Young and Profiting with Hala Taha - Jonas Koffler: Hustle Your Way To Success | E45

Episode Date: November 6, 2019

Success = hustle X luck X your unique talents!⁣ Tune in to learn how to find your POP (Personal Opportunity Portfolio) with Jonas Koffler.⁣⁣ This week we're yapping with Jonas Koffler. Jonas is the co-author of HUSTLE: The Power to Charge Your Life with Money, Meaning, and Momentum, and has been featured in outlets like Time, FastCompany, Business Insider, and NPR among others. He is a serial entrepreneur and hustler with ventures that include the digital health and mental wellness startups Lada Labs and Radical Wellness Inc. Jonas is also a stroke survivor.⁣ In this episode, Hala and Jonas discuss how to develop a healthy POP, why we should rethink Gladwell’s 10,000 hour rule to mastery to support becoming a multi-faceted and talented worker and how we can manufacture our own luck. They also dig into what Jonas has learned from his near death experience, and why mental wellness has become his purpose in life.⁣⁣ Fivver: Get services like logo creation, whiteboard videos, animation and web development on Fivver: https://track.fiverr.com/visit/?bta=51570&brand=fiverrcpa⁣ Fivver Learn: Gain new skills like graphic design and video editing with Fivver Learn: https://track.fiverr.com/visit/?bta=51570&brand=fiverrlearn⁣ If you liked this episode, please write us a review!⁣ Want to connect with other YAP listeners? Join the YAP Society on Slack: bit.ly/yapsociety⁣ Earn rewards for inviting your friends to YAP Society: bit.ly/sharethewealthyap⁣ Follow YAP on IG: www.instagram.com/youngandprofiting⁣ Reach out to Hala directly at [e-mail]⁣ Follow Hala on Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/htaha/⁣ Follow Hala on Instagram: www.instagram.com/yapwithhala⁣ Check out our website to meet the team, view show notes and transcripts: www.youngandprofiting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Podcasts but never gave a review, we would greatly appreciate if you left one and took a few minutes of your time to share your feedback. This will help us secure sponsorships and remain a free resource to you all. Thanks in advance for your Apple Podcast review. You're listening to YAHPS, Young and Profiting Podcast. Place where you can listen, learn, and profit. I'm your host, Halitaha, and today we're speaking with Jonas Koffler. Jonas is the co-author of Hustle, the power to charge your life with money, meaning, and momentum. And has been featured in outlets like Time, Fast Company, Business Insider, and NPR among others.

He's a serial entrepreneur and a hustler whose ventures include the digital health and mental wellness startups, Lata Labs and Radical Wellness Inc. Jonas is also a stroke survivor. In this episode, we discuss how to develop a healthy POP or personal opportunity portfolio why we should rethink Gladwell's 10,000 hour rule to master each of support being a multi-faceted and talented worker and how we can manufacture our own luck. We also dig into what Jonas has learned from his near-death experience, and why mental wellness has become his purpose in life.

Hey, Jonas, welcome to Young and Proffiting Podcasts. A pleasure speaking with you, Halla. Very happy to be here and eternally grateful for you having. Likewise, I can't wait for this interview. You know, I've heard you on other podcasts and you have such a great message. So looking forward to this chat. Let's start off by introducing you to our listeners in a really fun way. You have this concept. It's called pop, which you cover in your book hustle that you co-authored with Neil Patel and Patrick Val

Scoffo. It's hopefully I said that okay. Blasca vits, Blasca vits. Blasca vits. So pop stands for your personal opportunity portfolio, which you recommend as a framework to profit in life. So tell us what different entrepreneurial adventures are you involved in and what makes up your pop right now. entrepreneurial adventures are you involved in and what makes up your pop right now? Sure, so I mean I think there are a couple ways to think about it but as a guiding framework it's a way of kind of organizing and making sense of the effort and energy you put out into the world whether it's artistic projects or creative projects entrepreneurial projects or intellectual projects, however you may look at it, the idea is to continuously build and grow and add value into this portfolio. Much like you would, you know, an investment portfolio. So the idea is that it's something that you have direct

physical control over, right? You're growing your basket of how you invest in yourself. And it's an interesting way of looking at the world because it's incredibly empowering on the one hand, right? And the other side of it is that you uniquely are in control of it. So you can adjust your quote-unquote to sort of actively manage your own portfolio, so to speak. And you don't have to put your And you don't have to put your future in the hands of other people. So that's the unique differentiator. And how has that applied to my own life? Well, you know, we're constantly and continuously growing and changing and shifting the things we focus on in our world. And so for me right now, just to name a couple of projects, one is a documentary film called We Care Here, which is about musicians and mental health and community in Austin, Texas, Austin, the live music capital of the world, is also undergrowing

this incredible growth right now and a higher cost of living and that impacts musicians' abilities to support and sustain themselves and their creative pursuit. And so this is putting a lens on a very distinct locality and a very distinct situation wherein Austin is wonderful and it continues evolving, but how does it evolve in a way that is supportive of the cultural root or art, if you will, of the city and of the, in a way that honors the tradition, so to speak,

without losing its soul, right? And that's a tough thing when you're trying to sustain growth and also attract technology. And these disruptive forces that have both incredibly positive aspects, but also some negative aspects. So it's that story and looking at how musicians can continue thriving amidst these shifts, right? That's one thing. And then the other is a new startup called Lotta Lab.

