293: Brent Beshore - How To Get Rich Slow & Live An Optimal Life

The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

Episode #293: Brent Beshore - How To Get Rich Slow & Live An Optimal Life

• Commonalities of sustaining excellence:
  • The usual things like: integrity and hard work
  • But the best... "know how messy they are, they challenge themselves, they have high level of self-awareness, they need people around them to help.  They acknowledge their imperfections, and they give others grace for their imperfections."
• How to develop self awareness? 
  • Surround yourself with people who will tell you the truth -- "We are all highly imperfect."
  • Give people a true open invitation to criticize, but they also must be constructive, loving, kind, thoughtful people.
    • "They need to be rooting for you."\

• What do you look for in someone to work with?
  • Curiosity - an inherent desire to know more, learn, reconstruct reality
  • Self awareness - genuine intellectual honesty
  • Integrity - function of consistency over time.  Have to reconstruct it