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How much choice do we have over toxic behaviour? What makes us more authentic, or inauthentic? Do some people just not have an internal mirror to see their own behaviour?In this episode, Luke and I explore transactional mindsets, when we take situations where people could be more collaborative, and instead engage in "us vs. them" dynamics... and explore why that is.This leads us into the Inclusive and Extractive Mindsets - fancy talk for 'Givers and Takers.' Let's see where we end up.JUMP TO WHAT INTERESTS YOU00:00 Mirrors and Reflecting on Difficult Behavior02:12 Reframing the Conversation: Difficult People vs. Difficult Behaviour10:59 The Role of Evolutionary Survival and "Lizard Brain" Triggers13:43 Potential Factors: Upbringing, Genetics, and Situational Narratives16:04 When Does Someone Become Responsible for Their Behaviour?24:53 Core Distinction: Inclusive vs. Extractive Energy Types44:35 Game Theory: Trust vs. Cynicism in Different Environments54:38 Applying Mindsets to Business: Building Trust with Contractors01:21:21 Resisting the "Virus" of Extractive Logic

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Financial Anxiety. Is it a natural reaction to high cost of living and unaffordable housing, or is there more to it? Having often wondered about the relationship between these worries and deeper elements, I sit down for an exploration and draw on a few puzzling inconsistencies in the relationship between this type of worry, and personal circumstances. Why do certain rich people have high financial stress? How come many less fortunate people, don’t seem to be as overwhelmed or complain? How much of this stuff, is ego?

If we haven’t crossed paths before, hi! I’m Joe Wehbe, an author, podcaster and something of an entrepreneur, who loves to have a bit of a think and exploration. I cross regularly between philosophical wonderings and humor.

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SUMMARY00:00 The dilemma of financial anxiety02:22 Observations in differing demographics05:19 Questioning the correlation between income and anxiety09:03 Exploring potential roots of financial stress11:07 The phenomenon of rich people with financial anxiety15:48 "Bribing ourselves" to do unfulfilling work

FIRST OF TWO EPISODES: LOST was a smash hit TV series which aired for 6 seasons, about a group of plane crash survivors marooned on a mysterious island. What intrigues me about it is how it started as a classic, TV hit drama, but slowly evolved to unpack powerful themes, major questions, and an impactful story that probably doesn’t get the credit it deserves. What’s the symbolism of Jacob? Why is John so different to Ben? What’s Jack’s journey? In these two episodes, brother Mitch and I explore the soul of the show, from the depth of the major characters to the big themes and personal takeaways. Enjoy!Watch the full episode on YouTube or Spotify, or listen to it wherever you get your podcasts.JOE'S WEBSITE (Check out my books!)https://withjoewehbe.com/bookSUMMARY00:00 Introduction and Guest Introduction00:44 Discussing the Show 'Lost'01:58 Revisiting the Show's Timeline03:00 Philosophical and Religious Themes17:55 Character Analysis: Benjamin Linus28:06 Character Analysis: John Locke34:00 Character Analysis: Jack Shepard44:02 The Mysterious Jacob48:43 Ben & John Relationship; The Creepy Cabin

Naval Ravikant is an Indian-American entrepreneur and investor, having Founded AngelList in 2007 (amongst other companies). He’s a prominent Silicon Valley figure who burst onto the global scene in the last couple of years, particularly famous for his Tweet storm ‘How To Get Rich (Without Getting Lucky)’ and short-form podcast Naval.

Today we unpack his thoughts around education, life and learning and apply them to today’s young people.

Blog post corresponding to this episode

https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/31/naval-ravikants-thoughts-on-education-and-learning/

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Alan Watts was a British philosopher who spoke about modern life and is credited with bringing Zen Buddhism to the Western World, and is often thought of as an autodidact, which is education without the guidance of masters. From episodes 203-211 we unpack his philosophy and why he thought the stage-based education system was cruel.

Today we finish off the series with a powerful final reflection on how education has set most of us up for failure in the modern world. 

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Sign up at https://withjoewehbe.com/everything-joe/Full blog post corresponding to episodes 203-211 on Alan Watts' philosophy applied to education

https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/14/alan-watts-on-education-for-unreality/

Alan Watts was a British philosopher who spoke about modern life and is credited with bringing Zen Buddhism to the Western World, and is often thought of as an autodidact, which is education without the guidance of masters. From episodes 203-211 we unpack his philosophy and why he thought the stage-based education system was cruel.

