355: Isaac Lidsky: Overcoming Obstacles and Recognizing Opportunities in a World that Can't See Clearly

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🗓️ 12 April 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Isaac Lidsky "may possess the most eclectic resume in entrepreneurship" according to Inc. Magazine.

He played series regular "Weasel" on Saved by the Bell: The New Class; graduated from Harvard College at age nineteen with a degree in mathematics and computer science; graduated from Harvard Law School magna cum laude; served as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg; argued more than a dozen appeals in federal court on behalf of the United States and never lost a case; started a tech company that sold for $230 million; transformed a struggling $15 million concrete subcontractor into an industry-leading $150 million construction services company in five years; and founded Hope for Vision, a nonprofit organization that funds the development of treatments and cures for blinding diseases.

Lidsky was born with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a rare degenerative disease of the retina that caused him to gradually lose his sight. Lidsky lives in Windermere, Florida with his wife, Dorothy; their triplets, Lily Louise, Phineas, and Thaddeus; and baby Clementine.

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Knowledge for Men's Show. Your life will never be the same. Your level of success will
0:05.1	seldom exceed your level of personal development. I want to die empty of regret. I want to die
0:10.2	empty of my best work. We don't understand who we are. Instead, we're living out somebody else's narrative.
0:15.8	But one man can do, another man can do. If it's been done, it can be done again.
0:20.1	Being yourself and being your truest, most authentic self in every do. If it's been done, it can be done again. Being yourself and being your
0:21.4	truest, most authentic self in every moment, if it scares you or makes you a little afraid, do it,
0:27.7	follow your heart and your gut. The first stage, I think, is finding you, like finding out who I am
0:32.8	today. Stuff will not work. You will have things that fail. Success is when you're a happy,
0:37.8	fulfilled person. How do you define success? It's your life and you are the creator of the movie script
0:44.0	that is your life story. All right, guys, welcome to the show. I'm here with Isaac Lidski. He was
0:49.2	once a successful childhood actor in the hit TV show, Saved by the Bell, playing Weasel. He then graduated from
0:55.8	Harvard by the age of 19. And today, an entrepreneur, author of the really famous book,
1:02.3	author of Eyes Wide Open, and he's also an acclaimed speaker. And so one of the things Isaac does
1:07.7	and why I brought him on the show is he reveals how fear and circumstances
1:11.2	do not need to rule a reality. And there's also some really interesting things about Isaac, but
1:16.7	we'll dive more into that here in the interview. Isaac, welcome to the show. Thanks so much for
1:21.3	having me. All right, Isaac, so we start off every show with the favorite success quote or saying
1:26.2	something that you've lived by.
1:32.3	So what he got for us? And then why did you choose that? Sure. So there's a quote in my book,
1:38.6	Albert Einstein said, try not to become a man of success, rather become a man of value. And I like that quote a lot because to me, it sort of highlights the distinction between what it means to me is sort of the
1:45.3	distinction between external ideas of sort of success, the concepts out there that we're
1:49.4	bombarded with versus our own sense of what value means in our lives.
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