Zack Platt – Growth From Death, Taking Responsibility & Consciously Creating Opportunities

Young entrepreneur interviews anyone? I'm excited to bring you the first interview I've done with none other than one of my best friends - fellow aspiring entrepreneur and strategic thinker - Zack Platt.

In this self improvement interview, we'll be talking about choosing growth from death when his Mom passed away, creating opportunities from his circumstances, taking responsibility for his actions, growing from past mistakes, applying forgiveness and acceptance to the relationships in his life, the importance of a growth mindset, how to make school worth the investment, how competitive we are, why we have high quality conversations and ton more.

The video version of this is available at https://youtu.be/hl-0o6UgtTE

Follow Zack Platt
https://tactycs.io
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zack-platt/

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction, context
1:55 Why I wanted Zack Platt to be my first interview
3:00 How we've changed the most in our 12 year friendship
6:35 Our competitiveness within beer pong,
8:55 Happy birthday... you too?
9:35 Backpacking and travel
12:25 Balancing being career driven vs. enjoying life, the triangle of priorities
15:05 What made Zack want to travel
16:15 How Zack responded to his Mother's death by learning and growing
19:20 Forgiveness, reflection and valuing people over money
20:55 Why our friendship works
21:45 How his relationship with his Dad has improved
24:40 How he started the process of having a hard conversation with his Dad
27:40 Making mistakes with money and correcting it for the future
28:30 School isn't BS, but people make it BS (how to make school an opportunity)
32:55 Biggest lesson that business school taught him
34:45 How business school prepared him for entrepreneurship
38:00 Gamification in life, school and business
39:00 Where his competitiveness comes from
40:50 Validating right with Tactycs (current startup)
45:25 Freedom inside entrepreneurship, living to work vs. working to live
48:05 Handling disagreements between brothers in business
51:10 What drives him the most
53:25 His preference for learning instead of podcasts/reading
56:20 Why he doesn't have inspirations and what inspires him instead
58:35 Why you should put yourself in situations where you don't know if you'll do well
1:00:20 How to validate a business model with only 10% of the time and effort
1:03:00 What people wouldn't expect to know about Zack
1:05:20 What music speaks to Zack the most, creating positive moments on demand
1:09:05 Interview flips for a second
1:09:15 How Josh has become a good conversationalist and why it's powerful
1:14:05 The #1 mistake people make in their creative process
1:20:15 Outro

Thank you guys for listening! :-)

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I make self improvement videos and self growth podcasts to help young creatives and aspiring entrepreneurs evolve in their business and life.

The difference between me and most others though, is I'm documenting my journey in real time and sharing what I'm learning and allowing you to see my challenges, failures, etc. - we're both in this journey upwards, together.

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