In this episode we relate some of the final key ideas he had about life and planning to our current lives and education.

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Sign up at https://withjoewehbe.com/everything-joe/Full blog post corresponding to episodes 203-211 on Alan Watts' philosophy applied to education

https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/14/alan-watts-on-education-for-unreality/

Alan Watts was a British philosopher who spoke about modern life and is credited with bringing Zen Buddhism to the Western World, and is often thought of as an autodidact, which is education without the guidance of masters. From episodes 203-211 we unpack his philosophy and why he thought the stage-based education system was cruel.

Today we unpack why we should let some people quit the game, and why life is like a dance. 

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Full blog post corresponding to episodes 203-211 on Alan Watts' philosophy applied to education

https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/14/alan-watts-on-education-for-unreality/

Alan Watts was a British philosopher who spoke about modern life and is credited with bringing Zen Buddhism to the Western World, and is often thought of as an autodidact, which is education without the guidance of masters. From episodes 203-211 we unpack his philosophy and why he thought the stage-based education system was cruel.

Today is the second'Th of two episodes that I'll never forget, unpacking how this man before 1973 nailed to a tee the exact phenomenon going on in today's day and age.

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Full blog post corresponding to episodes 203-211 on Alan Watts' philosophy applied to education

https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/14/alan-watts-on-education-for-unreality/

Alan Watts was a British philosopher who spoke about modern life and is credited with bringing Zen Buddhism to the Western World, and is often thought of as an autodidact, which is education without the guidance of masters. From episodes 203-211 we unpack his philosophy and why he thought the stage-based education system was cruel.

Today is the first of two episodes that I'll never forget, unpacking how this man in 1973 nailed to a tee the exact phenomenon going on in today's day and age. 

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Full blog post corresponding to episodes 203-211 on Alan Watts' philosophy applied to education

https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/14/alan-watts-on-education-for-unreality/

Alan Watts was a British philosopher who spoke about modern life and is credited with bringing Zen Buddhism to the Western World, and is often thought of as an autodidact, which is education without the guidance of masters. From episodes 203-211 we unpack his philosophy and why he thought the stage-based education system was cruel.

Today we unpack the pockets of society that cultivate a 'practiced mediocrity' according to Watts... and how to avoid this. 

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Sign up at https://withjoewehbe.com/everything-joe/Full blog post corresponding to episodes 203-211 on Alan Watts' philosophy applied to education

https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/14/alan-watts-on-education-for-unreality/

Alan Watts was a British philosopher who spoke about modern life and is credited with bringing Zen Buddhism to the Western World, and is often thought of as an autodidact, which is education without the guidance of masters. From episodes 203-211 we unpack his philosophy and why he thought the stage-based education system was cruel.

Today we finish off the 5 reasons education is creating 'overgrown children', continuing off from yesterday. Tomorrow we'll continue with more on his philosophy. 

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Sign up at https://withjoewehbe.com/everything-joe/Full blog post corresponding to episodes 203-211 on Alan Watts' philosophy applied to education

https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/14/alan-watts-on-education-for-unreality/

Alan Watts was a British philosopher who spoke about modern life and is credited with bringing Zen Buddhism to the Western World, and is often thought of as an autodidact, which is education without the guidance of masters. From episodes 203-211 we unpack his philosophy and why he thought the stage-based education system was cruel.

Today we begin unpacking, thanks to his insights, how education creates overgrown children. 

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Sign up at https://withjoewehbe.com/everything-joe/Full blog post corresponding to episodes 203-211 on Alan Watts' philosophy applied to education

https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/14/alan-watts-on-education-for-unreality/

Alan Watts was a British philosopher who spoke about modern life and is credited with bringing Zen Buddhism to the Western World, and is often thought of as an autodidact, which is education without the guidance of masters. From episodes 203-211 we unpack his philosophy and why he thought the stage-based education system was cruel.

"It’s all graded and what we do is put the child into the corridor of this grade system with a kind of, “Come on kitty, kitty.”

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Full blog post corresponding to episodes 203-211 on Alan Watts' philosophy applied to education

https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/14/alan-watts-on-education-for-unreality/

Ambitious yet trying to be spiritual, self-aware, grounded and humble, Joe bravely shares his 2025 goals and word for the year. Is it a little late? Or intentionally considered? Will he achieve the greatest he sets out for?

