5 Questions that Will Change Your Life
About This Episode
Hosts Sam Parr and Shaan Puri engage in a deep 'vulnerability audit' by answering five soul-searching questions about fitness, relationships, and professional motivation. They explore the distinction between living by an 'Excel sheet' analytical model versus an 'iMovie' sensory vision, emphasizing the importance of playing a 'single-player game' for personal fulfillment.
Episode Description
Show Notes
- 10:00- Question #1 In what area of my life am I settling?
- 25:30- Question #2 What battles do you choose?
- (34::40) - Question #3 What are you letting in?
- 40:30- Question #4 Am I spending time with the right people? Who are the five I want to spend time with?
- 47:40- Question #5 In what ways am I in my own way?
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- Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.
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- * Blake Berg Tweet on 11 Powerful Questions You Can Ask Yourself Today:
- * NYTimes 36 Questions That Lead To Love:
- * Joe Rogan episode on plastics and endocrine disruption:
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Key Takeaways
Perform a 'settling audit' to identify life areas where you have mistakenly accepted a temporary progress point (a 'pit stop') as your permanent destination.
Treat contradictory feedback as a diagnostic tool rather than a directive; use audience criticism to surface better questions about your standards rather than blindly following their suggested solutions.
Adopt the 'iMovie vs. Excel' framework for goal setting by visualizing the emotional and sensory scenes of your ideal life rather than just listing analytical metrics and bullet points.