Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
CHANGE THE WAY YOU SEE YOURSELF - Eddie Pinero Best Motivational Speeches Compilation
Tue, 12 Nov 2024
In this episode, I dig into the art of decision-making, especially when it comes to those pivotal, life-altering choices that define who we are. Jeff Bezos once shared that his best decisions have come not from data and analysis but from heart, intuition, and guts. Sure, numbers and logic have their place, but when it comes to the big decisions, it’s instinct that guides us toward what truly aligns with our path. Data can’t tell us which direction matters most to us—it might paint a picture, but only our inner compass knows where to go. But here's the thing: we often pit heart and mind against each other, like they're rivals. They’re not. They’re collaborators. A fulfilling journey requires both: our intuition gives us purpose, our brain supplies the strategy. It’s about setting your sights on a destination that resonates deeply with you, one that pulls you forward, and then letting your mind help you make it real. How do you approach your biggest decisions? -Eddie Monday Motivation Newsletter: https://www.eddiepinero.com/newsletter Free Ebook: www.eddiepinero.com/ebook YouTube: www.eddiepinero.com/youtube
Chapter 1: What goes into your decision-making process?
What goes into your decision making? Particularly the big decisions, the important ones. I heard a quote that moved me from Jeff Bezos. It was a video on Twitter. And he said, my best decision in business and in life have been made with heart, intuition, and guts, but not analysis. And he continues, when you can make a decision with analysis, you should do so.
But it turns out that in life, your most important decisions are always made with instinct, intuition, and taste. And that connected some dots for me. Because I think the big decisions, the life-altering decisions, where we are pointing the ship should be made via intuition. Data can't tell you which direction is most important to you.
And even if it could, if your heart's not in it, if it's not aligned with who you are and where you feel you need to be, it wouldn't really matter anyway. The most important decisions we make, even right out of the gate, there's this feeling of it's aligned or it isn't. We know right away, we feel it right away. Someone once said to me, if you can't decide if something's good or not, flip a coin.
Because you'll know while that coin is in the air, what side you want it to land on. And we do, we know. And so after deciding,
after letting intuition guide us then and only then in my humble opinion of course do we calculate the how that's the analysis part once we've committed and our hearts are aligned yeah you use the data all around you the evidence collected along the way to map an efficient path i think people tend to put the heart and the brain against each other as though they're rivals i know i certainly have but
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Chapter 2: How do intuition and analysis work together in decision-making?
I think they need to coexist together. Think about it. If you select your North Star based on analysis, you'll probably lack the drive to get there. And conversely, once decided, if you map the course based solely on heart or feel, you'll be operating blind, limiting your ability to make accurate adjustments based on real life circumstances. You need both.
I'm making some pretty substantial changes here in my life. I'm moving again, this time to Arizona, starting up some new ventures, placing myself in a few situations that weren't even on the radar six months ago. I can't explain my rationale using mathematical models. I just know deep in my soul that it's where I need to be. It feels right. It's calling me. The same way 10 years ago,
Writing speeches in a small Boston apartment for no revenue at the time couldn't be explained. Can't show your work on a decision like that, right? It's just something that feels good. And, you know, once you jump in, then yeah, you start relying on the brain, the analysis to grow and improve and evolve.
But I do believe if we made the big decisions based only on the things we could prove or the things we were sure of, the biggest and most important leaps would never have been made. Risks wouldn't be taken. I mean, you don't take risks because you run the numbers and the odds work. You take risks because life is, when you break it down, remove the nuance and details, about the journey.
It's about the ride. And so you jump. You commit to a path. And maybe you realize it's not the path for you. Let's say things don't work out. Well, now you are gifted that wisdom. Understanding you previously never had. And you can take that all with you onto the next venture. How do you put a price on that? How do you quantify lessons of that magnitude?
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Chapter 3: Why are big life choices often driven by instinct?
What data tells you how important that courage was? We all know the answer. Now, of course, again, data has a story to tell and numbers don't lie, but they also never tell the whole story. They can't paint the picture in its entirety. Which is why I'd scream from the mountaintops, if it means something to you, it's worth exploration. If it matters, try.
If it lights up your curiosity, give it attention. Maybe it doesn't work the way you thought or hoped, but it will lead you to the next thing, and then the next, and the next. It will provide the type of value that simply can't be quantified or even understood in the moment. The story of your life must be written by you. It must align with the person looking back at you in the mirror.
