Weaver & Loom

Here on the Own the Future we've talked about what it means to be an absolute nobody (back in episode 45 with the story of Franny from J.D. Salinger's novella titled FRANNY AND ZOOEY) Franny wanted to the courage to become an absolute nobody. 

We also talked--back in Episode 59, about how the most decorated soldiers don't have names--they are nobodies who gave their lives for others. 

Being absolute nobody is an important variable of walking out becoming change makers. 

But being an absolute nobody sounds quite depressing and self deprecating.  

Over the next nine episodes we will explore what it means to be a change maker, greatness, being absolute nobodies, our greatest enemies to success, and the greatest most influential person who is shaping culture today (and it isn't who you think it is). 

Until next time…

Be a change maker, weave your destiny, own the future.

Thank you for listening, and as always you can find me at:

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In the last chapter of my latest book, "Anchored - The Discipline to Stop Drifting" I share a how FOMO, the fear of missing out, is short circuiting our path to success.

Keeping our commitment, completing project, and finishing what we start is crucial to building confidence and momentum.

Tune into this story--and do your future a favor and buy "Anchored - The Discipline to Stop Drifting".

The thoughts and ideas changed the direction of my life--I'm confident that when implemented they will change yours.

Until next time…

Be a change maker, weave your destiny, own the future.

Thank you for listening, and as always you can find me at:

www.lucasskrobot.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucasskrobot

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Movements aren't only started by the crazy person who stands up first--they play a role. But movements start when the crazy person get someone to come behind them and say, "I'm going with you."

In my new book "Anchored - The Discipline to Stop Drifting" I share a story of the Shirtless Dancer and how a movement really begins.

Tune into this story--and do your future a favor and buy "Anchored - The Discipline to Stop Drifting". The thoughts and ideas changed the direction of my life--I'm confident that when implemented they will change yours.

The video from Derek Sivers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ

Until next time…

Be a change maker, weave your destiny, own the future.

Thank you for listening, and as always you can find me at:

www.lucasskrobot.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucasskrobot

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It is easy to hide in a group, or a system, and pass the buck to someone else, to give excuses why YOU didn't take action to help others--or fight for your own dreams. 

There is always an excuse. And as we float through life in our "groups" we find the our responsibility has been diffused and group think takes over.

Diffusion of responsibility happens because individual group members believe they are not responsible to act, that someone else has acted already, or that somebody will act in the future.

In my new book that comes out TOMORROW, I share how living an anchored life mean take a stand when no one else cares to, and taking action when the world is sleeping.

Until next time…

Be a change maker, weave your destiny, own the future.

Thank you for listening, and as always you can find me at:

www.lucasskrobot.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucasskrobot

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In all the years of the Tour-de-France, France had never won their nation’s own competition. That is, not until 2010, when the French cycling team hired a man named Dave Brailsford to coach them.

Cue the Rocky soundtrack over a montage of Brailsford yelling and encouraging his team to train harder, to give it 110 percent. I can imagine them working out in the pouring rain, on the verge of giving up, when by some supernatural force, they find one last ounce of energy to push through to the end. 

Wrong. Insert sound of screeching soundtrack and tangling film here.

Instead, he suggested that they look at every component of bike racing and try to improve it by one percent. That’s it, a boring one percent.

Until next time…

Be a change maker, weave your destiny, own the future.

Thank you for listening, and as always you can find me at:

www.lucasskrobot.com

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Vilfredo Pareto was a leading economist, sociologist, and engineer in the 1800s. He is best known for the Pareto Principle, which is now known as the 80/20 Rule.[i]

In short, the Pareto Principle explains the unequal distribution of wealth, income, land ownership, and production.

Pareto stumbled upon this principle by observing how eighty percent of the land in France was owned by twenty percent of the population[ii] and that eighty percent of his peas were produced by twenty percent of his pea plants.

What can you cut out of your life--and what can you double down on to see exponential gains and growth to reach your goals?

