Becoming Great.com

How come some people seem to have unlimited willpower with the ability to push through anything? Today we explore what willpower is, and how anyone can build it stronger.

"The more voluntary suffering you build into your life, the less involuntary suffering will affect your life." - Tim Ferriss

This quote by Tim Ferriss inspired the episode of today. We look into how to build will power and stop procrastination by making it easy to choose your challenges today.

-- Today's episode is a personal development episode, where Erik Bergman and Emil Ekvardt explore topics about how to grow as a person.

We are both personal development junkies and spend many hours every week sharing our ideas and reading about new things. This episode is great for you who want to learn about our latest perspective. We share lots of personal stories, talk about how it applies in our lives, and where we have learned it from. --

There are lots of different things that play into how to build will power and stop procrastination. We touch upon various areas where it is important, from food and exercise to porn and alcohol. The general idea is that either you make an effort to deal with discomfort today, or the future will bring you discomfort in the shape of bad health, bad economy, and bad relationships.

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What is Great.com? To answer that question, the best way is to look at our long term vision. What will Great.com become?

In this episode, we are diving into our founder Erik Bergman's vision of where Great.com is heading. The episode is split up on four sections:

Part 1: The first part of the episode is about the charity vision of Great.com. How do we want to help? What kind of organizations are we supporting? And what have we done so far?

Part 2: The second part is about the organizational vision. How do you build a team that is spread over the world, works without work hours, and have an unlimited option for vacations?

Part 3: Thirdly we are diving into how Great.com wants to inspire and influence the world. Why we want to make charity cool and why we are running this podcast.

Part 4: And lastly in part 4, the business model, we will look at how we make money today - and our plan for becoming the biggest company yet, in a very specific part of the internet.

-- This is an "Update episode", it means that In today's episode of Becoming Great.com podcast, Emil Ekvardt and Erik Bergman, explore the very real challenges and problems that come up when building Great.com. A company that gives away 100% of its profit to protect the environment.

This is an opportunity for you to get a behind the scenes look, of what it feels like to build a company - and also get an update on our progress.

What you learn here is not something you will read in a book. It's the real story of how Great.com gets built. --

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What is the most powerful way of learning something? How can you engage your brain fully into a topic, tie it into your own experiences, and look at it from lots of different angles?

This is the topic of today's episode. We have now done one year of podcasting and we will talk about the most important thing we have learned - how to learn, a very powerful method for learning. -- Today's episode is a personal development episode, where Erik and Emil explore topics about how to grow as a person.

We are both personal development junkies and spend many hours every week sharing our ideas and reading about new things. This episode is great for you who want to learn about our latest perspective. We share lots of personal stories, talk about how it applies in our lives, and where we have learned it from. -- We are starting this episode with Erik talking about how he has spent the last 3-4 years dedicated to learning about social media, personal development, leadership, and social skills.

At first, he was very focused on consuming as much knowledge as possible but it was first when he started teaching what he had learned on Instagram that things shifted. He got to embody the concepts and found that some of them he believed in and some of them made him feel like a fraud.

We keep exploring why teaching is a very powerful method for learning, how it engages our body and our emotions, and why everything you have been teaching will be easier for you to remember.

We sum up this episode with various ways of teaching, what you can do if you don't want to put yourself out there as a teacher in public or on social media but still benefit from this technique and what are the important things to get started.

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We want to teach you how to make $1000 a month online because we believe that if you had that extra money, you would have a lot less worry in your life. $1000 extra a month is enough to solve most money problems.

Today there are more opportunities to make money online than ever, you just have to know where to look. In this episode, Emil Ekvardt interviews Erik Bergman, who made over $50 million online, before he turned 30 and he will give you the exact steps you need to take to start making $1000 a month online.

Part 1 We will share a story about a friend of ours who went from 0 to $1000 per month and what made him succeed.

Part 2 We will talk about the most important ingredient to succeed when learning a new skill.

Part 3 Is about how you find the best skill for you and how you learn it.

Part 4 Is about how you start making money from the skill and how you can sell it.

-- Today's episode is an entrepreneurship episode, where Erik and Emil explore topics about how to become a better business person.

We are often sharing real-life examples that have happened previously in our careers. What we have learned, whom we have learned from, and how we have applied that into our real lives. Everything in a mix with personal thoughts and reflections. --

We start the episode with the story about Felix. A friend of ours who went from 0 to $1000 per month when studying. We get to follow the steps that he took and what made him stand out from other people who tried. What were the elements of his success?

Then we move on to talk about the importance of having fun when learning a new skill. It's easy to forget fun when trying to make money, but the truth is that if you can find something you enjoy and make money from it, not only will you like it more - you will get a lot better at it.

