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Neil Strauss - The Long Road To Success • Compartmentalize Your Week • Your Community Shapes You

Episode 239

Neil Strauss (IG: @neil_strauss) is a seven-time New York Times best-selling author.

Neil was a music critic, cultural reporter, and columnist at The New York Times for a decade. He has also won awards for his cover stories for Rolling Stone.

In this episode, we discuss:

Moving from West Hollywood to Malibu
The community you're in shapes you in ways beyond what you know
Working out without goals
Do the things you love... even if they're hard
How working out with a community has impacted Neil's writing
Follow your interests and don't worry too much about the money
The greatest education of Neil's life
Success typically doesn't come quickly
The 3 types of stuck
You're not going to figure out your passion intellectually
Say "yes and" to life if you're starting out
You get successful by saying yes to things and stay there by saying no to things
Compartmentalizing your week
People respond to you how you train them to respond to you
Creating systems to protect yourself from your weaknesses
If you're suffering to make it... you'll be suffering when you've made it
2 trains theory
Romantic relationships are the true litmus test of a persons psychology

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Neil Strauss - The Long Road To Success • Compartmentalize Your Week • Your Community Shapes You