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Matt Spielman

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first: 2022-07-15
most recent: 2022-07-15
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“being at the concert at Madison Square Garden. What I thought was Madison Square Garden and was like a religious experience to have 18,000 people singing in unison that particular song. Second thought I had is what if Billy Joel had chosen not to become a musician? We would have dozens of songs that weren't penned and weren't part of people's backgrounds and even part of their present. And now he's still performing. I'm going to see him next month again. That was the second thought I had is what if he had taken the path of least resistance because it's not necessarily a sure thing to become a musician, certainly not at the level that where he has performed and the record sales and the concert performances, et cetera, it's really amazing. The third thought, which I think was most important for me at that time, is what is my version of that? What is not necessarily write a song or series of songs to perform them on stage, but what is my version of his piano man? You know, I wasn't quite sure, actually. And whatever the outcome was,”
2022-07-15 · We Study Billionaires · TIP464: The Billionaire Coach's Playbook W/ Matt Spielman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sliver I was working on the mortgage backed security desk for one sliver of that particular product area and I was going to be most useful to my clients if I was an expert in that particular element and that just that didn't work well with me especially for 24 year old very curious person so I applied to business school first year I did not get in next year I did apply and I was fortunate to gain admission and there was something that happened when I landed on the campus to pursue my MBA sort of had this wide open emotional aperture And I wanted to take in all the stimuli I could. And I tell this story that there was one night I was preparing for class the next day. I was reading one of the cases and I saw a commercial on in the background. What I thought was Billy Joel playing at Madison Square Garden and I heard what sounded like 18,000 people in unison singing piano man. And it really struck me. It struck me. And I had three thoughts. The first thought was, wow, be pretty amazing.”
2022-07-15 · We Study Billionaires · TIP464: The Billionaire Coach's Playbook W/ Matt Spielman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. So it is quite when I summarize the last 20 years or so before I launched this company inflection point partners, I've gotten to where I could do it fairly succinctly, but it's with every step I took, I got closer to that which drove me and that which I was excited about and that which I want you to do, which triggered kind of the energy that I talk a lot about in the book because we can't always articulate what it is that we want to do. But energy we definitely know. We know if something energizes us and we know if something takes energy away. So a couple of the key inflection points or milestones along the way or decision points where I did start my career in finance on the fixed income trading floor at Morgan Stanley. It was a really great experience. But I also just in identifying energy, I found that I was sort of getting up out of my seat and just kind of going around and talking to people naturally because I was very curious about what it is that people were doing. At the same time, I was awarded for being to really focus on one.”
2022-07-15 · We Study Billionaires · TIP464: The Billionaire Coach's Playbook W/ Matt Spielman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, you know, Trey, I think so if I told you what to do, A, you know, who am I to tell you what to do? That may be a field that I'm an expert in, but there's so much more going on on your side that if I give you advice, maybe this afternoon it would work. But a week from now, it's like that came from somebody else. It didn't come from within inside you. Real meaningful behavioral change is something that comes from within you. It's sparked from within you. The eureka goes off.”
2022-07-15 · We Study Billionaires · TIP464: The Billionaire Coach's Playbook W/ Matt Spielman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Comes through having that train, third party objective, and other person focused relationship. It's not about me, but it's all about you.”
2022-07-15 · We Study Billionaires · TIP464: The Billionaire Coach's Playbook W/ Matt Spielman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's vital. And that objectivity, there's a big difference between a coaching partnership and one that may be a mentor, an advisor, a manager, a friend, parental. It's sometimes people in giving advice, they're often sharing what it is. They think that you should do based upon what they have done. However, time needs to be spent to understand what do you value, what interests you, what excites you, how do you see the world. And it's this finding a partner who is all about truly listening and hearing, which is incredibly rare anyway, but especially these days, in an objective way where it's really what's coming from you is most important, not what my experience that I went through and you should follow this. And this is what I, that may be relevant, like down the line, but really identifying what's coming from within, from within you.”
2022-07-15 · We Study Billionaires · TIP464: The Billionaire Coach's Playbook W/ Matt Spielman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Third party person is going to help to bring the best out of me and get at some of the things that drive me and what it is that I want to bring about and see those really meaningful and consequential results come out.”
2022-07-15 · We Study Billionaires · TIP464: The Billionaire Coach's Playbook W/ Matt Spielman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All of these people who had achieved this remarkable success didn't get there just by accident or just kind of with their feet up on the Ottomans sitting on the couch and watching TV. They were sort of at it, trying to improve, develop, grow. They were trying to do whatever they can, you know, read books and articles and talk to people. And it's that mentality that leads somebody to say, hey, you know what? I'm living and I sometimes use this scale and the numbers are somewhat arbitrary. But let's say I'm living an 8.7 out of 10. And I want to maintain that. And it requires me to continue to go to the gym and to continue to invest if I want to stay there. Generally, it's not necessarily staying there, but they want to get to 8.8 out of 10, 8.9 out of 10, a 10 out of, you know, 9.1 out of 10, whatever the case may be. And those are the people who are raising their hand and saying, you know, I want to partner with somebody because I know that partnering with a trusted, trained, objective”
2022-07-15 · We Study Billionaires · TIP464: The Billionaire Coach's Playbook W/ Matt Spielman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A gift that's just a gift and just incredibly inspirational. And I was really fortunate to have met him three times for a good chunk of time where we got to interact a good amount.”
2022-07-15 · We Study Billionaires · TIP464: The Billionaire Coach's Playbook W/ Matt Spielman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I'm smiling on this end because Bill was just a remarkable human being and he was all about positively impacting others and helping people become kind of the best version of themselves. And he was called the coach. You know, in Silicon Valley, he was called the coach, primarily because he was the football coach at Columbia. And they didn't necessarily do so well during that time frame. He kept the moniker, however, and he continued on and he was a coach to scores and scores of people not only in Silicon Valley, but across the US and the globe. And you mentioned as you were saying in the opening remark there, I had the good fortune of talking to him, interacting with him. And man, what a gracious person. And he kind of made you feel like, you know, when I would email him and talk to him that I mattered, I was important. And I know he had a thousand other people who are emailing him and texting him. And that's just.”
2022-07-15 · We Study Billionaires · TIP464: The Billionaire Coach's Playbook W/ Matt Spielman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT