Name: How Your Personality Can Sabotage Your Success | Eric Barker on Impact Theory
Uploaded: 2019-06-18T06:30:28.000Z
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Eric: What you see consistently in terms of
bad behavior and good behavior?

There's a lot of research that frames it in
terms of time, a short-term strategy versus

Eric: If you think about it, in general, what's
the reputation of used car salesman?

They are probably never going to see you again,
very short-term, versus what's the general

Moms are going to be with you throughout the
rest of your life.

It's a longer [00:00:30] term type of strategy.

When you look at these kinds of things, that's
where all of a sudden the bad and good behavior

Tom: Everybody, welcome to Impact Theory.

You are here my friends because you believe
that human potential is nearly limitless,

but you know that having potential is not
the same as actually doing something with

Our goal with this show and company is to
introduce you to the people and ideas that

will help you actually execute on your dreams.

[00:01:00] Today's guest is a reformed screenwriter
who traded in his tenure a luminary studio

such as Disney and Fox to pursue his passion
for fact-finding, which he turned into one

of the most popular blogs in the internet.

Over the past eight years, his humorous and
wildly informative articles have garnered

him massive attention and help him amass an
army of dedicated followers numbering over

300,000 strong and I am not the least bit
surprised.

His content is aimed at providing readers
with [00:01:30] science-based answers and

expert insights in how to be in his words,
awesome at life, and he certainly delivers.

I was so captivated by his debut book, Barking
Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science

Behind Why Everything You Know About Success
Is (Mostly) Wrong, that we had him scheduled

on the show before I've even finished reading
it.

His work challenges many of the long-held
platitudes about what makes people successful

and reveals the real usable secrets to success.

At times, a little unnerving if I'm completely
honest, [00:02:00] but always useful and his

insatiable curiosity and wondrous ability
to succinctly summarize often hard to digest

data has made one of the most sought after
speaker educators working today.

He has been invited to speak at such prestigious
institutions as West Point, Yale, and MIT

and his writing has been featured everywhere
from the New York Times to the Wall Street

Journal and prestigious publications such
as Time Magazine and Business Insider regularly

He is quite literally redefining the rules
of success.

[00:02:30] Please my friends, help me in welcoming
the best-selling author whose book was selected

as The Financial Times' business book of the
month, the creator of bakadesuyo.com, which

in Japanese ironically translates both as,
"I am Barker and I am an idiot."

The insightful, funny, and decidedly not idiotic,
Eric Barker.

I have to say [00:03:00] I love that after
learning what ... How do you pronounce it

Tom: Once you learned that that translates
into I am Barker and I am an idiot that you

Eric: First day of Japanese class, I found
out my last name means idiot in Japanese.

Watashi wa baka desu means I am an idiot.

I've never had a Japanese person forget my
name.

[00:03:30] What made you take Japanese in
the first place, which doesn't sound easy?

I wanted to try something that was really
out there and just so different and having

three character systems and just something
that existed like in parallel rather than

Latin-based romance language and just really
see what I can learn there.

It was challenging, [00:04:00] but it was
really interesting because from a language

you also learn a little bit about the culture
and you learn so much.

I'm glad I chose it even though it made studying
a little harder.

I actually really like how well that personality
trait of you of not looking for the easy path,

of always being willing to look underneath
the hood and then embrace what you find whether

it's what your last name means or one of the
most interesting things it was in your book

is the concept [00:04:30] that feeling powerless
at work can actually kill you I think is the

Eric: There's plenty of research that shows
that stress in small amounts can be a performance

When you're feeling groggy, when you're feeling
tired, you're not 100%, a little bit of stress

A lot of stress, especially a lot of stress
over a long period of time, we all know this

isn't good and when you feel powerless at
work, when you feel like you don't have [00:05:00]

autonomy, when you feel like nobody is listening
to you, don't feel respected, stress level

Over a period of time, not in a day or week,
but over period of years, feeling like what

you do doesn't make a difference and feeling
like you're not respected.

Having stress levels elevated like that, what
you see is over time, years, decades, people

are much more likely to have garner incidents.

It was one of the things in the book that
as you are detailing, I'm like, "That actually

make sense, but having such [00:05:30] a fine
point on it."

You've been doing this blog for eight years,
started as a blog, Barking Up the Wrong Tree,

In all of that research, which by the way
for anybody discovering him for the first

time right now, you're going to love how thoroughly
he researches all the stuff and the fact that

the book is about how the things you've been
taught about success are mostly wrong I think

really comes from the fact that you encounter
these platitudes and as you dig deeper [00:06:00]

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