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March 25, 2019 38 mins

Tucker Max (@TuckerMax) famously fired himself as CEO and has never looked back as Scribe Media (previously Boom in a Book) has gone on to publish 1,000 books over the last 4 years and is living up to their mission of unlocking the world's wisdom. He’s the author of three #1 NY Times Bestsellers with one of them turning into a feature film.

In this episode we discuss what it means to hold yourself accountable, finding success through humility and facing the truth with vulnerability in order to develop self-awareness.

In this episode we cover

  • Why Tucker found safety in books and how it helped him leverage ideas [0:01:51]
  • How anyone can become an author by leveraging your expertise [0:08:36]
  • Focusing on inputs and the impact it has on delivering value [0:12:19]
  • Facing the truth with vulnerability in order to develop self-awareness [0:16:49]
  • The hard questions Tucker asked to obtain self-awareness [0:19:08]
  • An exercise on becoming the person who deserves the person of their dreams [0:23:10]
  • Being honest with your confidence and finding ways to improve it [0:26:38]
  • Learning to hold yourself accountable to deal with the internal critic [0:29:37]
  • How to draw peak performance out of yourself and your team [0:31:30]
  • Tucker's process for collecting ideas and learning [0:33:35]
  • Success starts with humility [0:35:45]
  • Selected Links And Books From The Episode

  • Link: Scribe Media (Previously, Book In A Box)
  • Show: Inside the Actors Studio
  • Book: The Back Swan
  • Book: Fooled By Randomness
  • Book: Antifragile
  • Note taking app: Simplenote
  • Idea capturing app: Instapaper
  • People Mentioned

  • James Lipton
  • Nassim Taleb
  • Where to find Tucker

  • Twitter: @TuckerMax
  • Instagram: @realtuckermax
  • Facebook: @TuckerMax
  • Website: https://scribewriting.com/
  • Other Links

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