Principles for Success “Be Radically Open-Minded” | Episode 7 — Transcript

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1. 0:00principles for success an ultra
2. 0:02mini-series adventure in 30 minutes and
3. 0:05in eight episodes episode 7 be radically
4. 0:09open-minded taking risks and
5. 0:13occasionally being ruined wasn't
6. 0:15acceptable and neither was not taking
7. 0:18risks and not having exceptional results
8. 0:21I needed an approach that would give me
9. 0:23the exceptional upside without also
10. 0:25giving me the exceptional downside when
11. 0:29I discovered it it turned out to be my
12. 0:31Holy Grail to get it I needed to replace
13. 0:35the joy of being proven right with the
14. 0:37joy of learning what's true this need
15. 0:42prompted me to seek out the most
16. 0:44thoughtful people I could find who
17. 0:46disagreed with me I didn't care about
18. 0:49their conclusions I just wanted to see
19. 0:51things through their eyes and to have
20. 0:53them see things through my eyes so that
21. 0:56together we could hash things out to
22. 0:58discover what's true in other words what
23. 1:02I wanted most from them was thoughtful
24. 1:04disagreement going from seeing things
25. 1:08through just my eyes to seeing things
26. 1:10through the eyes of these thoughtful
27. 1:12people was like going from seeing things
28. 1:15in black and white to seeing them in
29. 1:17color the world lit up that's what I
30. 1:25realized that the best way to go through
31. 1:28the jungle of life is with insightful
32. 1:30people who see things differently from
33. 1:32me think about the five step process I
34. 1:35described earlier as I said because we
35. 1:38are wired so differently not everyone
36. 1:40can do all the five steps well but you
37. 1:43don't have to do them all alone you can
38. 1:46get help from others who are good at
39. 1:48what you're not who are wired to
40. 1:51perceive things you can't all you need
41. 1:54to do is let go of your attachment to
42. 1:56having the right answers yourself and
43. 1:58use your fear of being wrong to become
44. 2:01open-minded to these other views
45. 2:05in this way you could point out the
46. 2:07risks and opportunities that you would
47. 2:10individually miss I found that taking
48. 2:12this radically open-minded approach and
49. 2:15believability weighting people's
50. 2:17thinking significantly increased my
51. 2:19probabilities of making the best
52. 2:21decisions possible this enabled me to
53. 2:24ascend to greater heights and greater
54. 2:26challenges in the past I would have
55. 2:29always wanted to do what I myself
56. 2:31thought was best but now I sort out the
57. 2:35strongest independent thinkers I could
58. 2:36find I still do there is nothing better
59. 2:39to be on a shared mission with
60. 2:42extraordinary people who can be
61. 2:44radically truthful and radically
62. 2:46transparent with each other
63. 2:48this approach led me to create a company
64. 2:51with the unique idea meritocracy
65. 2:53operating in a unique way that produced
66. 2:56unique successes in an idea meritocracy
67. 3:00you get the best of everybody
68. 3:02everyone thinks independently then we
69. 3:05work through our disagreements to get at
70. 3:07what's best however not every opinion is
71. 3:10equally valuable and we had to learn to
72. 3:12distinguish between good ideas and bad
73. 3:15ones to get the best decisions in other
74. 3:18words we needed to believability way to
75. 3:21people's thinking but that's another
76. 3:23story I will explain in my work
77. 3:25principles right now there are many
78. 3:28wonderful opportunities and dangerous
79. 3:31risks surrounding you that you don't see
80. 3:34if you saw them free of the distortions
81. 3:37produced by your ego or your blind spots
82. 3:40you would be able to deal with them more
83. 3:42effectively if you could acquire this
84. 3:44ability and with practice you can you
85. 3:48will radically improve your life in
86. 3:50episode 8 I will conclude our short
87. 3:53journey together with a few practical
88. 3:55thoughts so that you can begin your own
89. 3:58journey toward whatever you want