#2 Barry O'Reilly: Unlearning and creating culture change

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Show notesBarry moving to America and the "American Dream" [0:06:11]Experimentation as a lifestyle -- the kitchen table talk [0:13:14]Navigating uncertainty [0:15:09]Modeling behaviors [0:22:25]Barry's hack to get new perspectives on problems you don't know how to solve [0:24:12]Stumbling blocks in unlearning [0:26:36]Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and "time to think" [0:31:07]Barry's personal reflection practices [0:33:11]"We're trained for more" [0:35:19]How do I know I need to unlearn? [0:45:27]Hotseat: Barry puts Andrew through unlearning exercise on the spot [0:48:11]Andrew's embarrassing insight [0:54:50]The #1 obstacle to being a learner [1:00:04]"Steve always got it right" [1:02:24]How to make being wrong, feel good [1:04:09]Debunking the 10,000 hour rule [1:07:49]The levels of deliberate practice [1:08:24]Applying deliberate practice to day-to-day life [1:15:12]Building systems & countermeasures around yourself to be successful [1:18:42]The origin of the Enliven podcast [1:22:44]How to start a cultural transformation [1:26:37]Barry's #1 hack for meetings [1:33:01]People, companies, books, etc mentionedPeopleCarol DweckAngela DuckworthCal NewportAndy Grove & OKRsTom BilyeuK. Anders EricssonGibson Biddle (listen to Gib's episode on Barry's Unlearn podcast)Dr Ed Hoffman at NASABooks & PodcastsBarry's booksUnlearnUnlearn podcastLean EnterpriseMindsetGritSo Good They Can't Ignore YouDeep WorkDigital MinimalismImpact TheoryPeak: The New Science of ExpertiseMastery, by George LeonardThe E-MythOtherMcKinsey & the obligation to dissentDeliberate practiceAgileQuotes"If something important comes up, I'll put it on my calendar. But I'm going to make time for thinking."making two or three bets and exploring them well is better than making one hundred bets and half-assing them""I've been right a million times...and it's bought me jack s**t.""Innovation is new insight that leads to better action""we're building these systems that are so example that we don't even know how they work""in all our meetings we just talk about output, the things we got done...if we're going to be agile we have to talk about outcomes""organizational transformation is just the collective impact of individual transformation"Lessons and key takeawayshow eager am I to get information that is contrary to my view?the essentials to unlearning: curiosity, ownershipreflection is a habit of top performerssigns you need to unlearnchallenge facing and not living up to expectationplace you're struggling or avoiding a challengetried everything can think of and not getting results you wantWhat's the real outcome you're aiming for?when frustrated with the obstacles, zoom back out to the outcomes in order to discover new things to trywe often know what to do...but we can't execute shared things on our ownAndy Grove and Steve Jobs "getting it right"create and cultivate a personal board of directors to re-energize and gain new perspectivesalways have agency for how we show up in a system—so it starts with us—and each of us has a

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