In their annual tradition, Pete and Jen go through their favorite things from the past year.

Specifically, in this episode Jen and Pete talk about their favorite:

• Fiction book
• Non-fiction book.
• Podcast.
• Episode of The Long and The Short Of It.
• Documentary/TV show/film.
• Aha moment.
• Video.
• Habit.
• Person.

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Learn more about Pete's work here (https://humanperiscope.com/) and Jen's work here (https://jenwaldman.com/).

This week, Jen and Pete noodle on both looking up to someone on a pedestal and being the person put on the pedestal.

Specifically, in this episode Jen and Pete talk about:

• What does it mean to put someone on a pedestal?
• How might status change within the same framework?
• How might we utilize our idolization of certain people?

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This week, Jen comes to Pete needing to be coached on how to approach a big scary thing that she's been working on.

Specifically, in this episode Jen and Pete talk about:

• What are some strategies for taking on a big scary thing?
• Why might it be helpful to imagine what other people may say in response to the thing you're working on?
• How might we develop processes that are separate from outcomes?

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This week, Jen poses a question to Pete: What would Broadway Jesus do?

Specifically, in this episode Jen and Pete talk about:

• How might we take action, based on modeling our idol's behaviors?
• Why might it be difficult to receive a compliment, and how can we do so with grace?
• What might imitating an exemplar look like when you're stuck? And when you're succeeding?

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Throwing it back to old video games, Pete and Jen ping-pong back and forth about what we might learn from games like Zelda when thinking about leadership and growth.

Specifically, in this episode Jen and Pete talk about:

• How might we think about challenges in life as quests?
• What are different ways in which we can level up?
• How might we find excitement in the unknown?

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In this week's episode, Jen teaches Pete about the ways she uses people, places, positions, and purpose to create target lists.

Specifically, in this episode Jen and Pete talk about:

• Why might it be important to make target lists?
• What are some tactics for discovering people and places that you might want to add to your target lists?
• How are the lists for each category different? And how might they overlap?

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This week, Jen and Pete thrash about the idea of getting a group of people together and putting one person in the hot seat, and asking them only questions about the places they are stuck.

Specifically, in this episode Jen and Pete talk about:

• What exactly is action learning? And what is it's inverse?
• How might hearing someone else describe a problem actual help you solve your own?
• What are different ways we can achieve action learning, even without a group?

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This week, Jen and Pete ask the question of how we might be more like a sponge in the projects we are working on, in terms of soaking information in and also squeezing it out into the world.

Specifically, in this episode Jen and Pete talk about:

• What are some tools we can utilize when we're stuck in the information gathering stage?
• What is a cut bait date?
• How might sharing what we're working on with others help in our creative process?

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Building on ideas from previous episodes, Jen and Pete dive in to how they might take an audit of their current habits, and noodle on what that audit might teach them.

Specifically, in this episode Jen and Pete talk about:

• What is a habit audit?
• If you were to start with a clean slate, would you choose to pick up the habits you currently have?
• What are some exercises that might help us to take stock of our current habits and make a decision on whether or not to keep them?

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This week, Pete (a rule follower) and Jen (a non-rule follower) noodle on how we might leverage rules to help us create new habits, practices, and boundaries.

Specifically, in this episode Jen and Pete talk about:

• What are some tactics we can use to create rules for ourselves?
• What is the difference between a rule and a habit?
• What are some examples of rules Pete follows? And Jen?

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