1117: How to Hack Your Odds to Succeed More and Fail Less with Kyle Austin Young

There's a line that selling is overcoming objections, and I see probability hacking as a similar discipline. Essentially, we have something that we want to happen, reality has some objections to that, because our goal comes at the opportunity cost of all these other potential outcomes and It's our job was to sell life on the future that we want, try to overcome these objections, take these risks off the table, and make it where our path is the path of least resistance. That's Kyle Austin Young. He's an award-winning strategy consultant who started his career as a product development director.

at just 21 years old. He shares his methods for accomplishing that near impossible feat, which you can apply to your own goals, in his latest book, Success is a Numbers game. Achieve bigger goals by changing the odds. Kyle offers powerful tools to make the most of this new year or anything you want to make happen. So you'll learn one, the thinking trap that accounts for most failures, two, the four paths to success, and three, why thinking negative

improves your odds. And if it's your first time listening to How to Be Awesome at your job, welcome. I recommend you start with the sampler episodes. If you sort to the earliest release, they're labeled A, B, C, D, E, F. They give you a taste for what we're about.

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