The corresponding Substack article:https://thedoorman.substack.com/p/my-2025-goal-setting-session-better

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The final episode on Peter Thiel unpacks how principles behind the Thiel Fellowship can be applied to your life, especially focusing on 1) innovation, 2) networks and people over information

Full blog post on the Thiel Fellowship:
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We're getting to the end of our series on legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel, and discussing the education solution he's driving. It's called 'The Thiel Fellowship', and it gives 20 young people each year $100,000 to quit college and work on their own ideas.

As a recap, we've been talking about Thiel since episode 195.

See corresponding blog post on the takeaways:
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We continue to unpack Peter Thiel’s book ‘Zero to One’, as Part II continuing on from yesterday. This is part of a mini-series on Peter Thiel from episodes 195-202.

I also really recommend the actual book itself but the ideas are also unpacked in this corresponding blog post:

https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/14/11-big-takeaways-from-peter-thiels-book-zero-to-one/

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Welcome back to our mini-series on Peter Thiel's thoughts on education, career and learning. Today we begin one of two episodes unpacking his phenomenal 2014 book Zero to One which again, funnily enough, is about innovation and business rather than education.

So why are we unpacking it? Because this is the real world outcome that education should drive, not education for education's sake. Thiel has some golden ideas about business that go against the typical things you hear, and they really opened my mind a whole lot.

I also really recommend the actual book itself but the ideas are also unpacked in this corresponding blog post:
https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/14/11-big-takeaways-from-peter-thiels-book-zero-to-one/

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A bit of a tangent today but building on themes central to Peter Thiel, especially the concept of a monopoly – why a pernicious one now exists in education and how it constrains thinking, especially self-directed/independent thinking and the ability for people to think about alternatives.

Luke and Joe also talk about homeschooling models and why they're so often handicapped by the accreditation system, and why The Constant Student targets people who have already finished high school as a pose to younger children.

There is more specific unpacking of Peter Thiel again in tomorrow's episode.

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Welcome to our third of eight episode on Peter Thiel's thoughts applied to learning, career and education. Quite a controversial one today linking college to an atheistic church... what's he getting at? 

1. There’s a priestly/professorial class that doesn’t do much
2. You have to get a degree or you ‘go to hell’ — it’s your saving grace in this society.
   

My thoughts: Religion fills the huge void in secular society for values, ethics, spiritual and existential questions, how and why to live. Our social governance systems seem more concerned with economics and comfort.

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This mini-series on Peter Thiel's thinking on education, career and learning began at episode 195 and continues to 202! This episode has a corresponding blog post below with the 5 reasons to explain our 'education bubble' and the risks we face as a society.

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Corresponding Blog Post:
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Our next thought leader to review is Peter Thiel. Following on from our episodes on Nassim Taleb (181-194) the next modern thinker we're unpacking is PayPal Co-Founder Peter Thiel, the remarkable thinker, investor and contrarian.

He has some fascinating thoughts about education and innovation – in this first of eight episodes on Thiel (195-202) we unpack his ideas on 'what sort of product is education?' Thiel asks, is it an investment product? A consumption good? (Four year party)... an inflated insurance policy? OR... a crazy tournament.

Here Luke and Joe unpack it, and then be sure to come back again for tomorrow's next short, bite-sized episode on Thiel. 

https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/09/peter-thiels-thoughts-on-the-education-bubble/

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Episode #194 of the With Joe Wehbe Podcast wraps up the series on Nassim Taleb (181-194).

Don’t be overwhelmed — fine to go over it, I spent a month studying his book and I still had to leave stuff out of this mini-series!

1. Big takeaway, think like an investor, not an academic. Risk-taking is more important than knowledge, will help you learn more, life is random and people overestimate their control and try to sound smart by making all sorts of predictions. No one knows anyting on a specific level, but we can be sure of overarching things — if you have good principles you do well. Investors also are more about their judgement (remember the Green Lumber Fallacy)
2. Everyone should be entrepreneurial, but not everyone should be an entrepreneur
3. You’re taught things because they’re easy not because they’re the best things to learn, you go with the current of society because it’s easier than creating your own path, you go with the predictions of the interventionists because it’s easier than standing up for what you believe in and having your own opinion.
4. There are a lot of things that can make up for a ‘lack of intelligence’

Coming Up

• Series on Peter Thiel, Then Alan Watts and Naval Ravikant

Check out the summaries on the Taleb episodes below at the Doorman!

https://thedoorman.substack.com/p/5-reasons-risk-taking-is-more-important

https://thedoorman.substack.com/p/how-can-idiots-beat-experts-5-ways 

Never heard of the term ‘optionality’? Don’t worry, few people have, but I argue it’s one of the most applicable of Nassim Taleb’s ideas to career, especially unconventional careers.

