Winning the Metaphorical Fight - Kenny Florian on Inside Quest (hosted by Tom Bilyeu) @MindsetPersistence

Mindset Persistence Kenny Floria is Tom’s guest on this #4 episode of Inside Quest, first released on April 17, 2015.
Who is Kenny Floria?
Kenny is a former Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter, competing in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He is known for his cerebral approach to the sport based on his meticulous game plans.

After graduation, Kenny took a job translating financial documents into foreign languages with a plan to work a few years and then apply to law school. He’d work during the day and pursue his true passion at night with Roberto Maia at Boston Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Florian decided to try MMA mostly as a way of testing his Brazilian jiu-jitsu skills.

Topics:
Rock bottom
Listening inward
Relentless self-assessment
Testing yourself
Open mind

Quotes:
«Stop asking what’s the least I can do, ask yourself what’s the most I can bear. »
«We’re all so unique and take different paths, but sometimes in someone else’s footsteps»
«There’s winning and there’s learning».
«We all need a sense of accomplishment».
«Hard work pays off».

Inside Quest was Tom Bilyeu’s previous show. In 2018 he started a new show called Impact Theory (impacttheory.com/).
Please visit Tom’s YouTube channel to watch all his new content: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

updated 5 years ago

Winning the Metaphorical Fight - Kenny Florian on Inside Quest (hosted by Tom Bilyeu)

Mindset Persistence 2019-06-11 | Kenny Floria is Tom’s guest on this #4 episode of Inside Quest, first released on April 17, 2015.
Who is Kenny Floria?
Kenny is a former Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter, competing in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He is known for his cerebral approach to the sport based on his meticulous game plans.

After graduation, Kenny took a job translating financial documents into foreign languages with a plan to work a few years and then apply to law school. He’d work during the day and pursue his true passion at night with Roberto Maia at Boston Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Florian decided to try MMA mostly as a way of testing his Brazilian jiu-jitsu skills.

Topics:
Rock bottom
Listening inward
Relentless self-assessment
Testing yourself
Open mind

Quotes:
«Stop asking what’s the least I can do, ask yourself what’s the most I can bear. »
«We’re all so unique and take different paths, but sometimes in someone else’s footsteps»
«There’s winning and there’s learning».
«We all need a sense of accomplishment».
«Hard work pays off».

Inside Quest was Tom Bilyeu’s previous show. In 2018 he started a new show called Impact Theory (impacttheory.com/).
Please visit Tom’s YouTube channel to watch all his new content: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

How to Win Friends and Influence People (Creative 18 Minutes Summary)

Mindset Persistence 2020-11-17 | Dale Carnegie was a very successful salesman that had the idea of starting a course in public speaking.

By 1936, Dale published the book "How to Win Friends and Influence People" which sold over five million copies in 31 languages.

For 18 minutes of your time, you are going to get the juice of this fundamental book in your path to success.

This book is arranged into four main topics:
(you can jump to any section)

Part 1: Techniques in Handling People (1:10)

Part 2: Six ways to make people like you (6:05)

Part 3: How to win people to your way of thinking (10:20)

Part 4: Be a leader: How to change people without giving offense or arousing resentment (14:29)

===================
To buy this book from Amazon: amzn.to/3eXQutv

Credits
===================
Original video from Learning Success Channel: youtu.be/F76OZzQzB7g
Feel free to subscribe: youtube.com/channel/UC7uqQ2vZXUWYaZCTbH0-mDw?view_as=subscriber

Remix The Moment - Arts That Connects | An amazing Steve Aoki Interview Hosted by Tom Bilyeu (IQ#78)

Mindset Persistence 2019-12-02 | Tom's guest is Steve Aoki, a musician, DJ, record producer, and music executive. In 2012, Pollstar designated Aoki as the highest-grossing dance artist in North America from tours. He has collaborated with artists such as will.i.am, Afrojack, LMFAO, Linkin Park, Iggy Azalea, Lil Jon, blink-182, Laidback Luke, BTS, Monsta X, Louis Tomlinson, Rise Against, Vini Vici, Lauren Jauregui, and Fall Out Boy and is known for his remixes of artists such as Kid Cudi.

This is episode #78 of Inside Quest (the last episode), first release on October 5, 2016.

Shownotes and quotes:
✔ 3:35 - Steve's father, Rocky Aoki, is the founder of the Benihana Restaurant Chain. He opened the first Benihana in 1964.

✔ 3:50 - "You had to face racism and all the madness of not fitting in. How did you find your voice in the middle of all that noise?

✔ 6:03 - Hardcore punk band Gorilla Biscuits released two albums in the late eighties before breaking up in 1992. After reuniting in 2005, the band went on a nationwide tour.

✔ 8:00 - "The sense of community and this DYI kind of philosophy, has been the thread to every major decision I've made."

✔ 14:00 - "Education and music emerging at the same time."

✔ 16:35 - "I applied to 15 different schools and I got rejected to all of them, including Harvard."
"I played at Harvard and I said: Yoh! I've got to know Harvard this way!"

✔ 18:00 - The Kills' lead singer, Alisson Mosshart, is also the frontwoman for Jack White's goth-blues band The Dead Weather.

✔ 19:00 - "How did you escape the trap of bitterness? (that your very wealthy father didn't support you financially when you were in college)"
"If you don't understand the struggle you won't be able to survive and, at the end of the day, that was my father's intention."

✔ 25:18 - The "Hall of Meat" videos are collected by "Thrasher Magazine", often referred to as "The Bible" by the skateboarding community.

✔ 26:25 - "Money doesn't change you. It amplifies you."

✔ 27:40 - "When you're willing to pay the price when you work your ass off like that, and you get it! That is..."

✔ 29:40 - Inventor and Futurist Ray Kurzweil was selected by PBS as one of 16 "Revolutionaries Who Made America". He is also the author of 7 books, including the best-selling "The Age of Spiritual Machines".

✔ 30:50 - "If I take my foot off the gas I lose momentum. Momentum is everything."

✔ 34:30 - "I'm looking for the people that know the songs, that are crying because they feel it. I want to jump and hug that person. And I do that! Because I'm so connected to the people that really care."

✔ 38:05 - "When someone asks you If you could choose to be any superhero you answer The Green Lantern. Why?"

✔ 39:22 - "How the ability to think something and manifesting that into the real world served you?"

✔ 39:45 The Flaming Lips are known for their live shows, which have featured elaborate costumes, balloons, puppets, and more; including frontman Wayne Coyne's "Man-Size Plastic Bubble".

✔ 41:45 - The music video for "Turn Up The Volume", by Dim Mak artist Autoerotique, inspired Steve to start caking his fans.

✔ 45:38 - Biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey founded SENS research foundation. Sens stands for Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence.

✔ 52:20 - "You just gotta try everything! Keep trying!" "Don't live in a bad routine."

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

Humanize Your Mission - TOMS | Blake Mycoskie with Tom Bilyeu (IQ #76)

Mindset Persistence 2019-11-28 | Tom's guest is Blake Mycoskie, an American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist. He is the founder of Toms Shoes (stylized as TOMS Shoes).

This is episode #76 of Inside Quest, first released on September 21, 2016.

Shownotes:
✔ 7:40 - "1 - You started with nothing; 2 - Your ability to reframe things."

✔ 11:00 - "The entrepreneurial way of thinking is starting a business to solve a problem making a profit. Could we build a business to solve a social problem?"

✔ 11:58 - The first TOMS shoes were modeled after traditional Argentinian shoes called ALPARGATAS.

✔ 13:06 - "What passion looks like."

✔ 19:50 - "Starting small removes a lot of the obstacles of starting."

✔ 20:20 - "How do you help people find their story in order to put a meaningful business around it?"

✔ 21:30 - "There's something that happens in your life that causes you to say I can do that better."

✔ 23:20 - Fighting burnout

✔ 25:40 - "doing a physical activity or something in nature but completely immerse in it."

✔ 27:20 - The practice of journaling: "in journaling, I'm able to record the things that I'm challenged with and the thongs I'm happy with. And I can come back later and learn from those experiences."

✔ 35:30 - Beautiful Competition: "We are helping the world but we also want to win." "The growth of our business correlates to the number of people that we help."

✔ 38:20 - After serving in the US Air Force, Dr. Roger W. Birkman was inspired to study the connections between human perception and performance, which lead to the development of the Birkman Method in 1950.

✔ 40:00 - Gaining more self-awareness

✔ 48:36 - "The master of living does not personally make a distinction between his work and his play but instead, let other people decide what he's really doing."
👀 19th-century author and diplomat François-René de Chateaubriand was one of France's first romantic writers.

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

Design & Innovate Yourself - Silencing the Haters | Grace Bonney with Tom Bilyeu (IQ #75)

Mindset Persistence 2019-11-25 | Tom Bilyeu's guest is Grace Bonney, an author, blogger, and entrepreneur. Bonney wrote, "In The Company of Women" (amzn.to/31i8eYz), a book featuring more than 100 stories about women entrepreneurs who overcame adversity. She also wrote the DIY interior design book "Design*Sponge at Home" (amzn.to/2YC6UBV).

Shownotes:
✔ Design*Sponge currently has 182,000 Pinterest followers, 625,000 Instagram followers, 518,000+ Twitter followers, and more than 75,000 daily readers.

✔ 12:55 - "This is awful. You'll never be an artist. You'll never gonna work in the art industry and you don't have any talent."

✔ 14:50 - "I had to find my place. And for me, there wasn't one. I had to create it."

✔ 15:05 - The success of Design*Sponge led to the creation of the D*S Biz Ladies series, a series of meetups for female owners or creative businesses, which grace hosted in cities all over the country.

✔ 25:35 - Grace hosted her podcast "After The Jump" from 2013 to 2015. It averaged 500,000 listeners per show.

✔ 27:10 - "Where does it come from, the hunger for evolving?"

✔ 29:50 - "With 21 years old we don't think about fulfillment."

✔ 34:15 - "I had to lower my ego a lot and listen to other people more."

✔ 35:00 - "One of the most powerful skills that anyone can learn is to separate the message from the messenger."

✔ 35:20 - Find the nugget of gold

✔ 39:10 - Schadenfreude - is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, or humiliation of another.

✔ 40:50 - "Fear is a huge motivator for me. It took me a while to recognize that emotion and push towards it rather than hightail it in the other direction."

✔ 43:20 - Grace's book "In The Company of Women", features 100 interviews with female entrepreneurs and creative professionals, as well as photographs of the women in their workspaces.

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

The Power of Being Vulnerable - Defeat Doubt | Sugar Ray Leonard with Tom Bilyeu (IQ #72)

Mindset Persistence 2019-11-21 | On this episode, Tom's guest is Sugar Ray Leonard, a former professional boxer, motivational speaker, and occasional actor. Often regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time, he competed from 1977 to 1997, winning world titles in five weight divisions; the lineal championship in three weight divisions; as well as the undisputed welterweight title.

This is episode #71 of Inside Quest, first released on August 24, 2016.

Shownotes and quotes:
✔ 3:20 - "Nobody is born a champion just like nobody is born a brain surgeon."
,
✔ 3:55 - "Accept the fact we are willing to get hited in the face."

✔ 5:00 - "I felt safe in the ring, more then I felt safe outside the ring."

✔ 10:20 - Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán won world titles in four weight divisions in a professional career that lasted over 30 years. He retired in 2001 with a 103-16 (70 KOs) record.

✔ 11:40 - The Roberto Durán biopic "Hands of Stone" stars Edgar Ramirez as Duran, Rober De Niro as his trainer Ray Arcel, and Usher Raymond as Sugar Ray Leonard.

✔ 13:00 - Psychological beat the opponent before the fight.

✔ 14:10 - " I observe people more then they observe me."

✔ 15:10 - Prior to losing to Sugar Ray Leonard in 1987, Marvelous Marvin Hagler had defended his World Middleweight Title 12 times. Hagler retired after this fight.

✔ 9:30 - Thomas "Hitman" Hearns was the first boxer in history to win five world titles in five different weight divisions.

✔ 20:15 - "How do you impart a champion's mindset to someone who doesn't yet have it?"

✔ 20:47 - P.O.W.E.R. - Prepare Overcome Win Every Round

✔ 24:00 - A dark period: Overcoming cocaine, alcohol, and lack of self-respect.

✔ 26:28 - The Sugar Ray Leonard Foundation funds research and creates awareness for childhood type 1 & 2 diabetes, while also encouraging children to lead healthier lives. http://www.sugarrayleonardfdn.org

✔ 27:20 - "I was sexually abused while I was a kid. I kept it to my self for many many years."

📕 The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring - amzn.to/2T2PV6I

✔ 34:00 - "Who likes me for who I am?"

✔ 35:15 - "Let's talk about pain."

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

The Art of Asking for Help - Propel Your Future | Alex Wilcox with Tom Bilyeu (IQ #71)

Mindset Persistence 2019-11-18 | On this episode, Tom's guest is Alex Wilcox, CEO of JetSuite and founder of JetBlue.

This is episode #71 of Inside Quest, first released on August 17, 2016.

Show notes and quotes:
✔ 4:20 - "How do you go from working the ticket counter and then, 3 months later, Junior Executive in New York?"

✔ 5:07 - First published in 1916, "Aviation Week & Space Technology" was the first publication in the U.S. to focus on the science of Aeronautics.

✔ 8:30 - In the late 1960s, some 50,000 Boeing employees build the largest civilian airplane of its time, the 747. It was completed in less than 16 months.

✔ 9:50 - Making Connections

✔ 13:25 - "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey - amzn.to/2ytvlml

✔ 14:00 - "I have to reveal my vulnerabilities to make a real connection."