And Lotta Labs is a mobile development and software company that is focused on looking at how we can better empower individuals and communities to live healthier, more active lives and engage with people like mine. And so that's where we've developed our technology around. That's what we're continuing to just suss out and figure out how we can better serve people. That's very early in its arc and we'll be launching our beta at some point

in early 2020. That's excellent. And we'll be covering both of those projects and more detail later on in the interview. First, let's get some idea of your background. So in your own words, you had a lot of weird jobs throughout your life. So tell us about some of the things that you worked on

and some of the different jobs that you've had over the years. Sure. So you're mapping or healing to this idea of the personal opportunity portfolio without knowing it. The constant act of self-discovery, know that self is revealed when we put ourselves out and we try things that are uncomfortable, that bring us discomfort, that challenge us in unique and sometimes owner's ways.

So that could be anything from working as a stone mace and or digging ditches or something physically very demanding of our bodies, right? A lot of us are out of touch with our bodies because we're so trapped in our heads and staring into a screen of electrons for 23 hours a day, right? So it starts with an arc in various physical labor and then transcends into, long story short, into creative endeavors and being a musician and a filmmaker and then working in technology and startups and having some health setbacks and so forth, including a stroke, that informs what you're capable of

when you need to step back and slow down a little bit and then to continue on a path of learning and growing such that you're able to work with incredible people including in my case, some moguls in different industries, entertainers who have pulled off some incredible artistic feats, and then always asking the question, do I feel sustained here and supported? Do I feel like I'm making a meaningful contribution? And then looking at new ways to push yourself. So that's manifested in many, many different careers, if you will, or many lives, if you will, in the cat-like sense for me. But the key here has been this idea of

doing something that moves you. So for me, it's asking, you know, asking the questions, am I maintaining that movement toward a goal? Right? Bettering my life as in ways that I can and ways that challenge me. Because I think the worst thing we can do is to settle. And I think, you know, you know that, you love what you do. You can hear the passion and the curiosity in your voice and your interviews. So, you know, for me, it's very much that. Yeah. So you had all these jobs.

At what point did you take control of your life and decide that you were going to be an entrepreneur and have, you know, it sounds like you do like multiple projects. You always have multiple hustles going on. At what point did you say, I'm going to stop doing a 9-5 and I'm just going to be the owner of my life? As far as a distinct point of departure, let's call it, I think that was probably,

I mean, the seed was planted very early on. I had the blessing of being able to work at a startup very early on, become a product manager in my 20s, and I think growing the confidence where I could put myself out there, that probably happened in my early 20s. I think the clear point of wanting to become an entrepreneur and understanding that on the one hand, the incredible liberation.

That you you reap from being an entrepreneur is is something that takes time to sort of blossom in your life. For me, it was probably late 20s when I kind of got the entrepreneurial itch and then post stroke and then have kind of partly that in different ways. But keep in mind, being entrepreneurial is not, in my mind, it's not that you're a pure entrepreneur. You may vacillate, you may, at one point, be working for yourself. And especially in this dynamic economy where I'm part of now, it's not uncommon to have some kind of entrepreneurial pursuit or project. You're working on either individually as a solo artist or in collaboration,

but also you may maintain a job that really gives you meaning and challenges you and also helps sustain the physical frame. It pays you a decent amount of money and you're part of a mission that you really believe in. So I think for me, entrepreneurship has been great, but at the same time, I'm very open to collaboration with companies and with individuals. So it's not one path, it's actually many,

I think, baked in if that answers the question. Yeah, yeah. Okay, so let's talk about your stroke. You've mentioned it a few times. It happened when you were 26. It left you temporarily blind, loss of some verbal capabilities, and I'm sure you could explain it better.

I'd like you to explain what happened with your stroke, but I also wanted to just connect it to a point. I had Robert Green on my show, and he's the author of 48 Laws of Power. And we talk about this law of death denial, and in essence, this law is about humans not facing reality, humans avoiding thoughts of death, we fear death, and that we're all in this death denial, this constant death denial. And Robert suggested that we should accept our deaths and think

of our deaths, keep deaths on our minds so that we live with more purpose and urgency to realize our goals. I believe your stroke was a near death experience, so I'm wondering, does that resonate with you? And could you explain more about your stroke and what happened and how it's altered your life since then? Sure, happy to do so. So I do agree very much with the point that Robert and many other perennial philosophers have surfaced

and shared. And the idea is very simple that, and especially in our society, we are in age denying, death denying, in many cases, illness denying culture. Well, guess what? We're all going to die. We're all marching that same path toward an indeterminate future when, at some point, the bus runs us over, right? It's just going to happen.

