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Jesse Itzler

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“Terrible decisions like, you know, but just decisions in the past that had guided me in the right direction and be like, you know, not that I got lucky or luck found me. I put myself in those positions to get lucky by following my instincts. But I was so bombarded with like responding to people. And like it was dominating my time that I lost that instinct. And I believe the only way to really get in tune with your gut is to be alone and to think and to free up mental energy. And at first, I was bombarded with thoughts because there was nothing to do but think. But afterwards, you know, some really, really powerful things happened to me.”
2018-05-27 · We Study Billionaires · TIP192: NBA Owner Lives w/ Monks, Jesse Itzler (Business Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Of, like, well, how can I apply some of the principles of this 1500 year tradition of monasticism, of what the monks do and live their life? How can I apply that to my modern life? You know, what are the takeaways? And one of the things right away was like, I realized recently before I went to the monastery, I lost my superpower and my superpower was being in touch with my gut. I've operated on instinct around people. business everything off of pretty much gut. I guess that's what happens when you don't break a thousand on your SATs. You got to rely on your gut. And all of a sudden, I wasn't making the same good decisions. Not like...”
2018-05-27 · We Study Billionaires · TIP192: NBA Owner Lives w/ Monks, Jesse Itzler (Business Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Manual labor and keeping the lights on at the monastery and spirituality and reflection was a big part of it, but it wasn't the only part of it by any means. And it was quiet, man. I have four kids and I live in, you know, a world of ding beeps and buzzes on my phone and Skype and this and that. And it's just a really fast-paced life. Like most of us live. And this was the exact opposite. Time stopped. And it was really, really quiet and really slow. And when you have no access, despite the urge to check your phone, you know, check the news, you know, listen to the radio, turn on one of the 10,000 options on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, all that stuff. When you lose the ability to do that and you're forced to just be alone, a lot of amazing things happen. I went in there with the attitude.”
2018-05-27 · We Study Billionaires · TIP192: NBA Owner Lives w/ Monks, Jesse Itzler (Business Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“First of all, I was with eight monks that had been on the property, four of them have been on the property for 50 years. And they lived on a 500 acre wooded, isolated monastery. And intentionally, I didn't do any research really into where I was going. I didn't want to have any preconceived notions. I don't want to read any blogs or have anyone else put their experience into my head. So the only experience I had with monks was really through watching movies or any kind of articles or stories I'd heard. So I thought monastery equaled, you know, 160 to 100 people on a property walking around in sandals and just silence and meditating all day. And it was nothing like that. At least the monastery I went to. There were eight gentlemen, eight months. They weren't Buddhists. They were Russian Orthodox. They had their hair. And a big part of their day was built around.”
2018-05-27 · We Study Billionaires · TIP192: NBA Owner Lives w/ Monks, Jesse Itzler (Business Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Learn about myself, but really just get away from my phone. I just felt like really overwhelmed like we all do. And, you know, I wasn't going to go take a vacation and sit on a beach. I've done that 9,000 times and come home and nothing's really changed. I'm relaxed for an hour. So I just said, where are the spiritual masters? And I said, I'm going to go live with monks.”
2018-05-27 · We Study Billionaires · TIP192: NBA Owner Lives w/ Monks, Jesse Itzler (Business Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, you know, I did the physical side with SEAL and living with the seal. And I got so much out of it. I realized that I learned much better through experience than I do through reading. I have a hard time comprehending and I'll read a whole book and be like, who was the author or what was the name of the book? But I got so much out of it physically with Seal, I wanted to explore the spiritual side. You know, I just realized that like I woke up, I'm turning 50 in a couple of months. And the last decade went by like in a flash. Literally. And as you get older, as a percentage of your life, time just flies so much quicker. And my whole thing, Preston's did, you know, a big part of me is about building my life resume and just not looking at time, but looking at moments. And I decided that I just wanted to get, you know, this should be an unbelievable experience. I can explore the spiritual.”
2018-05-27 · We Study Billionaires · TIP192: NBA Owner Lives w/ Monks, Jesse Itzler (Business Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT