Today’s media environment constantly tugs at your emotions and makes it harder to think clearly about your future. In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller show how to treat feelings—especially being bothered—as raw material rather than reality, and how to quickly turn intense emotional energy into insight, better decisions, and creative projects that expand your future possibilities.

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Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode:

• How information overload and constant media input affect the way people think.
• How Dan feeling bothered has led to the creation of powerful Strategic Coach® thinking tools.
• What taught Dan to flip negative feelings into a new project.
• How you can actually change the past.
• A thinking process that helps you separate emotion from any situation so you can respond creatively instead of reactively.

Show Notes:

Modern news and social media are engineered to grab your feelings, which can crowd out your ability to think about your own future.

Constantly reacting to events outside of you makes it harder to think clearly and see where you actually want to go.

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Feelings are experienced physically and biologically, not intellectually, which is why they can be so overwhelming in the moment.

There’s a big difference between simply having feelings and using those feelings to trigger real thinking and new ideas.

Strong emotions, whether positive or negative, are early warning signals that something needs to be understood, decided, or created.

When you get deeply bothered by an experience, you can either stay stuck in the story or use that energy to design a better future.

Many of Strategic Coach’s most powerful thinking tools, including The Experience Transformer®, were created because Dan was determined not to repeat a negative experience.

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Capturing the energy from a negative event and channeling it into a specific creative project gives you huge momentum—but only for a short window of time.

Reinterpreting past experiences through learning changes how they feel and upgrades your capabilities going forward.

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Taking ownership of your emotional responses gives you power, control, and agency instead of leaving you at the mercy of circumstances or other people.

Resources:

Multiplication By Subtraction by Shannon Waller

Transforming Experiences Into Multipliers

Not Being Bothered by Dan Sullivan

Predictions have been made over the years, especially with the emergence of AI, that computers will be more intelligent than human beings. But humanity is always infinitely greater than anything that humans create. Business coaches Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller discuss why computer intelligence can never compete with humanity’s intelligence.

Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode:

• Why a person’s intelligence doesn’t include only their own.
• What “humanity” really means.
• How successful entrepreneurs are using—and not using—AI.
• How AI is lessening the importance of experts.

Show Notes:

Humans communicate in many undetectable and immeasurable ways.

A single telephone has no value whatsoever.

With the addition of every new technology that allows human beings to interact with one another, the combined intelligence of the planet multiplies.

A new technological capability could never be greater than the total amount of thinking that all humans do.

You can’t be inside of a system and understand that system.

Computers are just a subset of human intelligence.

Unlike humans, machines can be consistent and constant in their use of intelligence.

Humanity is everything that humans have done over hundreds of thousands of years.

Resources:

Unique Ability®

“Overcoming Delegation Issues: A Comprehensive 5-Step Guide”

Your deepest passion is yours alone, and what lights others up may leave you completely cold. In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller explore why every entrepreneur is born unique, how your experiences continually shape that uniqueness, and how doubling down on it leads to greater freedom, happiness, and business success.

Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode:

• How to strengthen and continually reinforce your passion.
• What actually grows and develops your uniqueness every day.
• What gets created when two people collaborate.
• How AI is multiplying individuality and adding even more variety to the world.

Show Notes:

Every person is born with a Unique Ability®, and that’s the central starting point for all Strategic Coach® thinking.

Your entire life is a process of navigating and giving meaning to the uniqueness of your own experience.

As an individual, you are constantly reinforcing a central set of interests and capabilities through every experience you choose.

When you go deep with anyone, you quickly discover they’re far more unique than you initially assumed.

Hundreds of times a day, you’re sorting experiences into “more of this, less of that,” steadily clarifying what matters most to you.

Entrepreneurs are the people who have bet the most on the thing they’re uniquely and intensely interested in.

To operate in the world, everyone has to learn a basic level of conformity—showing up, keeping promises, and finishing what they start.

Thanks to technology, individuals now have more freedom than ever to pursue and deepen their own interests.​

Whatever someone is passionate about becomes the center of their universe, and they keep reinforcing it by seeking aligned experiences.

You’re always looking for experiences that make your passion and Unique Ability even more central and valuable in your life.

Powerful collaboration happens when people find shared interests where each can bring their own Unique Ability to create a “third thing” together.

Resources:

Unique Ability®

Perplexity

Who Not How by Dan Sullivan with Dr. Benjamin Hardy