So it's important to make that point. And there's a lot more to it having lost my, one of my younger brothers, suicide in the last year plus. I can comment on the pitfalls of that denial. And I also think that it's a very important point to make, which is that life is incredibly short. It's a femoral. And for us, as unique individuals, and I would argue spiritual beings having a human experience,

that the stroke for me was, in fact, a way of God stroking me and saying, hey, you need to take better care of yourself. That's my interpretation, right? Universe or energetically, however you wanted to define God, for me it was a very clear indicator that, hey man, your life is not, you know, you're not aligned right with health, you need to step back, you need to check yourself. And so for me, you know, it was a great humbling experience, and I think we need more humbling experiences, because they bring us back to what really matters in terms of priorities and values and how we should orient our lives, right? If we want to enjoy life and sort of nurture ourselves and so forth. So that was the experience.

It was an ischemic stroke as opposed to hemorrhagic. Schemic strokes typically are more short-lived. There are given today's stressors and other compounding factors are a number of younger folks who are at risk and suffering from these types of experiences and setbacks. And, you know, on the New York Times article I wrote, it solicited or it generated a hell of a lot of responses and emails and so forth. And calls that I had to deal with from other young people have been suffering from similar symptoms.

And so, I mean, I think that the lesson here, tell us like, you know, you need to know to listen to your body and to your mind and to not be so sort of gung ho about it or cavalier. Clearly that was one like bifurcating point in my life. You know, it was time for it to take a right turn, so to speak, and to slow down, put the brakes on. So that's one of the lessons with that sound, to Glee Shay. I think the important thing is also understanding that it's actually okay to slow down.

There's all this emphasis on like pedals in the metal and don't stop, and that's great, but it's actually more about and much like you would with a company, for your career, it's really kind of the, it's hustling fast and slow, right? There are times when you have to move quickly and you have to work to get things done, you have deadlines, et cetera, et cetera.

But there are also times when it's important to step back and create some white space on the calendar, instead of speaking, when you can plug back into health and take care of yourself and being around people who love and support you and vice versa and doing things that get your mind off of work. So, I mean, all of that is sort of, you know, some of the lessons learned, but I think the biggest thing is, the extent that, you know, Robert Green, as we open with, was discussing this high idea of death denial. Well, there's also this denial that many of us really are far too

focused on work. And if we're at the point where it's 99% of our lives, we're going to be suffering, whether we know it or liken or not. So, I think it's for those listening to this, it's worth taking a moment and stepping back and thinking about like gratitude for all the things that aren't working your life and maybe spending more time or carving out in your calendar, ways to celebrate those things that aren't work and put your hard into, you know, taking care of some other people and if you're not going to take care of yourself, at least start there. Yeah. What were the events that led up to your stroke? For my understanding, you were working a job where you were working like 70 hours a

week and you were taking naps instead of sleeping. So the circumstances were such that, you know, look, you're in start mentality, you're young and ambitious, and there is this invisibility cloak that you drape on yourself every day. So, the challenge was, if you're not sleeping well, you're working crazy hours, and then you're also sort of moonlighting with the dream of becoming a film director, something has to give. And in my case, the circumstances were overcaffeinating, not sleeping, not eating

well, exhausting myself to the point where, you know, I thought I'd recover at some point on my own terms. And the thing that we need to, again, be aware of is that we have human limitation. And sleep is probably, you know, there's a multi-billion dollar industry now around sleep, which should be unsurprising to us, right? Why is that? It's because we're so out of alignment with the idea that, you know, seven to eight hours of sleep a night is actually required. It just is. And, you know, you can caffeinate yourself to the point where you think it isn't, but you need your rest. And at the time, I didn't think I did. And it's

very simple that, you know, given stress of work and stress of not resting and so forth, those stressors are going to compound and bite you in the ass at some point. And in my case, it bit me in the brain and, you know, I was very, very fortunate to recover to the extent that I have. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I think it's a theme that, you know, especially younger people, they think that they're invincible, but you're really not, and getting your rest is important, you know, like you said, seven to eight hours at minimum.

I actually have an entire episode around this. It's called Unlocking the Power of Sleep with Daniel Gartenberg. It's one of our most popular episodes. If you guys are interested, check it out. It's number 12 on the playlist. So what was your process of recovery? Like, I read that you used yoga and meditation and you used to do complex math problems. So I thought it was really interesting if you could just explain how you basically cured yourself. Well, I wouldn't, I don't know if I characterize it as curing, but what I would say is,

you know, very simply, you need to explore or test the parameters of your mental capacity, especially when you've had a TBI or traumatic brain injury. So this idea that you can regenerate the neural tissue, right? Neural plasticity. You're able, at some point, to challenge this idea that your brain is permanently damaged. For me, it was, okay, I'm young. I understand.