✔ 16:25 - A best-selling author and research professor, Dr. Brené Brown's work focuses on the study of vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame. (amzn.to/2SXdfCw)

✔ 18:52 - "Fear causes so many bad decisions and if you just confront it before those moments of truth, you kind of disarm it."

✔ 19:40 - "Talk to me about performance."

✔ 22:20 - "The Rise of Theodore Rosevelt" by Edmund Morris won the Pulitzer Prize and American Book Award in 1980. (amzn.to/335LEUE)

✔ 28:50 - Surgeon and author Atul Gawande's best-selling book "The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right" (amzn.to/316cOJ5) examines how and why professionals can fail when their positions become complicated by ever-increasing responsibilities.

✔ 24:28 - Corporate Soul instead of the Human Resources Department (HR).

✔ 33:00 - The Magic of Flight

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

Fight For Innovation - David Burkus with Tom Bilyeu (IQ 70)

Mindset Persistence 2019-11-14 | On this episode, Tom's guest is David Burkus, a best-selling author and a leadership expert, author of the book "Under New Management".

This is episode #70 of Inside Quest, first released on August 10, 2016.

Shownotes and quotes:
✔ The Martial Arts of Business

📕 Under New Management: How Leading Organizations Are Upending Business as Usual (amzn.to/2ysTSYE)

📕 The Myths of Creativity - The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas (amzn.to/2GDVDHf)

✔ 3:10 - "What did you learn about life and business through Brasilian Jiu-Jitsu?"

✔ 3:40 - Former IQ guest Firas Zahabi is the head coach at Tristar Gym, the legendary MMA Training Grounds of many famous fighters, including Georges St. Pierre.
👀 - Check out the Firas Zahabi episode here: youtu.be/X_1C_NRV8OQ

✔ 4:40 - Angela Duckworth is a professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and author of The New York Times Best-Seller "Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance" (amzn.to/2YxjpuC).

✔ 5:15 - Former IQ guest and Stanford Psychologist Carol Dweck's groundbreaking book "Mindset" argues that having a "Growth Mindset" is the true key to success.
👀 Check out Carol's episode here: youtu.be/JCfE-dlRP-U
📕 Check her book "Mindset" on Amazon: amzn.to/2XxxuYX

✔ 13:45 Team Empowerment

✔ 14:30 - The WhatsApp messenger app allows users to create groups in which members can send each other unlimited images, video and audio media messages for free.

✔ 16:40 - Seth Godin is the author of 18 best-selling books, including "Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?" (amzn.to/2SS8rhQ)

✔ 19:15 - "What does it mean to be an employee today?"

✔ 21:40 - Reciprocate Trust

✔ 23:20 - "Trust isn't given and trust isn't won. Trust is reciprocated."
- "I have to take a leap of faith and let you operate without my guidance."

✔ 24:50 - Paul Zac's 2012 book "The Moral Molecule: The Source of Love and Prosperity" argued that the presence of love, trust, and morality in humans can be traced back to the neurochemical oxytocin. (amzn.to/2yoGXH9)

✔ 31:10 Company Culture

✔ 31:35 - "I always want to be able to say: I never ask you to do something I didn't do myself."

✔ 32:20 - "Hiring people not only for their competence but, most of all, because they represent our culture."

✔ 34:15 The Social Tribe

✔ 36:28 - Psychologist Robin Dunbar's research in the evolution of human sociality led him to claim that a person can only truly have 150 friends.

✔ 38:10 - "We forget that every organization is a group of humans trying to do something. You're gonna have human issues, and human solutions."

✔ 40:29 - Simon Sinek is the best-selling author of "Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't" (amzn.to/2DmjycA) and "Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action" (amzn.to/2XmQKrU).
👀 Check Simon Sinek episode on IQ here: youtu.be/g63b_YjMYS4

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

Why You Need to Fail and Feel the Pain - Tom Bilyeu on IQ 69

Mindset Persistence 2019-11-11 | Embrace failure is a special episode of Inside Quest where Tom Bilyeu talks about one of the most powerful things in entrepreneurship and in life: failure.

"Is it ok to fail?"

Why are you asking that question?

Do you want a place to hide?

Do you want job security?

If you want to own your own life the first thing you have to throw out your window is job security.

And the first thing you need to embrace is that failure is the most potent learning opportunity that will ever be.

If you actually show that you've learned from your mistakes, it almost doesn't matter how big the mistake was. It only matters have you earned the reputation of being someone who learns from their mistakes.

Failing doesn't make you a failure.

If you fail, move quickly beyond it.

The reputation you want to have is: "When you hit an obstacle you move on."

To get to the results you have to pick your self up, brush yourself off, get the skill you were lacking that lead to your failure in the first place. Learn from that mistake. Figure out how it's applicable, show the world that it's not gonna stop you, it's not gonna slow you down.

You're gonna keep going.

You're gonna find that fire in your gut. You feed that fire. You turn it to something real and you become unstoppable.

Why?
Because you chose to be unstoppable!

Build Upon Brilliance - Foundr | Nathan Chan with Tom Bilyeu (IQ 68)

Mindset Persistence 2019-11-07 | Tom's guest for this episode is Nathan Chan, the publisher of Foundr Magazine, a digital magazine for young, aspiring and novice stage entrepreneurs. He has had the pleasure of interviewing rock star business leaders to find out what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur.

This is episode #68 of Inside Quest, first released on July 27, 2016.

Shownotes and quotes:
✔ 2:35 - "You're really trying to help people build their business. I think you're uniquely qualify for that."

✔ 3:25 - Former IQ gust Tim Ferriss #1 New York Time best-selling book "The Four-Hour Work Week" (amzn.to/2SQj6cQ) explains how you can increase productivity by working less and living more.
👀 Check out the Tim Ferriss episode here: youtu.be/Sw5Xs1h7iMo

✔ 6:35 - At the age of 16, Sir Richard Branson started "Student Magazine", where he later advertise his own mail-order record business. That business eventually became the first Virgin Record Store.

✔ 10:40 - Your Life Purpose

✔ 11:50 - "The Way of the Superior Man", written by best-selling author and spiritual teacher David Deia, aims to teach men how to live "a masculine life of integrity, authenticity, and freedom". (amzn.to/2MoiwSF)

✔ 16:40 - Growing Pains

✔ 18:30 - Battle Testing

✔ 20:20 - In its first two weeks, Foundr's Instagram Account gained 10,000 followers. One year later, it had over 500,000.

✔ 24:45 - "How do you get structured about the experimentation?"

✔ 27:00 - Motivational speaker Lisa Nichols lived on public assistance before she became a millionaire entrepreneur dedicated to helping others transform their own lives.
👀 Check out Lisa Nichols episode of Inside Quest: youtu.be/PPRaL40IAdI

📕 27:40 - "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" by Robert Kiyosaki (amzn.to/2YqvXrJ)

✔ 28:00 - "One of the things you've done and that is really important to success is Networking. Talk to us how you approach Networking and what are the results you've gotten from it ?"

✔ 28:15 - In just 5 years, entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuck increased sales of his family's wine business from $3M to $60M, while also becoming an angel investor for Twitter, Facebook, Tumbler, Uber, and Birchbox.

✔ 29:10 Sever First, Ask Later
- "If you want to know someone, or start developing a network just start helping people."

✔ 30:20 - "Just speaking with incredible people like yourself, and I'm asking questions that I want to know for Foundr, that we can apply."

✔ Forbes named cloud-based accounting software company Xero Accounting the world's most innovative growth company in 2014 and 2015.

✔ 31:45 - Before becoming CEO of SurveyMonkey, Dave Goldberg co-founded Launch Media, one of the Internet's first streaming music services.

✔ 32:12 - "As an entrepreneur yourself, what are some key traits someone who wants to become an entrepreneur should be cultivating in themselves?
- Pushing your comfort zone is, certainly, one of them.
- Relations is king.

✔ 34:10 - "If you're going to do a job, do it properly", or just don't do it.

✔ 35:40 - "At the end of the day the thing that comes back to you is value. If it delivers value then there's a big reason to do it. "

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

Rescue Yourself Overcome Fear - Find Success Serving Others | Lisa Nichols with Tom Bilyeu (IQ #66)

Mindset Persistence 2019-11-04 | On this episode, Tom's guest is Lisa Nichols. With less than $12 in her bank account, Lisa was a single mom who had barely had enough money to buy diapers for her baby son.

In a moment of sheer desperation, she stood in front of her bathroom mirror. She imagined herself in front of thousands of people delivering a speech. She didn’t leave out any detail. The laughter. The tears. The soul-stirring moments that would leave her audience on the edge of their seats.

Shownotes and quotes:
✔ 2:20 - CREATE YOUR OWN LIFELINE
"I am my rescue, nobody else"
"hurt people hurt you, sad people make other people sad"
"You want to make me extraordinary because it let you off the hook."
"When good people do well, good people just do more good in the world."

✔ 9:50 - NEVER BROKE AGAIN
"I had $11.42 in the bank."
"The reason why a lot of people won't become who they want is that they're to attach to who they've been."

14:25 - "I had to be willing to allow my conviction to make me inconvenient."

18:35 - Protect, Prove, Hide, Defend - That's where we spend most of our energy.
"If you wake up every morning and say: I have nothing to protect, I have nothing to prove, I've nothing to hide, I've nothing to defend. Now, who do I choose to be?"

✔ 29:35 - THERE'S NO ELEVATOR
"There's no elevator, you better take the stairs."
"Only hang around people who make you stand on your tiptoes."
"Money just buy better memories!"

✔ 38:00 - EXPOSE THE LIES
"Exercise to transformation: Write every lie you tell yourself. (...)"
"UPS is not gonna come to your door saying: Hello!! I have a life for you. Please sign here."

✔ 16:30 - COMPLETE YOURSELF
"It's not anyone's job to complete you. It's your job to complete your self."
"We mistake self-development with spirituality. They're different things."
"Action is the antidote for despair. Lisa Nichols ads: Action is the prescription for success."

##############
👉 Motivating the Masses web site: motivatingthemasses.com
📕 No Matter What!, 2011 - amzn.to/31bMcXj
📕 Abundance Now, 2016 - amzn.to/2SW6p0b
📕 Unbreakable Spirit, 2011 - amzn.to/2SQYBgp

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

Embrace Opposition - AJ Hawk with Tom Bilyeu (IQ 65)

Mindset Persistence 2019-10-31 | On this episode, Tom's guest is AJ Hawk, Aaron James "A. J." Hawk, a former American football linebacker who played 11 seasons in the NFL. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers fifth overall in the 2006 NFL Draft and he would later win Super Bowl XLV with the team over the Pittsburgh Steelers.

This is episode #65 of Inside Quest, first released on July 6, 2016.

Shownotes and quotes:
✔ 2:50 - While the 2012 film "The Act of Valor" told a fictional story about an elite team of Navy Seals, the film's stars were actual active-duty Seals.

✔ 3:00 - THE BEDTIME CODE

✔ 11:50 - THE ONLY OPINION

✔ 16:10 - DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY

✔ 21:00 - Bruce Lee based his famous "BE LIKE WATER" metaphor on Wu Wei, an ancient Chinese concept and state of being achieved when a person automatically reaches peak effectiveness without feeling any mental effort.

✔ 21:50 - THE "TOUGH GUY" MYTH

✔ 21:52 - The Herd With Colin Cowherd is a three-hour sports talk program that airs weekdays on FS1 and The Fox Sports Radio Network.

✔ 25:45 - "You don't know a person until you see how they handle adversity."

✔ 27:00 - The end of AJ Hawk career

✔ 28:17 - The episode of The Hawkcast featuring A.J.'s comments on his release from the Green Bay Packers has been viewed over 80,000 times on YouTube (youtube.com/watch?v=dZCfmlJN510).

✔ 33:10 - DEATH BY TREADMILL
- "Are you willing to die on the treadmill?"

✔ 33:21 - Actor Will Smith famously said he was "not afraid to die on a treadmill" on a 2007 episode of PBS Late-Night Talk Show Tavis Smiley.

✔ 43:00 - Viktor Frankl survived 4 Nazi Concentration Camps before writing his memoir Man's Search For Meaning. A 1991 Libary of Congress Reader Survey declared the book to be among the ten most influential books in America (amazon.com/Mans-Search-Meaning-Viktor-Frankl/dp/0807014273/ref=as_li_ss_tl?__mk_pt_BR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=Man's+Search+For+Meaning&qid=1564500751&s=books&sr=1-1&linkCode=sl1&tag=youtube-mp-20&linkId=32e5b7478758218b4933176d2fdd55dd&language=pt_BR).

✔ 46:15 - "Humility finds me every day!"

##############
AJ YouTube Channel: youtube.com/user/TheHawkCastVideos

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

Print Your Potential - Rewrite Your Future - | Billionaire PA with Tom Bilyeu (IQ #64)

Mindset Persistence 2019-10-28 | On this episode, Tom's guest is Billionaire PA, a formerly homeless, two times felony convicted, and is the living proof that it doesn't matter where you start, only matters where you gonna go and how hard you are willing to work to get there.

This is episode #64 of Inside Quest, first released on June 29, 2016.

Shownotes and quotes:
✔ Billionaire's quotes are printed on the apparel in his clothing line, which he designs for man and women of all ages.

✔ 5:55 - Billionaire's first book "My Mind is Wealthy", consisting of 63 original quotes and their origin stories, is available for pre-order through Wealthy Minds Online (see the link below)

✔ 7:30 - "Being busy equals being broke." Being productive is something different.

✔ 10:50 - The first short Billionaire sold featured his quote "Damn a Recession; I'm In a Succession."

✔ 12:10 - "I don't have to be financially rich to be wealthy."

✔ 12:35 - "Sponsor a Homeless Dream" allows business and individuals to sponsor the cost of wealthy minds clothing for underprivileged people who cannot afford it themselves.

