Joshua Spodek

What are your daily habits? 

Joshua Spodek PhD MBA is a three-time TEDx speaker, #1 bestselling author of Initiative and Leadership Step by Step, host of the award-winning Leadership and the Environment podcast, and professor at NYU. He holds a PhD in astrophysics and an MBA from Columbia, where he studied under a Nobel Laureate and helped launch a satellite (having emerged from some of Philadelphia’s most dangerous neighborhoods). He left academia to found a venture to market an invention that showed animated images to subway riders between stations. He teaches and coaches leadership and entrepreneurship at NYU and Columbia Business School. 

In this episode, Joshua opens the show speaking about the importance of service. Joshua recognizes that the most valuable parts of his life have been of service to others. A positive mindset is critical when providing service to others. However, if you do not have the positive mindset already, you need to start anyway. You have to act to get the mindset, not the other way around.


Book Recommendation:

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?

In this Episode: 

• About Joshua Spodek [ 0:00 ]
• How Joshua navigates challenges [ 4:10 ]
• The importance a positive mindset plays in our challenges [ 6:30 ]
• How Joshua automates his thoughts [ 8:30 ]
• Book recommendations [ 13:00 ]
• The benefits of daily habits [ 16:30 ]
• How to keep your daily habits [ 21:10 ]
• About Joshua’s habits [ 25:30 ]
• How to cultivate discipline [ 30:16 ]
• Instant Impact [ 34:25 ]