Look, I studied neuroscience. Maybe that put me in an advantageous position. But I didn't know what I was capable of or what I had lost at that point. So the articulation challenge is, as a linguist, like, okay, well, language actually really matters. It's important to have a priority for me. I have to be able to convey my thoughts effectively, but if I lack the word, if I don't have the capacity to verbalize what I'm thinking,

which was actually the problem, I could think of an idea, but I couldn't convey it, right? It wouldn't leave my lips, you follow? So, I had to start very simply. One was to read old books that I enjoyed, but maybe because the damage I experienced, I forgot or start learning new words or re-learning language that I had lost. That was one aspect and one part of the brain said,

studying physics, being physics, or trying to work through complex math problems, as you mentioned. Actually, it's incredibly stimulating. I recommend it. By the way, you don't have to suffer a stroke to work through complex math. Even if you're sort of more verbally oriented,

it's always good to challenge your brain and to revisit calculus or trigonometry, whatever moves you in that regard. It's a fun exercise to do. But in my case, I love physics. So those types of things, one specific task that are activity that I found fun and challenging was to find polycylabic words and to spell them backwards. So I would do that often. I would check his levaccia, were two the big ones that I would do that often, or Racknophobia, or Czechoslovakia, were two the big ones that I've been just repeating over and over. And then add additional words

until I could get up to 20 or 30 words, spelling them backwards at a time. And then I knew, okay, well, my brain is still kind of working. So this is good. This is encouraging, right? Sort of like doing a system of shit on a rocket think, you know, are we all systems go? You know, what can be repaired, what can be fixed, et cetera. So it was that kind of thing. And then from a more metaphysical or energetic standpoint, my girlfriend at the time would do reiki on me. So energetic therapy, yoga and meditation

were instrumentally important. Why? Because they slowed down and taught me how to use breath work, right? As a healing tool, so understanding that most of our days are spent using breath as a very sort of passive, unconscious experience. But instead, if you make it a more active and conscious experience, so maybe taking, you know, spending literally 30 minutes or an hour a day, just breathing, right?

If you can do that, it really has a profound impact on your thoughts and feeling. Helms you, it removes anxiety. It also can be very energizing and very centering. So all of those things are incredibly important, especially for busy professionals. I applied that and I learned that early on and I was very fortunate in that regard. So again, well, yeah, the stroke was a setback, but was it? I think in many ways it was a tool of empowerment as crazy as that sound.

Yeah, you know, that's so inspiring and you should be so proud that, you know, you went through such a traumatic experience and came out almost better as a result. So you should be very proud of that accomplishment. And for everybody listening, I think a key lesson in this is just take time to slow down. You know, take half an hour out of your day, take an hour out of your day, just to to breeze, to meditate, to think about things, to enjoy, do something fun, whether it's working out or talking to somebody that you love. Make sure that your life is not only about work, not everything is about being productive and making money. Sometimes it's just about enjoying your life. I think that's a really important

lesson in all of this. So let's move on to your book hustle. It's split into three parts, the heart, the head, and the habits. I'm not going to spend the whole interview on this book because there's a lot to cover, but I do want to give my listeners key takeaways. Let's start off with the heart, which is all about following your own dreams rather than others. And one of my personal models is that hustle and heart sets you apart. So I'd love to hear your perspective on heart and what that has to do with hustle. Sure. So the premise is this, It doesn't start in the head.

It actually starts in the heart. And what we mean is that the heart should be one of the huge pieces that guides us or moves us forward. If you think about what really drives you and motivates you, keep down. I think everyone wants a sense of validation or recognition or respect. Those things are vitally important, a dignity.

And the piece about the heart, the theme is very simply packed up in the first unseen law of hustle, which is do something that moves you. Right? So this idea of movement, energy, physical manifestation, that only comes from the heart. The heart, you know, pumps our blood through our body and oxygen allows us to do the things that we need to do on a daily basis. But so many of us are out of touch with that and frustrated. And so I think the thing is to start, start at the center, which is the heart and the heart

of life and the heart of the experience is to do something that charges your life with a sense of energy and fuzism and For us as entrepreneurs this idea that we can actually Change the world right in our own small way and that all is baked into this idea of doing something that moves you So for those who are feeling stuck Tap back into the heart, get out of your comfort zone and start doing something that moves you. And maybe just place some small bets on yourself. That's, that's the main thing. Just get moving. That's the heart idea.

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whether it's a simple conversation, whether it's blocking an hour of time to write every day, whether it's doing some kind of project and collaboration with others, that puts you in motion. So the idea that the end-all-be-all is ownership of your dream. Yes, fundamentally, you uniquely as an individual should be unapologetically ambitious about taking ownership of your dream and your life. But ownership may require you at times to be a little patient. And if that means working for other people or working on something that you may not be 100% enthusiastic about, that's okay.

It's a stepping stone. It's a lesson and an learning curve that you will undertake. And the important thing is just to keep your head clear about that, right? The clarity you gain from it. So one thing that I recommend there as far as the ownership piece is for where you are right now, it's just to sort of try to block your life or break it up into into yearly goal. And look, that's a much longer conversation. But the point is, don't overthink the why. The more important thing is just to start doing and moving toward these goals or objectives that are important to you and hold yourself accountable, right? That's the important thing. And then,

the other thing that I think is really important about this ownership idea is that you have time, right? At least to the extent that, you know, you understand how time works, you have time to do this. You're going to have some time to do the things you want to do. But don't put it off at the same time, right? So, so there's sort of like the idea that within any day or week or month or even year, you will have time to explore things that are important to you. That in and of itself is an expression or statement of ownership, right? It is a declaration that I am going to pursue these things.

