ONE With Hunter Powers

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If you would like to help us spread the word, please give us a 5-star review and tell your friends to subscribe. We're available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and every major listening app. Visit the website one.hunterpowers.com to listen to the entire archive. And for even more, follow @theHunter on twitter.  I am Hunter Powers, broadcasting live from our nation's capital, as we say in the city DC PROPER, and until next time...

Everyone believes they are rational actors. Everyone thinks their actions make sense and represent a means to an end, whether in the short or long term. But how much attention do you pay to these actions? How much notice do you pay towards the actions of individuals that you don't understand? But what if you could understand? What if everything made sense, and the path to get where you wanted to be was brighter than it had ever been before? That is the promise of how to understand everything.

“When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it… Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.” ~ Steve Jobs How do you approach rules? Do you follow the rules? Are rules a hinderance or an asset? How do you evaluate and value rules? Who made the rules?

Read The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russel

"Guidance is internal" ~ Jack King, Apollo 11 Launch. The conscious direction of your life emanates from within. The line opens every episode of this show as Jack King, Chief of Public Information for NASA, counts down the launch of Apollo 11. But he misspoke. The correct line was "Guidance is inertial" - noting the Apollo 11 guidance system was ready to track the ship into space. But Jack King says, "Guidance is internal" - and that line is what we will examine today on the ONE. What does it mean? Do we agree with it? And how can we use?

Should you be execution or results oriented? Should there be any barrier to getting started? Should you know the exact path to victory before you begin, before you commit any resources? Execute now and press the play button to find the results.

Bruce Lee had a philosophy of no limitations. He collected the teachings of masters and melded them to form his own beliefs, style, and philosophy called Jeet Kune Do. Your challenge is to do the same. To move through life without limitations - collecting the thoughts, insights, lessons, and strategies to break free from average and maximize potential. You must find your Jeet Kune Do. Listen now to learn more.

There's a lot of frustration over technology - laws, giant corporations, access to data, and a future devoid of freedom as technology driven by legislation takes over. I have a different take. My thesis is everything happening is for the good. It pushes us to innovate. We will innovate and the technology will set us free. John said the TRUTH will set us free. Technology is the application of knowledge, the application of TRUTH, and the TECHNOLOGY will set us free. Listen now to learn more.

Two Peter F. Drucker book recommendations (in order):The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things DoneManaging Oneself

Credit to my coach, Leigh Newsome, for pushing solution oriented thinking on me (probably in retort to a long list of problems I brought him).Learn more about Leigh Newsome:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leighnewsome/Consulting Company: https://hoolahoop.io/

When a magician is involved there is no choice, and if there is a choice, it doesn't matter. In today's episode we'll take a look at how magicians give you the sensation of free will while controlling your every move and guarantee, by way of a "force", the decisions you make. How important is free will? If you knew everything was already decided, would you still value the sensation? Are there times where you want to guide a decision? If these questions are interesting to you (and that may be a force), listen to today's episode, Magician's Choice.

Is it possible to accomplish 80% of the results with only 20% of the effort. When you think about how you spend your time, or how your business spends it time, does it seem that around 80% of your results can be tied with 20% of your efforts? What would happen if you spent 100% of your time focused on the 20% that produces the most? How do some people seems to succeed at such astronomically higher levels than everyone else? Vilfredo Pareto believed he figured it out in 1897 and I'll do my best to share those ideas with you now

“You can't think without risk” ~ Jordan Peterson Is there risk inherent in thought? Are you a risky person or do you prefer to identify as risk adverse? If you were a master of risk are there things you would approach differently? There are strategies to maximize returns given risk, can those same strategies be applied to thought? Is it true that "You can't think without risk"?

“You can't fail privately” ~ Ben Afflek What does it take to get to the next level? How can you make sure you're setting your goals at the right level and more specifically not too small? You've probably heard the saying, no pain no gain, but how do you leverage this to find the right amount of risk for a goal? How can you break out your comfort zone? You do it by leveraging the statement, "You can't fail privately".

“Everything starts small” ~Steve Aoki That which you are working towards is likely large, but everything you see in front of you was once small. And each step through the journey from small to large has to be meaningful or you won't make it to the next step. Steve Aoki started out playing gigs for 5 people and had to make it meaningful for them before he could sell out festivals and make it meaningful for millions.

“All things are difficult before they are easy” -Thomas Fuller Are all things difficult before they are easy? If this is true, what are the strategies we can deploy to accomplish more? Are some things inherently easy? Is easy the goal? Would the world be a better place if everything was easy? What in your life is difficult today that you would want to be easy? How can you transform that which is difficult to easy?

Where do you look when you're trying to generate value? How do you manifest value? Can you manifest value on demand, or is there a struggle? Is there a fixed limit that you can't break through? In this episode we examine the beginnings of a simplified strategy to manifest value through the application of what you already know to new areas AKA generalization.

How often do you finish the projects you start? How often do you get started, and then see a new opportunity and switch to that? When you start on a project there's usually a reward at the end, a reason you are doing the project, but how often do you get the reward? How do you properly value the reward at the end of the project versus a new opportunity? The answer lies at The End Of The Road which is Why You Should Finish.

Simon Rakoff (LinkedIn)Focus Lab (Simon's company)

How do you figure out what is truly happening when you can't explain the results. Expectations are being missed and results don't appear to align with the strategy in place. Use The Alien Observer Model. Step 1) Assume you are alien and don't speak the language. Step 2) Observe all the actions. Step 3) Write down a strategy that supports the actions. Step 4) Given the derived strategy, optimize it for the the actual results. The problem or opportunity is the difference between this strategy and you stated strategy.

What do you do when you can't find the simple linear path forward? How do you create momentum from a state of being completely stuck? Learn how to reframe the problem, create momentum, and start the path forward.

In 2011, Daniel Pink suggested in his book Drive that the secret to workplace motivation is a combination of mastery, autonomy, and purpose which combine to form Drive. We examine this idea and how we can use it to troubleshoot your life.

We feel powerless about many things in our life. We don't want responsibility for the things we can't control. But when you refuse to take responsibility, you give up all power for the things you care about. The secret is to take ownership of everything.

Most jobs present themselves as success games when in reality they are status games. The difference between these two types creates the majority of frustration that we experience with our profession. Find out if you're playing the right game.

Mike's writings: http://mikes.im/

How you do one thing is how you do everything. ~Old Zen Saying

Pick a side. Start a war. ~Reggie Watts

How To Overcome Procrastination 1. Turn your want into a need 2. Get excited about your desired outcome 3. Make striving for your goals a central part of your identity 4. Reward yourself when you get after it 5. Punish yourself when you're lazy ~Tom Bilyeu

The old character you're playing is the very thing that will prevent you from becoming this new version of you. You can't take the old story into the new identity. ~Ed Mylett

There's Always An Excuse ~Paul Thurrot

It's better to be a pirate than join the navy. ~Steve Jobs

Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion. ~ Simon Sinek