✔ 13:40 - "I lie so much that my last lie introduces me to the value of truth."

✔ 14:12 - TRANSFORM NEGATIVITY

✔ 19:00 - "You wake up your self out of The Matrix!" "Do and believe that will move you forward."

✔ 21:48 - "The day before something is breakthrough, it's a crazy idea." Peter Diamandis
- Check out the Peter Diamandis episode of Inside Quest here: youtu.be/MVjIpkOVQ1Y

✔ 23:02 - "What's your biggest fear, in terms of impacting people?"

✔ 24:10 - "Your dream is right in front of you. You only have to make the right questions."

✔ 24:20 - REMOVE YOUR EGO

✔ 25:55 - "How did you find the mentors?"

✔ 27:18 - 3 most powerful quotes:
- "Never spend your present time with a person that you don't have a future with."
- "I'll show you your future if you show me your 5 best friends."
- "Most people can see but not everyone has vision."

✔ 28:20 - "If you have the desire of being successful you must be in love with failure."

✔ "Failure will introduce you to success."

✔ 33:10 - SPEAK YOUR DREAMS

##############
Billionaire PA YouTube Channel: youtube.com/user/WealthyMindsEnt
WebSite: billionairepa.com
Clothes and Books: wealthymindsonline.com

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

Outsmart Emotion and Finding a Self Narrative - JP Pawliw Fry With Tom Bilyeu (IQ #63)

Mindset Persistence 2019-10-24 | On this episode, Tom's guest is JP Pawliw-Fry, speaker, performance coach and co-author of the New York Times best-selling book «Performing Under Pressure» (amzn.to/2Mp61Gf).

This is episode #63 of Inside Quest, first released on June 26, 2015.

Shownotes and quotes:
✔ 2:30 - "People are more afraid of public speaking then they are afraid of dying. "
👀 There are 3 characteristics in Pressure: When the moment is important when is uncertain and when we're responsible or we're being judged by the outcome.

✔ 4:35 - J.P. co-authored "Performing Under Pressure" with psychologist Hendrie Weisinger. INC MAGAZINE named it The Best Book For 2015 and it has since sold over 25,000 copies in over 60 countries worldwide.

✔ 4:45 - "What your narrative sounds like?"

✔ 6:40 - "The Nature of Pressure"

✔ 8:40 - During his 15-year NBA career, Michael Jordan was named most valuable player 5 times and won 6 NBA Championships.

✔ 10:40 - Known as the "Zen Master", Phil Jackson won an NBA-Record 11 championships during his coaching career with the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers.

✔ 11:40 - During his NBA career Dennis Rodman completed 11,954 rebounds.

✔ 12:50 - Terminal Uniqueness - "We terminally think that we're the only ones and we're not!"

✔ 15:00 - Preparing for pressure

✔ 15:30 - "People buy people, ideas, and then products!"

✔ 16:20 - "In oppose to Oh my gosh, I'm gonna be judge, or this is a crisis or a threat, it's Oh, you're back, I guess my body is getting ready to perform."

✔ 19:25 - Psychologist Richard Lazarus first conceived of the concept of Cognitive Appraisal. Lazarus theorized that an individual's positive or negative emotional response to a situation is a result of the individual's personal evaluation of the situation.

✔ 21:38 - Dr. Sara Lazr is a neuroscientist, an instructor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy.

✔ 25:00 - The last 8% conversation

✔ 28:40 - Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw wrote more than 60 plays during his lifetime and was awarded the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1925.

✔ 33:35 - "Cote" of Armour. The protection that inoculates you against pressure.

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

Find a Way to Yes - How To Negotiate Until Earing Yes | William Ury with Tom Bilyeu (IQ 62)

Mindset Persistence 2019-10-21 | Tom's guest is William Ury, an author, academic, anthropologist, and negotiation expert. He co-founded the Harvard Program on Negotiation and helped found the International Negotiation Network with former President Jimmy Carter.

This is episode #62 of Inside Quest, first released on June 15, 2016.

Shownotes and quotes:
✔ In Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray", the title character wishes for his self-portrait to age for him, sacrificing his soul for eternal youth (amzn.to/310eYKf).

✔ 3:30 - President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela (1999-2013) broke away from country's two-party system, positioning himself as leader of the "Bolivarian Revolution".

✔ 4:00 - The Path of Abraham stretches for more than 2000 Km between Turkey and Israel. The path extends through 19 different regions, each consisting of a day-length hike.

✔ 4:35 - Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all claim Abraham as the first man to worship the one true God, making him the father of all three monotheistic faiths.

✔ 4:50 - According to the UN Development Programme, the number of people in the Middle East earning less than $1.25 a day nearly doubled between 2010 and 2012.

✔ 8:00 - "All you have to do in a negotiation is give to people basic respect."

✔ 9:40 - William is a trained Social Anthropologist, with a B.A. from Yale and a PH.D. from Harvard. He is also co-founder of Harvard's program of Negotiation.

✔ 11:45 - President Carter led 12 days of secret negotiations at Camp David in 1978, resulting in a historic peace treaty between Egyptian and Israeli leaders 6 months later.

✔ 12:20 - "What's in the way of getting to YES?"

✔ 13:15 - "The most difficult person we have to deal with is the person we look in the mirror."
👀 "When angry you'll make the best speech you will ever regret."

✔ 18:46 - "If you try to argue with someone who is in an irrational or angry state of mind you get nowhere. It's like banging your head against the wall!"

✔ 21:45 - "Having a North Star"

✔ 24:20 - The 5 Whys?

✔ 30:50 - "Evan more important than talking in a negotiation, is listening. Listening to what's behind all this."

✔ 31:50 - How do you change someone's mind when you don't know how their mind is? You have to feel empathy. You have to put yourself in the other's shoes. And know where their heart his?"
"The other thing is being creative."

✔ 32:25 - Mary Parker Follett is known today as the "mother of modern management" for pioneering the study of interpersonal relations management at the turn of the 20th century.

✔ 32:30 - William gives an excellent example of a negotiation with a creative solution.

✔ 35:00 Tom's last question: "What is it that you want in life?"

✔ 36:30 - William is the co-founder of the Climate Parliament, an international organization dedicated to preventing climate change.

##############
William Ury's books:
📕 The Power of a Positive No: Save The Deal Save The Relationship and Still Say No (amzn.to/2SLoRJ3)
📕 Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In (amzn.to/312JxPC)

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

Solve Problems Not Symptoms - Naveen Jain with Tom Bilyeu (IQ 61)

Mindset Persistence 2019-10-17 | Tom's guest is Naveen Jain, a business executive, entrepreneur and the founder and former CEO of InfoSpace, Moon Express, and founder and CEO of VIOME.

This is episode #61 of Inside Quest, first released on June 8, 2016.

Shownotes and quotes:
✔ XPRIZE was founded by Peter Diamandis to reward innovation through incentivized competition.
👀 Check out Peter's episode of Inside Quest here - youtu.be/MVjIpkOVQ1Y

✔ 3:30 - "Every major problem is a great opportunity for an entrepreneur to create an amazing business at the same time he solves it."

✔ 5:00 - There are currently 6 active Xprize Challenges ranging from innovations in deep-sea exploration to adult literacy.

✔ 7:50 - Ankur Jain also founded HUMIN, a tech company specializing in location-based networking used in mobile dating apps like Tinder.

✔ 8:15 - "Success is not how much money you have in the bank. It is always about how many lives you be able to impact positively." It's what you create, not what you own!

✔ 11:00 - Who are our heroes in our society? The actors, the football players. That's wrong. Our heroes should be the scientist and entrepreneurs. They are the ones that are going to change society.

✔ 11:40 - "To me entrepreneur is about solving a problem. All of us are great about talking about a problem. "

✔ 12:50 - The innovation is separate from the entrepreneur. At the end of the day, if you're not doing anything about it becomes only a dream. "

✔ Elon Musk is the CEO of Tesla, CEO and Lead Designer of SpaceX, and the Chairman of SolarCity.

✔ 17:00 - "Education is obsolete."

✔ 18:50 - "Take away people's fear of failure." "You only fail when you give up."

✔ 19:50 - "Being happy or unhappy is your own choice."

✔ 22:45 - SpaceX plans to send their Dragon 2 Spacecraft to Mars as early as 2018, making history as the first private company to land a craft on another planet.

✔ 24:00 - Helium-3 is a light, non-radioactive isotope of Helium that's very rare on earth but abundant on the moon. It's an efficient fuel needed for use in nuclear fusion research.

✔ 25:00 - "The minute you think something is impossible, it becomes impossible for you, no for someone else."

✔ 30:20 - Blocking and tackling. Almost every problem can be sliced in smaller pieces and then we can execute on them. "Execution is the key to success."

✔ 32:10 - "Making money is the bi-product. Don't focus on making money."

✔ 34:00 - "Some people confuse the movement with moving forward. They're busy doing things, they're always moving but moving in circles, not forward."
🤦‍♀️ Just because you're moving doesn't mean you're moving towards your goal.
🎯 Know were the destination is. And move in that direction. It's really simple!

✔ 35:30 - It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. The question we should be asking is: Is this glass worth filling?

✔ 36:50 - Tom's last question: "What's your definition of a life well-lived?"

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

Spike Reality with Raw Vulnerability - Gabrielle Reece with Tom Bilyeu (IQ 60)

Mindset Persistence 2019-10-14 | Tom's guest is Gabrielle Reece, a professional volleyball player, sports announcer, fashion model, and actress. Tom describes her as an amazing mixture of brains and beauty.

This is episode #60 of Inside Quest, first released on June 1, 2016.

📕 My Foot Is Too Big for the Glass Slipper: A Guide to the Less Than Perfect Life (amzn.to/30YlZvd)

Shownotes and quotes:
✔ 4:00 - "Beach Volleyball is a very niche sport and there's only so many opportunities".

✔ 5:30 - In addition to her modeling and volleyball careers, Gabrielle was a feature reporter for MTV Sports in 1993.

✔ 7:15 - Gabrielle and her husband, surfer Laird Hamilton, created XPT (Extreme Performance Training), a land and water-based fitness routine focused on breathing, moving and recovering.
👀 Check out Laird episode of Inside Quest - youtu.be/xMhUuejDXog

✔ 9:50 - "Is staying connected with how I feel about myself".

✔ 11:55 - "A person is the sum total of the narratives that they tell themselves."

✔ 12:30 - Gabrielle devoted three years of her life to Golf Training, with the aim of competing at a professional level in the LPGA.

✔ 19:00 - "I understand really quickly the limitations of physical appearance."

✔ 21:10 - There are over 7 Billion people on earth and according to Statista.com, 2.22 Billion are on Social Media.

✔ 22:44 - "With a lot of successes are tons of failures."

✔ 29:30 - The failure classroom: Failure is built into our lives like breathing. It's part of it. It's helpful.

✔ 33:40 - Don't make a Protest Against War, make a March for Piece instead.

✔ 37:35 - "If only you can be who you are, that's probably a good starting point."

✔ 39:15 - A champion's mind

✔ 41:30 - Gratitude: When you can see what's good in your life, and be grateful for those things, you can experience the feeling of happiness. Then you understand that you're fortunate."

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

Conquering Fear - Fulfilled by Accomplishments | Laird Hamilton with Tom Bilyeu (IQ 59)

Mindset Persistence 2019-10-10 | Tom's guest is Laird Hamilton, a big-wave surfer, co-inventor of tow-in surfing, and an occasional fashion and action-sports model. Surf Magazine calls him the sports test pilot.

This is episode #59 of Inside Quest, first released on May 25, 2016.

Shownotes and quotes:
✔ On August 17, 2000, Laird rode "The Millennium Wave" in Teahupoo, Tahiti, widely regarded as the heaviest wave ever surfed.

✔ 3:45 - "No fear, to me, means no brain".

✔ NO FEAR clothing in Southern California soared to success among teens and young adults in the 1990s with extreme action-sports slogan on casual apparel.

✔ 4:30 - "Fear is a tool, and once you have a relationship with fear then it changes the dynamic of the way it affects you."

✔ Laird is married to Gabrielle Reece (Gaby), a former professional volleyball player, fashion model and currently the host of NBC's competitive fitness series "Strong".

✔ 10:50 - Steve Martin's film "The Jerk" (1979) is about an idiot who leaves home to struggle through a new life in St. Louis while other constantly take advantage of him.

✔ 12:30 - Framework happiness or creative contentment.

✔ 14:20 - Why don't you compete?
👀 "A competitive man is fulfilled by beating others, but a creative man is fulfilled by accomplishments."

✔ 21:00 - Marie Forleo is a motivational speaker, host of MarieTv, owner of "The B-School", and was named by Oprah as "a though leader for the next generation". Check out Marie Forleo's episode of Inside Quest here youtu.be/IbMhudopflo

✔ In December 2015, USA's 17-years-old Rachel Tilly became the youngest ever world title winner in longboarding history at the World Longboard Championships in Riyue Bay, China.

✔ 25:00 - Sports are a kind of meditation.

✔ 25:10 - "Ride Across America" - Is a 24-hour race across the country

✔ 26:40 - Wim Hof "The Ice Man" holds 20 world records, including a world record for the longest ice bath. He attributes his ability to withstand the extreme cold to mentally "turning up his own thermostat.

✔ "G-Tummo" is the Tibetan nun spiritual practice of harnessing inner energy to increase core body temperatures up to nearly 101 degrees.

✔ In 1954 Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four-minute mile, a feat previously deemed medically impossible. Several other runners followed within a year.

✔ 34:35 - "What you do in private will reward you openly in public".

✔ 35:36 - "Don't let you memories become bigger than your dreams".

✔ 37:10 - "What's your definition of a life well-lived?"