And you know what, even if you're working for a job that you hate, you can still carve out time that you need. And I imagine any enlightened boss or manager will say, you know what, you should be exploring that. Go allow should be exploring that. Go allow yourself to do that. As long as you're accountable and responsible for the work you're doing, like, we are here to support and ensure

that we inspire and encourage other people to move forward in their lives. Why the hell else will be here? Totally. Yeah, I'm on the same page. I think that there's sometimes in life you've got to juggle both, but I think everybody's end goal is to Ultimately get paid for what they're passionate about and have complete ownership of their dreams

So I'm totally on the same page. So let's move on to another topic your book mentions Malcolm Gladwell and how he popularized the work of psychologist Kay anders Erickson who said that world class achievement in any field could be had by anyone who dedicated 10,000 hours of deliberate practice. He called this the 10,000 hour rule, which many of us have probably heard of, basically saying that you can master anything if you put in 10,000 hours of work. But you guys who wrote this book, you were opposed to this idea and you also proposed an alternative. So can you just talk to our listeners about that?

Sure. I'm happy to. The challenge, global. I actually have a funny anecdote about global. Global is a uniquely talented, exceptional, arguably one of the best package of ideas out there. Okay. And he's a fabulous storyteller.

I started meeting his work very much and I'm actually a fan of outliers However, the science behind the 10,000 hour rule is largely debunked this this whole notion of you know, it's 10,000 hours He's a good or something. Here's the issue. Okay, number one is if you're if you don't know what you're your cable love, right? You should not commit to doing one thing too early in your career, your art. You should instead try a lot of different things. And in doing so, you determine what you have talent for and how you want to invest your time. The 10,000 hour rule is not only is sort of untrue and misguided and dangerous for most people, but it can be a great limiter. So the thing you remember is for a lot of us because talent is

unequally distributed. You may be good at 10 things you're unaware of right now. Seriously, and many of us have all of these hidden talents. The challenge for us and what what hustle is really about is this notion of surfacing our hidden talents or surfacing our human potential. But most of us get stuck in this trap of just trying one or two or three thing. And that in and of itself is a prison. So what I would say is this, 10,000 hours is, you know, it's a huge amount of time. So instead, why not start with a few dozen or a few hundred hours to get adequately good at something that you can sustain yourself

with. I mean, you can make money from, right, whether it's a professional pursuit or it's an artistic pursuit or whatever. So it's not simply about mastery. Pursuit of mastery is a false goal. And you can waste a lot of time focusing on this, what we call the madness of mastery in the book. Instead, I think the more important thing is that you figure out what you're good at,

where your talents reside, and then focusing on those things. So that maps back to the whole idea of the personal opportunity portfolio. For each of us, I think it's worth, again, this reflect, self-reflection activity, which is to say, here are three buckets I wanna wrap my professional life around at this moment because we are gonna change constantly and evolve throughout our lives.

One is writing. Okay, I'm a decent writer. Okay, I can tell stories. I can go straight a bestseller. I can, you know, work on a film script, blah, blah, blah. Okay, that's great. I have this skill set. I've applied it.

Here's how I'm sustaining myself to I'm a good marketer, right? I'm just saying anyone hypothetically think about it. I've done X, Y and Z or three is I am exceptional about understanding how to grow and scale business, right? So and here are three examples of that. And I can start constructing the portfolio around these talents and the proof as we speak about in the evidence of that, the track record, if you will, of how I've done those things. So don't commit to only one thing. Unless you're going to be, there are certain cases where this might apply. There are a few exceptions, right?

Chest, a chest master in the sense of like a casserole, right? Or a uniquely talented pianist like my nephew, right? Who's also now picked up trumpet. So there you go with the 10,000 hour rule. There are exceptions, but in general for most people, we can pursue a few different talents, a few different pursuits, a few different reflections of the things that we're really good at. Those will sustain us.

Well, not only the adequate, but will actually be very, very good at them, and we can pursue them throughout our lives and continue adding skills and adding other ways to express our talent instead of just pitching only ourselves. So that's the danger of the 10,000 hour rules. If you want to, you know, more research, just look up 10,000 hour rule debunked. And you'll see that the very scientist who looked at this, from whom Bible bases work, I'm largely debunked the idea. So don't get trapped into thinking that. It's a control system. I wouldn't, instead, encourage people to liberate themselves and think about uniquely, what am I good at? What have I not explored? What are some new ways to figure out what I'm good at and start there? Yeah, and I think that's really great advice, especially in today's like gig economy world.

There's so many freelance opportunities out there and so many ways that you can make money online using skills that aren't necessarily a hundred percent perfect yet. There's so many different levels of job opportunities out there that you can explore and make money off of even if you're not, you know, the best person in the world at a certain scale. So I think that's great advice. How does luck and risk play into all of this? So that's really kind of interesting and you sides of that. I wouldn't say the same coin per se, but there's a lot there. So when we

think about, well, handle luck, we're saying, let's start with kind of risk. The whole idea of a risk is that for most people, risk is really the deciding factor in one sense of confidence and one sense of confidence as well. Risk is a hugely important and often overlooked, let's call it an attribute for a skill of people. To engage in risk and to develop an appetite for risk, it's actually a really good thing, it's critically important, especially for entrepreneurs from a survival standpoint, but also sort of a learning and growing standard. And so that, I think one of the things that I want to focus on when it comes to the best is the idea that while risk

can be overwhelming and terrifying for most people, that if you don't take it, it can be the biggest determinant of your dissatisfaction life. Most of us, I think, are afraid of failure and therefore won't put ourselves out. We don't want to, to see ourselves fail, we don't want to deal with the connotations of failure around our identities and so forth. And instead, I would say, if that's you, the better way to think about RIS is to start with very small examples, small feats for small challenge, small bets that you place on yourself. So you don't have to take massive risk.

