The Jesse Chappus Show 239: Neil Strauss - The Long Road To Success • Compartmentalize Your Week • Your Community Shapes You
Neil Strauss (IG: @neil_strauss) is a seven-time New York Times best-selling author.
Neil was a music critic, cultural reporter, and columnist at The New York Times for a decade. He has also won awards for his cover stories for Rolling Stone.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Moving from West Hollywood to Malibu
- The community you're in shapes you in ways beyond what you know
- Working out without goals
- Do the things you love... even if they're hard
- How working out with a community has impacted Neil's writing
- Follow your interests and don't worry too much about the money
- The greatest education of Neil's life
- Success typically doesn't come quickly
- The 3 types of stuck
- You're not going to figure out your passion intellectually
- Say "yes and" to life if you're starting out
- You get successful by saying yes to things and stay there by saying no to things
- Compartmentalizing your week
- People respond to you how you train them to respond to you
- Creating systems to protect yourself from your weaknesses
- If you're suffering to make it... you'll be suffering when you've made it
- 2 trains theory
- Romantic relationships are the true litmus test of a persons psychology
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Related links:
Neil Strauss - The Truth (book)
Follow Neil Strauss on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Neil Strauss - The Game (book)
Kevin Hart & Neil Strauss - I Can't Make This Up (book)
Patrick McKeown - The Oxygen Advantage (book)
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