Max Out

#66: How to Build Self-Confidence and Belief in Yourself by Max Weigand

John David Mann is an award-winning author and entrepreneur that has been creating careers and doing the impossible since he was a teenager. After founding his own highschool at 17, John forged a successful career as a prize-winning composer and cellist before building a multi-million dollar sales organization and writing dozens of highly reviewed books on happiness, success, and living an extraordinary life.

Max Out Insights:

Be easier on yourself during the creative process, and tougher on yourself during the editing process

To become your best self, you need the arrogance of a teenager and the humility of a monk

To be truly happy, you must detach yourself and who you are from what you do

Imagine you`re 90 years old and in good mental and physical shape, how would you spend your time? How can you do more of that today?

Max Out Quotes:

“The number one thing that stops people from being writers is they start writing and then they squash it. You have to create a space where you can genuinely be free to put down stuff that will probably be awful.”

“The identification of what we do with our self-worth is such a trap.”

#64: How to Know Thyself by Max Weigand

#63: How to Start Building Momentum by Max Weigand

Mo Gawdat is the former Chief Business Officer at Google’s [X] and the author of the amazing bestseller Solve for Happy. After decades of incredible success as a businessman that included Mo opening up almost half of Google`s offices globally, Mo found himself successful but miserable and turned to studying happiness as a way out. In 2014, his practice was put to the ultimate test when his son Ali died during a routine surgery, and Mo has dedicated his life to making people happy ever since. If you want to learn how to bring happiness into TODAY, this episode is for you!

Max Out Insights:

Society teaches us that life success hinges on material success, and that`s the only way to be happy. Nothing could be further from the truth. Outward success cannot produce happiness or security, because these are internal states of BEING, not end states to reach and stay at

You don`t have to waste 25 years of chasing success before realizing that happiness is within you

Why even 16 cars (including 2 Ferraris!) won`t make you happy

The greatest joy you get from money beyond meeting your basic needs is making others happy

When you give, you get back more than what you give

Happiness is the optimal state of performance

To be both successful and happy, set your ambitions high and your expectations low

How you feel about yourself when you`re by yourself is the ultimate measure of success

Max Out Quotes:

“Be successful in life, but be successful for the right reason.”

“Your happiness is equal to or greater than the difference between the events of your life and your hopes and expectations of how life should be. It`s that comparison that makes you happy or unhappy.”

“The game is so much more interesting when it`s difficult.”

“Because life is a game, what you do is you want the difficult parts.”

“The only things you can control in life are your actions and your attitude.”

“It`s the hardest thing ever for some of us to sit alone and meet ourselves.”

“Unless you`re a serial killer, there`s no good or bad. Just who you are.”

“There is no happiness that exceeds the happiness of being in the here and now, except for making another person happy.”

#61: You Become What You Think About by Max Weigand

#60: Engagement: A Key to Happiness by Max Weigand

Dr. Gay Hendricks is the best-selling author of over 40 books and, together with his wife of 38 years, has been a featured guest on Oprah, CNN, and hundreds of other platforms. After getting a PhD in Counselling Psychology from Stanford University, he has spent the last 40 years teaching people how to break through limiting beliefs, live more consciously, and make the big leaps we so often dream about.

Max Out Insights:

The Upper Limit Problem is like a thermostat, always taking us back to the “temperature” we are used to in the various areas of our lives

4 underlying barriers:

Feeling fundamentally flawed

Disloyalty and abandonment

More success brings a bigger burden

Fear of outshining

10 Second Miracle: 5 seconds breathing in, 5 seconds breathing out

Approach life as a long series of lessons you need to learn

10 Second Truth: What`s an uncomfortable truth you`ve been avoiding to share with a loved one?

The more you say no to what is not in your zone of genius, the more time you have to do the things in your zone of genius

Paint your problems red - instead of hiding your insecurities, show them to the world and they will lose much of their power

Max Out Quotes:

“The first antidote to fear is breathing.”

“Creativity is the antidote to addiction.”

The challenge with overcoming our fears is that we often think we have to do it all at once. But breaking things down to the point they are manageable makes us much more likely to actually take action. In this video, I share with you how you can use exposure therapy to get closer to your dream!

As Mother Theresa once said, "People won`t act for the many, but they will act for the one". Find that person and let them fuel your desire to win.