We're not asking you to run through a wall of fire and to jump off a thousand foot cliff with no parachute. That's ridiculous. And no one should do that. But maybe it's as simple as asking questions of how you work, how you do work every day. Are there better ways to try things? Or maybe it's challenging your company or yourself to take on a new project in innovation. Or it's things that you're willing to fail at because if the other side of risk is exquisite.

Meaning, if it works out, you're going to gain so much. Even if it doesn't, even if you fail, you're still going to, you know, you're going to learn a hell lot. And that's what I'd encourage people to think about. When it comes to luck, we have kind of theory about luck. That is that luck is a component of our DNA and it bubbles up from deep within our bone matter when we need it most.

And so the idea is this, that life is not about being luckier unlucky. Life is about continually striving toward things that are important to you and surfacing luck. These are either DNA in the process. And so this luck is the survival and survival tool. We baked luck into and broke it down into four different components. And this is largely based on the work of James Austin, who said Stanford, but the idea is simple that there is a very constant stream of what we call dumb or random luck. It's the luck of, you know, it's Thanksgiving and you're

looking for the elusive turkey and you drive into a whole foods that is Packed to capacity and a parking spot opens walk in the door and you're greeted with the last turkey Available and guess what you get it. There's that's the first a random or dumb luck, right? The second level of luck is the luck of motion. That's hustle luck And this is the luck that you manifest, generate simply through movement, back to this whole idea, the first unseen law of hustle,

which is do some hand moves you. When you get out and move around and take things up, which tells us essentially what has to mean, you're going to surface possibilities that you can see before, here, before, and behind me. That's the luck of motion. The third level of luck is called hidden luck.

And hidden luck is a little more sophisticated. It's the luck of creative emphasis. It's being able to take two disparate ideas, concepts, or some secret knowledge, at least, you know, and connect it in a meaningful way that makes sense and adds value in the world. And the last component of luck, which is the luck that I think most people should embrace is this idea of quirky luck. It's our individuality. It's the luck that defines who we are, the luck that people characterize us with, right? It's the things that make us who we are, whether it's dressing in a certain way or speaking with in a certain way or having some attributes, like using a sense of humor for Christ's sake, right? Or being able to take or willing to take some risks and do the

things that set you apart, not to be an asshole, but to be a decent human being, but also be willing to be unconventional and to be yourself authentically fully, right? Not simply mimicking, you know, Steve Jobs of the Black Turtle neck and jeans and speaking tech parlance. No, it's being yourself. That's the key, quirky luck. And if you do that, guess what? Be yourself. People are going to like you and they're going to respect you.

And so it's an incredibly empowering force. Yeah. I totally agree. I think that all those different levels of luck are super interesting. So thanks for sharing. Let's move on to the second pill of your book, The Head. Could you just summarize the key takeaways about that principle? Sure. I mean, the idea is that if the first law of hustles do something that moves you, the second law of hustle is keep your head up and look for opportunity. That's kind of having

a strategic lens, right? A tactical lens on life. So being able to put yourself out and to connect possibilities and to think in ways that are unconventional and think in ways that will benefit you by creating opportunity or generating more opportunity in your life. So again, moving away from the notion of complacency or being enured by conditioning that you should settle, things are how they are and they won't change. Instead, looking at the world as this blank, infinite canvas of possibility.

So whether that means that you and I have this podcast and five minutes after we get off, we hatch a new idea for a new media platform. And then we build on that, right? Or we test it out and try and see where it goes. Or it's being willing to, you know, simply listen effectively. I don't think people listen enough these days, right?

Listen to conversations and think about ways that you can enhance or add value in the world or help someone else out. Those are the ways that you apply this head layer by looking for opportunity and listening in, you know, maybe places that you typically wouldn't go. What you know, so it's not simply networking, it's being effective in a way that uses your talents

and allows you to leverage your abilities to help other people or companies in the world. That's the head layer. Mm-hmm. And then let's move on to the habits, which we sort of touched on. It demonstrates how to spot opportunities and create your own luck. Sure. So, you know, if you've got the first two down, right? So if you're doing something that moves you, it's the heart layer, right? Following the force for good, if you will.

