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Today we have Mike Pumiglia, a junior studying government and neuroscience at Harvard who is currently the Command Sergeant Major of the MIT Battalion in the ROTC program. And that means he is the head of operations and planning for seven Boston based schools and will serve in the US Army upon graduation. On top of that, which we get into, I really look up to how Mike prioritizes cultivating new experiences in his life - every six months or so picking up a new project that challenges him.

In this conversation we dig into some of those as a way to uncover how Mike thinks about the world. You'll hear how he thinks about starting projects and his combination of setting big goals plus envisioning everything going wrong along the way to get there as he discusses how he built a farm during the pandemic... You'll hear how he thinks about success as a measure of overcoming hardships as he discusses recovering from the dozens of injuries he's sustained that regularly shift his plans... And you'll also hear an unexpected challenge that comes along with ROTC in addition to some actionable self-talk tactics he's learned from pushing his body to the limit.

Along the way, Mike shares nearly a dozen books that have influenced him, his unique journaling practices for creativity and focused productivity, and a whole lot more.

Please enjoy.