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In this episode of On Purpose, I sat down with Dr. Oz to discuss how to automate your life and create an environment that feeds what you’re good at and protects you from what you’re not good at. If you struggle with self-control, Dr. Oz shares practical tips you can apply to improve your relationship with food long term. We also dove into relationships and how important it is to love someone for who they already are instead of who you want them to be. This is a great episode with so many practical tips to help you achieve a happier and healthier lifestyle.

On this special live episode of Venture Stories, Bill Gates was interviewed at San Francisco’s Exploratorium by Julia Hartz, co-founder and CEO of Eventbrite.

We are honored to have Bill Gates, one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time, among our small group of luminary LPs whose financial capital and engagement power the next wave of Village Global founders. 

They covered:

* Gates’s entrepreneurial journey starting Microsoft, including the most important turning points in the early years of the company.

* His thinking on work-life balance for founders and what he would do differently if he was starting again.

* His “greatest mistake of all time.”

* What he’s learned from the next generation of founders.

* His perspective on the current tech landscape.

* His views on philanthropy, global development, education, and much more.

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Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global, is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg and is produced by Brett Bolkowy.

Andrew Weil, M.D., is a world-renowned leader and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine. With a Harvard education and a lifetime of practicing natural and preventive medicine, Dr. Weil is the founder and director of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where he also serves as a Clinical Professor of Medicine and Professor of Public Health as well as the Lovell-Jones Professor of Integrative Rheumatology.

Show notes: bengreenfieldfitness.com/weil

Envy can give you a powerful boost, or it can eat you alive if you let it follow you.

In this podcast with Dr. Taylor Burrowes, we discuss the modern dating marketplace, the mistakes women make, leading with sex, and how to develop better systems for intimacy and vetting

"From my perspective, the goal is unobstructed self-expression." — Josh Waitzkin

Josh Waitzkin, author of The Art of Learning, is an eight-time US National Chess Champion, a two-time World Champion in Tai Chi Chuan Push Hands, and the first Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Black Belt under nine-time World Champion Marcelo Garcia.

For the past 12 years, Josh has been channeling his passion for the outer limits of the learning process toward training elite mental performers in business and finance, and to revolutionizing the education system through his nonprofit foundation, The Art of Learning Project. Josh is currently in the process of taking on his fourth and fifth disciplines, paddle surfing and foiling, and is an all-in father and husband.

The audio and video were recorded at The Sohn Investment Conference in the David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

The Sohn Conference Foundation is dedicated to supporting innovative initiatives to cure and treat pediatric cancer. The Sohn Conference Foundation raises its funds through a unique strategy: Wall Street's most successful investors offer their expertise on stage and inspire large audiences to give to the foundation's cause. You can learn more about it at sohnconference.org.

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If you cut fair deals, you will get paid in the long run.

Matt MacInnis is a founder and investor in Silicon Valley, and he’s widely seen as one of the best personal angel investors out there — combining his experience as a founder (and knowing what made his investors actually helpful and others unhelpful) with the insight into what spaces and products are on the rise.

That’s his day job though. He is a profoundly deep thinker, an articulate leader, but most importantly, he’s honest. He’s seen all the ups and all the downs a founder can see, so you throw experience into that equation, and you’ve got a hell of a conversation.

Some of our favorite quotes from the episode:

"It is perfectly acceptable to go start a company with insane odds against you. If you understand the outcome will be beautiful, no matter what, thats the mindset you need to approach it with and it will be beautiful."

"I could not be where I am today without the hard experiences I had to go through, and it sucked… but they were necessary."

"That was the last time I put another person in the slot of alpha, on a pedestal, someone to emulate…" on his experience with Steve Jobs

"You look around and think that everyone else has it figured it out — and they don't…and I am the first to admit that I’m faking it too."

“I knew where I was strong and I knew where I wasn't, and I was fighting that instead of accepting it.”

“When I sit down across from an entrepreneur…and they really want me to invest, and its not one I can invest in…They’re not answering “should Matt be an investor” while they're trying to answer “can I get Matt to invest in this?” — and these are vastly different questions.”

“Don't win job offers. Go see if you test positive for that particular company or role and let “no” be as beautiful as yes because its the right thing. We are not as interested in truth as we are desire...”

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• We have to be open and willing to allow others to point out errors in our thinking
  • Why? – We want our beliefs to be as close to true as possible, so we have to be open to new evidence and better arguments
  • In addition - We have to be continually open to the possibility that we might be wrong about something
• Society needs to adopt a scientific attitude in pursuit of the truth in ALL domains
  • We can’t search rigorously for the truth in the realm of science/tech but refuse to do so in the realm of religion
• The half-life of negative emotions is incredibly short
  • If you’re not continually thinking about all the reasons you should be anxious (or angry, etc.), the emotion dissipates very quickly
• There’re an infinite amount of reading material out there – there’s no reason to suffer through a book you’re not enjoying
• A few quotes to ponder:
  • “When we’re really just connecting with life in a joyful, creative, and beautiful way… when you look out the window and it’s the most beautiful sunset ever and you are just looking at the sunset and you’re fully connected with its beauty, those are the kinds of moments where you lose this sense of self.”
  • “To a greater or lesser degree, we’re always at war. We’re always fighting something. We’re either noticing something that’s wrong, feeling uncomfortable in our body, reacting to something that somebody did, navigating a social encounter that seems awkward, or trying to figure out what to say… We’re just constantly being blown around. The moments where you really feel good…. entail the dropping of this sense of self.”
• A simple happiness hack:
  • Just think of all the bad things that could have happened to you (that haven’t)
  • If any one of them did happen to you, you would consider your prayers answered if you could just return to the current moment

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Sam Harris, 5-time NYT best-selling author, believes the limits to human well-being have not yet been reached. By being open to being wrong, improving our conversations with others and with our own selves, we can learn to control our emotions and our destiny. On this episode of Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, Sam Harris talks about what to do if you suffer from anxiety, feel lost or hopeless, or just want to connect more effectively with real life.

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SHOW NOTES:

 

Sam defines what a good life is, and why we have to get our act together  [3:05]

Sam describes the relationship between philanthropy and psychological good  [5:12]

Sam challenges dogma and advocates open conversation and scientific investigation  [8:39]

Sam and Tom discuss skill acquisition, and how even well-being is a skill  [16:03]

Sam and Tom discuss emotional control  [22:34]

Sam explains that he has no life hacks to optimize learning  [26:46]

Sam describes meditation as jiu-jitsu for the mind  [29:56]

Sam explains why ego and never-ending thoughts cause suffering  [33:49]

Sam describes what a flourishing life would be  [40:11]

Sam talks about what to do if you are just completely lost  [45:27]

Sam shares the impact he would like to have on the world  [50:24]

 

QUOTES:

 

We have to be continually open to the possibility that we might be wrong, and in fact we are very likely to be wrong, a lot of the time. [11:59]

The half-life of negative emotions is incredibly short. [22:30]

I know there’s an infinite amount of stuff I want to read. I don’t go into the table of contents and look at the structure of the book, and go to the index and look at the topics. I just start on page one and start reading. When I get bored I stop. Do with that life-hack what you will.  [28:41]

 

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BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

 

The End of Faith https://amzn.to/2x1iE1A [1:34] 

"Angel" podcast: Part 2. Dave Morin of Slow Ventures (250+ investments inc. Slack, Pinterest, Twitter), shares insights on favorite business models & products, backing founders with a tangible sense of inevitability, the rise of two internets, democratization of passion, & an optimistic future with the advancement of self-care tech