talk to people. The number one predictor of a long, happy life.
    Expand your mind. Travel. Talk to the chef. Learn something new.
    Eat your ice cream. Moderation over perfection. Fermented foods and fiber.
    Move. Aerobic, strength, and flexibility. All three.
    Sleep like a baby. You can't will it. But you can create the conditions.
    The Harvard Adult Development Study followed people for 85 years. John F. Kennedy was in it. Ben Bradlee was in it. The finding: close friends and being married correlated with the healthiest, longest, happiest lives. Not exercise. Not diet. Relationships.
    Having no close friends is equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. That's how bad loneliness is for you. It's not just psychological. It's physical.
    Introverts get the same happiness boost from social interaction as extroverts. A University of Chicago study by Nicholas Epley found that introverts assume they won't enjoy talking to strangers on their commute. They were wrong. When they did it, they were just as happy as extroverts.
    Take the headphones off. Zeke has been telling people this since the iPod era. Random encounters increase your surface area for luck, learning, and connection. You never know who you're going to meet or what they might tell you.
    To be interesting, you have to be interested. Zeke asks to meet the chef at every great restaurant. He asks his Ethiopian Uber driver which tribe he's from. He talks to the person on the plane. It's virtuous. Good for you AND good for them.
    Zeke's hero is Ben Franklin. Franklin came back to America at 80 after negotiating the end of the Revolutionary War. The first thing he did was build a library for his curiosity and a dining room for his social dinners. That's the way to live.
    The wellness trifecta: hosting a dinner party with curious people. You're eating good food. You're getting together with people. Your mind is being stretched by great conversation. Three benefits from one activity.
    Zeke is anti-wellness-industrial-complex. Peptides from your corner store: disaster, unregulated, no idea what's in them. Testosterone replacement therapy without a real deficiency: bad idea, accelerates prostate cancer. Growth hormone for aging: promotes cancers. That's being a schmuck.
    Sleep is the one wellness practice you can't will yourself into. You can only build the conditions for it. Dark room. Cool temperature. No caffeine or alcohol eight hours before bed. Phone in another room. Read a book. Everything else is up to your body.
    Ice cream actually decreases your risk of type 2 diabetes. The fat content softens the glycemic response. Plus, you usually eat it with other people. Social eating matters.
    Zeke's champagne moment a year from now: finishing his next book on how to fix the American healthcare system, and turning 70.
    Reflection Questions
    Are you optimizing for length of life, or for the quality of years you actually get? 
    When was the last time you turned your headphones off, introduced yourself to a stranger, or asked to meet the chef? 
    Who are the friends you rely on for social interaction? Not casual acquaintances, but the ones who lift your health, longevity, and happiness. When did you last make plans with them?
    More Learning
    #607 - Dr. Meg Meeker - Raising Resilient Kids (Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters)
    #690 - Austin Kleon - Why Activated Leaders Win
    #682 - Will Guidara - Adversity is a Terrible Thing to Waste
  • The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

    695: Andy Stumpf - Leadership Lessons From SEAL Team Six, Discipline vs. Motivation, Team Guy vs. Navy SEAL, High Standards, and How To Be Drownproof

    05/07/2026 | 1h 6min
    The Learning Leader Show with Ryan Hawk www.LearningLeader.com
    Book - The Price of Becoming -- www.LearningLeader.com/Becoming
    This is brought to you by Insight Global. If you need to hire one person, hire a team of people, or transform your business through Talent or Technical Services, Insight Global's team of 30,000 people around the world has the hustle and grit to deliver.
    My guest: Andy Stumpf is a retired Navy SEAL who spent 17 years on active duty, including assignments with one of the most elite special operations units in the U.S. military. He's a New York Times bestselling author. His newest book is Drownproof: Eight Life Lessons to Keep Your Head Above Water.
    Key Learnings
    "What you allow in your presence is your standard." It doesn't matter what your corporate ethos is. It doesn't matter what's tattooed on the wall behind you. If your actions don't align with your speech, it means nothing. Speech is debatable. Actions have impact.
    You can control almost nothing in your life, but you can control the boundaries you set and your willingness to maintain them.
    There's a difference between a SEAL and a team guy. A SEAL is there for the title and the individual journey. A team guy is there for the mission and the team. They wear the same uniform. From the outside, you can't tell them apart. Internally, everyone knows.
    Andy would rather have a group of team guys than a group of SEALs. Your ability to accomplish unbelievable things is 100% aligned with what group of people you bring into your organization.
    You'll get fooled in the interview process. People wear masks. That's just how it works. The reps come after. Set up consistent feedback. Bi-annual after-action reviews on performance and how they're showing up as a person.
    80/20 the interview. Talk 20%. Make them talk 80%. The more they speak, the harder it is to keep the mask on.