We do a full deconstruction in this episode and I give Luke examples on how to implement it. It’s particularly powerful because, as Taleb says, it overcomes the need for intelligence, smarts, cognitive ability ‘and all these other things happening in our brains cells’.

Starting from episode 181, we’re doing a series on Nassim Nicholas Taleb, his book Antifragile and the application of his ideas to learning, education and careers.

Full blog post summarsing the ideas in this podcast series.

https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/02/applying-antifragile-and-nassim-talebs-ideas-to-education-learning-and-career/

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This is part 3 of 3, of the conversation with a Fireman, a CEO and a Drummer

Check out episodies 298 and 299 for parts 1 & 2.

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SUMMARY: 00:00 Part 3 of 3 04:31 The Journey of Writing a Book 15:31 Community and Connection 22:57 The Impact of Social Media 32:39 Spirit Animals and Final Thoughts

Why might knowledge be over-valued?

Starting from episode 181, we’re doing a series on Nassim Nicholas Taleb, his book Antifragile and the application of his ideas to learning, education and careers.

Full blog post summarsing the ideas in this podcast series.

https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/02/applying-antifragile-and-nassim-talebs-ideas-to-education-learning-and-career/

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Taleb argues that medicine took more lives than it saved up until Penicillin was invented! He also thinks that the Bill Gates Foundation is repeating mistakes made by Mao Zedong!

How can you avoid the mistakes typically made by the super intelligent experts!?

Starting from episode 181, we’re doing a series on Nassim Nicholas Taleb, his book Antifragile and the application of his ideas to learning, education and careers.

Full blog post summarsing the ideas in this podcast series.

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What’s a loser? Are you one? Well, according to Taleb I’m a loser most days of the year. In this episode, we talk about overcoming the inclination to whinge and blame others for our failings, as well as the concept of ethics and why it is an ingredient that is missing from everyday life.

Starting from episode 181, we’re doing a series on Nassim Nicholas Taleb, his book Antifragile and the application of his ideas to learning, education and careers.

Full blog post summarsing the ideas in this podcast series.

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How do you ‘understand things by layers’ and apply an investor’s mindset to the dynamics of your own life?

Is it easier to micro-bullshit, or macro-bullshit? Is it safer to invest in one restaurant, or the whole restaurant industry?

All this and more as we continue to apply the ideas of Nassim Nicholas Taleb and his book Antifragile to your career, learning and education.

Starting from episode 181, we’re doing a series on Nassim Nicholas Taleb, his book Antifragile and the application of his ideas to learning, education and careers.

Full blog post summarsing the ideas in this podcast series.

https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/02/applying-antifragile-and-nassim-talebs-ideas-to-education-learning-and-career/

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Nassim Taleb uses the metaphor of a black swan to explain highly significant, unpredictable events in nature — the sort which make all the difference. Yet we never worry about these things! Instead, we spend all our time focusing on much smaller problems.

In this episode we unpack the right mindset to have when encountering uncertain events, and how to use uncertainty to make you stronger, rather than weaker.

Starting from episode 181, we’re doing a series on Nassim Nicholas Taleb, his book Antifragile and the application of his ideas to learning, education and careers.

Full blog post summarsing the ideas in this podcast series.

https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/02/applying-antifragile-and-nassim-talebs-ideas-to-education-learning-and-career/

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Taleb points out that the great philosophers had another job besides philosophy to prevent themselves from compromising their work and ‘debasing knowledge’ as a sport.

Today we discuss how you can avoid being a careerist and putting yourself in a box, to elevate your possibilities, keep integrity and avoid getting roasted by Taleb.

Starting from episode 181, we’re doing a series on Nassim Nicholas Taleb, his book Antifragile and the application of his ideas to learning, education and careers.

Full blog post summarsing the ideas in this podcast series.

https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/02/applying-antifragile-and-nassim-talebs-ideas-to-education-learning-and-career/

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You take a room full of birds, lecture them how to fly, and then release them... and they fly! Are you a raving success and genius teacher?

