Future Squared with Steve Glaveski

If you’re not familiar who Georges St Pierre aka GSP is, he is arguably the ‘GOAT’, that is, the greatest of all time mixed martial artist. He is a former welterweight and middleweight UFC champion, and still holds the record for most consecutive wins in the UFC, tied at 20, and boasts a professional record of 26 wins with just 2 losses, both losses coming in championship fights relatively early in his career against Matt Hughes and Matt Serra, and both losses avenged relatively quickly as GSP, reflected, learned and applied the lessons to overcome his adversaries the second time around.

Find here ten life lessons from GSP that I obtained from his 90 minute talk in Melbourne recently.

For a blog version, visit www.medium.com/@steveglaveski 

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As I’ve gone deeper and deeper into entrepreneurship and leaership roles in the past few years, I’ve develoepd an interest in learning from juxtaposed fields - whether it be sports, the arts or military strategy. I was just about to get out  Having grown up reading about the likes of Alexander the Great, the Viking Age and Sun Tzu and having enjoyed novels such as the Iliad and the Odyssey, I had already started to develop an appreciation for how military strategy can be applied to reaching your personal and professional goals.

I was just about to burn a small hole in my pocket buying a number of military strategy books online when, as I was scanning the shelf at the Melbourne Airport bookstore on route to Los Angeles a couple of months ago, I stumbled upon Robert Greene’s 33 Strategies of War. You might be familiar with Robert Greene from his classic business and personal development book, the 48 Laws of Power.

The 33 Strategies of War is is described as a "guide to the subtle social game of everyday life informed by the ... military principles in war" It is composed of discussions and examples on offensive and defensive strategies from a wide variety of people and conditions, applying them to social conflicts such as family quarrels and business negotiation.

In this book summary, I aim to bring you some of my key take-aways, but please, don’t leave it there, the 33 Strategies of War is a must have for any bookshelf devoted to developing a better understanding of the world and how to best navigate in it to achieve desired outcomes.

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Show Notes

Get the book: https://amzn.to/2Pwo2BP 

Robert Greene on Twitter: @robertgreene  ---

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If you’re not familiar who Georges St Pierre aka GSP is, he is arguably the GOAT, that is, the greatest of all time mixed martial artist. He is a former welterweight and middleweight UFC champion, and still holds the record for most consecutive wins in the UFC, tied at 20, and boasts a professional record of 26 wins and just 2 losses, both losses coming in championship fights relatively early in his career against Matt Hughes and Matt Serra, and both losses were avenged in relatively quick succession as GSP, reflected, learned and applied the lessons to overcome his adversaries the second time around.

GSP grew up in Montreal and studied and trained in Kyokushin Karate as a child. In early adulthood, whilst trying to make ends meet so he could invest in his training and his career, Georges spent time bouncing at nightclubs, worked as a garbage cleaner, slept on the floor of a dilapidated apartment and caught freezing cold trains to the Bronx in NYC to train with the best.

As listeners of this show will appreciate, talent will only get you so far. The world is awash with naturally talented people who never truly fulfilled their potential or came anywhere close to the success they could have achieved if they persisted. Persistence is everything. As such, I was keen to understand what got GSP through those early days when he was sleeping on the floor. What kept him going in the face of supposedly insurmountable odds when even those closest to him thought he was crazy to even think that he could one day be a UFC champion.

Show Notes:

GSP: www.gspofficial.com  

GSP on Twitter: @GeorgesStPierre 

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In life, we’re often taught to think of having options as a good thing, but like most things, abundance usually creates scarcity elsewhere in our lives, and so the same holds true when it comes to choice.

In this episode, we explore how more usually means less - less happiness, less satisfaction, less success.

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Melissa Ambrosini is the bestselling author of Mastering Your Mean Girl and Open Wide, a keynote speaker, entrepreneur and self-love teacher.

In her signature straight-talking style, Melissa teaches women how to master their inner Mean Girl, smash through limiting beliefs, and ditch the self-doubt so they can start living the life of their dreams.

Named a 'self-help guru' by Elle Magazine her mission is to inspire women across the globe to create a heart-centred life one that’s wildly wealthy, fabulously healthy and bursting with love.

We discussed a number of topics, including:

1 - Why being a dancer at Paris’ Moulin Rouge and an actress, among other things, ultimately left Melissa unfulfilled and depressed - and how in life, oftentimes reaching the proverbial goalposts doesn’t bring us joy

2 - How Melissa overcome her fight with depression and an eating disorder to become a top podcaster and best-selling author

3 - Melissa’s strategy for silencing her inner critic

We covered a whole lot more ground in this conversation so strap yourselves in for a conversation with Melissa Ambrosini.

