In this episode we discuss how to master the universal skills required to succeed at work, the counter-intuitive truth of taking more responsibility for your own mistakes, flaws, and screw-ups can help you succeed more quickly, we look at how to cultivate and create accountability in your life, challenge yourself to rise to a higher level, and become more vulnerable, we talk about the Benjamin Franklin effect, and much more with Pete Mockaitis.

Pete Mockaitis is an award-winning trainer focusing primarily on helping professionals perform optimally at work. He’s delivered 1-on-1 coaching to over 700 clients across 50 countries, and every Ivy League school. He currently hosts the How to be Awesome at your Job podcast which has listeners in over 150 countries and has been ranked as a top 5 career podcast on iTunes.

We discuss:

• The importance of reading to improving your knowledge

• The book that has had the biggest impact on Pete’s life

• How you can transform yourself into “peak state” so that you don’t feel scared or unmotivated

• How to master the universal skills required to succeed at work

• Grit - what it is, why its so important, and how you can cultivate

• The concept that had the biggest impact on Pete’s life

• Why its so important to take a hard look at yourself and your own shortcomings

• What to do when your paralyzed by fear in your job

• Why Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear

• How to be a more effective communicator

• “Answer first communication” and how it can transform how you speak and present

• How “hypothesis driven testing” can make you a much better communicator

• Why you should ask: “What things need to be true for this to be a good idea”

• Numbers galvanize attention and focus for people listening to you

• If you’re stressed out in your current role, you’re not ready to make the next move up

• “The time to meet your neighbors is not when your house is on fire”

• How to cultivate and develop better relationships

• The power of making the ask and "ask not, have not”

• The Benjamin Franklin Effect and how it can help you build a powerful network of mentors

• You can achieve whatever you want in life, if you help enough other people achieve what they want in life

• How to be courageous

• How to ask for good feedback and how to give feedback

• Ask for role models and ideal next steps when asking for feedback

• Why you should never be afraid to ask for feedback and counterintuitively how demonstrating your weakensses can help you advance in your career

• The counter intuitive truth of taking MORE responsibility for your own mistakes, flaws, and screw-ups can help you succeed more quickly

• How to cultivate and create accountability in your life, challenge yourself to rise to a higher level, and become more vulnerable

• What you should do when your unsatisfied with your career

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SHOW NOTES, LINKS, & RESEARCH

• [Audiobook] Goals by Zig Ziglar

• [Book] Unlimited Power : The New Science Of Personal Achievement by Anthony Robbins

• [Podcast] How to be Awesome at Your Job

• [Website] How to be Awesome at Your Job

• [Book] Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth

• [Book] How to Work a Room, 25th Anniversary Edition by Susan RoAne

• [Audiobook] The Mastermind by Napoleon Hill
  

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