Today’s conversation is with Sahil Bloom, Investor, Entrepreneur, and Creator.
Every week, his content reaches and impacts over 1 million people around the world.
Sahil has over 700,000 followers on Twitter, 125,000 subscribers to his newsletter (The Curiosity Chronicle), and a rapidly growing Instagram.
There’s so much to take in and learn from this podcast, including Sahil’s changing and evolving identity over the years from playing professional baseball and studying at Stanford, onto working in the finance world, to the relentless creator we now follow online and proud Dad.
In this conversation, we talk about finding your zone of genius and purpose in your career and busiest, mental models for a successful life, mental errors people make, and paradoxes related to effort, choice, failure and more.
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Connect with Sahil:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/SahilBloom
Insta - www.instagram.com/sahilbloom
Newsletter - https://sparklp.co/faa9ef56/
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00:15 How would Sahil define himself
01:32 Zone of genius
02:52 find yours
04:51 telic versus atelic activities
06:06 - Energy calendar
07:50 batching
08:40 education can be wasted on the young
12:12 common thread for highly successful people
13:19 benefits from reading fiction
15:38 baseball team at Stanford
16:40 High school
18:05 punched in the face
20:09 pleasure without pain
22: 36 sacrifice for pleasure
23:38 The wheel of time
28:21 be present
29:48 cold plunge routine
30:35 walking in silence
33:34 Lessons from fatherhood
35:30 Friction
40:28 family dinners
41:20 an easy life can be unhealthy
41:56 spotlight effect
43:27 80 and 10 year old self
46:59 Paradox of effort
49:21 Paradox of Choice
51:29 Failure Paradox
52:30 moment of failure
54:21 Content for Roman
55:44 The important thing in the world
57:19 One lesson that it took the longest to learn
59:22 Where to connect with Sahil