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

Ask Tom Anything - Be in Control - How to Focus on one thing when you have many passions (IQ #58)

Mindset Persistence 2019-10-07 | Ask Tom Anything is when Tom Bilyeu dedicates an entire show responding to his audience questions.
This is episode #58 of Inside Quest, first released on February 24, 2016.

Shownotes:
✔ 00:20 - From Shaheen Ansari: I wonder if you could share more details on how to meditate in order to move from a negative emotional state to a positive one?
✔ 03:15 - What do you do when you finish reading a book? Do you write a summary, or do you only focus on one thing?
✔ 03:15 - I have many passions, I'm a lover of ideas, I have business ideas, television concepts, movie ideas, project ideas, they all excite me. How does one like me, who loves many different areas, chose where to start?
✔ 06:45 - In your morning routine you describe what you do but for how long do you do those activities?
✔ 08:48 - How do you tackle boring, repetitive tasks?
✔ 10:10 - What about breakfast? What do you eat and when?
✔ 11:47 - I heard you refer to The Matrix, and I wanna make sure I know what you mean by it. Are you referring to limits that we think we have?
✔ 14:10 - Do you inherently have compassion? Or do you cultivate it like a skill set?
✔ 15:40 - What should someone do when they're a total outlier and have a quest mindset among popular mindsets?
✔ 17:00 - How do you memorize anything of what you read at that insane speed?
✔ 19:00 - If you had to pick one book to recommend to someone looking for a more singular direction, what would it be?
✔ 21:00 - Witch people have been your biggest role models in life and why?

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnYM...

Adapt For Victory - No Excuses | Blake Leeper with Tom Bilyeu (IQ #55)

Mindset Persistence 2019-10-03 | Tom's guest is Blake Leeper, a Paralympic athlete, eight-time Paralympic Track and Field international medalist, world record holder and three-time American record holder. Leeper was chosen by the US Paralympics to represent Team USA in Rio 2016. He took silver in the 100m despite losing a prosthetic leg crossing the finish line.

This is episode #55 of Inside Quest, first released on April 27, 2016.

Shownotes and quotes:
✔ 3:00 - Excuses that drives me nuts!

✔ 3:24 - Congenital Limb Deficiencies impact 1,500 - 4,500 children per year in the United States. More than half the cases in newborns involve an upper limb.
- "Once you accept you can move forward"

✔ 6:20 - While playing for the Los Angeles Raiders, Bo Jackson suffered a severe hip injury that could have ended his career. He made a comeback on the Chicago White Sox two years later.

✔ 8:40 - "It's not how hard you can hit. It's how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward".

✔ Paralympic Sporting has existed for over 100 years but didn't become the "Paralympic Games" until 1960, when the first competition was held in Rome.

✔ Blake shares the 100m dash world record time of 10.91 in the bilateral below-knee amputations class with Oscar Pistorius, the first paralympic runner in standard Olympics.

✔ 11:20 - So, the doctors said you'll never gonna walk. What happened that allowed you to say: "No, I don't accept that"?

✔ 19:00 - You respond to adversity saying: I don't accept that!

✔ 19:35 - "If you're pointing fingers you will lose your power!"

✔ 21:30 - In the 2012 Paralympic Games, Blake won silver in the 400m Dash, Bronze in the 200m Dash, and 5th in the 100m Dash.

✔ 23:00 - FEAR - Face Everything And Rise

✔ 23:40 - To qualify for Social Security Disability Benefits, amputees must demonstrate that the condition renders them unable to work.

✔ 26:20 - In addition to being a former NFL receiver for the Chicago Bears, Willie Gault was also an Olympic Bobsledder in the Winter Games of 1988.

✔ 27:25 - Entrepreneur Bob Lorsch helped Blake rehabilitate his life and career after he was temporarily banned from competing in the Paralympics.

✔ 33:35 - "I don't work this hard to be third, or second. I want to be first. Every day I wake up and I want more, I want to push further, and no matter how high I go, no matter how much I accomplish, I want more and that's the very point."

✔ 39:20 - How do you keep fighting when it's really hard? Do you have a mantra or anything that you say?

✔ 42:16 - Usain Bolt is the fastest Olympic sprinter in history. At the 2009 World Championships, he set two world records: running the 100m in 9.58 seconds and 200m in 19.19 seconds.

✔ 45:45 - "I'm thankful I was born without legs!"

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

How to Win When It Feels Like Youre Losing - Luther Campbell with Tom Bilyeu (IQ 53)

Mindset Persistence 2019-09-26 | Tom's guest is Luther Campbell, is an American rapper, promoter, record executive, and actor. He is best known for being the former leader of "rap group 2 Live" Crew, and star of his own short-lived show on VH1, Luke's Parental Advisory. He is the author of "The Book of Luke - My Fight For Truth, Justice and Liberty City" (amzn.to/2JV482o).

This is episode #53 of Inside Quest, first released on April 3, 2016, with the title "Uncensor Success".

Shownotes and quotes:
✔ 11:05 - A&R (Artist & Repertoire) managers discover and sign new, emerging music talent for major record labels.

✔ 16:15 - H-Town is an R&B duo that formed in 1992. They toured and performed for almost two decades before a car accident took the life of Keven "Dino" Conner.

✔ 16:35 - "I am in Miami so I got to find a Cuban artist. That's when I found Pitbull".

✔ 17:50 - What do you say to other kids to prime their minds to be open to really think about the world around, about what they're seeing, so if they went into their version of D.C. and looked around and saw something new that they would react accordingly?

✔ 20:00 - "Everything I've done in my life is common sense!"

✔ 23:00 - "You can't sing these songs!" "Yes, I can!"

✔ 24:20 - The case against "2 Live Crew" for violating obscenity laws was overturned in the US Court of Appeals in 1992.

✔ 24:50 - Andrew Dice Clay was known for his controversial comedy routines. In the late 80's he was banned for life from appearing on MTV but the ban was lifted in 2011.

✔ 25:15 - The "Campbell V Acuff-Rose" music supreme court case of 1994 ruled that commercial parody of a song falls under fair use copyright law.

✔ 26:15 - The "Liberty City Optimists Club" is a youth program created by Luther Campbell to help pull misguided kids off the streets and into sports.

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

Amplify Your Voice - Happiness Brings Money | Russell Simmons with Tom Bilyeu (IQ 52)

Mindset Persistence 2019-09-23 | Tom's guest is Russell Simmons, an American entrepreneur, record executive, writer, and film producer. He is chairman and CEO of Rush Communications, co-founded the hip-hop music label Def Jam Recordings, and created the clothing fashion lines Phat Farm, Argyleculture, and Tantris.

This is episode #52 of Inside Quest, first released on April 6, 2016.

Shownotes and quotes:
4:40 - "Change or Die" by Alan Deutschman empowers readers to relate, repeat and reframe in order to achieve lasting and positive changes in their lives.

8:30 - About giving up drugs... "In January 1 I'm gonna quit!"

12:15 - "Hang with people who lift you up."

16:00 - "Happiness brings money, money doesn't bring happiness!"

16:09 - "You find something people need, that you love, an then you give that to them! You fill the white space!"

17:10 - "Def Comedy Jam" premiered July 1, 1992, on HBO. It ran until 1997 and was revived for a second run from 2006-2008.

17:47 - A veteran of the poetry slam circuit, Black Ice reached critical success after appearing on all six seasons of Def Poetry Jam on HBO.

24:00 - "Each company is built because of the focus you put into it".

27:35 - What is your definition of a life well-lived?

27:35 - You said that the answer is within yourself. How do we find it?

30:00 - Russel talks about Yoga Sutras, a collection of 196 Indian sutras (aphorisms) on the theory and practice of yoga.
##############
Russel Simmons books 📕:
✔ Success Through Stillness: Meditation Made Simple (amzn.to/2SEMina)
✔ The Happy Vegan: A Guide to Living a Long, Healthy, and Successful Life (amzn.to/2SHbVE3)
✔ Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success (amzn.to/2SG4P2j)
✔ Super Rich: A Guide to Having It All (amzn.to/2yc4lYs)

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

Jedi Mind Tricks and Flexible Memory on this Ask Tom Bilyeu Anything (IQ 51)

Mindset Persistence 2019-09-19 | On this episode Tom answer's questions from his audience. This is an ATA (Ask Tom Anything) episode with no guest, just Tom answering all kind of questions, being challenged by his followers.

This is Episode #51 of Inside Quest first released on March 30, 2016.

Questions asked:
✔ 00:30 - Has Tom Bilyeu interviewed all of his dream guests yet?

✔ 01:10 - Do you have any videos about creativity that could have an Art Business growth?

✔ 02:46 - What motives behind persuasion are best incorporated in family relationships and in new business deals?

✔ 7:54 - How can I improve my short term and long term memory?
📕 Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, by Joshua Foer (amzn.to/2YoNRHd)

✔ 11:04 - In Tony Robbin's episode (youtu.be/qwVfGolfUu4) we learned that there are two areas in life that you need to master to be successful, the science of achievement and fulfillment. What creates a fulfilling life?

✔ 15:03 - When are you going to write your book "The Quest of the Jedi Master"? What chapters would you include?
👀 The Matrix is just a metaphor for people trapping themselves with their own limited mindset.

✔ 18:25 - What is more important: to hustle and become the lion to chase my vision or to practice my patience and wait for my skills to mature?

✔ 24:35 - What advice would you give to your 18 years old self?

✔ 27:08 - I'm scared to share anything valuable with people I know. It's my own fixed mindset telling me I'm not good at inspiring people. Can anyone relate and give some advice or references to check out?
📕 Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World, by Adam Grant (amzn.to/30ZLGLW)

✔ 29:26 - Do you hug your employees? 🤔

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

Seed The Future - Evergreen Movement | Dave Whorton with Tom Bilyeu (IQ50)

Mindset Persistence 2019-09-16 | Tom's guest is Dave Whorton, a legendary investor, the founder and Managing Director of Tugboat Ventures.

This is episode #50 of Inside Quest, first released on March 23, 2016.

Shownotes and quotes:
✔ Evergreen Movement - Purpose, Perseverance, People First, Private, Profit, Paced Growth,
and Pragmatic Innovation – these are the Evergreen 7Ps core values.

✔ 2:35 - "You're everything that's right in the world of business"
✔ 3:40 - John Doerr's ventures have created 200,000+ new jobs and Forbes recently ranked him as the 135th richest man in the world.

✔ 4:00 - Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) was an American mythologist, writer, and lecturer, best known for his seminal work "The Hero Without a Thousand Faces".
✔ Stella & Dot is a boutique-style jewelry and accessories company offering flexible entrepreneuring sales opportunities for woman at home and online.

✔ 8:30 - (...) because of this ancient myth that behind every great fortune is a great crime. What do you tell people that think that way?

✔ 12:48 - What's the recipe to entrepreneurial disaster? How do people trap themselves? What sort of beliefs holds them back? What skill sets do they need to cultivate to be successful?

✔ Quest's co-founders also founded EPIGENIX, a non-profit organization built on the belief that we are not necessarily imprisoned by our genetic code.

✔ An "Evergreen Business" combines principle, vision, and purpose, but without an expectation of an "Exit".
✔ These companies are built privately for a lifetime or longer.

✔ 19:25 - "We learn the most powerful lessons from failures!"

✔ SC Johnson and Bechtel are two of the oldest and largest privately held family business in America. Both companies are operating in their 5th generation.

✔ 23:00 - If you could only give one piece of advice to your kids. What would it be?

✔ 24:40 - "The Power of Mith" discuss themes and symbols of ancient narratives and religions throughout history, identifying the universality of human experience across time and culture (amzn.to/2SDL2AI).

✔ 27:20 - What are the two or three key ingredients that make an entrepreneur?

✔ 33:25 - "A Great Place to Work" is also a book which identifies essential characteristics that motivate employees, stimulate productivity and provide personal fulfillment (amzn.to/2yg3i9O).

✔ 38:54 - Dave served 17+ years on the board of directors of "NewSchools Venture Fund", a nonprofit organization working to transform public education.

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

Performing Under Pressure - Bill Benjamin with Tom Bilyeu (IQ 48)

Mindset Persistence 2019-09-12 | Tom's guest is Bill Benjamin, a math and computer master who discover the power of managing emotions. Bill loves to write and contributed to the New York Times and Amazon bestselling book, Performing Under Pressure: The Science of Doing Your Best When it Matters Most (amzn.to/2YiNZI3), co-authored by IHHP’s JP Pawliw-Fry and published in 65 countries with multiple translations.

Currently, Benjamin travels the globe speaking about leadership, emotional intelligence and investigating how to maximize individual potential.

This is episode 48 of Inside Quest, Tom Bilyeu's previous interview show, first released on March 9, 2016.

Show notes and quotes:
✔ 6:00 - Mindfulness to fight anxiety

✔ Goleman argues that our brain architecture gives the amygdala a privileged position as the emotional sentinel, impairing the prefrontal cortex's judgment for rationality.

✔ 14:50 - "Fool your brain to feel confident."

✔ 34:00 - Acting unskillfully

✔ 36:00 - "Helping people learn"

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

Level Up Your Intelect - Howard Marks With Tom Bilyeu (IQ 47)

Mindset Persistence 2019-09-09 | Tom's guest is Howard Marks, the founder of StartEngine, Los Angeles largest startup accelerator. Marks was the founder and CEO of Acclaim Games (now owned by Disney), and the co-Founder of Activision and Chairman of Activision Studios (1991-1997).

This is episode #47 of Inside Quest, first released on March 2, 2016.

Shownotes and quotes:
✔ 2:25 - "A Boy Named Sue" was a song made popular by country legend Johnny Cash, but was actually written by acclaimed children's book author, Shel Silverstein.
👀 Grit is literally sand or gravel but is also used to define firmness of mind or spirit.
✔ Howard defines GRIT as "the intersection between resilience and passion".

