What happens when you’ve reached what everyone else would consider success, and you’re miserable? What happens next?
Zack Arnold, ACE, is an award-winning film and television editor, documentary director, and founder of the Optimize Yourself program. Throughout his career in Hollywood, he found himself editing the biggest show on cable tv, then the biggest show on broadcast TV, and even the biggest show in the WORLD on the internet.
But the toll those achievements took on his family, his physical health, and his mental well-being forced Zack to rethink his life.
In this second of a two-part conversation, we’ll hear what Zack did next – including his four year journey to become an American Ninja Warrior – and what the lessons he’s learned mean for all of us.
🖥 Connect with Zack: www.optimizeyourself.me
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RESOURCES:
The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance, by Josh Waitzkin: https://amzn.to/3vxhp8c
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, by James Clear: https://amzn.to/39dfRJ3
SHOW NOTES
00:00 Recovering from success
01:26 What’s better than “success?”
03:55 Beginning to optimize
07:17 Learn to manage failure
08:22 The need to fail when you’re young
11:57 Zack’s new definition of success
15:22 Zack’s plan to transition to his new goal
16:56 Stop “playing business”
18:33 Skills to providing value
22:18 Doubling business growth during a pandemic
25:16 The benefits of failure
26:32 The fear of success is real
29:16 Self-identity and the key to real success
30:41 Zack the American Ninja Warrior
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