    Let people go faster, not slower. It's way easier to solve this problem six months in than six years in, when they've already catastrophically impacted the culture.
    Drown-proofing is not an exercise in being drown-proof. It's an exercise in self-control. You bob up and down in a pool for an hour with your hands tied behind your back and your feet bound. If you panic, you sink. If you stay calm and control your breathing, you can do it indefinitely. The test occurs in the water, but it has almost nothing to do with the water itself.
    The world is chaotic. That doesn't mean you have to be. When everything around you is going sideways, walk yourself back. What can I actually control? My breathing. My self-talk. My priorities. My next move.
    The circle of influence vs. the circle of concern. Draw a line down the middle of a legal pad. On the left, write everything you're worried about, working on, occupied by. That column will be huge. On the right, write what you actually have direct control over. You'll only be able to write one thing: yourself.
    The most effective leadership tool is mentorship. Andy's mentor Dave Hall gave him "just the perfect amount of rope to hang myself, and then maybe he'd help me get it around my neck just a little bit." Dave would let him fall short, then crush him, then sit there and facilitate what he needed to fill the gap.
    A high standard is a finely sharpened blade. It can cut in both directions. Andy's mentor, Dave Hall, ultimately died by suicide. One reason Andy believes it happened is Dave couldn't hold himself to the same standard anymore, and it destroyed him. Have grace for yourself. Not every goal is worth your life.
    Focus on post-traumatic growth, not post-traumatic stress. Trauma doesn't have to destroy you. If you take the time and energy to work your way through it, it can turn you into a better version of yourself.
    Motivation can be outsourced. Discipline cannot. Motivation is like the tide. It comes in and out. Discipline is doing the things you need to do regardless of how you feel.
    Win the micro-battles, not the war, in one fell swoop. If you try to attack 10 bad habits overnight, you'll fail. Pick one for a week. Build momentum. Stack days. You win the war via the micro-battles.
    If you don't think of yourself as a leader, you'll never step into a leadership void. You'll tell yourself you're not the person. Not qualified. Not capable.
    Stop treating leadership like the DMV. You don't show up at the window and challenge the test with no preparation. You crawl, walk, run. You practice. Every interaction is either a micro-deposit or a micro-withdrawal of leadership capital.
    Sustained high performers master the basics. They make no attempt to be flashy. They make no attempt to gain 50 yards at a time. They'll do one yard 50 times in a row. If they see a real opportunity with managed risk, they'll go big. Otherwise, one yard. Over and over.
    Andy's champagne moment a year from now: being there with the people he loves. "Would you rather have all the things you think you want in life and enjoy them by yourself? Or be surrounded by people who truly love you for who you are? I'm taking the latter every time."
    Reflection Questions
    What are you allowing in your presence right now that contradicts the standard you say you hold? What's the cost of letting it continue?
    If you drew the line down the legal pad today, what would be in your concern column that shouldn't be? Where is your energy going to things you cannot control?
    More Learning
    #234: Jocko Willink - Why Discipline Equals Freedom
    #363: Admiral William McRaven - The Bin Laden Raid, Saving Captain Phillips, & Leadership Lessons for Life
    #633: General Stanley McChrystal - On Standard: Choices That Define a Life
    Podcast Chapters
    00:00 The Price of Becoming - Pre-Order Now! 
    01:13 Meet Andy Stumpf 
    02:45 "What You Allow in Your Presence Is Your Standard" 
    04:30 What You Walk Past in Your Personal Life 
    05:59 Why He Wanted to Be a Navy SEAL at 11 Years Old 
    08:54 The Difference Between a SEAL and a Team Guy 
    11:38 How to Hire Team Guys, Not SEALs 
    16:34 The Story Behind Drownproof 
    18:23 What Drownproofing Actually Is 
    22:09 The Real Lesson Is Self-Control 
    25:55 Getting Shot in Iraq 
    30:38 Two Years of Rehab and the Return to Combat 
    33:58 Learning to Be a SEAL from Dave Hall 
    37:31 High Standards Are a Double-Edged Sword 
    40:05 Post-Traumatic Growth, Not Just Post-Traumatic Stress 
    42:45 Motivation Can Be Outsourced. Discipline Cannot. 
    47:20 Win Small Battles, Not the War Overnight 
    48:33 If You Don't See Yourself as a Leader, You Never Will 
    51:29 How to Practice Leadership Every Day 
    54:15 Getting Tricked Into Writing the Book 
    55:48 The Joe Rogan Blurb on the Front Cover 
    57:38 What the Best Leaders Have in Common 
    59:03 The Champagne Question: Being With the People You Love 
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Leaders are learners. The best leaders never stop working to make themselves better. The Learning Leader Show Is series of conversations with the world's most thoughtful leaders. Entrepreneurs, CEO's, World-Class Athletes, Coaches, Best-Selling Authors, and much more.
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