Blog Category: Personal Development

Episode 290: Tested Strategies from 1 of The World’s Wealthiest Investors I wish I could take everything Ray Dalio said and turn it into a book. But he already did that. It’s called, “Principles: Life and Work.” And I’m going to be re-reading it for the rest of my life. He defines principles as “ways […]

Episode 288: A Conversation About Cancer I got a call from my friend Mike Van Cleave a year ago. He told me had cancer. We hadn’t spoken for years. “It’s like mold in your refrigerator,” he said. “All of a sudden you’re like, ‘What the hell happened? It’s only been a week.”   You never […]

Episode 286:  Advice from Dropbox’s COO Dennis Woodside left Google, for DropBox. Everyone thought he was crazy. DropBox was this little tiny company. What was he thinking? “So you ask why I would go from Google to Dropbox. Just play the movie forward. Where’s it going to be in ten years? It’s logical to me that […]

Episode 285: Advice from “The Rules” Authors I sat down with two women the other day. And I can’t decide whether they’ve completely ruined my life or helped me. I decided they were going to help me decide before this podcast was over. Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider are the authors of the classic book, […]

I asked Frank Shamrock, a living legend MMA fighter, “How many titles have you won?” “I think I won them all.” He calls himself a “super athlete.” So I told him he lacks humility… And we laughed. But he’s right. He IS a super athlete. He evolved the art form. And went one level deeper […]

Episode 283: How an Olympic Swimmer Transformed Tourette’s Syndrome into Winning Gold Anthony holds a lot of weird records. But the most interesting to me is the record for the biggest span between winning golds. SIXTEEN YEARS.    But first, let’s start from the beginning. Anthony Ervin always had a gift for swimming. He had […]

Tim’s doing a new experiment. (I’m not surprised.) He’s looking at people and asking himself one question… “What happened to this person?” He said, “Normal people are just folks you don’t know well enough yet, right? Nobody’s normal. We’re so full of stuff and trauma and nonsense and silly beliefs. Everyone’s a work in progress […]