That's the litmus test. That's the benchmark. So trust yourself and your intuition to write it. Fear is either a headwind or a tailwind. It's a red light or a green light. It's either an end or a beginning. You get to choose. I talked about this exact thing a few months ago, so it's kind of fun following up now as some time has passed and the technologies continue to evolve.
Last spring, I heard someone say there will be two types of companies in the future. It will be companies that leveraged AI in companies that no longer exist. And I didn't know quite what to make of that at the time, but settled on, well, I trust myself to figure it out. After all, that's what humans do. We adapt and we find a way. Well, I was recently in the middle of one of my YouTube audits.
And I saw something interesting. There's a section of YouTube that discloses 15 channels that are similar to yours. Basically there's an audience overlap. So for example, one of the 15 right now for me is Andrew Humerman. So apparently a number of people who watch or listen to his channel also make their way over to my YouTube channel, which I thought was interesting.
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Chapter 4: How do we learn from our decisions and experiences?
So I wanted to dig a little deeper. And as I was poking around at some of those other channels, here's what I found. About a third, from what I can tell, of the channels on that list were faceless YouTube channels with AI voice automation, AI scripting, and what I could only assume is AI video editing as well, Which means that the future state is here. It's not knocking.
It's not around the corner. It has arrived. Okay, noted. That means two things. I can either, one, water the seed of concern, whispering, hey, dude, you're now fighting for real estate on this platform with robots. And two, ask, okay, well, how can I add value in a way that AI automation can't? Because there are certainly plenty of ways.
And in writing this, you know, it was kind of like, it almost seems a bit tired, right? How many ways can you say, find a way to win? But in reality, this is a perfect example of the crossroads we're always at, perpetually, right? In every difficult situation, we're tasked with growing or dying. And I truly appreciate that this is forcing me to evolve, or at least quicker than I would have, right?
It's putting me in position to inject more into my craft. That's not optional. That's a requirement. And it's what technology has always done and will always do. I was joking around with a friend of mine who, you know, said the same things. Like, chat GPT creates, you know, great B-minus work. How do you ensure moving forward that yours is A plus, right?
That's the question now and will always be the question. And in thinking about this, I don't know how anyone could think they aren't powerful. When in almost every situation, the same tool that gives life can also kill you. The same things that make you stronger have the ability to destroy you. The outcome's entirely dependent not on the tool, but on its utilization by the actors.
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Chapter 5: What role does courage play in taking risks?
I call us artists because we all are. And the proof is in what you've made with what you have. I was playing around with ChatGPT this morning, seeing if I could write a speech in the quote unquote Eddie Pinero style. And I was laughing because it gives these, you know, kind of robotic, rigid essays, but every single one of them referred to life as a dance and the world as a blank canvas, right?
I'm like, wow, I didn't realize I said that that much. I was, what's his name, Woody in Toy Story. And you pull the string, that would be like my two rotating messages. But I believe that, right? Like, is there anything better to describe the freedom contained in the time we have? We are painters. We are architects. We're not handed good or bad things. We're handed things.
And from our handling, interpretation, and craftsmanship with regard to those things, they take on certain meanings. Everything is opportunity. It's just waiting for us to first grant it permission to become one. When I was growing my company in the early years, right, every once in a while, I would feel so defeated, like just tired of feeling like everything I did wasn't enough.
You know, that sort of hamster on a wheel feeling. And I'd have to figure out a way to pull myself up again and again, right? And it was always, hey, remember, this situation is not good or bad. It's just a situation. You have to take it and paint it onto your canvas. If you think it's bad, what you paint will reflect that. Everyone will seem better further along than you.
The road will seem too challenging. Personally, I'll take on a persona of not enough. But if I start thinking that the situation is valuable, is an opportunity, that's what will be etched into my reality. We are vehicles bringing meaning to meaningless things. And to know you have that ability can make all the difference. And so my thesis here stays the same.
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Chapter 6: How can technology influence personal growth?
Technology will evolve, so will I, and so will you. But I think beyond that is an underlying truth. This isn't really about technology. It's about our willingness to adapt and make good things out of neutral, indifferent circumstances. There will always be a reason you can and a reason you can't.
Or put in an artsy way, there are imaginary castles in the sky and imaginary shackles around your feet. You get to choose which to believe in. I wouldn't make excuses for you. I wouldn't look you in the eye and tell you everything is great when in actuality the wheels are falling off the wagon. No, I'd point to the insufficiencies and remind you that you're capable of chipping away at them.
