#131 - Chris Matakas: “Tragic Achievement” & The Traditional Model of Success

Enter the Lionheart

Lawrence Dunning

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🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

A fantastic conversation with jiu-jitsu black belt, owner of Matakas Jiujitsu, prolific author and coach, Chris Matakas. Chris and I discuss the unique balance for your soul, relative to your Professional Life, Personal Development, Health and Home Life.

0.00: Chris as a new father

4.00: How Chris used Jiujitsu as a “Rite of Passage”

10.00: How Opposites Attract in Personal Relationships

13.37: Idea of “Tragic Achievement” and why it's playing in the wrong arena

16.00: Idea of the quality of your life is the quality of your weakest link

19.30: Our Internal experience is unique to us and how we are an Island universe

23.30: Dealing with massive injuries while opening his jiu-jitsu school

27.00: Freedom and forgiveness from praise and blame

32.00: Infinite pursuits that can’t be mastered

37.00: Avoiding Life’s infinite distractions from your mission

41.00: Treating each day like an individual life

47.02: “I don’t want to die going anywhere”

50.00: You can choose which arena you want to compete in.

Take the test to see if you are winning your game:

https://scorecard.chrismatakas.com/

“We get one shot at fulfilling our potential in business and life.

Will you achieve the goal or squander the opportunity?”

To find out more about Chris:

https://www.chrismatakas.com/

Until next time, love and good vibes.

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0:00.0	The A single theme is too narrow for great minds and daring hearts.
0:18.0	Get ready to enter the Lion Heart with your host Lauren Stunning.
0:22.0	What a pleasure to be back to my friend Christmas Hackers. with your host, Lawrence Dunning.
0:25.0	What a pleasure to be back with my friend Christmas hackers. Chris, how you do my brother?
0:26.6	You're a new dad.
0:28.0	Yes, sir.
0:29.0	Yes, sir.
0:29.0	Everything is absolutely wonderful.
0:30.8	I'm grateful to be on team dad and enjoying the process. I already love him a ton and he's only three weeks old so pretty awesome.
0:37.0	That's only going to grow and that's so beautiful.
0:40.0	I don't know if you had this Chris, but I had before I became a parent,
0:43.2	and it wasn't so much implicitly people telling me,
0:46.0	but I felt like it was those little tiny comments, like I would do something cool
0:49.8	and I'd have a friend who was an early dad and he had kids and it sent me a message like
0:53.7	oh enjoy doing that now because you know when you have kids it's all going to stop like these little
0:58.0	little subtle imprinting and I remember being very depressed when I didn't see my son until he was three days old because it was during COVID.
1:05.9	When my wife and I went in, she tested positive. They literally kicked me out of the hospital and I couldn't see them.
1:10.8	I had to wait, I think 24 hours hours then get a negative test or 48 hours
1:15.1	they get negative tests before I could pick them up. So here I am I'm a dad I haven't seen them and I'm just alone with my thoughts
1:20.9	and I remember being really depressed just and I didn't know why but I
1:24.8	think it was because of all those subtle messages I got and I went for a really long run and I
1:29.8	realized that like why why just because some people like you know oh I've got a
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