PreMint founder, Brendan Mulligan shares his lessons from building several businesses.

He sold LaunchKit to Google and led dev tool products for three years there.

He's built a tonne of other projects and currently runs PodPage and PreMint.

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Host Sam Webster Harris explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement. Success and happiness is a state of mind unique to ourselves and is our responsibility to create.

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Title: PreMint: Solve real problems and don't give up

0:00 Solve real problems and don't give up

01:42 Why do you build so many things?

02:49 Why did you go and work for google? How did career shape happen?

04:30 How did you sell business to google?

07:06 Running own buiz to working at google then leaving

09:17 Big lessons from Google

10:58 What you should learn from google

14:37 Google fail to solve a problem

15:10 Framework to know you're solving a problem

17:13 Not putting a price on the pain 

18:04 Pre-purchase decision + Patreon / Kickstarter

18:30 Issues with Kickstarter

19:24 Where do ideas come from + Podpage genesis

21:53 Any other NFT projects? Why Premint is great

23:04 Expected Pre-Mint to fail - Don't give up!

23:45 Doubling down on your focus area

24:25 NFT trends + Utility tokens

24:54 NFT collections vs utility tokens

26:30 Cycling movements of NFTS

28:09 Metaverse thoughts?

29:20 Advice to younger self - Music industry 20s

30:21 Be a small fish in a big pond

30:55 Derek sivers

31:14 Derek call after leaving google

32:53 BYEEEE

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“You must not fool yourself… and you are the easiest person to fool” Richard Feynman

We all have goals and ideas for our future, but things don’t always go according to plan. There is a mismatch between the idea when it is in the safe space of our mind and when we try to bring the idea into the world

Most of our failures come down to a detachment from reality.

This episode breaks down the psychological nature of ideas. Where the differeneces lie compared to the practicalities of life. 

It then covers practical steps to level up your game plan and confront reality in the face as it happens.

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Goals are important to achieve, but they can distract us from living a life of meaning. Chasing the wrong things is a sure way to waste your life. 

Make better decisions by improving your mindset and appreciating what's important to you. Learn to focus your time and energy on the journeys you want to take instead of getting lost seeking goals to please others.

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Annie Duke was a professional poker player and psychologist. Her book "Thinking in Bets" provides a brilliant set of rules and mental models for rationality in a confusing world.

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By treating work and life as opposing forces we inevitably end up tipping the scales the wrong way. We can't always subscribe time evenly and things get out of whack.

We find there is a much better way by examining the term itself 'Work-life balance". This podcast will not only help you find better harmony with your different life projects but also help your awareness and mindsets to the choices you make.

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Infinite Play - Nat Eliason

This episode was based on an article from Nat Eliason and his brilliant newsletter Infinite Play - I highly recommend subscribing.

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"People don't remember what you tell them, they never forget how you make them feel."

In the episode, we learn how to use emotions to make ourselves memorable and stand out.

You need to make a good impression if you want more friends, make sales, get a better job or impress dates. 

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Relying on stress for productivity is a recipe for burnout. We can avoid burnout and increase our output when we optimise our mindsets.

We can keep our mind firing on all cylinders through excitement and enjoyment instead of through stress and difficulty.

We can learn faster and access more of our potential when we treat our brain like a brain instead of like a muscle.

Brain training and mind workouts can be completely reframed to have a much bigger effect once we know what we are doing.

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