And you've then moved on to allow yourself to take risks and small bets in the head layer, then it's about focusing on the personal opportunity portfolio. But the habit layer is not about breaking old habits and forming new ones alone. I mean, there are countless books on those topics, but instead thinking about the habit of building into the four components of the pop. And so the pop again is the personal opportunity portfolio. And so what is it? So the key piece there is seal the deal, make it real. What does that mean? It means turning an opportunity into some kind of concrete transaction or some way to create optionality, meaning upside growth in your life. And the basic idea is pop is about building into four different things,

right? The first piece of it is the potential. So the opportunity of increasing your capability, that's the first thing, the first layer, the second layer is the people layer, right? The opportunity of community. So that means building your relationships in the world in a meaningful way, attracting more people to your platform, figuring out how to leverage your relationships to add value to other people's lives, not only your own, but you got potential in people, and then you move into the actionable project layer.

And this is the opportunity of creativity. This is where you put your skills and talents out in the world and your network and so forth and you build things that are meaningful and you're creating some kind of legacy. And then that ties into the final piece of the Person Opportunity portfolio, which is proof. So forget about the resume. Resume is a dead 2D version of your life.

Instead of thinking through dimension, the opportunity of increasing your credibility by pointing to things that you have done or helped create in the world. That's proof. It's the most important aspect of this thing. And so if you do it in a correct way, or leveraging potential people and projects and proof, you're going to create a very virtuous or harmonious circle, where you're continuing adding value and increasing your perception of what you're worth in the world. And that's what it should look like. So, if you think about it as a pie cut into four big quarters, each of these is equally important. And I think the thing to keep in mind is that it never stopped, right? So, you know, moving away from complacency again and thinking about how can you explore

these different pieces and how can you constantly evolve and grow into them. The book gets much more, you know, indefinitely in each of these. But the basic idea is that it's not, you're not a static being. You're being whose identity is going to change over time. Your capabilities are going to change over time. Your relationships and network are going to change over time. Your capabilities are going to change over time. Your relationships and network are going to grow over time. And your proof, your body of work, if you will, if you're an artist is going to continuously grow over time. And so it's worth being mindful, aware that you're constantly putting your investing, your time,

and energy, and intellectual capabilities and so forth into this thing. So you might as well, again, the fact that it's dream ownership, like if you're going to own it, really own it, but invest yourself in these different pieces. Yeah. That was a great explanation. Thanks so much for that. Let's move off of the book and on to another topic that I know is near and dear to your heart. And that's mental wellness. So why is helping others improve their mental health your purpose in life nowadays? So this is you know, I would argue the sort of the challenge at the time. Well, the epidemic. It's them largely I think

caused by a fractured or fragmented Experience of humanity. I think and part of this is a product of technology experience of humanity. I think, and part of this is the product of technology, but also part of it is this acceptance that we can't be empowered. I think we need to be more empowered and more in touch of community. And I think that starts with a couple things. One is focusing on belonging. So many of us are so isolated nowadays that it creates an incredible and palpable anxiety, that it creates an incredible and palpable anxiety and depression and addiction and sort of any array of Problems that that we deal with you know the worst of course being suicidal ideation

And as I've already mentioned that you know these these are very serious and they affect us as individuals and they affect us as family and So the the idea that we can be stronger as individuals and the effect as his family. And so the idea that we can be stronger mentally and that we can be more proactive and taken care of and actually practicing empathy, right? Yeah, Pam, if you're ready to take your business to New Heights, break through to the six or seven figure mark or learn from the world's most successful people,

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profiting. caring about the well-being of other people is really important. Even if it's challenging for people, it's like take a minute and actually listen. That really helps, especially to your friends and family. If you can't start there, then I don't know where to begin, but you get out of our ego mind and say, you know what, there's a big world around us. And I think the other side of it is many of us are in denial. You know, green talked about death denial, but I think this sort of the illness denial is that many of us, again,

are functional, but we're not healthy, right? And so for society to be better, for us just to prosper and flourish, then I think, you know, we need to spend more time thinking about how we can do a better job taking care of ourselves and others. And so the whole mental wellness thing for me was, look, I was acutely aware and sensitive to those suffering around me when I was young growing up and had a kind of chaotic upbringing myself. And I knew that this would be a theme or a current in my life, which is to say, okay, how can we deal with the issues of sort of suffering? How can we help people be stronger, more confident that they can take care of themselves and

can be there for other people? How do we help foster this sense of belonging community? Because we know, based on the research, that helping people to develop a better sense of confidence that they can change their lives for the better. It can transform. It's one piece, and the other piece is having a healthy social network. Not talking about Facebook, not talking about technology at all, talking about physical people that they can reach out and talk to you every day,

at least calling the phone and be there for is absolutely paramount to our well-being. And so, you know, the, again, this deals with the real, right? Diving into the theater of the real, not the fake, not the artificial, but instead saying, if you have friends of yours who might be suffering or if you're concerned about, don't wait, reach out and make sure that you engage with them and see what you can do in small ways. It may be as simple as just listening. I certainly, you know, at times, as notchmen, you know this, you deal with stress

that feels at times insurmountable. And in many ways, very alienating. So it's like, how can you plug back into the little things that in life that really matter? And in this case, it's a big thing because it's relationships. It's knowing that you are loved. It's knowing that people care about you and vice versa.

