Why Being Number One Is Not the Same as Winning | Dr. Ankit Agarwal | EP#7

Dr. Ankit Agarwal is the founder of Breaking Mental Models. He teaches about 1,000 students a year how human behavior actually changes. In his first conversation with Asher, he walked through the Hindsight Trap and the journey that built him. This time, the two of them sit down to play a different game.Asher brings a list of maxims. He reads one cold, and Ankit takes it apart. What is the strongest case for it, what is the honest pushback, and where does the truth land when you hold both at once. They get through five, and each one opens a door neither of them expected.They wrestle with winning the wrong game and whether you can even know you are in it before you have won. They turn mistakes and regrets inside out until inaction starts to look like its own kind of action. They sit with money and the people it can cost you. And they keep circling back to one idea Ankit keeps in his pocket: the dumb kid he still carries, the one who questions what looks like common sense, because that is where the genius hides.If you have ever felt the pull to be number one and wondered what you were really chasing, this one is for you.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CHAPTERS00:00 Cold weather, forest soil, and how we domesticated ourselves08:00 The maxim game, and a new definition of a maxim09:00 Maxim 1: Winning the wrong game is the real loss19:30 Maxim 2: A mistake is proof you moved, a regret is proof you didn't28:00 Becoming your own dumb friend30:00 Why no system can measure your dumbness33:00 Winning is not the same as being number one37:45 Maxim 3: The money fades, the people stay46:00 The difference between like and love56:00 Maxim 4: The more dead people you study, the less you fear losing59:00 You cannot learn to swim by reading about water01:09:00 Closing questions and the merit in pausingNOTE: Timestamps are approximate and run in sequence. Final times will be verified against the edited video.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CONNECT WITH DR. ANKIT AGARWALWebsite: https://breakingmentalmodels.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-ankit-agarwal-phd-a9ba1344/━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━IDEAS & REFERENCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODEA new definition of a maxim: a statement that makes sense with no contextEinstein's theory of general relativity, and the 1919 eclipse that tested itEinstein on cyclists, relative motion, and being stationary to each other"Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." — Albert EinsteinThe Alchemist — Paulo CoelhoDan Sullivan — the problem is not the problem, your thinking about it isSTUPID as "super talented unique person in demand"━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CONNECT WITH ASHER WRIGHTMemoirs to Millions: https://memoirstomillions.comLife Changing Wisdom Marketplace: https://lifechangingwisdom.comWeekly Intel Newsletter: https://m2mweeklyintel.com100 Books That Changed How I Think: https://asheralbertwright.com/1000bookchallengeFree Memoir Strategy Call: https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/bookings/memoirsLinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/asher-wright-310731227Facebook: https://facebook.com/lcwforu━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ABOUT MEMOIRS TO MILLIONSAsher Wright is a 22-year US Army veteran, Jamaican immigrant, and 7x published author. He helps veterans, immigrants, and entrepreneurs turn their life stories into published books that build authority and income. New conversations every Saturday.#MemoirsToMillions #DrAnkitAgarwal #BreakingMentalModels #Maxims #WinningTheWrongGame #BehaviorChange #EinsteinMUSIC CREDITMusic: "Ascension" by Scott Buckley | www.scottbuckley.com.au | CC-BY 4.0