The Nick Standlea Show: Conversations That Inspire

If you like to ask questions, dive beneath the surface, and learn about fascinating individuals, you’ve found your home.

Join Nick Standlea for long-form conversations with authors, entrepreneurs, creators, athletes, scientists, entertainers, and other brilliant guest experts.

You can follow the show on Instagram: @NickStandlea

A little bit about Nick:

He earned a perfect score on the SAT, but thinks standardized tests are overrated. He won grants to teach kids to surf in China, explore caves in Tibet, study business at the University of Oxford, and explore Art History in Italy. Nick is a former Research Associate at the Quality of Life Research Center where he studied creativity, learning, and flow under his mentor, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. He founded numerous companies, including Test Prep Gurus, a test prep and education consulting firm based in Newport Beach, California that works with students across the United States, and more than a dozen other countries. Nick is a writer, speaker, entrepreneur, consultant, and podcaster.

Ask questions. Don’t accept the status quo. Be curious.

Episode Transcript

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If you'd like to ask questions, dig beneath the surface, and want to hear conversations
with fascinating people, you've found your home.
Who are some of the people that you admire and look up to and that inspire you?
Well, why do you think I'm on the podcast with you, Nick? We're all basically
perhaps just one consciousness looking at itself through different avatars.

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It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than think your way into a new way of acting.
Absolutely. I mean, sometimes you've just got to not think, right?
You've just got to not think and do.
Micah, am I holding this water correctly? Is this good etiquette?
Okay, well. Trying to understand what a true expert is, is sort of counterintuitive

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because true experts usually aren't that sure of themselves.
They usually use words like maybe and it depends.
And sometimes they even say, I don't know. Each one of us has the chance to
do nothing or to show up and make a difference.
I'm Nick. Join me on The Nick Stanley Show for long-form conversations that

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will challenge existing beliefs and help you to learn and grow.
Ask questions, don't accept the status quo, and be curious.