How to Find the Courage to Execute on Your Big Bold Plans
Peter Shallard is known as The Shrink for Entrepreneurs. He's a renowned business psychology expert and therapist gone renegade. He works with all types of entrepreneurs around the world and helps them get measurable results. He's also the founder of CommitAction.com, a service that pairs accountability coaching with cutting-edge digital productivity tracking tools.
In this episode we talk about:
- How entrepreneurs should be optimizing for courage instead of productivity
- What people like Bill Gates and Peter Thiel do that you're probably not doing
- How one idea or insight could significantly grow your business
- 5 simple but powerful strategies to help you optimize for courage
Success Quote
- “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” —Henry David Thoreau
Book Recommendation
- “Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior” by Geoffrey Miller
Links, Resources & People Mentioned
- Peter Shallard – The Shrink for Entrepreneurs
- CommitAction
- Blog Post – How to find the courage to execute on big bold plans
- Bill Gates
- Peter Thiel – Zero to One
- Tim Ferriss – Podcast
Contact Information
- Peter Shallard – @PeterShallard
- Omer Khan – @omerkhan
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