I think that pragmatism can save someone's life. But guess what? Being human is knowing there are things you don't know. Realizing that growth is picking up little understandings along the way and bringing them with you into the future. Allowing them into the evolution that is you. And part of my personal evolution was coming face to face with the fact that looking forward isn't all of it.
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This forward progression, as far as I'm concerned, is intertwined in human fulfillment. But we are, in this moment, the manifestation of the obstacles we've already overcome. We are the times we wanted to stop and didn't. We are the losses we bounce back from and the adversity we forged into opportunity. We're the endings that we melted down into beautiful beginnings.
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Chapter 7: What is the importance of adapting to change?
We are the mistakes, the obstacles, the little encounters with hell that didn't define us, but instead changed us. And that matters. So quick story time. For about five years after I graduated college, some of my friends and I had this fantasy baseball league we'd use to stay in touch, right? And I think even they would begrudgingly admit that I was oddly good at it.
I won like three or four out of the five years or something like that. And you know what my strategy was? It was simple. I picked players based on who they were over the course of their career. not based on how they performed last year, which is a trap people seem to fall into.
So a guy that hits 30 home runs six years in a row, and then last year suddenly only hits seven, it's not out of the question to think he'll hit 30 again, revert back to the mean, to his average, his track record. That to me is more meaningful than some recent struggle, and I took that bet every time. Now, as you can imagine, the point I'm making here has nothing to do with baseball.
It has everything to do with life in general. So much of the time, we completely focus on the current insufficiencies, the bad things happening now, the misfortunes in our lives. We're striking out, and our brain goes into panic mode. It says, gap, gap, gap. How do we fill it? And again, yes, that's important. And our plan for resurgence is necessary.
But we can't forget who we are and what we've done. We can't overlook our track record. As the saying goes, you've survived 100% of the bad days. You've lived through countless struggles. You've climbed out of many catastrophes, at least I have. And it seems as though it's when we need that reassurance most that we are most inclined to forget.
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Chapter 8: How do past experiences shape our present selves?
It's when we, more than any other time, need to prove to ourselves that we are unconquerable, that we question our ability to persevere. I'd never say to you the road ahead will be easy. I'm not saying it won't suck at times. I'm not saying it won't take all of you. I'm merely saying that you are equipped to emerge victorious, to handle not some of it, but all of it.
I'm saying that the person in the mirror is stronger than you can even imagine. But understand, you're not operating on blind faith here. You're not hoping for some miracle You're operating on your own record of success. What you do is find a way. What you do is win. You don't believe me? Look over your shoulder. Take a trip down memory lane.
Glance back at all the mountains you've already climbed. And life, it won't be smooth sailing all the time. You'll have your slumps and your adversity, no question. But they're not you. They are what you were made to navigate. Everything has brought you to this point. And it's great to focus on this point, but don't lose the everything. Sometimes it's not about who you will be someday.
Sometimes it's about what you've already become. It's about who you are now. It's been almost two years since I first read it, and still the main idea from the book, The Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi, deeply resonates with me. The idea that being happy is essentially dependent upon the courage to be disliked. And at first, it might not seem like the two, you know, would ever be related.
Happiness and being disliked, an odd pair. maybe even seemingly counterintuitive, until you realize that happiness comes from such a personal, authentic place that allowing the expectations of others to chart your course means that you'd probably never arrive there. You have to do what's best for you, and doing what's best for you is going to create a divide somewhere.
why because everything creates a divide everything is subjective i knew i wanted to dive into this topic but wasn't sure the best way to do it so the other morning i was uh trying to think of like an objective truth something that no one could disagree with was sitting on my balcony and uh pointed up towards the sky thought let's start there simple as it gets hard to refute that right i am pointing up
And I remembered we're floating on a globe, a giant sphere. There is no up. Up is perspective. Everything is perspective. What's the difference between one and two? Some might say it's one. But technically, there's infinity between one and two. You can have infinite decimals. 1.9999 goes on forever, right? Point being, there's subjectivity when we drill down into even the seemingly obvious truth.
Now, the value here is not to go running around, you know, arguing with everyone that there's infinity between one and two. No, there are certain aspects of society that we must adhere to, otherwise we couldn't function together, right? But it's simply to show that you following the path you believe is right for you cannot be rightfully assessed by someone else.
It's to place trust in your internal personal judgment. And when people don't understand your infinity, that doesn't mean it's wrong. And by the way, I don't have blinders on to the fact that it's hard to do. In many ways, it goes right up against our lizard brain biological wiring, right? We're fitting in equates to survival and ostracization becomes a death sentence.
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