"you are ostensibly a professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business and you shared that when people come ask you for advice the most common question you get is what should I do with my life imagine..."

"this whole exercise connects to something that you're a big advocate of of this idea of getting out of autopilot mode in your life you're unconscious and you may not even realize why you're doing what..."

"me in this world you have another quote which is everything that you want is on the other side of worse first pick anything you want a better body okay you're going to need to go to the gym when you g..."

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"so really just lots of examples um it's really it's as it's as it's as as variant as the number of students I have and that and that's the magic of it because you have inside of you some really unique..."

"opposed to just kind of going through the motions so the question then here is how do you get out of that autopilot mode because it's first of all no one really realizes this the case and I'll I'll te..."

"one approach is just a ask yourself this question uh can you say it again just for folks so they don't miss it with the question you should ask yourself I mean the the the biggest question I think wit..."

"so so the first part of liming beliefs write them down understand what they are look at them in the cold day of of light on paper and then translate them into things that are just obstacles to be over..."

"much it's like a trojan horse exact Tony Tony Robbins used to say that people hire him for success and he has to give them that so they earn you know so that he feels like he earned his money but what..."

"um so sometime in your life you want to you know sometime soon in your life you want to get on that path there's a bunch of directions I want to go here one is I'll just share like what you're describ..."

"and then you're and you're a great example of that just as said it's expectations with folks it's not like like you tell me how often does this actually work out for someone where this ended up being ..."

"firm until I could say like with confidence we were gonna even stay in business let alone be really successful and probably 18 years until we were what I would say really Successful by external standa..."

"point this reminds me of a quote I read that you I don't know if you wrote this or you shared it this idea the life is suffering so choose something worth suffering for I wrote that yeah you wrote tha..."

"pick anything you want a better body okay you're going to need to go to the gym when you go to the gym the first few times it's GNA not be that fun you're gonna set your alarm you're gonna get sore yo..."

"other than taking your class anything you can recommend to just like do these sorts of exercises ask yourself these questions that you've seen work I mean the answer is accountability you know how how..."

"that's what I'd recommend let's back up and say okay let's say you can't afford a coach or you're you're worried about that okay then and there the same thing as like let's say you couldn't afford a p..."

"there's a whole spectrum of ways to create accountability for S I love this the second coach you shared where just filling out that form was basically the biggest benefit when I was in college I learn..."

"awesome thing to just try tomorrow at work write this down and see how it goes the coach point I just want to highlight that what convinced me to get a coach back when I was uh working is I just reali..."

"right sweet okay let's talk about another framework that you have that you call nine lives and this is essentially another way it's like another way to hack your brain to come up with things you reall..."

"life one and then you say okay now you there's there's two rules uh first rule is all the lives have to start from today so you can't go back in time they all start from today and second rule is you h..."

"know if you're fortunate enough to live you know long enough you can you can have all of these things um so I have you know had the the the corporate job been the founder you know been the professor u..."

"other thread there is I know one of your other really important pieces of advice is to avoid this not now idea where everyone's like here's the thing I should be doing my genie goal but not now though..."

"touches on a quote I definitely wanted to get to something that you wrote not long ago here's the quote the most important thing I've learned in the past in the first 50 years of my life is that the t..."

"terrifying at first and then it starts to become really liberating was there an example of that in your life because externally it feels like you're killing it killer PE fun teaching at Stanford like ..."

"similar stories um and so it's really it was really disorienting for me and I actually was the first time in my life where I experienced depression because I just had this thought of like well that wa..."

"lot yeah exactly maybe a second to last question I'm curious if there's anything recently you're focused on I've been thinking a lot about that you maybe changed your mind about or has kind of changed..."

"life final question before we get to our very exciting lightning round we have this segment on the podcast called failure corner where people come on this podcast they share all these wins oh I have t..."

"about that is you don't have to do this thing just step one is understand what it could be if you exactly if you if you could do that and it's like almost like understand where your Google directions ..."

"that Graham We reached our very exciting lightning round are you ready let's do it first question what are two or three books that you find yourself recommending most to other people so in the in the ..."

"worth checking out yeah that book I still think about it often even though I read it like 30 years ago at this point I love that recommendation and it's like it's like a very old book to read but uh y..."

"then I I probably read the book as well so I I love that do you have a favorite product you recently discovered that you really love I'm a really big fan of sleep uh I I I think it makes a massive dif..."

"for me so that that everyone use their own thing but that that one worked better for me okay next question two more questions do you have a favorite life motto that you often think about that you find..."

"quote as you were describing your philosophy final question I feel like a lot of people might be listening to this being like I came here for one of the most legendary private Equity investors of all ..."

"many questions but I'm going to cut cut it off there we could do another episode going deep on all this Graham this was amazing I think we're going to be helping a lot of people with what they want to..."