[i] Many books have been written about the 80/20 rule over the past decade and how we can apply it to daily living, business, economics, and so on. The Four-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferres and The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch are two of the best-known books on the topic.

[ii] M. E. J. Newman, “Power laws, Pareto distributions and Zipf’s law,” arxiv.org, http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/cond-mat/pdf/04 z12/0412004v3.pdf (accessed November 30, 2015).

Until next time…

Be a change maker, weave your destiny, own the future.

Thank you for listening, and as always you can find me at:

www.lucasskrobot.com

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In my early twenties, I looked at leaders around me who, so I thought, only needed four to six hours of sleep per night. I envied them, so I decided to give it a try.

After a week of getting only six hours of sleep a night, I wound up sick, and it took a week or two before I returned to my normal level of productivity. But that was only the beginning of my experimentations with sleep.

As a result of my failures, I resented myself, and my body, for needing up to nine hours of sleep to feel rested and to function properly.

I fought my “weakness” with all my strength. I dreamed of how amazing it would be to need only six hours of sleep.

I fantasized about how much more I could accomplish if only my body would cooperate.

I was an ignorant fool.

Here is the study mentioned in the episode:

Van Dongen HP, Mullington JM, Dinges DF. “The cumulative cost of additional wakefulness: dose-response effects on neurobehavioral functions and sleep physiology from chronic sleep restriction and total sleep deprivation.”  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12683469

Until next time…

Be a change maker, weave your destiny, own the future.

Thank you for listening, and as always you can find me at:

www.lucasskrobot.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucasskrobot

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It was the summer of 1910. Virtually the entire world had been explored, and in the minds of many, only one frontier remained—the South Pole. Thousands of miles away from civilization, Antarctica remained one of the last places untouched by the modern world.

Robert Scott from England and Roald Amundsen from Norway led two separate expeditions, racing each other to reach the bottom of the world for land and country. Both men had very different styles of leadership.

One last major difference that set Scott and Amundsen apart was their daily schedule. Scott and his men travelled as much each day as the weather and their strength allowed. When the weather permitted it, some days they trekked for up to nine hours straight. During inclement weather, they didn’t leave their tents at all.

Amundsen, on the other hand, decided they would travel one-quarter of a degree of latitude every day—which is fifteen nautical miles or around twenty miles a day. Hiking twenty miles a day across Antarctica is hard but realistic. Through blizzards or sunshine, they marched twenty miles each day, no more and no less. On average, they spent five to six hours on their feet each day and up to sixteen hours resting in their tents.

Listen to the episode to discover who won this epic race, and the price the loser paid...

Until next time…

Be a change maker, weave your destiny, own the future.

Thank you for listening, and as always you can find me at:

www.lucasskrobot.com

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As a global culture we are flooded with information, and with the more information we gather the more prone we are to paralysis.

It is through repetition and continuous action that we are able to develop our skill set, our taste, and our ability to do great things--reading another book, watching another youtube video, and listening to another podcast (like this one) isn't getting you closer to your dreams and goals.

Today I share a story from my new book "Anchored: The Disciple to Stop Drifting" being released Oct 3, 2019.

Until next time…

Be a change maker, weave your destiny, own the future.

Thank you for listening, and as always you can find me at:

www.lucasskrobot.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucasskrobot

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We all have dreams.

And we all like to talk about them.

It makes us feel good, warm and fuzzy. But sharing your dreams with others is a baaad idea. 

There are one of FOUR things that will happen when you share what you plan on doing, and only one of them is good. The other three will take you out.

Here are the four possibilities:

1) The think you are brilliant. You feel the praise and satisfaction and never build your dream.

2) They think you idea is dumb. You never build your dream.

3) The say nothing. You double guess yourself and never build your dream.

4) You will have to listen to the episode to discover the ONE kind of person you should share your dream with :)

Until next time…

Be a change maker, weave your destiny, own the future.

Thank you for listening, and as always you can find me at:

www.lucasskrobot.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucasskrobot

https://www.instagram.com/lucasskrobot