Topics discussed:

• How to silence your inner critic
• Feeding your intuition
• Finding your purpose
• The arrival fallacy and why reaching the proverbial goal posts might not leave you feeling fulfilled
• Melissa’s struggles with depression, an eating disorder and how she bounced back from it
• Shaping your reality by being intentional about what goes into your mind
• How to keep the fire burning when it comes to a venture or a lover
• Melissa’s notion of responding to adversity with grace and calm
• Melissa’s three set strategy for silencing her inner critic
• Self-love
• Mindfulness and meditation
• Showing gratitude
• Authors and books that most inspired Melissa
• Her podcast

Show Notes:

• Podcast: The Melissa Ambrosini Show
• Melissambrosini.com
• Twitter: Mel_Ambrosini ‏
• Instagram: @melissaambrosini
• Facebook: MelissaAmbrosiniTribe
• Pinterest: mel_amrbosini
• YouTube: MelissaAmbrosini
• Get Melissa’s books: 
  • Open Wide: https://amzn.to/2o8aQ9F
  • Mastering Your Mean Girl: https://amzn.to/2MWs349

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If you’re anything like me then you have a thirst for knowledge and consume a lot of content, whether it be through books, audiobooks, podcasts, blog posts, keynotes, conversations or a combination of all of the aforementioned. And if you’re anything like me you wish you retained more of what you actually consumed so that you could easily recall it later, either to support your work or a conversation you are having.

I have previously published an article on learning how to learn in which I detailed some of the different methods I use to retain more of what I consume which included techniques like typing out the notes I highlight in a book, incorporating what I’ve learned into a blog post, otherwise teaching others what I’ve learned and best of all, applying what I’ve learned.

However, while the aforementioned techniques all work really well for remembering bits and pieces of a book for example, it didn’t help me to retain all of the key points. So I’ve decided to start writing book summaries, not only to aid my own learning and retention of key pieces of information, but also to help you accelerate your learning.

While I am definitely not at the level of some autodidacts I know, during a typical year I read about 40 books, listen to about 20 audiobooks, listen to at least 500 podcast episodes, read countless blog posts and have over 100 conversations on my podcast with thought leaders in their field.

As such, I hope to bring you a lot of value by doing these books summaries, which will also be available on my podcast.

I’ve decided to kick things off with neuroendocrinologist Robert Sapolsky’s 2017 book, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, which has been the best book I’ve read this year by far. I distilled the 680 page book into 40 Google Doc pages of notes and now aim to further distill some of the key points into this blog post for your consumption.

The one thing I absolutely loved about this book is that it clearly demonstrates how taking sides in life is fraught with folly. Time and time again throughout this book Sapolsky will point to various studies and arguments that convince you of one position, only to pull the rug out from underneath your feet with an equally compelling counterargument.

Becoming more comfortable with the notion of ‘strong opinions, weakly held’ and seeking out information not only to prove or validate your view but also to discredit and invalidate it, will lead to the ‘more right’ solution. However, when it comes to almost anything, we can almost never say we are absolutely right because there are so many potential variables and bits of information that we’re just not taking into account.

We can only ever make the ‘most right’ decision in the moment based on the information that we have at our disposal, how we choose to interpret that information, what our goals are and over what period of time we wish to achieve them.

Author: Robert Morris Sapolsky (born April 6, 1957) is an American neuroendocrinologist and author. He is currently a professor of biology, and professor of neurology and neurological sciences and, by courtesy, neurosurgery, at Stanford University. He has appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience.

Length: 680 pages

Premise: The book aims to answer, or at least help us to better understand the possible answers to the question, “why did the chicken cross the road?” The chicken of course is proverbial for us, human beings.

Rating: 11/10 (this goes up to eleven!)

Get the book: https://amzn.to/2NgxCXY

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In poker, your bankroll represents how much money you’ve set aside exclusively to play.

Former World Series of Poker champion, author and decision strategist Annie Duke says that you should always play withinyour bankroll. If you have $2,000 in your pocket but have bills and outgoings totalling $1,500 then you don’t have $2,000 to play with, you have $500, and you should not play beyond that.

By playing within your bankroll you’re less likely to fall victim to the sunk cost bias - our tendency to chase our losses - or to bet more than you can afford to lose.

How much are you willing to lose?

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Ben Greenfield is a biohacker, human body and brain performance coach, ex-bodybuilder, Ironman triathlete, professional Spartan athlete, anti-aging consultant, speaker and author of the New York Times Bestseller “Beyond Training: Mastering Endurance, Health and Life”.

In 2008, Ben was voted as NSCA’s Personal Trainer of the year, in 2013 and 2014 was named by Greatest as one of the top 100 Most Influential People In Health And Fitness, and Ben's articles, podcast and videos reach over a million unique views each month.

