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Goldman CEO’s Advice To Summer Interns—Translated

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon knows about winning.

He’s well proven it in his own career, in the businesses he’s run, and now in the way he runs the firm.

He, deeply, gets what it takes to win, and shared some advice with summer interns.

Of course he’s being subtle, so let’s translate it…

1.  Be yourself

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. Share your interests and viewpoints with your teams – we value our people’s unique experiences and perspectives

Translation: Don’t be yourself, be your self the firm needs you to be. Be the version of you that leads people to like you—e.g. never say “I’m only here to make money”—gets people wanting to work with you and conveys you are the right “fit” for the team. Agree profusely with other people’s viewpoints and only supply your own when they’re acceptable to others and CLEARLY add MASSIVE value.

Example: “That’s a great idea. I really like the way you’re thinking about it. When I was in football camp I heard the coach say something as brilliant as that. I’ll crush this, then let’s figure out what more value I can add to the team.”

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The Small Picture

When I first began this work I never imagined this was what I needed.

Back then I was focused on the big picture.

What do I want?

How do you get it? 

What does it take to create the career and life you truly want? 

Over years I came to see it smaller.

The Small Picture

See, I built a system for driving your career anywhere you want to go.

Yet what matters most in the system is driving forward every day.

You can’t know where your path leads, yet you do know taking your best actions today, you’re best driving there.

In reading thousands of books I learned the long way, it doesn’t matter what you know.

What matters is how you’re putting the best ideas to work every day.

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“Kamala Harris For The People”

Combating TrumpI like Kamala Harris.

She’s a winner.

With a track record of serving.

And good values.

Lots going for her.

But her campaign is burned.

She Might Be Toast

Just take that slogan—

Kamala Harris For The People. 

When I saw it on a t-shirt I thought it was a home-made job.

Then I went to her website.

Nope, that’s her slogan…

Not quite as bad as Jeb! or Make Herstory, but nor quite as good as Vote For Pedro.

And it only got worse.

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Live. Die. Repeat

Did you see this movie with Tom Cruise?

It’s an interesting take on the alien invasion story.

And a powerful metaphor for living our ultimate days.

Long Story Short

Alien invaders are wiping out the human race.

Tom Cruise, playing a poor soldier, blows himself up, taking an alien down with him.

But then he wakes up again.

It seems blowing himself up with the alien “infected” him with the ability to reset time.

Each time he dies he starts again the same day.

Get It Right This Time

Each time he comes back to life he gets to do it better.

To train more.

Develop more knowledge.

Become more skilled.

To end the alien threat first before it again ends him.

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Trump Whine and Cheese

Combating Trump

One of the saddest parts of the Trump presidency is how much misery he’s sparked.

Lefties like to think he won by inciting angry voters…

Yet ironically they are the ones left with all the anger.

Living In Misery

How many people have made their lives worse because Trump is president?

It’s quite shocking, actually.

Especially once you disconnect from the media cycle, and see the games for what they are…

It’s shocking “grown-ups” wake up every day filling their heads with misery worrying about something they can’t control.

They might feel right, yet they’re the ones left whining.

Focus On What You Can’t Control

Adults know that wasting your life worrying about what you can’t control is a miserable way to die.

Yet how many of us, addicted to the media cycle, guzzling Trump whine, have ruined the last few years of their life?

How many of them feel justified?

Well, he just sucks so much. 

Did you see what he did?

Yeah, he took over the country and your life by getting you talking about him every day.

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Wonder Woman Was Polyamorous

In reading about Wonder Woman I discovered this fascinating truth—

Wonder Woman was created by American psychologist and writer William Marston, artist Harry G. Peter, Marston’s wife, Elizabeth, and their life partner, Olive Byrne.

Hmm, what did they mean by life partner, I thought.

Olive Byrne, who partly modeled Wonder Woman, lived with Marston and his wife.

Each woman giving birth to two of Marston’s children.

Sexual Taboos

Even way back in the 20s the creators of Wonder Woman were busting sexual paradigms.