This is one of Taleb’s big points about education and we break down how often the most effective ways to learn something is to stay away from the people who teach it! (What!?)

Check it out!

Starting from episode 181, we’re doing a series on Nassim Nicholas Taleb, his book Antifragile and the application of his ideas to learning, education and careers.

Full blog post summarsing the ideas in this podcast series.

https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/02/applying-antifragile-and-nassim-talebs-ideas-to-education-learning-and-career/

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb doesn’t think innovation comes from academia or the sciences... so where does it come from?

Also, you’ll be blown away by the list of innovations in this episode that came about due to almost total randomness!

Starting from episode 181, we’re doing a series on Nassim Nicholas Taleb, his book Antifragile and the application of his ideas to learning, education and careers.

Full blog post summarsing the ideas in this podcast series.

https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/02/applying-antifragile-and-nassim-talebs-ideas-to-education-learning-and-career/

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb suspects that if it hadn't been for the Titanic, we would have continued to build bigger and bigger boats until meeting an even bigger disaster. It's a frequent shortcoming in our thinking – we fail to see what adversity and setbacks i) help us avoid but ii) help us improve on.

How is this relevant to you? Why should you be a taxi driver and not a banker? Find out in today's episode.

Starting from episode 181, we’re doing a series on Nassim Nicholas Taleb, his book Antifragile and the application of his ideas to learning, education and careers.

Full blog post summarsing the ideas in this podcast series.

https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/02/applying-antifragile-and-nassim-talebs-ideas-to-education-learning-and-career/

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Fragile (break easily), Robust (not easily changed)... but what’s ‘Antifragility’ (remember episode 145) and why is it missing from our culture?

How can you gain from stress and setbacks, instead of being weakened by them?

Starting from episode 181, we’re doing a series on Nassim Nicholas Taleb, his book Antifragile and the application of his ideas to learning, education and careers.

Full blog post summarsing the ideas in this podcast series.

https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/02/applying-antifragile-and-nassim-talebs-ideas-to-education-learning-and-career/

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Part 2 of 3 of workplace, ego and life conversations involving people from our community: a fireman, a CEO and a drummer.

Check out the With Joe Wehbe Podcast episodes 298-300 for all three parts, on YouTube or your podcast player of choice.

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SUMMARY: 00:00 The Pursuit of Happiness 03:35 Work and Identity 07:27 Finding the Right Role 10:49 Emotional Intelligence in Leadership 16:01 Toxic Work Environments 20:31 Empathy and Narcissism 49:57 Sympathy vs. Empathy 51:04 The Green Mile and Personal Struggles

Today we’re talking about being shrewd to overcome a lack of your own intelligence, and why idiots sometimes do better than the experts and theorists!

Starting from episode 181, we’re doing a series on Nassim Nicholas Taleb, his book Antifragile and the application of his ideas to learning, education and careers.

Full blog post summarsing the ideas in this podcast series.

https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/02/applying-antifragile-and-nassim-talebs-ideas-to-education-learning-and-career/

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Nassim Taleb is a noteworthy writer and thinker. He explores ideas like uncertainty, randomness and risk... and over the next few episodes, we’re going to apply these ideas to learning, education and career.

Today, we kick off a conversation with Luke about why Taleb is important, and what the hell risk and uncertainty have to do with helping us unlock our inner Da Vinci... what Taleb gives is a fundamentally different story about ‘success’, and I’m excited to dive into it using powerful ideas from his book Antifragile.

Full blog post on the relevance of Taleb to Education: https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/02/applying-antifragile-and-nassim-talebs-ideas-to-education-learning-and-career/

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Blog Version of today’s episode: https://withjoewehbe.com/2021/12/18/what-is-it-that-im-trying-to-do/

A reflection of my overarching goals here. 

These are the Doors I wish to open...

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Is there a Da Vinci in everyone?

• We are naturally creative and multi-potentialite
• This has been locked — gift of Da Vinci’s time in Florence was broad self-expression. Da Vinci today would have been an outcast
• Somewhat ‘impulsive’ and ‘unproductive’
• The real pursuit is wisdom
• Creative contribution comes from freedom

Common pitfalls

• Overcome by ego and seek status
• Zoom in on our goals and lose perspective
• Come from a place of calm, and my philosophy for life comes from here. There is no acceptable state for putting off living now, if we love the process.

