Mental Fitness Podcast for Entrepreneurs

The Biggest Personality Qualities of Successful Entrepreneurs
2. Rapid Learning
3. Building Partnerships
4. Enjoying The Struggle
5. Balancing the Focus over Long and Short Term

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Welcome to the Mental Fitness Podcast.

Today's entrepreneurs are mental athletes that have to know about the mind and how to keep it fit. Our goal is to increase our resilience against stress and anxiety; optimize our productivity, motivation, and optimism by learning about the human mind through psychology, neuroscience, and human behavior.

I am your host Ozan. I am a founder who has experienced the challenges of launching and growing a business and a keen student of human behavior over the last 15 years. I will share with you what I know and learn.

Hundreds of impactful behavior-changing ideas are waiting to be discovered.

Let's begin now.

How you deal with what you don't know is 50% of the battle. Can you make the right decisions even when you don't know all the answers? Can you manage your emotional world against your not knowing?

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Welcome to the Mental Fitness Podcast.

Today's entrepreneurs are mental athletes that have to know about the mind and how to keep it fit. Our goal is to increase our resilience against stress and anxiety; optimize our productivity, motivation, and optimism by learning about the human mind through psychology, neuroscience, and human behavior.

I am your host Ozan. I am a founder who has experienced the challenges of launching and growing a business and a keen student of human behavior over the last 15 years. I will share with you what I know and learn.

Hundreds of impactful behavior-changing ideas are waiting to be discovered.

Let's begin now.

22. episodes of Mental Fitness Podcast's guest is Natsune. She is from Japan and shared with us a story of moving from Japan to the USA. This episode's guest is Natsune. Here is what I asked her.

1. The background story (Life and growing in Japan) Can you talk about life, values, business, gender, culture, business norms in Japan?
2. How and why you made the decision to move to the States?
3. What are some examples of the mental obstacles that you ran into after you moved?
4. What was the most difficult decision you had to make, what did this reveal about your personality, how did you change as a result?
5. Your key takeaways that you learned by experience and as a result of your story across cultures that make us more mentally resilient?

Natsune's website: https://www.lifeupeducationtv.com/

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Welcome to the Mental Fitness Podcast.

Today's entrepreneurs are mental athletes that have to know about the mind and how to keep it fit. Our goal is to increase our resilience against stress and anxiety; optimize our productivity, motivation, and optimism by learning about the human mind through psychology, neuroscience, and human behavior.

I am your host Ozan. I am a founder who has experienced the challenges of launching and growing a business and a keen student of human behavior over the last 15 years. I will share with you what I know and learn.

Hundreds of impactful behavior-changing ideas are waiting to be discovered.

Let's begin now.

You made your startup your entire identity.
You neglected friends, family, social life, hobbies, physical health.
You compared yourself to rockstar CEOs (which are PR anyways)
You thought you could get by with 5 hours of sleep.
You thought this was a one-round fight.

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Welcome to the Mental Fitness Podcast.

Today's entrepreneurs are mental athletes that have to know about the mind and how to keep it fit. Our goal is to increase our resilience against stress and anxiety; optimize our productivity, motivation, and optimism by learning about the human mind through psychology, neuroscience, and human behavior.

I am your host Ozan. I am a founder who has experienced the challenges of launching and growing a business and a keen student of human behavior over the last 15 years. I will share with you what I know and learn.

Hundreds of impactful behavior-changing ideas are waiting to be discovered.

Let's begin now.

An interesting study done by Sonja Lyubomirsky - social comparison constitutes a big chunk of our happiness. Today's reality bombards us with people who are richer, more successful, more popular, faster, better, more beautiful than us at every turn. The reflex is to compare but it is a dangerous game.

We actually compare it in two directions. Upward comparison. Downward comparison. One makes us feel good in the short term but unproductive. The other might be productive but can also be tough to handle mentally. How do we balance that out?

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Welcome to the Mental Fitness Podcast.

Today's entrepreneurs are mental athletes that have to know about the mind and how to keep it fit. Our goal is to increase our resilience against stress and anxiety; optimize our productivity, motivation, and optimism by learning about the human mind through psychology, neuroscience, and human behavior.

I am your host Ozan. I am a founder who has experienced the challenges of launching and growing a business and a keen student of human behavior over the last 15 years. I will share with you what I know and learn.