In fact, Marston, using Byrne’s research—she’d been his research assistant—published a paper on sexual taboos.

Wonder Woman was more empowered in the 20s than men and women today.

Like it’s perverted people ask me, “How can you create a program for meeting your most amazing woman?”

How can no-one else teach us this survival skill?

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D-Day = Death Day

When will be enough?

When will us humans have had enough killing?

Slaughtering, maiming each other, for what?

Different beliefs? Our little imaginary gods?

Fighting for dirt? Imaginary lines on a map?

When?

Will we stop sending young men and women to kill…

Other men, women, children?

To watch their friends get slaughtered?

To end the killing we must do more than remember the “great” wars.

We must resolve to evolve.

This song makes me think of this cycle of madness:

Public Speaking Natural FAST?

Why learn any other way?

Public speaking unnaturally SLOW, anyone?

If public speaking is a fear worse than death…

Slow Painful Death, Anyone?

How many years do people live with the fear of public speaking?

Fear all their way to the stage?

Terrifyingly “trying” to memorize their lines?

Walking up there hoping for the best, fearing the worst?

Or perhaps worse…

Avoiding public speaking altogether…

Or even worse…

Wasting years of their life doing their little Toastmasters, fake audience fake cheering them on?

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WW John Wick D?

He’d kill the guy with a pencil.

That’s what John Wick would do.

It’s simple…

Sharp object. Fleshy inner ear. Shut down the brain.

Truth Is Always Simple

Movies have elaborate fight scenes.

No one who kills for living does it with kicks and punches.

Animals killing to survive hunt the fastest way to shut down the target.

Pencil in the ear. Claw out the eye. Whatever.

Poke your Adam’s apple you feel how weak it is.   

Drive your forearm through someone else’s and they won’t get back up.

Truth is simple.

Fake Is Complicated

A client told me about the formula to prove the sun revolves around the planets.

It’s very complicated, but with enough complexity you can make anything seem true.

When they figured out the planets revolve around the sun, the formula got simple.

Doing What You Want is the same. 

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Focus, Living In The Flow

Sometimes find yourself unable to focus on what matters most?

Procrastinating? Resisting? Avoiding? Seeking distraction?

How would you be if you got beyond those things that hold you back?

Unleashing your best performance.

Feeling amazing at will absorbing in your highest-value tasks?

Living The House of Flow

For nearly a decade I’ve been honing in one goal—

How do you live in the flow state?

The peak state for happiness and performance.

Back in 2015 I released this 30 minute podcast of my method, The House of Flow.

Over some 4 years I’d built the tech, but I still couldn’t live inside.

These days it’s much more my home.

Using systematic methods like my System for Ultimate Days, and my super-secret Ultimate Solution, flow is baked into every minute of my day.

And having done it many thousands of times, I’ve much more conditioned living here in the flow.

This may be the greatest “achievement” of my life…

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This Is NOT For “Picking Up” Women

I just want to be clear.

This Masterclass is not for picking up women…

You can use it to pick up men too 🙂

But ultimately, it’s for…

Meeting Your Wonder Woman

How many of us would like to meet our most amazing woman?

That person in life who is our wonder woman.

What about just meeting any woman we’re attracted to?

Or a man? A new friend?

I saw a headline that on average American adults haven’t made a new friend in 5 years.

How many of us would like the confidence and skills to meet any person we want?

How Many Of Us Settle?

For less than our super man or wonder woman?

Or worse, unable to meet the super people we deserve, settle for being alone?

Building relationships can be hard, but the harder part can be getting started.

Just walking up to people we want to know can be a fear worse than death, public speaking.

How great would it be to meet who you want, especially a wonder woman?

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I Could Never Be “Normal” Again

Normal in our world is having never trained your mind.

I’d rather be dead.

Seriously, this is heaven.

That Mind Is Hell

Constantly thinking.

70,000 mostly redundant, shit thoughts.

Addicted to distraction.

Fear, of basically everything.