That really matters a lot. And in this fast moving, fragmented world, it's very easy to overlook that. So that would be one of the things that I would want to emphasize. One of the companies I co-founded called Radical Wellness Inc. Our entire focus was to help people deal with not acute but chronic issues around anxiety and depression and mental health. And I don't think this is an issue that's going away anytime soon. The general, the general sense of like, you know, we need to do a better job here because there are a lot of people suffering. It's not an easy thing that we can quote unquote cure, but it is certainly something that we can place more attention on, that we can be there for other people,

and that we know there are any number of a ray of healing modalities that work, whether it's talk therapy, you know, cognitive behavioral therapy, whether it's, it's simply getting out and being more active physically, spending more time in nature, cleaning your diet up and choosing me, making better choices about what you put into your body to begin with, sleep, we've already talked about. All of these things are part of this wheel of health, if you will, that are critical and that people need to be focused on. Yeah.

So how do you think that improving our mental wellness will help progress humanity? Do you think that this is completely necessary for us to positively evolve as a species? So yeah, I mean, the short answer is of course, if we're fragmented alienated, disconnected, in many cases, you know, we've given up or we're so cynical, like how is that good for society? How is that good for any individual, right? Think about like the sick mind. No, I mean, the whole point of life is, I would argue,

is to be present, to be in a place of love and concern for yourself and others. And if you can do that, then of course, you're going to help the world become a better place. Right? What's the opposite of that? Is it fear and hate? How is that moving us forward?

Yeah. Right? That it just fundamentally doesn't work. So, you know, the question is, who is responsible? Well, uniquely as individuals, we are responsible for our own well-being. But then beyond that, it's like we're responsible as sort of family units. We're responsible at community, at a community level. And we need to engage in the dialogue and not deny it. Right? We're responsible at in the business community and taking care of our people, right?

And it's not just, you know, frontline, I'm talking about, you know, there are many executives who you suffer horrific, you know, anxiety and depression and loneliness and so forth. So we're all part of this. This is part of being a human. To move society forward is to embrace empathy, to listen and show that you care, to embrace other people, to actually care about helping people feel better. If you can't help point them in direction where they can get better care, there's so many ways to make a small difference. And I think that the simple thing that I want to do is to say, look, we can all do a better

job. I'm not saying that it's going to be easy, but we're all in this together, and that's what we need to remember. Yeah, that's a great message. So tell us about Lata Labs and your upcoming documentary, we care here, film. Sure, so Lata Labs is a mobile software development company. We're focused on empowering health and wellness

and both at the individual level and also at the community level through shared experiences. And so we're very early stage. We've developed our MVP and we'll be launching in early 2020 and are currently raising funds. And we've been bootstrap for some time now. But we're very confident this is a good space. Space that will essentially, when you think about health and wellness as an industry, it's a five trillion dollar

space. Wow. People's needs will continue to be unmet until we've come to a point where we think that by giving people better options as far as they can care themselves and better options in terms of activities and community that we can help solve some of these needs. But again, we're in a, what I'd say is a fragile time to the degree that we believe people need better outlets and because there's too many people suffering. And that's one argument.

The other argument is that we think that technology can be better used to help people feel better about themselves and feel better about life. And so, you know, those are some of the things that we're thinking through as we weave technology and kind of our brain experience into a launch. Now, you know, we may be pivoting along the way. We don't know yet, but I think, you know, if you think about, you know, some of the apps out there, whether it's meditation space or mindfulness, you know, headspace and calm, or we've already talked about the sleep space, you know, Casper and some of the others out there, like there's, there are

innumerable things that we can do to enhance the quality of lives for people. And I think that's fundamentally of importance to me. It's part of my personal mission. And when you talk about ownership, if I can leave a legacy where I've helped improve people's lives from a health standpoint and a sense of well-being, then I've done my job. That's awesome. And then you have an upcoming documentary. When does that come out? And what's that about? Yeah. So with my brother, Alex Alexander, who's the director and producer and and Don Harvey is our executive producer and we have some incredible members of the team as far as advisors go from Lewis Black, go find ourselves west to Elizabeth Avayyan of the shift in one city's culture and focus

and economy and looking at the different factors that are so hard to deal with when you're trying to honor the tradition, but also to move forward. And so that will be out. We hope in the spring, we'll probably do a debut at South by Southwest and then go to the festival circuit. But we care here film.com is where people can visit and find out more information. So far, I think we're, I think it's three quarters of the way through production, then we'll go into post in the next eight weeks or so. That's awesome. Jonas, starting this episode, I'm starting a new tradition on Young and Profiting Podcast. I'm going to end my interview with the same question for every guest.

And the question is, what's your secret to profiting in life? I think the main thing is, as I was talking about, this idea of, you know, being willing to know thyself. Well, what does that mean, right? The idea that the essence of our experience in life is self knowledge and the pursuit of wisdom and exploring who we are constantly living, learning and growing is the way that we profit the most in life. Forget about the economic consequences. Forget about any notions or ideas about other priorities. It to go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go into the group and go either one of those works. You can always tweet at me at Jonas Coffler

and north sign up for my email list. Happy to do that as well. But keep focused on what matters to you. That's my lesson. Know that I self. And I think if anything, don't be afraid to do something that moves you. Thank you so much, Jonas.

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