✔ 7:30 - "If we quit at that time when we had no money there was no Activision"
👀 According to Forbes, "Activision Blizzard" had a yearly revenue of $16.4 Billion as of May 2015 with a valuation of $35 Billion.

✔ 8:05 - What is it about a mission that makes it so potent for an entrepreneur just starting out?
👀 StartEngine is an online platform to help startups raise capital through public investors.

✔ 12:15 - What does the average consumer need to understand to become better at investing?
👀 A Pension is a retirement account offered as a benefit by many employers. At retirement, employees can choose between a lump sum or "annuity" payments.
👀 According to a survey by Bankrate.com, only 37% of Americans have $500 - $1000 in their savings account.
👀 Steve Wynn is the billionaire chairman and CEO of Wynn Resorts, based in Paradise, Nevada.
👀 Bobby Kotick is the CEO of Activision Blizzard. He was instrumental in growing the company from the brink of bankruptcy into a multibillion-dollar success.

✔ 21:25 - "Creating success very intentionally out of essentially nothing"

👀 According to the US Small Business Administration, small businesses make 99.7% of US employer firms and 64% of net new private-sector jobs.

✔ 24:15 - A VC (Venture Capitalist) offers financing to address the funding needs of entrepreneurial companies who cannot seek capital from more traditional sources.

✔ "Do you want to be a King or to be Rich?"

✔ 30:08 - "Offer the general public means to participate in the wealth creation".
👀 Elio Motor's stated mission is "to provide a fun-to-drive, super-economical personal transportation alternative that's affordable, safe, and environmentally friendly".

✔ 32:40 - "Tell me why do you like the naysayers?"

✔ 37:35 - "The only thing holding you back is YOU!"

✔ 40:10 - "Find out what would happen to you if you've got rich!"

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

Ask Tom Bilyeu Anything - Become a Learner (IQ 46)

Mindset Persistence 2019-09-05 | Tom Bilyeu's answer all kind of questions from his audience. This is episode #46 of Inside Quest, first released on March 30, 2016.

✔ 0:30 - How do I get into a position like yours?

✔ 3:58 - Do you have any books or resources that you recommend to improve interviewing skills or that give me more insights on how the employer approaches the hiring process?

✔ 8:15 - What are you doing to achieve your perfect day?

✔ 12:20 - If you and your wife could live for a thousand years, how would that change the way how you currently live your life?
- In the answer, Tom talks about this book: Einstein's Dreams, by Alan Lightman (amzn.to/311UdxZ)

✔ 15:35 - Is there furder information on modeling & the process of achieving more in less time? (Tony Robbin's episode: youtu.be/qwVfGolfUu4)

✔ 19:38 - Does growth mindset work on the playground for my 3rd grader as well as in high-level negotiations in my business?

✔ 24:30 - What strategy will you adopt to make a brand unforgettable?

✔ 29:00 - I want to be an inventor that creates new materials for other businesses that change the world. Could I actually make a career from this?

✔ 33:45 - What are the most influential books you have ever read?

✔ 39:40 - What is Quest University becoming?
- Tom talks about this book: Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win (New Edition) (amzn.to/30ZZAxk)

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

Go Big Create Wealth and Impact the World - Steven Kotler with Tom Bilyeu (IQ 44)

Mindset Persistence 2019-09-02 | Tom's guest for this episode is Steven Kotler, an American author, journalist, and entrepreneur. His articles have appeared in over 70 publications, including The New York Times Magazine, LA Times, Wired, Time Magazine, GQ, Discover, Popular Science, Outside, Men’s Journal, Details, and National Geographic Adventure. He is best known for his non-fiction books, including the New York Times bestseller Abundance, A Small Furry Prayer, West of Jesus, Bold, The Rise of Superman and Stealing Fire.

This is episode 44 of Inside Quest, Tom Bilyeu's previous interview show, first released on Feb 10, 2016.

Show notes and quotes:
✔ 2:15 - What made you write a book called "Tomorrowland"?
✔ 5:00 - What are hoping that people take away from "Tomorrowland"?
👀 Steven's book "Tomorrowland: Our Journey From Science Fiction to Science Fact" was published on May 12, 2015, to the same great acclaim as his previous works.
✔ 6:30 - Walk people through, an abbreviated version of what you discover surfing through Lyme Disease?
👀 300,000 people are diagnosed with Lyme Disease each year in the US, with cases concentrated in the northeast and upper midwest.
✔ 12:00 - Is there a cocktail of behaviors we can all use in our own lives that allow us to push the limits?
✔ 14:40 - Don't take your emotions to personally.
✔ 16:30 - What's going on, on an emotional level, that creates that feeling? How can people learn to recognize does triggers and then take control of that?
👀 The Flow Genome Project is a trans-disciplinary, international organization committed to mapping the genome of flow by 2020 and open sourcing it to everyone.
👀 22:15 - Box Breathing, or Four-Square Breathing, is a simple exercise that retrains your nervous system to breath properly. (no actual box required!)
👀 27:30 - "Neurobiology" is a branch of the life sciences that deals with the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the nervous system.
👀 Dopamine is a brain chemical involved in movement, motivation, reward, and addiction. Nearly all drug abuse directly or indirectly increases dopamine production.
👀 Norepinephrine is released predominantly from the ends of sympathetic nerve fibers to increase muscle contraction and heart rate, both vital to the "fight-or-flight" response.
✔ 32:40 - Before we run out of time I want to talk about hedonic set points and why they matter?

###############
You can check Steven book's on Amazon:
📕 Tomorrowland (amzn.to/2YjQhqE)
📕 The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance (amzn.to/2LDnDyH)
📕 Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work (amzn.to/2LFwMH5)

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

Turn Your Failures in Meaningful Wins - Losing Everything | Noah Kaga with Tom Bilyeu (IQ #43)

Mindset Persistence 2019-08-29 | Tom Bilyeu's guest for this episode is Noah Kagan, the Chief Sumo of AppSumo a tech company, and the author of "How I Lost 170 Million Dollars" (amzn.to/2JKz19L).

This is episode #43 of Inside Quest, Tom's Bilyeu previous project, first released on February 3, 2016.

Shownotes and quotes:
✔ 2:30 - "I have learned that depression and happiness can not be left to chance".
✔ "I don't credit a lot of my success to resilience, persistence is the thing I give more credit to".
✔ "Persistence beats resistance"
✔ 8:00 - Engineering Happiness
✔ 9:00 - "Gratitude, exercises, breakfast and you"
✔ Appsumo provides a variety of tips, trends, apps and offers to help entrepreneurs grow their business.
✔ During the 3rd quarter of 2015, Paypal had 173 million active accounts and grossed $2.26 Billion in revenue.
✔ 14:45 - Sumome is a plugin tool that entrepreneurs can use to gain web traffic through offer marketing, information gathering, and analytics tracking.
✔ 16:20 - Fired from Facebook 🤦‍♂️ and 170 million dollars lost.
✔ "Money can facilitate your dreams"
✔ 23:20 - Tom: "humility finds me every day".
✔ 29:20 - "What's the story you tell yourself about yourself?"
✔ 32:16 - "A lot of us just put the minimum effort and expect the maximum results".
✔ "You get out what you're putting in".
✔ "If you stop being self-aware, stop learning from other people, that's probably when you're going to start failing".
✔ 36:55 - Noah ask Tom: "If I'm stuck in the Matrix, what's the first thing I can do to start moving out of there?"
✔ Mindset is everything. By changing your mindset you start to get out of the Matrix.
✔ 44:00 "Tell me what you consider a life well lived?"

✔ Mint.com is a full suite financial planner to help users save more efficiently by tracking spending habits, debt, and income all in one place.

Noah Kagan YouTube Channel: youtube.com/user/crxnamja

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

Disrupting Industries - On Innovation |Terry Jones with Tom Bilyeu on Inside Quest (Ep. 42)

Mindset Persistence 2019-08-26 | Tom's guest is Terry Jones, best known for founding Travelocity.com and serving as founding Chairman of Kayak.com. Terry Jones has become a powerful voice in the world of entrepreneurship through his numerous speaking engagements and the publication of his book, ON Innovation (amzn.to/2YbXjNM).

This is episode 42 of Inside Quest, Tom Bilyeu's previous interview show, first released on January 27, 2016.

Show notes and quotes:
✔ 3:00 - Traditional we heard that innovation is a young's men game. So how did you stay fresh, how did you stay so hungry to learn new things?
✔ According to IBM, Watson is a technology platform that uses machine learning to reveal insights from large amounts of unstructured data.
✔ Millennials are those born between 1982 and 2000.
✔ 7:20 - "How do I add value, in something that looks like it will continue"
✔ Google's "20% Time" encourages employees to work on passion projects that could eventually benefit the company, with resulting products like Gmail and Adsense.
✔ 11:45 - "What are the fundamental building blocks of an innovators mindset?
✔ Two of Major League Baseball's top players fail to get on base nearly 70% of the time: Miguel Cabrera (DET at 0.338 and Dee Gordon (MIA) at 0.333.
✔ 17:20 - Founded in 1981 as Au Bon Pain, Panera Bread now has over 1.900 bakery-cafe locations in 46 states and Ontario.
✔ 18:35 - Silly mistakes like sending an email to offer a protein bar to 300 selected people that end up reaching 300.000 people (our entire customer base).
✔ In January 2015 Expedia acquired Travelocity from Sabre Corporation for $280 Million in cash and integrated the company as a Travel Booking Partner.
✔ 22:30 - Unstructered Play
✔ Forbes says a Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) is "the person who maintains the whimsical vision and executable strategy for your company's marketing plan".
✔ II (Ideas In) = IO (Ideas Out)
✔ 34:40 "Can we augment the human mind?"
✔ Kayak shares were up nearly 35% in their first day of trading on the Nasdaq. They raised $91 million by selling 3.5 million shares at $26 apiece.

✔ Tom Bilyeu's reading list: impacttheory.com/reading-list-2

✔ You can found out more about Terry Jones on tbjones.com

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

############# 🍭
Do you already have a coinbase account?
Open one from this link and earn 10USD with your first deposit and purchase of cryptocurrency worth 100USD or more. coinbase.com/join/pinto_84f

Empower yourself and Achieve Happiness - Tony Robbins with Tom Bilyeu | IQ #40

Mindset Persistence 2019-08-22 | This week's guest is Tony Robbins, an author, philanthropist, and life coach. Robbins is known for his infomercials, seminars, and self-help books including "Unlimited Power" and "Awaken the Giant Within".

Check out Tony's books on Amazon: amzn.to/2YtoOH9

This is episode #40 of Inside Quest, first released on January13, 2016. We have also a smaller video resuming this interview: youtu.be/anfJBWGGgnM

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

############# 🍭
Do you already have a coinbase account?
Open one from this link and earn 10USD with your first deposit and purchase of cryptocurrency worth 100USD or more. coinbase.com/join/pinto_84f

Why You Need a Strong Belief System - Start with a Growth Mindset | Tom Bilyeu

Mindset Persistence 2019-08-19 | That's why you need a belief system. Check Tom's Bilyeu Belief System, now adopted in its new project Impact Theory.
impacttheory.com/blog/impact-theory-belief-system-25-bullet-points

On this episode:
✔ All human beings have the need to feel good about themselves.

✔ Psychological Immune System shelters people from the worst effect of their misfortune. Its goal is to protect you from yourself.

✔ People with a fixed mindset will avoid doing things that can hurt them, physical or psychological. People with a Groth Mindset don't.

✔ A Growth Mindset is the belief that through hard work, dedication and a love of learning people prime themselves for great accomplishment.

✔ A Fixed Mindset is the belief that basic qualities like intelligence, talent, and drive are fixed traits that can't be trained.

This is episode #39 of Inside Quest and it was first released on December 12, 2015.

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

############# 🍭
Do you already have a coinbase account?
Open one from this link and earn 10USD with your first deposit and purchase of cryptocurrency worth 100USD or more. coinbase.com/join/pinto_84f

From Weird Child To One Of The Best Musicians In The World | The Path To Success

Mindset Persistence 2019-08-15 | The things that make you weird are probably the things that make you succeed in life.

"I was a very weird child"

"I had a port-wine stain birthmark on my face"

"I got that stain lasered off when I was very young"

"In one of the laser sessions, they forgot to put the anesthetic on"

"Ever since then, I had a stutter"

"I also had very big blue NHS glasses"

✔ NHS - National Health Service

"I also lacked one eardrum"

"So stuttering was actually the least of my problems in school"

"I did different speech therapies and stuff which wasn't very successful"

"I got heavily into music at a young age and got very into rap music"

"Eminem was the first album that my dad bought me"

"My dad bought me the Marshall Mathers LP when I was 9 not knowing what was on it"

"I learned every word of it back to front"

"He raps very fast, very melodically and very percussively"

"It helped me get rid of the stutter"

"So stuttering led me to music"

"Things you think are bad today are the things that will make you great tomorrow."

"I started playing on the streets of London at a very young age."

"When I was ready, I went to the US searching for new challenges"

"Persistence led me to a Radio Show hosted by Jamie Foxx"

"Jamie Foxx made me perform to a demanding audience, just me and my ukulele"

"I was terrified but they loved me!"

"I slept on Jamie's couch for a couple of weeks"

"My Divide Tour is currently the highest-grossing concert tour of all time"

"$720 million in 245 shows"

"My name is Ed Sheeran"

###################
Based on Ed Sheeran speech on the “American Institute for Stuttering” 9th Annual Benefit Gala, on June 8, 2015.
Ed Sheeran Youtube Channel: youtube.com/user/EdSheeran

Choose Uncertainty Lose Fear - Erik Aadahl with Tom Bilyeu (IQ #9)

Mindset Persistence 2019-08-12 | Tom Bilyeu's guest is Erik Aadahl, a well-known sound editor (Argo, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Godzilla).