Uppers to get started. Booze, pills, drugs to shut it down.

Worry, FOMO, anxiously picking up devices every 8 seconds.

Constantly looking to the future, so desperately hoping it’s not worse, maybe better.

Vomiting opinions, thinking they are our own, not just programmed by someone else.

Thinking how you feel is based on your life and anything other than how you’re using your body and mind.

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De Blasio Will Thrash Trump…

Combating TrumpHahahahahahahahahahahaha

A bold prediction.

2 baker’s dozen Democrats throw their hat in the ring.

A crowded field of equally unremarkable, indistinguishable candidates.

They confuse the electorate.

They all offer the same solution.

The only way they stand out is tearing each other down.

The one left standing is already beat.

Trump easily finishes them.

It doesn’t matter who it is

It’s hardly a bold prediction.

It’s just straight up obvious.

Nothing is certain but you can be certain…

You don’t win this game making the same noise as everyone else.

And you certainly fail when you have zero skills of winning.

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“Focus Can’t Be Trained In 5 Minutes”

That’s right.

The mind is a muscle.

You wouldn’t expect to get strong doing 5 push-ups a day.

Nor doing 5 minutes of meditation, when the Dalai Lama does 5 hours!

Yet, what if you had a focus tool that you could use in 5 minutes?

That is easy.

Fun.

You can use it all day every day.

That makes you feel more calm.

Relaxed.

Alert.

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Yes! Bad Focus Is Our Phones Fault

This silly article blames our phones for ruining our lives.

Obviously, the way many of us use our devices is busted but it’s unfair to blame our poor phones.

They’re just doing their job.

Obviously We Have Focus Problems

Walk down the street it’s obvious.

Watch so-called friends / lovers in a restaurant on their devices, it’s obvious.

Obviously us adults are attached to our phones like a terrorist to an IED.

Kids are obviously raised on the distraction they provide.

Obviously they make our lives better in many ways.

Obviously, they waste our lives in many others.

Less Obvious: Stop Blaming

We blame guns for killing people.

Food for our ever growing waistlines.

Distractions on our lack of focus.

Near everything in the world for our lack of satisfaction.

But the only ones to blame are…

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Looking For Not Purpose

Many people are seeking more purpose.

It’s not just a buzzword of the era, but us humans have always been driven by a deeper sense of meaning.

A problem for many of us is that we don’t know where to look to find it.

And this leaves many of us stuck…

Looking In The Wrong Place

Purpose is one of those funny topics in our society.

Like sex, purpose is talked about all the time, but nobody ever teaches us how to get it.

How do you even know what it means?

Where do you find it?

Under that rock over there?

Shake the tree and more purpose / passion / meaning might fall out?

Maybe, but what’s for certain is where it’s not found.

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The Best Mother’s Day Gift…

Is an Ultimate Day.

The point of Ultimate Days is that you can celebrate every day, yet it’s even better on these special days.

Your ultimate day doesn’t have to be your wedding day.

Or the day you won the lottery.

Every day you can party like it’s your birthday when you’re living Ultimate Days.

Make Mother’s Day Ultimate, Again

Mother’s Day is a perfect Ultimate Day.

Being an ultimate mother.

Being ultimate for your mother.

Giving her the gift of being ultimate for her ultimate Mother’s Day.

Here’s the full intro track from the Ultimate Days Masterclass:

Of Course Young Workers Are Miserable

Of course they are.

Older workers are miserable too.

Most workers are miserable.

Some two-thirds of us are consistently surveyed as disengaged in our jobs.

Gen Z or Lost Generation?

This is 2019, not 1919.

Back then the so-called Lost Generation surely had worse jobs, including taking bullets in a world war.

Perhaps they were just as miserable…

Yet 100 years later we’re still so downtrodden?

We Suck Like Our Jobs

Many jobs suck…

But at least we have more choice than ever about the work we do.

The bigger problem for many of us isn’t that our jobs suck.

It’s that we suck at how we look at them!

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