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"Integrity (and excitement)" - Tim Bui
My guest today, Tim, has a really diverse and interesting background. He's trained martial arts for most of his life, he's been a successful serial entrepreneur, he's studied under Buddhist monks, and he's now a high performance life coach. He wants to use all of these experiences and learnings to help shift the world into the most inspirational and connected place possible. That is what Tim is about, maximizing potential.
As he put it during the show, humans in many ways are god-like but we don't realize it. We have such an amazing ability to connect, collaborate, and create; but often we get caught up with so much other baggage that we don't take advantage of it. That is why integrity is so important to him. He calls it a "container" value, that allows you to effectively pursue all the other values while still holding you true to what matters most.
We spent a lot of time trying to determine what maximizing potential is really all about. Is it just exciting and fun, is it functional, is it moral, is it divine? Tim has a belief that we all have a purpose that we should be trying to work towards, so that is why we should be trying to maximize potential. So we tried to dissect that "purpose" concept too, to understand what it actually is. Where does our purpose come from, do we choose it or it chooses us, how do we know when we found our true purpose, etc?
As we often do, we got into the realm of subjectivity and nuance. These theories and concepts all sound good in the abstract but what do they actually mean in our day to day life. So to try to make it more real we looked at a recent instance with my son, where it appeared to me the nuance of the situation made it impossible to know for sure how to proceed.
What I appreciated so much about this discussion was the passion Tim had. You could feel it come through at times when he talked about his purpose and the ability for humans to create. I still wish I knew exactly where that passion came from (at a first principle level), but regardless I still aways enjoy experiencing it.
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My guest today, Tim, has a really diverse and interesting background. He's trained martial arts for most of his life, he's been a successful serial entrepreneur, he's studied under Buddhist monks, and he's now a high performance life coach. He wants to use all of these experiences and learnings to help shift the world into the most inspirational and connected place possible. That is what Tim is about, maximizing potential.
As he put it during the show, humans in many ways are god-like but we don't realize it. We have such an amazing ability to connect, collaborate, and create; but often we get caught up with so much other baggage that we don't take advantage of it. That is why integrity is so important to him. He calls it a "container" value, that allows you to effectively pursue all the other values while still holding you true to what matters most.
We spent a lot of time trying to determine what maximizing potential is really all about. Is it just exciting and fun, is it functional, is it moral, is it divine? Tim has a belief that we all have a purpose that we should be trying to work towards, so that is why we should be trying to maximize potential. So we tried to dissect that "purpose" concept too, to understand what it actually is. Where does our purpose come from, do we choose it or it chooses us, how do we know when we found our true purpose, etc?
As we often do, we got into the realm of subjectivity and nuance. These theories and concepts all sound good in the abstract but what do they actually mean in our day to day life. So to try to make it more real we looked at a recent instance with my son, where it appeared to me the nuance of the situation made it impossible to know for sure how to proceed.
What I appreciated so much about this discussion was the passion Tim had. You could feel it come through at times when he talked about his purpose and the ability for humans to create. I still wish I knew exactly where that passion came from (at a first principle level), but regardless I still aways enjoy experiencing it.