This is episode #9 of Inside Quest, first released on May 27, 2015.

Show notes and quotes:
✔ You can't inspire others until you can inspire yourself
✔ The only failure is not trying.
✔ A Sound Designer either creates the entire auditory world of a film or is brought on to create one specific sound.
✔ 18:50 - "Sound connect us to the deep part of our soul"
✔ Stereocilia are hair-like organelles in the inner ear that respond to the motion.
✔ Sound is the way that the brain perceives displaced waves of air or water.
✔ The roar of the original 1954 Godzilla was a cross between a gorilla and a whale.
✔ 11:56 - Transcendental Meditation was created by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi as an evidence-based technique for inner peace and wellness.
✔ Oscar-nominated film director David Lynch started the David Lynch Foundation to help trauma victims using transcendental meditation.
✔ 12:35 - Terence Malick's philosophical film "The Tree of Life" (starring Brad Pitt) was nominated for three Oscars in 2011.
✔ The Cretaceous Period was the final segment of the Mesozoic Era. It ended 65 million years ago.
✔ Different species of frogs use different sound effects to communicate including clicks, cloaks, and underwater vibrations.
✔ 18:45 - Tom defines Power Meditation as "clearing the mind of distraction to maximize efficiency in attacking a problem".
✔ 17:30 Erik gives an excellent response to Tom about the "utility" of Meditation.

Mindset Persistence note:
Sorry guys, but I couldn't find Part 2 of this interview. I think it was lost forever! 😢

Erik Aadahl IMDB page: imdb.com/name/nm0007321

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

Aligning Passion with Profession and Stop Blaming Genetics - Tony Horton with Tom Bilyeu (IQ 8)

Mindset Persistence 2019-08-08 | Tom's guest for this episode (#8 Inside Quest) is Tony Horton, the creator of the best-selling fitness series: P90X, P90X2, P90X3, and Ten Minute Trainer®, and most recently his 22-Minute military-inspired workout, 22 Minute Hard Corps. Tony is a world-class motivational speaker and the author of top-selling books “Bring It”, Crush It!” and his latest motivational book, “The Big Picture” 11 Laws that will change your life.

This episode 8 was first released on May 5, 2015.

Shownotes:
✔ Tony Horton's workout videos have grossed over 1 billion dollars.
✔ Tony was a part-time actor and full-time personal trainer until his 40s when P90X rocked to success.
✔ The Big Picture is Tony's book about 11 laws that will change your life outside the gym (amzn.to/2YazW7l).
✔ P90X needed several infomercials and transformation testimonials before it became a phenomenon.
✔ Tony believes that a clean diet provides the foundation for physical and mental stability.
✔ Learn that failure is a part of the process.
✔ (11:50) Cesar "The Dog Whisperer" Millan applies psychological techniques to "problem dogs" to adjust their behavior.
✔ (12:40) What are the traps people fall into whet their trying to get fit?

✔ (13:55) Not getting bored, not getting hurt, seeing results.

##############
Tony Horton
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCtg-WxwloE0cwFeIea7ckqw
Website: tonyhortonlife.com
Twitter: twitter.com/tony_horton
To buy Tony's "22 Minute a Day Training Program - Hard Corps Special Ops" - amzn.to/2Y9z036

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

Rethinking Reality and Embracing Failure - Ryan Holiday with Tom Bilyeu | Inside Quest Ep. 7

Mindset Persistence 2019-08-05 | Tom's guest is Ryan Holiday, an author, marketer, entrepreneur and founder of the creative advisory firm Brass Check. Holiday, through his books, articles, and lectures, has been credited by the New York Times with the increasing popularity of stoicism.

This is episode 7 of Inside Quest, Tom Bilyeu's previous interview show, first released on May 13, 2015.

Show notes and quotes:
✔ "The Obstacle Is The Way" is Ryan's third book, based on the Roman philosophy of Stoicism. (amzn.to/2Y4dmNS)
✔ (4:20) The Obstacle Is The Way explores the timeless art of turning trials into triumph.
✔ (5:10) The Meaning of Life, according to Tom, is acquiring as many skills with utility as possible and exercises that utility.
✔ "Meditation" by Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (amzn.to/2y5qyqU) is one of the most important books of Stoicism.
✔ Stoicism is a philosophical way of life founded in ancient Athens by Zeno of Citium.
✔ Practicing Stoicism seeks to rid the mind of destructive emotions.
✔ (8:00) Ruthless Pragmatism
✔ Marcus Aurelius wrote Meditations over the course of several military campaigns between 170 and 180 A.D.
✔ The 12 sections of Meditations document different periods in Marcus Aurelius's life.
✔ (18:30) Epictetus was another Greek stoic philosopher who started life as a slave.
✔ Ryan's book "Trust Me, I'm Lying", debuted on The Wall Street Journal's best-seller list (amzn.to/2XXPeBe).
✔ Ryan's reading list: ryanholiday.net/reading-list

✔ "Theory of Mind" describes the ability to perceive the mental state of other beings, and act based on those perceptions. (45:25)

✔ Tom Bilyeu's reading list: impacttheory.com/reading-list-2

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

############# 🍭
Do you already have a coinbase account?
Open one from this link and earn 10USD with your first deposit and purchase of cryptocurrency worth 100USD or more. coinbase.com/join/pinto_84f

Specialist on Unlearning - Never Stop Innovating | Don Wettrick hosted by Tom Bilyeu (IQ #35)

Mindset Persistence 2019-08-02 | Don Wettrick is the Innovation Coordinator at Noblesville High School and is the author of "Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level" (amzn.to/2KLb8Rc). Wettrick has worked as a middle school and high school teacher; educational and innovation consultant; CEO, and podcast host. He is also the founder of StartEdUp, an organization dedicated to helping transform the school culture toward innovation and enable student-led entrepreneurship.

This is episode #35 of Inside Quest, first released on December 2, 2015.

Show notes and quotes:
✔ According to Urban Ventures, generational poverty occurs when a family has been in poverty for two generations or longer.

✔ 4:30 - Teaching kids high-level business concepts

✔ 6:00 - Daniel Pink TED Talk - NY Times best-selling author Daniel H. Pink's TED Talk "The Puzzle of Motivation" is one of the 10 most-watched TED Talks of all time. You can watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y

✔ 8:40 - "Break people down first and then build them back up. You talk about the unlearning process."

✔ 13:20 - "It's easier and less stressful to be told what to do rather than be given the freedom to come up to what you want to learn."

✔ 15:34 - "Service Learning" integrates meaningful community service with instruction to teach civic responsibility and strengthen communities.

✔ 16: 12 - "How do you teach overcoming obstacles?"

✔ 20:26 - Minecraft has roughly 1,000,000 daily players and well over 20 million registered users. Creator Markus "Notch" Persson sold it to Microsoft for $2 Billion.

✔ 26:00 - "To know happiness you have to go through sadness."

✔ 26:18 - Carlo S. Dweck, Ph.D., is one of the world's leading researchers in the field of motivation and author of Mindset. Watch Carol Dweck's episode: youtu.be/JCfE-dlRP-U

✔ 29:15 - "Kids love failure, except in school!"

✔ Don YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCX9cTnoteMS0BX-qPbLTdtw/videos

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA
############# 🍭
Do you already have a coinbase account?
Open one from this link and earn 10USD with your first deposit and purchase of cryptocurrency worth 100USD or more. coinbase.com/join/pinto_84f

Embracing Change - Todd Dewett on Inside Quest (with Tom Bilyeu)

Mindset Persistence 2019-07-31 | Todd Dewett’s journey towards authenticity began with degrees from the University of Memphis and the University of Tennessee. Next came process improvement and team-building experience with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and Ernst & Young. He then earned a Ph.D. in Management from the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University, as well as a prestigious Post Doctoral Fellowship, and eventually a position on the graduate faculty at Wright State University. After ten years in the classroom, early tenure, many awards, and many scholarly publications, the entrepreneurial spirit took over.

This is episode #34 of Inside Quest, first released on November 25, 2015, hosted by Tom Bilyeu.

Show notes and quotes:
✔ 4:55 - "We live ridiculous repressed lives."
✔ An early 2015 Gallup Survey found that out of 7.200 working adults, about half had left a job at some point "to get away from their manager".
✔ 5:45 - "Most bosses out there have a belief about what's right and their happy, usually unconsciously, to impose it on other people and their employee base."
all behaviors have consequences
✔ The term "Human Resource Management" was coined in the Mid-1880s by John R. Commons, a major influencer behind the growth of personnel management in the 20th century.
✔ Research by Positive Psychologist Barbara Fredrickson finds positive emotions can broaden your sense of possibility, which allows you to build new skills and expand your life.
✔ According to the National Institute of Health, 40% of millennials think they should be promoted every two years regardless of performance.
✔ 16:40 - "the participation generation" - kids that don't do anything else than finishing the season.
✔ "I breathe therefore I'm awesome".

✔ According to the OECD, the Top 5 countries for Math and Science are Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. The US ranks 28th.
✔ 19:00 - What we learned studying successful people is that they take risks, they questioned, they though critically, they did not fear the creativity that shows up in their brain.
✔ According to a Chall and Jacob Study, a common "reading slump" occurs between the 3rd and the 4th grades due to the transition from "learning to read" to "reading to learn".

✔ The prefrontal cortex, highly developed in Humans, plays a primary role in the regulation of complex cognitive, emotional, and behavioral functioning.
✔ Evolutionary Psychology posits that contemporary human behavior and thought patterns can be explained by the evolutionary advantages that they impart.
✔ "The best way to learn something is to teach it."
✔ Neurology is the scientific study of the nervous system and the diseases that affect it.
✔ A study at Loma Linda University showed that adults who watched funny videos had a significant improvement in their recall abilities compared to a control group.
✔ 28:50 - "People with excuses are afraid to work hard."
✔ "Find a job that gives you purpose."

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

############# 🍭
Do you already have a coinbase account?
Open one from this link and earn 10USD with your first deposit and purchase of cryptocurrency worth 100USD or more. coinbase.com/join/pinto_84f

The Body Connection - John Ratey on Inside Quest (hosted by Tom Bilyeu)

Mindset Persistence 2019-07-29 | This is episode #33 of Inside Quest, first released on November 18, 2015, with John Ratey. He's an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an internationally recognized expert in Neuropsychiatry. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles, and 11 books published in 17 languages, including the groundbreaking ADHD “Driven to Distraction” series with Ned Hallowell, MD.

Show notes and quotes:
✔ John's research suggests that Peak Mental Performance occurs 2-3 hours after exercise, with long term benefits for neuroplasticity.

✔ 3:15 "Yoy have to think the brain as a muscle. You have to use it."

✔ John's 2008 book Spark (amzn.to/2JbwpjA) was one of the first comprehensive studies to demonstrate a clear link between physical and mental performance.

✔ According to the NIH, the prefrontal cortex is especially susceptible to shrinking, perhaps accounting for changes to personality as we age.

✔ 6:50 "The best way to prevent cognitive decline is exercise itself."

✔ The NIH (National Institutes of Health) defines ADD (or ADHD) as "a combination of problems, such as difficulty sustaining attention, hyperactivity, and impulse behavior.

✔ Physical exercise can make you smarter.

✔ American Public Television's flagship public affairs series, Frontline streams more than 180 documentaries online for free.

✔ John's new book, Go Wild (amzn.to/2X6wNK6), examines "how tapping into our core DNA combats modern disease and psychological afflictions, from autism and depression to diabetes and heart disease".

✔ According to the NIH, several studies have revealed the importance of a full night's sleep for developing neural pathways that help you process knowledge and new skills.

✔ A Harvard study recently linked sugar intake to a higher risk of heart disease (even if you aren't overweight), high blood pressure, dementia, liver cirrhosis, dyslipidemia, and diabetes.

✔ The Paleo Diet is an eating plan based on foods similar to what might have been eaten in the Paleolithic Era (2.5 to 10 Millions years ago). (16:00)

✔ As we became more fatphobic our obesity crisis began and continue to rise till this day.

✔ Lack of diversity on the diet. (18:00)

✔ John Ratey's book argues that technology has rapidly outpaced our biological evolution, so our bodies are still adapted for a "wild" state rather than a "civilized" one.

✔ A UCLA study found that people who had been meditating for 20 years had more gray matter volume throughout the brains than people who did not practice meditation.
✔ People who practice meditation frequently heals 4X faster than people who don't.
✔ Mindfulness is being present. (21:00)

✔ "Use it or lose it."

✔ Type 2 diabetes causes sugar to collect in the bloodstream leading to potentially life-threatening side-effects including kidney, heart, and liver failure.

✔ 24:30 - The Micro-Biome is the collection of bacteria, fungi, protozoa and virus that naturally occur inside the healthy human body. We have up to 10X more microbial cells in our bodies than actual body cells.

✔ In a Fecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT), Donor Stool is placed in a patient's colon to replace "good" bacteria that have been killed or suppressed by antibiotics.

✔ 27:45 - Epigenetics - Britannica defines epigenetics as "the study of the chemical modification of specific genes or gene-associated proteins of an organism".

✔ Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that acts on pleasure and reward response in the brain. It is critical for modulating anger, mood, sexuality, and sleep.

✔ BDNF (Brain-derived neurotrophic factor) is a protein that, in humans, is encoded by the BDNF gene.

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

Being Accountable to Yourself - Tom Bilyeu on Inside Quest

Mindset Persistence 2019-07-27 | On episode #25, with Shabnam Mogharabi, the audience was challenged to put in practice some of the habits that Shabnam talked about. (youtu.be/rs6EbOCCRjQ)
On this is episode (#32), first released on November 4, 2015, Tom Bilyeu is going to show us how that worked out.