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Happy New Year! To celebrate the start of 2022, I wanted to kick off with a few special types of episodes.

Top 5 Lines of Wisdom that have influenced me:

5 — 'You might want to think about whether you want a life to envy or a life to admire.' — Jim Collins

4 — Viktor Frankl on self transcendence “The more one forgets himself--by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love--the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself. What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it. In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.”

3 — Buckminster Fuller "the search for the principles governing the universe and help advance the evolution of humanity in accordance with them ... finding ways of doing more with less to the end that all people everywhere can have more and more"

2 — ‘Focus on what you have, you'll gain what you lack. Focus on what you lack, you'll lose what you have’ — Greg McKeown

1 — ‘I only do what only I can do’ — Jack Delosa

BONUS

Some men see things as they are and ask, ""Why?"" I dream things that never were and ask, ""Why not?"" — George Bernard Shaw

Notes:

1. The lesson I learnt from Scott McKeon
2. Where to go to meet future co-founders and business partners
3. How to treat someone else's organisation as your own 'launchpad' or opportunity-rich environment
4. Most people struggle to understand these concepts around journeying
5. Two questions around, where are you finding the people? And, how can the things you're doing now act as an ecosystem? 

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• Chris Dixon wrote a piece around how the next big thing will look like a toy. Think about the internet, cryptocurrencies, gaming, TikTok, Youtube used to be cat videos
• This is what we normally do. In the movies like Bend It Like Beckham the conservative parent can't wrap their head around the changes in the next generation. From their worldview, it makes no sense, they are being irresponsible with their lives
• The Fourth Turning by Neil Howe and William Strauss unpacks the four different generational archetypes we cycle through, each lasts about 20 years meaning the four turnings reset every 80 years or so.
• We can crush the generation by insisting they jump through old hoops or stay with what fits with the cultural narrative
• HIgh Jump Metaphor
• In episode 168, we talked about how education caters least towards these people, the young who drive innovation
• Lesson from yesterday is, university is not for everyone. For some people, it will slow them down, the most proactive, artistic and entrepreneurial

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Six Common Use Cases:

• Campus Experience
• Social Experience
• Qualifies for a job
• Prestigious
• Everyone else does
• You have to do it (Adrian Caputo)

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Examples of the capabilities of incredible young people in this day and age... if they can already do this, why do they need to go to university? 

Examples of teenage entrepreneurs referenced in this show.

• Lexy McDonald, HerHelp
• Nick Mihailou, Appstra
• Kai Lovel

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My decision to go to university:

• I'm interested in film but scared of becoming a failure, ending up with nothing, seemed risky
• University degree would give me a sense of progress regardless
• Even though I didn't like it, I enjoyed it more than holiday time because at least I was doing something, engaged in something

Education Conveyor Belt:

• Grade 1, 2, 3, 4, you’re given the stages
• Everyone’s following everyone else

Alan Watts: Life Is Not A Journey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBpaUICxEhk

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Check out the new book here, it's available now! ⁠https://www.itsonlytuesday.com.au/⁠ In this engaging and often humorous discussion, we delve into various topics surrounding the book 'Holy Sh!t, It's Only... Tuesday?' by Joe Wehbe and Paul Rowse. Explore the complexities of leadership versus management, the insights of philosopher Alan Watts, and how personal philosophies shape professional conduct. The conversation includes reflections on ego, self-acceptance, societal expectations, and the importance of maintaining humility and community spirit. The characters in the book are linked to real-life inspirations, branching into the everyday experiences and challenges in the workplace. IT'S ONLY TUESDAY: Website (Buy the book, and more) ⁠https://www.itsonlytuesday.com.au/⁠⁠ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_itsonlytuesday TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@_itsonlytuesday_ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/itsonlytuesday/ JOE'S WEBSITE: ⁠https://withjoewehbe.com/⁠

'He already had a job working for a bank in software development and in, I think, security as well. And he knew everything. It was almost, it was so pointless because he had done that.'

A crucial and controversial topic today as the With Joe Wehbe Podcast continues with another daily episode. 

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

The conversation continues on another daily episode of the With Joe Wehbe Podcast!

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Update on the Constant Student

• Exponential Career — Alternative as the current infrastructure is built for linear pathways, leaves things somewhat open
• Check it out at https://www.constantstudent.com.au/

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