Thirdly we go in what skills to learn to make $1000 a month online. We talk about different topics to learn. Based on what you enjoyed in school, this is a list for inspiration:

Math classes Programming, start with "Python" Web development, "Wordpress for beginners" Accounting, start with "IFRS" Spreadsheets, start with "learn excel" Web analytics, "google analytics for beginners" Facebook ads, "beginner Facebook ads"

The music or art classes Create thumbnails, "thumbnails photoshop" Content for social media, start with "canva beginner" Audio editing, start with "podcast editing" Video editing, "video editing"

Language classes Copywriting (all kinds of writing online), "write product descriptions" Copywriting, "SEO copywriter" Subtitles for videos, "kapwing subtitles" Translations, "start a translation business"

The social parts / Recess Recruitment, "LinkedIn recruitment" Sales, "cold email sales" Coaching, "start a coaching business"

Finally we talk about how to turn the skills that you have learned into money. How you can sell it and start making $1000 a month online.

Link to recommended episode:

"Find inspiring people in social media" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaSVVSnZ9kg

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In school, we don't get to learn social skills. No one teaches us what mistakes not to make. When Erik was young, he was a lonely child with very few friends. He always thought it was just bad luck and never understood why.

A few years ago he started reading about social skills and how to interact with others and it opened a world of new knowledge. More than anything, he could see all the mistakes he had done when he was younger. For the first time, he realized that it wasn't bad luck that made him lonely, it was mistakes that he did.

If you want to know how to make more friends at school? or how to make more friends at work? this is a great episode for you. -- Today's episode is a personal development episode, where Erik and Emil explore topics about how to grow as a person.

We are both personal development junkies and spend many hours every week sharing our ideas and reading about new things. This episode is great for you who want to learn about our latest perspective. We share lots of personal stories, talk about how it applies in our lives, and where we have learned it from. -- This is another spontaneous and very vulnerable episode. We are diving into Erik's childhood and emotions. We are starting by getting an understanding of what Erik's life looked like as a 10-12-year-old, how it changed when he moved to another school as a teenager, and what he learned when he started learning about social skills.

"How to make more friends in school?" was one of the questions he tried to understand early and "How to make more friends at work?" is something he is now teaching. After years of diving deep into social skills and personal relationships, this is now one of his core interests and something he loves talking about and learning more about.

Did you get to learn about social skills when you went to school? Did someone teach you how to interact with others and feel confident?

One of the problems with the school system is that it doesn't focus on the skill that might be the most important of all, social skills. How to feel more confident talking to new people? How to feel less nervous in social situations?

Today we are diving into the challenges that we have had in our social life. This episode is focused on exploring Emil's struggles with feeling nervous and awkward around new people and social situations. What he did to come over it, how long it took and what are his best tips to learn social skills. -- Today's episode is a personal development episode, where Erik and Emil explore topics about how to grow as a person.

We are both personal development junkies and spend many hours every week sharing our ideas and reading about new things. This episode is great for you who want to learn about our latest perspective. We share lots of personal stories, talk about how it applies in our lives, and where we have learned it from. -- This episode was spontaneous and unplanned. We wanted to keep the conversation as real and genuine as possible and instead of planning, we dove into it. The focus became on exploring how Emil locked himself into a bubble of online poker for 10 years and during this time just stayed in his comfort zone.

When his girlfriend broke up with him he had to start socializing with others and found that he couldn't even talk to women. He asked himself "How to feel less nervous in social situations?" and "How to feel more confident talking to new people?"

He started challenging himself, growing his comfort zone, had friends to learn together with, and went from being socially challenged to someone who now loves social situations, meeting new people, and values his social skills as one of his main talents.

What is a successful career? What's the difference between climbing the corporate ladder, or becoming an entrepreneur?

It's easy to start climbing one latter and not being sure if it's the right one or how to change the ladder you are climbing. In this episode, we touch upon what's the difference between climbing the corporate ladder and becoming an entrepreneur, when is the right time to start your first business and what are the risks of climbing the corporate ladder?

This is an episode that is extra important for you early in your career, this is when you decide what ladder to climb. Today's episode is an entrepreneurship episode, where Erik and Emil explore topics about how to become a better business person.

We are often sharing real-life examples that have happened previously in our careers. What we have learned, whom we have learned from, and how we have applied that into our real lives. Everything in a mix with personal thoughts and reflections. We start this episode by exploring what it means to be climbing the corporate ladder, what are the steps, and what happens when you climb them?

We then talk about why it's easy to get trapped in the corporate ladder and why it's harder to switch over to the entrepreneurial journey later on. It's easy to start identifying with your job, making the title a part of whom you are, increasing your expenses, etc. All things that can make you stuck.

