Benjamin Hardy (<a href="https://twitter.com/BenjaminPHardy" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">@BenjaminPHardy</a>) is an organizational psychologist and author of books about <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Willpower-Doesnt-Work-Discover-Success/dp/0316441325/?tag=jordanharbing-20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">willpower</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Personality-Isnt-Permanent-Self-Limiting-Beliefs/dp/0593083318/?tag=jordanharbing-20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">self-limiting beliefs</a>, and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Who-Not-How-Accelerating-Teamwork/dp/1401960588/?tag=jordanharbing-20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">teamwork</a>. His latest offering (co-authored with Dan Sullivan), is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Gap-Gain-Achievers-Happiness-Confidence/dp/1401964362/?tag=jordanharbing-20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Gap and the Gain: The High Achievers' Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success</a>.
<h3>What We Discuss with Benjamin Hardy:</h3>
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<li>If you measure your current self against your ideal (often chosen and defined by other people rather than yourself), you&rsquo;ll never be happy because there will always be a gap. Unsuccessful people primarily focus on this (but we all wind up here sometimes).</li>
<li>If you measure your current self against your previous self &mdash; and notice the gain you've made between yesterday and today &mdash; you&rsquo;ll experience happiness, satisfaction, and confidence. The most successful people understand this.</li>
<li>The difference between ideals (general, immeasurable, and constantly changing) and goals (specific, measurable, and time-bound) -- and why your ideals shouldn't be your benchmark for achievement, but merely the source from which your goals are inspired.</li>
<li>How you can weed out the arbitrary reference points with which you've been burdened by external sources and choose ones that are actually meaningful -- not just constant reminders of what you don't have.</li>
<li>How the increased confidence that comes from living in the gain allows you to set bigger and more imaginative goals to truly tailor the fabric of your own life.</li>
<li>And much more...</li>
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575: Benjamin Hardy | Minding the Gap and the Gain

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