Show notes and quotes:
✔ 3:30 - Ed Deci is the co-founder of Self-Determination Theory, a belief that the truest form of motivation comes from a place of genuine self-interest. (watch Ed Deci episode: youtu.be/0AULKmUEc68)
✔ 4:00 - Shabnam is the CEO of SoulPancake, a digital creative studio founded by Rainn Wilson, with a mission to produce content.
✔ 5:25 - Erin began working as Quest's Media Chef in March of 2014.
✔ Shabnam Mogharabi credits a shift toward greate gratitude with helping her transition from "Eeyore to trigger".
✔ Carol Dweck, a leading researcher in the field of motivation, studies why people succeed and how to foster that success through what she calls " a growth mindset". Watch Carol Dweck's episode: youtu.be/JCfE-dlRP-U
✔ 19:12 - Ami Gan handles Public Relations for Quest and has been with the company for two years.
✔ Tom graduated from USC's prestigious Film Program in 1998.
✔ Robert Sutton's book Good Boss, Bad Boss reveals that 75% of people around the world believe their immediate supervisor is the most stressful part of their job.
✔ 26:50 - June recently joined Quest as Tom's Executive Assistant. She comes from a background in Theatrical Marketing.
✔ There is no more destructive cycle than believing that you will do it tomorrow. (28:30)
✔ Tom's father worked as a Purchasing Manager for several cement companies over the course of his career.
✔ There is something that you want in your life, really badly, and I know the secret to make that happen. The only secret that exists is getting out of your own way.
✔ Kim Bilyeu is Tom's sister and recently joined the Quest team as Director of Knowledge and Training.
✔ "People let emotions get the best of them." (32:05)
✔ Quest built its strong social following by finding unique ways to encourage fans who were already using Quest products in fun, creative, inspirational ways.
✔ The amygdala is the part of the brain that controls emotional response, memory and survival instincts. Author Seth Godin refers to it as the "Lizard Brain" in his book Linchpin.
✔ Tom defines Mental Jiu-Jitsu as flipping negative thoughts and emotions into triggers for positive actions. (34:50)
✔ Number 1 lesson: If you want to something great with your life, get control of your emotions.
✔ 39:00 - Currently working in sales, Ray has been with Quest for 2.5 years. Before coming to Quest, he was running a freelancer business connecting experts to buyers in need of their skills.
✔ "People overestimate what they can do in a year and underestimated what they can do in a decade." Tony Robins (youtu.be/anfJBWGGgnM)
✔ The 10.000 hours to mastery rule was popularized by Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers (amzn.to/2Xb2hyT). He has since added the caveat that "natural ability requires a huge investment of time in order to be made manifest".
✔ Eeyore is a popular character from the Winnie-the-Pooh series. Known for being a pessimist, the character is a reflection of the naysayer inside everyone.
✔ In So Good They Can't Ignore You (amzn.to/2NfipKY), author Cal Newport describes how skill can trump passion in seeking satisfaction from a career.
✔ 50:40 - Clarence is a Customer Support Agent at Quest. Prior to working here, he was a UCLA graduate working at a law firm.
✔ "Feeling overwhelmed is the lizard brain begging you to take action. You keep overwhelmed because you never take action." (54:05)

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

############# 🍭
Do you already have a coinbase account?
Open one from this link and earn 10USD with your first deposit and purchase of cryptocurrency worth 100USD or more. coinbase.com/join/pinto_84f

Eliminating Negativity - Robert Sutton on Inside Quest (hosted by Tom Bilyeu)

Mindset Persistence 2019-07-25 | Full of weird ideas that work, Robert Sutton is a professor of management science at the Stanford University School of Engineering and a researcher in the field of evidence-based management. He is a New York Times best-selling author.

This is episode #31 of Inside Quest, first released on October 28, 2015.

Show notes and quotes:
✔ Edwin Catmull is the author of #1 bestseller Creativity Inc: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (amzn.to/2Yg78v0).
✔ According to Box Office Mojo, Pixar's 15 movies to date have grossed over $3 Billion since the company's founding in 1986.
✔ (9:50) "Create a small pocket of real excellence (...)"
✔ (11:00) Matthew Ridgway was a US Military General whose unorthodox tactics are often credited for salvaging the UN's efforts during the Korean War. (frontline leadership)
✔ (15:40) "When you're in a leadership position, if you don't act like you know what you're doing, you are dead! But if you believe your bullshit to mush, you're dead too."
✔ Jeffrey Pfeffer is a professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford and the author of 14 books including The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First (amzn.to/2X586Ol).
✔ Barry Staw is a Leadership and Communications Professor at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, specializing in emotion, motivation, and creativity in the workplace.
✔ "The idea of knowing when to show the flashes of hanger is very important". (18:40)
✔ Delivering Happiness is Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh's book about creating a corporate culture aimed at improving the lives of employees, customers, vendors, and backers (amzn.to/2IOdIDT).
✔ Tom majored in production at USC's prestigious film school with the goal of becoming a film director.
✔ (32:50) In the four quarters prior to Steve Jobs return to Apple at the Macworld Expo in 1997, Apple had suffered a staggering $1 Billion in losses.
✔ (33:10) Michael Dell founded DELL at the age of 19 in 1984 with $1000. By 1992 he was the youngest ever to earn a ranking on the Fortune 500.
✔ "Pride is better because you don't have to hate anyone!" (34:20)
✔ You can't be a part of a tribe that's bigger than 130 elements. That's the limit.
✔ During Jack Welch's 20 year tenure as Chairman and CEO of GE (General Electric), the value of the company increased more than 2900%.
✔ Founded by George Zimmer in 1983, Men's Wearhouse is now worth an estimated $2.8 Billion.

#################
Robert Sutton books:
✔ The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't, 2010 (amzn.to/2X8O0mm)
✔ The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt (amzn.to/2X4oppw)
✔ Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best... and Learn from the Worst, 2012 (amzn.to/2FwGJle)
✔ Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less, 2014 (amzn.to/2XzQiKy)
✔ Weird Ideas That Work: 11 1/2 Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation (amzn.to/2XxS3rG)
##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

Generate Intrinsic Motivation - Edward Deci on Inside Quest (hosted by Tom Bilyeu)

Mindset Persistence 2019-07-23 | Edward Deci is a Professor of Psychology and Gowen Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Rochester, and director of its human motivation program. He is well known in psychology for his theories of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and basic psychological needs.

This is episode #30 of Inside Quest, first released on October 21, 2015, with Edward Deci.

Show notes and quotes:
✔ According to Ed's research (published in American Psychologist), motivation is so central to psychology because it is "the core of biological, cognitive, and social regulation".
✔ A 2010 Princeton University study found that money does, in fact, correlate with happiness, up to an annual income of $75K. Above that benchmark, satisfaction levels off.
✔ "Motivation is essentially a euphemism of control when you talk about money". (5:25)
✔ "Self-determination theory is an organismic dialectical approach. It begins with the assumption that people are active organisms with an evolving tendency towards growing, mastering, ambient challenges, and integrating new experiences into a coherent sense of self. " (7:50)
✔ According to the Encyclopedia of Philosophy, evolutionary psychology seeks to explain human behavior by understanding the evolutionary advantages of brain and thought adaptation.
✔ (9:50) Peter Diamandis is chairman and CEO of X Prize, co-founder of Human Longevity, Inc.,, and co-founder of Planetary Resources (among others). Watch Peter Diamandis's episode: youtu.be/MVjIpkOVQ1Y
✔ "It's not about motivating someone. It's about creating the environment on which they will motivate themselves." (18:00)
✔ Many scientists consider B.F. Skinner the father of operant conditioning, a system of training behavior by rewarding random acts that are similar to the desired result.
✔ In a 2000 research paper for the University of Baltimore, Ed defines the principle of Relatedness as "the need to feel belongingness and connectedness with others".
✔ (24:40) (former Quest Belief System)The Impact Theory Belief System In 25 Bullet Points: impacttheory.com/blog/impact-theory-belief-system-25-bullet-points
✔ Tom believes that his business partners Mike Osborn and Ron Penna taught him an entrepreneurial mindset. To watch Mike and Ron episode click here: youtu.be/E-FoDYqIAzI
✔ (29:50) (...) to become more self-aware.
✔ Tom defines Mental Jiu-Jitsu as "flipping negative thoughts and emotions into triggers for positive action".

Edward L. Deci books:
✔ Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation (amzn.to/2X9umX6)
✔ The psychology of self-determination (amzn.to/2X9sOfM)
✔ Intrinsic Motivation (Perspectives in Social Psychology, Vol. 1) (amzn.to/2X9Rbdm)

Basic Psychological Needs:
✔ Competence or effectiveness
✔ Relatedness
✔ Authonomy

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

############# 🍭
Do you already have a coinbase account?
Open one from this link and earn 10USD with your first deposit and purchase of cryptocurrency worth 100USD or more. coinbase.com/join/pinto_84f

Addictive Behaviors - Nir Eyal on Inside Quest (hosted by Tom Bilyeu)

Mindset Persistence 2019-07-21 | This is episode #28 of Inside Quest, first released on October 7, 2015, with Nir Eyal. He's the bestselling author of "Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" and "Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life." He has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. His writing on technology, psychology, and business appears in the Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, TechCrunch, and Psychology Today

Show notes and quotes:
✔ "You teach what you most need to learn." (2:20)
✔ Nir founded the social marketing company ADNECTAR in 2008, which served over 2 Billion "virtual gift" ads in its first two years alone.
✔ Nir's book Hooked (amzn.to/2N8Rd0C) offers "actionable steps for building products that people love and can't put down."
✔ After Nir self-published his book and it shot to the top of the best-seller list, Penguin acquired the rights and gave it a wide release.
✔ According to Bloomberg, the average Facebook user spends 40 minutes on the site every day. That's 243 hours every year.
✔ The Hoock cycle (4 basics steps): Trigger, Action, reward, investment. (8:40)
✔ B.F. Skinner's theory of "Operant Conditioning" seeks to shape behavior toward a desired result by rewarding actions that are similar to that result.
✔ A trigger is a queue to action. It tells us what to do next.
✔ "The desire to feel dominant." (20:00)
✔ According to PBS, the first email was sent in 1971 by a programmer for BBN Technologies... to himself.
✔ Rewards: rewards of the tribe, rewards of the hunt, and rewards of the self. (20:40)
✔ MIA - Minimal enjoyable actions

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

Shatter The Rules - Jason Nazar on Inside Quest (hosted by Tom Bilyeu)

Mindset Persistence 2019-07-19 | This is episode #27 of Inside Quest, first released on September 30, 2015, with Jason Nazar, Co-Founder, and former CEO of Docstoc.
Jason is a prolific content generator who contributes frequently to Forbes, The Wall Street Journal. and Business Insider.

Show notes and quotes:
✔ "You can use superheroes as a metaphor for what you're trying to achieve." (3:50)
✔ Jason launched DOCSTOC in 2007. In 2013, the company sold for a reported $50 Million.
✔ The United Staes holds the second largest population of Persian Jews in the world, many of whom emigrated from 1953-1979.
✔ Jason Nazar has a BA in Politics from UCSB and a dual JD/MBA in Business and Law from Pepperdine University.
✔ Communication Coach David Parnell says that attributes like "likability" and "good personality" are really reflections of well-honed communication skills.
✔ "It takes the same effort to plan a party as it does to change the world." (9:35)
✔ DOCSTOC mission statement was to provide resources to "make every small business better".
✔ "People should just throw themselves into emotional danger". (16:10)
✔ "Sometimes you think to mush".
✔ "I believe it when I see it" - "You have to believe it if you want to see it".
✔ Robert Cialdini's 2001 book, Influence (amzn.to/2Y8PPfu), lays out six principles of persuasion and the dangers of persuasive techniques in the wrong hands.
✔ Dale Carnegie's book, How to Win Friends and Influence People (amzn.to/2WZpm7D), has sold over 15 Million copies since it was first published in 1937.
✔ "Failing at something didn't mean that I was a failure".
✔ Tom Bilyeu on hiring employees: "The most important things you need to know about a potential hire are never going to show up on a resume."
✔ Money is a magnifier. Whatever you are, it makes you more of that.
✔ You've got have that WHY. Your WHY has to be bigger than whatever is in front of you.
✔ "It's not how hard you hit, it's how hard you can be hit and keep going." - Rocky Balboa
✔ "Blow your life up every 10 years and do something completely different." (40:40)

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

############# 🍭
Do you already have a coinbase account?
Open one from this link and earn 10USD with your first deposit and purchase of cryptocurrency worth 100USD or more. coinbase.com/join/pinto_84f

Your Mission in Motion - Jessica Jackley on Inside Quest (Tom Bilyeu show)

Mindset Persistence 2019-07-17 | This is episode #26 of Inside Quest, first released on September 23, 2015, with Jessica Jackley. She's the co-founder of Kiva.org, an online community that helps individuals loan small amounts of money, called microloans, to entrepreneurs throughout the world.