We then move on to thinking about life from a 10-year perspective. If you draw a line into the future from where you are today, will you end up where you want to be 10 years from now? If not, what changes can you do today that will make you reach where you want to be? Is climbing the corporate ladder the right strategy or is it better to start saving money, lowering your expenses, and give entrepreneurship a try? Follow Erik and Emil on their social channels! http://linktr.ee/smilingerik http://linktr.ee/emil.ekvardt

What is it that all the richest people in the world know? How do you get 20 million people to collaborate in one project? And how to deal with a team member that has an anxiety attack and wants to quit the job? These are some of the questions we are diving into in today's episode. -- This is an "Update episode", it means that In today's episode of Becoming Great.com podcast, Emil Ekvardt and Erik Bergman, explore the very real challenges and problems that come up when building Great.com. A company that gives away 100% of its profit to protect the environment.

This is an opportunity for you to get a behind the scenes look, of what it feels like to build a company - and also get an update on our progress.

What you learn here is not something you will read in a book. It's the real story of how Great.com gets built. -- This episode starts with Erik reading a message from our public slack channel. One of our team members is sharing about a panic attack he has been having that is related to work. How to deal with situations like that?

After this, we are going into a segment where Emil describes our new "Great.com talks with..." charity podcast. He is explaining the progress that we have been making, what the purpose of the podcast is, and sharing some of our biggest milestones so far.

In the third section of the episode we are diving into something that the richest people of the world already knows, that is, the power of networking. We explore why Erik has spent so much time on social media over the last year and how it is now starting to add lots of value to Great.com as a business.

In the final act of the day, we are diving into the importance of celebration. That even in times where it seems like we are missing all of our goals, we find lots of important energy in asking ourselves the question "What are we proud of?" and by using that finding area of the great progress that we haven't even been aware of earlier.

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Charity podcast - Great.com talks with... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWoEGVR89zo8Ltd1EhMDLDw?sub_confirmation=1

"Social media has changed the game. Don't use it as a way to waste time. Use it as a way to surround yourself with people that in any other time in history you would have been unable to reach." - Tom Bilyeu

Both Emil and Erik are constantly looking for new ways to learn and grow. Social media and more specifically Youtube has been an endless source of inspiration. With countless hours of videos and podcasts, we have found our favorite people to learn from and be influenced by.

In this episode we will dive into our favourite teachers within: - Social skills - Health - Sex - Spirituality - Business - Creativity

and what we have learned from them. -- Today's episode is a personal development episode, where Erik and Emil explore topics about how to grow as a person.

We are both personal development junkies and spend many hours every week sharing our ideas and reading about new things. This episode is great for you who want to learn about our latest perspective. We share lots of personal stories, talk about how it applies in our lives and where we have learned it from. -- We start this episode by exploring the questions "What would you have changed in your upbringing?" This is one of Emil's favourite questions to ask and it opens up a lot of interesting perspectives.

From there we move on to exploring the role models that we've had from social media.

Tony Robbins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxOQPgz_Vdg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruApkmEkPxM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P6yoK7tH3Y

Charlie Houpert - Charisma on command" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5_KFy6qy-A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLnrx6mbcSo

Ester Perel - "Where should we begin" https://www.estherperel.com/podcast

David Sinclair https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOTS0HS7aq4

Teal Swan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMC7ULTSPEE

Eckart Tolle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTFDfR47dl4

Matt Kahn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2da2CQEyy0

Dave Asprey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YjLMdx3YZY

Dr Erik Berg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwCRjwDs1Ek

Matt D'Avella https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG2GJZcBKOE

Peter McKinnon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PXCa6RCG28

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Going to college or not can feel like the most important decision of a lifetime. Standing in front of such an important choice can easily cause confusion, apathy and a feeling of overwhelming.

Erik Bergman has built a company with 300+ employees. Today we explore his perspective of the importance of a college degree both as an employer and as an employee.

One of the most common questions that Erik gets from social media is "Is college important before starting a business and becoming an entrepreneur?" or "Is college even important?". We are no experts in this topic but we have lots of thoughts and our own experiences to share.

Some questions we touch upon are: - Is college important as an entrepreneur? - Why didn't we go to college ourselves? - How did our parents take that? - When is it a good idea to not go to college? - What skills are most important for an entrepreneur, and is college the best place to learn them? -- Today's episode is an entrepreneurship episode, where Erik and Emil explore topics about how to become a better business person.

We are often sharing real-life examples that have happened previously in our careers. What we have learned, who we have learned from and how we have applied that into our real lives. Everything in a mix with personal thoughts and reflections. -- We start this episode by exploring what "college" even means. As two swedes this is a somewhat confusing term that has been romanticised by teen comedy movies.

We move on to describe the confusion that is very common to feel when standing in front of such an important decision. It can feel like the entire future depends on this and that's a very overwhelming feeling.

From there we move on to talk about what skillsets we believe are great for an entrepreneur to learn and how college can be used to find those skills. How networking can play an important role and how college can be a great place to find likeminded people with inspiring goals.

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