#762: Coach George Raveling and Claire Hughes Johnson

This episode is a two-for-one, and that’s because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I’ve curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade. I could not be more excited.

The episode features segments from episode #332 "Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life" and #724 "Claire Hughes Johnson — How to Take Responsibility for Your Life, Create Rules That Work, Stop Being a Victim, Set Strong Boundaries, and More."

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Timestamps:

[00:00] Start

[05:14] Notes about this supercombo format.

[06:17] Enter George Raveling.

[06:48] The most important conversation is the one you have with yourself.

[09:03] The only two choices George has when he gets out of bed in the morning

[11:13] A personal audit once per week.

[11:40] Retirement at 80?

[12:10] George's controversial collection.

[14:50] George's less controversial collections.

[15:44] Relationships as a privilege.

[17:28] Most of George’s best friendships started by mistake.

[18:20] The importance of maintaining friendships with younger people.

[19:22] Relationships as a patnership.

[19:52] A voracious reading habit.

[23:28] How George selects his next book.

[25:17] How George continues to grow in his 80s.

[29:09] Recommended reading.

[30:42] Kindness as an opportunity.

[33:32] The 1984 Olympics.

[37:32] Enter Claire Hughes Johnson.

[37:54] Say the thing you think you cannot say.

[43:26] Detoxifying your left-hand column.

[51:11] Victim versus player.

[58:43] Recommended reading.

[1:05:32] The case for reading fiction.

[1:12:57] Crafting a working-with-me document.

[1:20:47] Make the implicit explicit.

[1:26:07] An Irish Goodbye.

[1:27:13] Email policies.

[1:32:37] Renegotiating the terms of expectations.

[1:34:41] Listening for the quiet no.

[1:37:06] Money versus time.

[1:38:53] Good rules can be liberating.

[1:41:39] Leadership and disappointment.

[1:46:38] Renegotiating past disappointment.

[2:05:45] Asking a question versus stating an opinion.

[2:09:37] Training wheels for a "no."

[2:11:06] Time, talent, treasure, and testimony.

[2:15:16] Spotting bad apples while hiring.

[2:17:16] If you're not self-aware, how would you know?

[2:20:01] Work style assessme