With nearly two decades of experience working as a strength and conditioning coach, exercise physiologist and biomechanist, Ben is also the man responsible for maximizing performance, recovery, fat loss, digestion, brain, sleep and hormone optimization for CEO’s, ultra-endurance competitors, and a wide variety of professional athletes, including poker champions, tennis players, motocross competitors, the NFL, the NHL, the UFC and beyond. Using his vast knowledge of science and research, in-the-trenches experience, and unique set of cutting-edge brain and body biohacking techniques, Ben cuts through the clutter, confusion and snake oil and instead delivers total human optimization in the fastest, cleanest and safest way possible.

We managed to pack some vital take-aways into this short conversation which will help you to:

1. Get your day off to the right start and avoid the afternoon crash
2. Get a better night’s rest
3. Improve your general health markers and longevity

Also, find out the one metric you should be measuring to stay on top of your game.

With that, please welcome to the show, the one and only Ben Greenfield.

Topics Discussed:

• Staying active throughout your day
• Why short bursts of intense exercise won’t offset your risk of various diseases if it’s followed by long periods of sedentary states
• How to stay sufficiently active throughout your day, even if you work in an office
• Heart Rate Variability (HRV)
• Sleep Hacks
• Diet and Nutrition

Show Notes:

1. Website: bengreenfieldfitness.com
2. Connect with Ben on Twitter: @bengreenfield
3. Ben’s Instagram: @bengreenfieldfitness
4. Get Ben's books:
   • Beyond Training: https://amzn.to/2BLpXiR
   • The Low-Carb Athlete: https://amzn.to/2o9LS9S
   • 30 Ways to Reboot Your Body: https://amzn.to/2BMkBUH
   • Weight Training for Triathlon: https://amzn.to/2MLpvFT
   • Get-Fit Guy's Guide to Achieving Your Ideal Body: https://amzn.to/2NhzbEV
   • 100 Ways To Boost Your Metabolism: https://amzn.to/2P6RvkF
   • 10 WAYS TO GROW TINY SUPERHUMANS: https://amzn.to/2P6JBIe
   • SECRETS OF THE SUPERHUMAN FOOD PYRAMID: https://amzn.to/2oaqeT3
   • HOW TO BIOHACK THE ULTIMATE HEALTHY HOME: https://amzn.to/2MOXDQV
   • IT BAND FRICTION FIX!: https://amzn.to/2MQFRgg

 

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In this instalment of Fast Fix Friday I bust three innovation myths.  

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Alex is an entrepreneur, speaker and business model innovator. He is co-founder of Strategyzer, a SaaS company that helps organizations develop new growth engines, better value propositions and powerful business models via online applications and facilitated online courses.

In 2015 Alex won the strategy award by Thinkers50, called the “Oscars of Management Thinking” by the FT, and ranks #15 among the leading business thinkers of the world. In 2013 he won the inaugural Innovation Luminary Award by the European Union.

Alex is lead author of Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design, which sold over a million copies in 37 languages. USA Today named Business Model Generation among the 12 best business books of all times. The German edition was named Management Book of the Year 2011. Fast Company Magazine named it one of the Best Books for Business Owners in 2010.

Alex invented the Business Model Canvas, a strategic management tool to visualize, challenge and (re-) invent business models. Leading organizations and start-ups around the world use it.

Previous start-ups include netfinance.ch and Arvetica. Alexander holds a PhD from HEC Lausanne, Switzerland, and he is a founding member of The Constellation, a global not-for-profit organization aiming to make HIV/AIDS and Malaria history.

We explored a number of topics in this episode, including:

• How much of R&D corporations should invest into disruptive innovation
• Why what got you here won’t get you there and how disruptive innovation requires different methods and behaviours
• The value of taking a portfolio approach to corporate innovation investments

You’ll learn this and a lot more in this conversation with the one and only, Alex Osterwalder.

Topics discussed:

• How much of R&D corporations should invest into disruptive innovation
• Why what got you here won’t get you there and how disruptive innovation requires different methods and behaviours
• The value of taking a portfolio approach to corporate innovation investments
• Setting up an innovation team
• Empowering people to make and act on decisions
• The different types of innovation
• Why it’s much riskier not to innovate
• Why early stage innovation isn’t expensive
• Why receiving large bags of funding up-front can inhibit innovation

Show notes:

Alex’s website: http://www.alexosterwalder.com

Strategyzer: http://www.strategyzer.com

Twitter: http://twitter.com/alexosterwalder (@AlexOsterwalder)

Get his books:

• Business Model Generation: https://amzn.to/2Ni7zQ9
• Value Proposition Design: https://amzn.to/2NirVJ9
• The Big Pad of 50 Blank, Extra-Large Business Model Canvases and 50 Blank, Extra-Large Value Proposition Canvases: https://amzn.to/2P2TTZC
• Business Model You: https://amzn.to/2BKEMlP
  

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