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Books with Gavin 📚
by Gavin OBrien
Not reading as much as you'd like or need help implementing book ideas in your life? Check out the podcast! Each episode: 💡 Three lessons ✔ Three actionable advice 🧪 Gavin's experiments applying the books to his life, to help you with yours! This podcast shares Gavin's ups and downs to inspire you to take action and get 1% better in your life 🎉 Acknowledgement: Podcast image generated via Google's Gemini AI
Episodes
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E18: The Hacker Mindset: A 5-Step Methodology for Cracking the System and Achieving Your Dreams
3 Lessons 💡 1) Contrast Slackers and Hackers People can be slackers in execution or strategy Slacker in Execution These are the types of people who are always dreaming of the things they could do -- always planning, but never doing Slacker in Strategy They put in all the effort but lack…
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E17: Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done by Jon Acuff
3 Lessons 💡 Perfectionism Lie #1: Goal should be Bigger Write down a number that is associated with your goal Now that you have your number -- cut the goal in half or double the timeline Not telling you to do less --> doing this will help you achieve more Perfectionism Lie #2: You can do it all...
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E16: The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
3 Lessons 💡 Solitude and Silence Benefits: Ability to be alone may be just as important as strong relationships 2 minutes of silence can significantly reduce heart rate, blood pressure and respiratory rate Recommended Nature Dose: 20 minutes, 5 hours and 3 days Having plants in your office can...
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E15: Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind what Makes people Take a Chance on You
3 Lessons 💡 1) Don't Shy from Objections Put yourself in the shoes of a potential backer and anticipate three key objections to your idea. When pitching, don’t avoid those objections; lean into them. Avoidance only leads to more questions later, and the possibility that the backer tunes out the...
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E14: Indispensable: The Prescription for a Fulfilling Pharmacy Career
3 Lessons 💡 1) Expectations vs. Agreements Expectation: One person expects something to happen without communicating this Agreement: Both parties agree to the same set of terms (examples below) I agree to follow my interests I agree that my work schedule does not bind all my time 2) If-Then...
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E13: A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
3 Lessons 💡 1) Process Automation Once you've identified a process that seems like a good candidate for automation, suggest the following steps: Partitioning Split the process into a series of well-defined phases that follow one after the other. For each phase, clearly specify what work must be...
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E12: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
3 Lessons 💡 1) Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset Believing your qualities are carved in stone, or having a fixed mindset, creates an urgency to prove yourself over and over. Failure has often been transformed from an action I failed to an identity, I am a failure. This is especially true in the...
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E11: The Gap and the Gain: The High Achiever's Guide to Happiness, Confidence and Success
3 Lessons 💡 1) Measure yourself backwards, not forwards Start = where you were 90 days ago Achieved = what you’ve actually achieved in the last 90 days Ideal = where you wish you were You’re in the GAP every time you measure yourself or your situation against an ideal Being in the GAIN means you...
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E10: Uptime: A practical guide to personal productivity and wellbeing
3 Lessons 💡 1) Five ways to say no to incoming requests Ask more questions Understand time commitment See if it aligns with top three priorities Understand expectations and how others prioritize this assignment Say you’ll think about it or don’t respond write away Imagine the two scenarios: Yes...
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E9: Awaken your Genius: Ignite Conformity, Ignite Creativity and Become Extraordinary
3 Lessons 💡 1) How to think differently On the topic of advice, let people suggest their own solutions and try not to think you have people's solutions for them. You might ask them: "Have you encountered something like this in the past? What did you learn then?" In addition, another way to use...
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E8: How to Win Friends and Influence People: The only book you need to lead you to success
3 Lessons 💡 Give honest and sincere appreciation.Appreciation is one of the most powerful tools in the world, people put in their best efforts to be appreciated rather than criticized, so whenever anybody does something right, or for you, you should show your love with meaningful and honest...
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E7: Die with Zero: Getting all you can from your money and your life
3 Lessons 💡 Plan Your Life In Stages To live your life to the fullest, you need to examine 3 traits: health, money, and free time.Here's how it usually breaks down: 20-30 years old: You often have lots of time and health, but little money. 31-60 years old: You have a lots amount of health and...
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E6: Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
3 Lessons 💡 One Project, One Priority per day To do great work you need to do deep work. And to do deep work, you need to focus on one thing at a time. This way you’re able to give all of your concentration into one project at a time, and thus go deeper into each subject. It reduces the number…
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E5: Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
3 Lessons 💡 Define Deep Work, Shallow Work and Deep Work Hypothesis (negatives of multi-tasking) Deep Work: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new value, improve your skill and...
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E4: A Complaint Free World: Stop Complaining, Start Living
3 Lessons 💡 Define 21 Day Complaint Free Challenge 1. Get one of our official Complaint Free bracelets and put it on either wrist 2. Switch the bracelet to the other wrist with every spoken or written complaint 3. Stay with it until you go 21 days-in-a-row without complaining and become a...
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E3: The Upside of Stress: Why Stress is Good for You and How To Get Good At It
3 Lessons 💡 Types of Stress Response + Focus on Challenge Response Fight or Flight; Tend or Befriend; Challenge Improve Odds of a Challenge Response: Acknowledge personal strengths, remembering the past when overcame similar challenges, imagine support of loved ones, praying, know that others…
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E2: Taking Stock: A Hospice Doctor's Advice on Financial Independence, Building Wealth, and Living a Regret-Free Life
3 Lessons 💡 Regrets of the dying Parkinson's Law Investing Tips 3 Actions ✅ Regret Activity/Reflection Apply Parkinson's Law What is one action (with at least 5 minutes of time) that you can improve your investments? Helpful Links: Taking Stock (lots of additional exercises and activities in the...
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E1: Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done
3 Lessons 💡 How to Feel Like You Have More Time Make Life Memorable Reduce Your Expectations 3 Actions ✅ Daily Reflection/Time Tracking: Track your time or reflect on how you spend your time each day Daily Vacation Exercise: Create Memories Each day for one week, spend 10-20 minutes planning or...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Not reading as much as you'd like or need help implementing book ideas in your life? Check out the podcast!
Each episode:
💡 Three lessons
✔ Three actionable advice
🧪 Gavin's experiments applying the books to his life, to help you with yours!
This podcast shares Gavin's ups and downs to inspire you to take action and get 1% better in your life 🎉
Acknowledgement: Podcast image generated via Google's Gemini AI
HOSTED BY
Gavin OBrien
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Not reading as much as you'd like or need help implementing book ideas in your life? Check out the podcast! Each episode: 💡 Three lessons ✔ Three actionable advice 🧪 Gavin's experiments applying the books to his life, to help you with yours! This podcast shares Gavin's ups and downs to inspire...
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