Two ex-special operations guys armed with MBAs seek out people leading lives less ordinary, in order to find out how they fill their ‘unforgiving minutes’, and what helps them go, always, a little further. Like intellectual bowerbirds, we collect shiny little objects of knowledge that will help build better humans. Co-hosted by Ben Pronk and Tim Curtis.
Episodes
Thursday Jul 18, 2024
Thursday Jul 18, 2024
This week we host Bill Lennan who will teach us how to be 40% better! He was a kit who was introverted and had social anxiety.. so Bill built his own toolkit.
As Bills tells his story...
- Friend: How'd you get that role?
- Me: Talking with strangers.
- Friend: What?
Talking with strangers is a gateway skill.
It enables you to talk with team-mates, stakeholders, leaders, execs, and clients. It also makes interviews way easier.
Let’s get into it
04:50 Bill growing up… and Tim needs to grow up (according to Ben)
06:15 Bill working on cars- Ferraris and more….
07:30 More beautiful car ever made?
Ferraris or Lamborghini?
10:15 Life after playing with supercars
12:00 Introversion and anxiety- Bill’s toolkit
13:45 Everything is a system…. And so understand the mental models
15:00 Dialectical behavioural therapy
20:40 Getting use to discomfort- that is about growth!
22:50 Critical thinking skills- is this unsafe or not. How do you look at scary things?
24:30 The value in physical risk
29:20 Talking AI and software. The future?
33:11 The phones not the problem. It’s the absence of alternatives that is the problem!
34:20 Risks and growing up
36:00 Farming and how rural setting change our focus
38:15 Leaders- system, reps and recipes- ‘latticework’s’. The big models for leadership development
44:15 What is kaizen and why does it work?
46:30 Talking people and performance
52:20 Making tough and unpopular decisions- how to do it if we are overly familiar?
55:50 What’s in Bill’s library
1:00:00 Bill’s Powersong!
External Links
Bill on Linked In
Contact Us
Email us at debrief@unforgiving60.com
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Music …. With thanks to:
The Externals – available on Spotify