Show notes and quotes:
✔ Jessica's TED TALK in 2010 (youtu.be/Cqj0sgrNL10)
✔ "She's the microfinance woman"
✔ Jessica's book, Clay Water Brick (amzn.to/2X0Rrvk), is a collection of true stories and lessons from successful businesses in the world's poorest countries.
✔ "Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources to currently control".(Howard Stevenson) (5:35)
✔ INC MAGAZINE called Stevenson's definition of entrepreneurship "the best answer ever". Forbes Magazine calls him a "Lion of Entrepreneurship".
✔ Jessica has a B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from Bucknell University and an M.B.A. from Stanford, where she helped launch the Global Philanthropy Forum.
✔ The best advice I could give: Just start!
✔ Tom's defines self-narrative as the evolving story you tell yourself about your identity based on your integrated life experiences.
✔ KIVA is the world's first online lending platform, purely supported by grants, loans, and donations. All loans are interest-free.
✔ The origins of Micro-Lending are credited to mid-19th-century thinker Lysander Spooner who wrote about small loans to alleviate poverty.
✔ Jessica co-founded Kiva after being inspired by a 2003 lecture given by Muhammad Yunus at Stanford Business School.
✔ Constance "The Banana Farmer" collaborated with her farming neighbors to share agricultural practices and discuss market and sales trends. (19:10)
✔ Constance convinced the group of local farmers to each sell only certain items to make room for each other in the same small market.
✔ Village Enterprises equips people living in extreme poverty with resources to create sustainable businesses.
✔ Fatuma used a $100 grant from Village Enterprise to start a profitable charcoal business.
✔ How to find my passion: Just pick something you like and be passionate about it. You don't lose any time. You make progress. (26:00)
✔ Merriam-Webster defines an entrepreneur as "a person who starts a business and is willing to risk loss in order to make money".
✔ According to J.L. Thompson in The World of The Social Entrepreneur, Social Entrepreneurship draws upon business techniques to find solutions for social problems.
✔ 31:34 "Great entrepreneurs have this in common: they simply made a series of choices, day after day, to move forward, regardless of what they lack or fight against".

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

Building an Empire of Positivity - Shabnam Mogharabi on Inside Quest (Tom Bilyeu)

Mindset Persistence 2019-07-15 | This is episode #25 of Inside Quest, first released on September 16, 2015, with Shabnam Mogharabi. She has nearly 20 years of experience in media building startups and organizations with an emphasis on entertainment, news media, digital content, and social platforms. She is currently the General Manager of SoulPancake, a media company and creative content studio she co-founded with actor Rainn Wilson.

Show notes and quotes:
✔ "Changing the world is that small incremental steps that move us in that direction". (6:00)
✔ Watch Shabnam's TEDx Talk about creating "Ambassadors of Joy" - youtube.com/watch?v=pGLJhlpC5WA
✔ Dr. Martin Seligman has authored several books about positive psychology including Authentic Happiness, Flourish and Learned Optimism. (amzn.to/2IwRF4l) (7:55)
✔ Soulpancake's stated mission is to help people "figure out what it means to be human and feel damn good doing it".
✔ According to the Pew Research Center, Millennials are "remarkably optimistic" despite being born into difficult economic times.
✔ Soulpancake's YouTube videos have amassed over 200 million views.
✔ Founded in 2010, QUEST has grown at an incredible rate. The company currently employees over 1300 people.
✔ In his book Delivering Happiness (amzn.to/2X4Nhmg), Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh argues that there are three types of happiness: pleasure, passion, and higher purpose.
✔ Several recent studies show that babies with more skin-to-skin contact have lower stress, sleep more soundly and cry less often.
✔ Tom defines Bringing Value as "making another person's life better in a tangible way". (19:20)
✔ "There is a difference between quitting on your goals or quitting on a path that is clearly a dead end." (21:20)
✔ Shabnam was wired as co-director of content for Soulpancake shortly after its launch in 2009. She became CEO in 2013.
✔ According to psychologist Robert Emmons, gratitude magnifies positive emotions and blocks negative ones like envy, resentment, and regret. It also alleviates stress.
✔ Sheryl Sandberg is the COO of Facebook and author of the NY Times bestseller Lean In: Women, Work, and The Will to Lead (amzn.to/2IA1LBw). (29:00)
✔ According to Seth Godin, author of Linchpin, the lizard brain is the "prehistoric lump near the brain stem responsible for fear, rage, and reproductive drive".
✔ Edwin Catmull was the Head of the Computer Division of LucasFilm Ltd. before Steve Jobs bought the company and made him the President of Pixar. He wrote Creativity Inc. (amzn.to/2X28Mze) (37:00)
✔ Peter Diamandis's Laws (38:40) - You can watch Peter Diamandis episode here - youtu.be/MVjIpkOVQ1Y

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

Exponentially Brighter Future - Peter Diamandis on Inside Quest (hosted by Tom Bilyeu)

Mindset Persistence 2019-07-13 | This is episode #24 of Inside Quest, first released on September 9, 2015, with Peter Diamandis.
He is a Greek American engineer, physician, and entrepreneur best known for being founder and chairman of the X Prize Foundation, co-founder and executive chairman of Singularity University and coauthor of The New York Times bestsellers Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think and BOLD: How to Go Big (amzn.to/2WWFeYp), Create Wealth, and Impact the World (amzn.to/2Ld16I9).

Show notes:
✔ Peter founded International Space University while on a leave of absence from Harvard Medical School. ISU has graduated 3,300 students.
✔ Peter's Laws are a set of core principles that he uses to overcome obstacles in the way of success.
✔ Lindbergh's transatlantic solo flight from Long Island to Paris took 33.5 hours to travel 3600 miles.
✔ Burt Rutan, a renowned aerospace designer, won the first $10 Million X Prize in 2004.
✔ Watch Peter's video about figuring out your "Massively Transformative Purpose" - youtube.com/watch?v=nrr0Gq65yGQ
✔ Human Longevity Inc's mission is to "extend and enhance the healthy, high-performance lifespan and change the face of aging through genomics and cell therapy".
✔ In 1875 geologist Eduard Suess defined the "Biosphere" as the sum of all life-sustaining ecosystems on earth.
✔ Tom and his business partners play "no bullshit, what would it take" as an exercise in questioning their assumptions and overcoming obstacles to success. (20:25)
✔ A "Zero-G" aircraft gives its occupants the sensation of "zero gravity" by following an elliptical flight path relative to the center of the earth. (21:30)
✔ A private Zero-G Experience costs approximately $165K and can accommodate up to 36 participants.
✔ In 2007 Peter offers Stephen Hawking a zero-gravity experience. ( 22:28)
✔ Planetary Resources believes that mining asteroids will play a key role in helping humanity become an interplanetary species.
✔ Elon Musk (co-founder of Paypal, Tesla Motors, Space-X) is on the board of the X Prize Foundation.
✔ (31:00) To read Peter's Laws: diamandis.com/peters-laws
✔ "If it can go wrong, fix it. The hell with Murphy." (32:25)

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

The Responsibility to Achieve Your Dreams - Tom Bilyeu on Inside Quest

Mindset Persistence 2019-07-11 | This is episode #23 of Inside Quest, first released on September 2, 2015, when Tom's guest is himself.

Questions asked:
✔ What exactly was it that broke you out of the Matrix? (2:35)
✔ What would it take to be your padawan? (9:50)
✔ What are some unspoken business rules more people need to know about? (12:30)
✔ How do you set your goals? (18:00)
✔ How do you find that thing that you're passionate about? (26:40)
✔ Is it wrong that all I want to do with a business is making money? (42:56)
✔ How do you go towards your goals? Do you visualize it? Do you break it down in actionable bits? (47:48)

Show notes:
✔ Ron, Mike, and Tom co-founded QUEST. Ron is the CEO and Mike is the CFO. Watch the founder's episode here - youtu.be/E-FoDYqIAzI
✔ The story we tell our selves is really important.
✔ Tom believes "becoming a Jedi" means pushing the limits of human potential beyond what people think is possible.
✔ Dan Ariely is a behaviorist and the NY Times best-selling author of Predictably Irrational (amzn.to/2WYJc2P) and The Upside of Irrationality (amzn.to/2x5o4s7).
✔ "To establish my goals I look for things that I'm passionate about, I look for things that help a Billion people, and I look for things I feel good doing it."
✔ Tom's stated mission is to create delicious, healthy food options for his mom and sister, and ultimately "to end global slide toward ill health".
✔ Quest Nutrition's ultimate mission is to put an end to metabolic disease.
✔ Seth Godin is the best selling author of 18 books including Linchpin (amzn.to/2RspOVP) about indispensable employees who flourish with no rule book.

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

Getting Out of the Matrix - Mike Osborne and Ron Penna on Inside Quest (hosted by Tom Bilyeu)

Mindset Persistence 2019-07-09 | This is episode #21 of Inside Quest, first released on August 18, 2015, with Mike Osborne and Ron Penna, Tom's partners in Quest Nutrition. This two are the very definition of the self-made man.

Show notes:
✔ Ron and Mike bought a Subway sandwich franchise in Omaha, Nebraska in 1992.
✔ By day, Bruce Wayne is a billionaire, philanthropist, and owner of Wayne Enterprises. By night he's Batman.
✔ Newsweek describes the TIM FERRISS EXPERIMENT as "the new #1-rated TV Show with the world's best guinea pig".
✔ George Lucas adapted the term "Jedi" from the Japanese "Jidai-Gehi", a genre of film/theater that focuses on Samurai.
✔ Before co-founding QUEST with Ron and Mike, Tom was the CMO of their technology company for over seven years.
✔ Research suggests that your walking speed directly correlates to the health of many organ systems (20:10)
✔ According to psychologist Dr. Robert Levine, a higher average walking speed in cities also correlates to higher wages and higher GDP.
✔ According to psychologist Abraham Maslow, seeking growth is part of the basic human need for self-actualization.
✔ Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck uses "Growth Mindset" to describe people who keep learning even in the face of failure (watch Carol Dweck episode: youtu.be/JCfE-dlRP-U)

Show quotes:
✔ The most gratifying feeling is growth
✔ Getting out of an ineffective mentality is possible.
✔ I burn those bridges (there was no going back)
✔ I wanted to be a Ninja
✔ No bullshit, what would it take
✔ You can be what you want to be, I want to be Batman!
✔ The concept of utility to the skills you acquire is very important (13:30)
✔ Anticipate other people's needs
✔ If it brings more value to the costumer we'll do it

##############
About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

Catalyst For a Brighter Future - Jeff Hoffman on Inside Quest (hosted by Tom Bilyeu)

Mindset Persistence 2019-07-07 | This is Inside Quest episode #22, first released on August 26, 2015, with Jeff Hoffman as the main guest.
Jeff is a successful entrepreneur, proven CEO, worldwide motivational speaker, published author, Hollywood film producer, and a producer of a Grammy-winning jazz album in 2015. He's the living proof that when you chase excellence rather than money, success always comes.

Show notes:
- Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo - also known as Martyr Square - was a major platform for political protest in the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
- Entrepreneurship is the shovel you use to dig a path to a brighter future.
- Before becoming an entrepreneur in his late 20's, Jeff worked as a software engineer for three and a half years.
- Baseball player Craig Biggio of the Houston Astros was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in January 2015.
- If you judge a fish for his ability to climb a tree you will think he's a failure. (17:15)
- Find the person you want to be when you grow up and put her in your 5 person circle.
- Jeff gives 100 lectures a year in over 30 countries. To find out more about Jeff's speaking schedule visit jeffhoffman.com
- The golden purpose is the intersection of three things: what is the thing you're best at, find the thing you love doing, find something the world values.
- George Bernard Shaw was a Nobel-winning Irish playwriter. He's best known for Pygmalion (1912), which was later adapted into the Tony-winning musical My Fair Lady.
- The unreasonable group: A reasonable person adapts themselves to the world around, an unreasonable person expects the world to adapt to what they're doing, therefore all progress depends on unreasonable people. (25:00)
- Unreasonable At Sea is a radical experiment in global entrepreneurship, design-thinking, and education, using tech to tackle The Greatest Challenges of Our Time.
- Metabolic Disease refers to a group of conditions that interfere with metabolic function, increasing your risk of heart disease, stroke, and diabetes.
- Mother Teresa (1910-1997) dedicated her life to serving the poor people of Calcutta through the organization she founded, The Missionaries of Charity.

################################
Jeff's books 📕
- Scale: Seven Proven Principles to Grow Your Business and Get Your Life Back &*(amzn.to/2XkvmY2)

Relationships Are Everything - Keith Ferrazzi on Inside Quest (hosted by Tom Bilyeu)

Mindset Persistence 2019-07-05 | Episode #20 of Inside Quest, first released on August 12, 2015, with Keith Ferrazzi, an American author, and entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight, a Los Angeles, California-based research and consulting firm.

Shownotes:
- Change the behavior to change the mindset.
- Deloitte Consulting is the largest consulting firm on the planet, helping business "take decisive action and achieve sustainable results."
- The notion of "High Return Practices". (4:30)
- Ferrazzi Greenlight is Keith's strategic consulting firm, focusing on accelerating relationship development and transforming behavior. The firm counts global brands like Intel and General Mills among its clientele.
- "An addition is nothing more than something you do that holds you back and you keep doing it anyway". That is a "glass ceiling".
- "Opening up porosity" (9:30)
- Amongst other criteria, the ICI defines "Inner City" as a geographic area with a poverty rate of 20% or higher.
- In the watershed "Q12" survey Gallup identified 12 workplace elements that link to sales growth.
- "Celebrate the small win, the celebration is the attraction."
- Big Brothers Big Sisters was created in 1904 to bring positive role models into the lives of children who didn't have them.
- (29:05) Both Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris were nominated for Golden Globes for their body swapping performances in the 1976 Freaky Friday film.
- "Leaders have to show their vulnerabilities."

########################
Keith Ferrazzi best-selling books:
- Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time (amzn.to/2RmzJwj)
- Who's Got Your Back: The Breakthrough Program to Build Deep, Trusting Relationships That Create Success--and Won't Let You Fail (amzn.to/2WO7kjR)
- Rise: 3 Practical Steps for Advancing Your Career, Standing Out as a Leader, and Liking Your Life (amzn.to/31BBrhP)

##########
Tom Bilyeu YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA