Mindset Toolkit Podcast

Topics:

The rules of deep work:

Rule #1 - Work Deeply

- Find/create a work environment of isolation that allows you to have a distraction free space to let your mind think deeply

- Move beyond good intentions and implement good routines & habits. Setting aside set times to accomplish deep work becomes a duty, rather than an option

- The four depth philosophies: Monastic, Bimodal, Rhythmic & Journalistic

- Some strategies to consider: Ritualizing patterns, making grand gestures

- The importance and contradiction of collaboration

- The four disciplines f the execution framework: focus on the wildly important, act on the lead measures, keep a compelling score card & create a cadence of accountability

Rule #2 - Embrace boredom

- Treat deep work as a habit.

- Embrace your ability to be bored

- Indulge in laziness/idleness - allows the brain to reset and allows the subconscious to think

- Don’t take breaks from distraction, instead take breaks from focus. You need to rewire your brain to not crave distraction.

- It’s not about eliminating distractions, it’s about allowing distractions to hijack your thoughts

- Give your deep work a hard deadline and commit to it, this will increase your intensity to get the task done.

- Productive meditation - you are occupied physically, but not mentally and focus on a single well defined problem.

- Be aware of distractions and looping

- Structure your deep thinking

Rule #3 - Quit social media

- This is not a binary solution, it’s about acknowledging they exist and are not inherently evil.

- Don't fall into the 'any benefit mindset' when evaluating tools

- Take the craftsman approach to tool choice

- Structure your free time, this won’t actually lead to you feeling ‘relaxed’ the goal is to live and not just exist

- Re-energize the human spirit by doing something meaningful with your waking hours. Don’t bathe in semi-conscious activities

Rule #4 - Drain the shallows

- Don’t underestimate the damage that shallow work does to your life and don’t overestimate the productivity that it brings

- Schedule every minute of your day. Don't be on autopilot

- Quantify the depth of every activity

- Set a time to stop working

- Become hard to reach.

Finally, it’s not about demonizing the distractions, but making deep work more important

If you missed part 1 of Deep Work, check it out here: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mindsettoolkit/episodes/2017-10-22T20_26_40-07_00

Get audible: http://goo.gl/AjqkEB

Please subscribe and rate the Mindset Toolkit Podcast

Connect:

Website: https://mindsettoolkit.wordpress.com/

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mindset-toolkit-podcast/id1245200556?mt=2

Email: [email protected]

Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/selwynns/

Topics:

Tim Ferris Podcast

Kal Fussman & Larry King

- Be honest & be yourself

- Don't bring judgements with questions

- Listen

Art of Manliness podcast

Greg McKeown

- Essentialism is facing the reality that some stuff is more important than others

- Don't have the undisciplined pursuit of more

- Quality vs quantity

Entreleadership - Dr Tim Elmore

- Lead with belief, not relief

The Real Estate Guys Radio Show

- You can either eat well or sleep well, but not both

- The bend in the road, is not the end of the road - unless you fail to make the turn

Get audible: http://goo.gl/AjqkEB

Please subscribe and rate the Mindset Toolkit Podcast

Connect:

Website: https://mindsettoolkit.wordpress.com/

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mindset-toolkit-podcast/id1245200556?mt=2

Email: [email protected]

Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/selwynns/

Today's podcasts:

http://www.artofmanliness.com/category/podcast/

https://www.entreleadership.com/posts.podcast

https://tim.blog/podcast/

https://realestateguysradio.com/

Topics:

Definition: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction free concentration, that push cognitive capabilities to their limits

Ch1

- Deep work requires isolation and time by yourself

- Need to remember the difference between busy-ness and effectiveness

- The ability to master hard things, if you can’t learn, you can’t thrive

- Also must be able to quickly learn hard things, because technology always changes.

Not simply technological changes, but as you advance in your career path, you’ll have to learn more and more things

- To produce at an elite level - quality & speed

Not only is it enough to learn these new skills, you must be able to master them an produce tangible benefits

- The difference between normal adults and extraordinary adults, requires long and hard studies - deliberate practice.

- High quality work production = time spent x intensity of focus

- We have attention residue - where when we switch tasks, our brain is still thinking about the previous task, whilst attempting to switch focus to the next one.

Ch2

- The principle of least resistance - we will tend towards behaviours that are the easiest in the moment

- Creating clarity on what matters has unintended consequences about what does not matter

- Deep work - quality, craftsmanship & mastery. Decidedly old fashioned and non-technological.

Ch3

- Neurological argument for depth

Happiness through attention & focus, the content of what we focus on matters.

- Psychological argument for depth

The best moments usually occur when a person’s body/mind are stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

- Philosophical argument for depth

We have tasked ourselves to figure out what’s important and meaningful

Tune in next week for the second and final installment about Deep Work!

Get audible: http://goo.gl/AjqkEB

Please subscribe and rate the Mindset Toolkit Podcast

Connect:

Website: https://mindsettoolkit.wordpress.com/

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mindset-toolkit-podcast/id1245200556?mt=2

Email: [email protected]

Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/selwynns/

Topics:

Art of Manliness Podcast 322

Interview with Eric Barker

- Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan

- Not a balanced life, reassess priorities

The Art of Charm

Noah Kagan

- Innovation comes from limitations

- Your life is building a wall

- Don't dismiss anybody's negative feedback

The Order of Man

Chris Romulo - The Fighter's Mindset

- Life is a fight, we have no choice but to be in

- Take on a growth mindset and face challenges head on

- Embrace adversity, as this is what leads to personal growth

Get audible: http://goo.gl/AjqkEB

Please subscribe and rate the Mindset Toolkit Podcast

Connect:

Website: https://mindsettoolkit.wordpress.com/

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mindset-toolkit-podcast/id1245200556?mt=2

Email: [email protected]

Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/selwynns/

Check out BPI Sports for your fitness supplementation needs: http://bit.ly/2fWFfUr

Today's podcasts:

http://www.artofmanliness.com/category/podcast/

https://theartofcharm.com/podcast/

http://www.orderofman.com/category/podcast/

https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/

The final installment of the 3 part series reviewing the book The Hard Things About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

Topics:

- A good leader must know how to lead, even when you don't know where you're going

- Focus on what you need to get right, and stop focusing on what you don’t want to go wrong

- Every problem in a company is always the CEO’s fault

- Brilliance and courage are the two traits Horowicz looks for in a good CEO, because everyone must make difficult choices between doing what’s easy or doing whats difficult

- It’s financially easier to start a company in today's economic climate. However, the courage needed is still the same as has ever been

- An overview of the two types of leaders

- CEO's are made, not born. An overview of Horowitz's process

Get the book here: http://a.co/68QIEbW

Get audible: http://goo.gl/AjqkEB

Please subscribe and rate the Mindset Toolkit Podcast

Connect:

Website: https://mindsettoolkit.wordpress.com/

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mindset-toolkit-podcast/id1245200556?mt=2

Email: [email protected]

Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/selwynns/

Topics:

Entreleadership - Brian Buffini

- When you work harder on yourself than you do in your job.

- Your purpose will come from elimination

- Success isn't picture perfect. It takes work, determination & patience

- Be present in whatever you do

- Always be grateful

Jason Hartmann Podcast - Michael Gelb -

The 7 relationship building skills:

1. Embrace humility

2. ‘Be a glow worm’ winston churchill

3. Achieve the 3 liberations - Don’t like/dislike. Don’t take things personally. Don’t blame and complain.

4. Transcend fixations

5. Balance energy exchange

6. Be a RARE listener

7. Turn friction into momentum

Get audible: http://goo.gl/AjqkEB

Please subscribe and rate the Mindset Toolkit Podcast

Connect!

