Thoughts on the late Eric Hoffer and thoughts on success and failure.

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Success is an inside job.

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

Tonight, I wanted to discuss with you a little chapter out of this book. And if it looks like I have lipstick on, I don't I've had to put some chapstick on my lips because they're chapped from being out in the elements today. And so I hope it doesn't distract too much from my presentation, my bright red chapped lips.

I also want to thank a lot of the people I got to hang out with today. I got to meet some viewers that view and listen to the show. Just love to say hi to David, and who's a local person and also to Jack, old friend, and really happy you guys join me here.

This is one I think you guys will get a kick out of if you haven't seen this book, or heard of Eric Hoffer before, this guy is very interesting to read.

For one thing he had an amazing life.

He was a blue collar worker, and then he would go home at night and write these incredible books and articles and things of this sort. Here's about the author Eric Hoffer was self educated, he worked in restaurants and as a migrant field worker and gold prospector.

After Pearl Harbor, he worked as a longshoreman in San Francisco for 25 years, the author of more than 10 books, including, The Passionate State of Mind, The Ordeal of Change, and The Temper of Our Time.

Eric Hoffer was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1983, Presidential Medal of Freedom 83, that would have been Reagan that gave it to him. So that's pretty interesting. I never heard that.

I wanted to read a quote out of this because it plays back into business. And so often,most of the issues I've found that we really get caught up in for long periods of time as business owners, as executives as the people running the show, right?

We get caught up in this situation where we're not thinking clearly on something, and it oftentimes comes back to this very same point over and over.

And that's, we're not realizing that the responsibility is right here it that the solution is going to come from up here, not from your thoughts and from your brain and from you calculating everything out. But that little inner voice that kind of shows you the right way ago, you know that that intuition that we all have, that leads us in the right direction, right. And this is what this is all about.

Oftentimes, you can always feel this way, when you're feeling like it's their fault, it's their fault, it's their fault that this isn't happening, or that this horrible thing is happening, that it's always somebody else's fault.

Which very may right may be true. In a lot of cases, there could be a whole lot of blocks and obstacles in your way.

But you need to pull back from that and say, okay, that may be true, there may be all these obstacles and all these people may have these issues, but what am I going to do about it.

You got to have it come back onto you.

So I want to read you this this quick quote from the true believer. It says there's a tendency to locate the shaping forces of our existence outside ourselves. success and failure are unavoidably related in our minds with the state around us. Hence, it is that people with a sense of fulfillment, think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change.