Hundreds of impactful behavior-changing ideas are waiting to be discovered.

Let's begin now.

What is YOUR "something bigger"? It is not bad to serve your own needs. But when it is the only thing you serve, you start losing control.
Dream big, it is OK. What is the version of yourself that has the biggest positive impact on the world? What plans does that person have that you don't?

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Welcome to the Mental Fitness Podcast.

Today's entrepreneurs are mental athletes that have to know about the mind and how to keep it fit. Our goal is to increase our resilience against stress and anxiety; optimize our productivity, motivation, and optimism by learning about the human mind through psychology, neuroscience, and human behavior.

I am your host Ozan. I am a founder who has experienced the challenges of launching and growing a business and a keen student of human behavior over the last 15 years. I will share with you what I know and learn.

Hundreds of impactful behavior-changing ideas are waiting to be discovered.

Let's begin now.

You might be an entrepreneur in a modern and technological world, but your brain and biology belong to a more ancient era. We are wired to recognize false positives rather than false negatives. Survival. Because of this, your brain will constantly remind you about the things that can and do go wrong. Your brain is your best friend but also your worst enemy.

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Welcome to the Mental Fitness Podcast.

Today's entrepreneurs are mental athletes that have to know about the mind and how to keep it fit. Our goal is to increase our resilience against stress and anxiety; optimize our productivity, motivation, and optimism by learning about the human mind through psychology, neuroscience, and human behavior.

I am your host Ozan. I am a founder who has experienced the challenges of launching and growing a business and a keen student of human behavior over the last 15 years. I will share with you what I know and learn.

Hundreds of impactful behavior-changing ideas are waiting to be discovered.

Let's begin now.

Life is not chess, but maybe its more like poker. There is a good deal of chance involved in how much success, wealth and influence you acquire. Because of that, all decisions are bets in some way. Which means, you will want to keep betting and protect your right to stay within the game. Sometimes, you feel you have to go all-in. When is it the right time to do so? How would you decide?

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Welcome to the Mental Fitness Podcast.

Today's entrepreneurs are mental athletes that have to know about the mind and how to keep it fit. Our goal is to increase our resilience against stress and anxiety; optimize our productivity, motivation, and optimism by learning about the human mind through psychology, neuroscience, and human behavior.

I am your host Ozan. I am a founder who has experienced the challenges of launching and growing a business and a keen student of human behavior over the last 15 years. I will share with you what I know and learn.

Hundreds of impactful behavior-changing ideas are waiting to be discovered.

Let's begin now.

Ignore advice that is not a good fit for your temporal and geographical context. We imagine in images. Make sure the images you have about your future are well thought out and the manifestation of who you are.

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Welcome to the Mental Fitness Podcast.

Today's entrepreneurs are mental athletes that have to know about the mind and how to keep it fit. Our goal is to increase our resilience against stress and anxiety; optimize our productivity, motivation, and optimism by learning about the human mind through psychology, neuroscience, and human behavior.

I am your host Ozan. I am a founder who has experienced the challenges of launching and growing a business and a keen student of human behavior over the last 15 years. I will share with you what I know and learn.

Hundreds of impactful behavior-changing ideas are waiting to be discovered.

Let's begin now.

Here is a mental exercise to make sure you are not punishing yourself but pushing yourself in the right direction. As an entrepreneur, you have to push yourself. But you have to push yourself in the right direction and that can very quickly turn into punishing yourself by working too hard. There is no relation between how difficult you make a life for yourself and how successful you are. Feeling you are working really hard, can be your assurance that you are doing everything you can, while that might not be the case. The right amount of stress is good, and that amount is contextual.

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Welcome to the Mental Fitness Podcast.

Today's entrepreneurs are mental athletes that have to know about the mind and how to keep it fit. Our goal is to increase our resilience against stress and anxiety; optimize our productivity, motivation, and optimism by learning about the human mind through psychology, neuroscience, and human behavior.

I am your host Ozan. I am a founder who has experienced the challenges of launching and growing a business and a keen student of human behavior over the last 15 years. I will share with you what I know and learn.

Hundreds of impactful behavior-changing ideas are waiting to be discovered.

Let's begin now.