Website: https://mindsettoolkit.wordpress.com/

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mindset-toolkit-podcast/id1245200556?mt=2

Email: [email protected]

Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/selwynns/

Today's podcasts:

https://www.entreleadership.com/posts.podcast

http://www.jasonhartman.com/tag/podcast-2/

Topics:

- Take care of the people, products and the profits, in that order

- Hire for strengths, not lack of weakness

- Training your employees is the single most important thing you can do to leverage your business

- Two ways to improve productivity: motivation or training

- Good product manager qualities applied to everyday life

- Being a great manager/leader is about managing the people who are better at a skill/function than you are

- Be careful about setting short term goals that may conflict with your long term vision. Mitigate this by thinking about how you plan to achieve your short term goals, as this will highlight any contradictions with your long term goals

- Management debt: You can have a short term speedy solution that will have a long term consequence you will have to answer for

- If you don't address politics as a leader, it will ironically create a very political environment

- Three types of smart employees that are damaging to a company: the heretic, the flake & the jerk

- Most successful companies have a cult like culture. You want to be provocative enough in order to change how people operate on a daily basis, implement some change that is trivial but will have far reaching outcomes for a long time

Tune in next week for the final installment of this interesting book

Get the book here: http://a.co/68QIEbW

Get audible: http://goo.gl/AjqkEB

Please subscribe and rate the Mindset Toolkit Podcast

Connect:

Website: https://mindsettoolkit.wordpress.com/

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mindset-toolkit-podcast/id1245200556?mt=2

Email: [email protected]

Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/selwynns/

Topics:

Sam Zell

- Look for opportunities with high demand and low supply and low to no competition

- Solve problems where you can benefit

Entrepreneur on Fire podcast

Dan Clark

- Each play is set up for set up another play, with the ultimate goal of a touchdown. You need to set up to hit your short term goals, in order to achieve your long term goal

- Use pain as a signal to grow

- Enjoy the hard work, enjoy the grind, the study, the long hard boring stuff

- Don't start with the end, start with why

- You know enough to take action TODAY!

Get audible: http://goo.gl/AjqkEB

Please subscribe and rate the Mindset Toolkit Podcast

Connect:

Website: https://mindsettoolkit.wordpress.com/

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mindset-toolkit-podcast/id1245200556?mt=2

Email: [email protected]

Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/selwynns/

Today's podcasts:

https://www.eofire.com/podcast/

The Hard Thing provides a recipe for challenges that have no recipes - businesses don’t have easy fixes to complicated problems

Topics:

- Focus on the one yes that matters

- Two emotions in a start up - euphoria & terror

- Be honest with your team, especially in crisis

- Find out what people truly want

- Don't fear failure, you can always do it again

- Never play the odds, focus on the task

- You're always going to have to bounce back from failure

- Failure is not final

- Stay positive & true

- Foster open & true lines of communication

Buy the book here: http://a.co/bABwoYX

Get audible: http://goo.gl/AjqkEB

Please subscribe and rate the Mindset Toolkit Podcast

Connect:

Website: https://mindsettoolkit.wordpress.com/

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mindset-toolkit-podcast/id1245200556?mt=2

Email: [email protected]

Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/selwynns/

Topics:

The Tim Ferris Show

Maria Sharapova

- Discipline doesn't come easy and needs to be built

- take the long hard win over the short easy win

- focus on your actions, rather than the results

Entreleadership

Jon Gordon

- Positive leadership wins, always.

- Connection breeds commitment. Conviction leads to confidence.

- Have passion and a purpose

Get audible: http://goo.gl/AjqkEB

Please subscribe and rate the Mindset Toolkit Podcast

Connect:

Website: https://mindsettoolkit.wordpress.com/

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mindset-toolkit-podcast/id1245200556?mt=2

Email: [email protected]

Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/selwynns/

PODCASTS:

https://www.entreleadership.com/posts.podcast

https://tim.blog/podcast/