How embracing your emotions will accelerate your career | Joe Hudson (executive coach, Art of Accomplishment)

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Lenny Rachitsky

Technology, Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Joe Hudson is one of the most sought-after executive coaches in Silicon Valley. He is the founder of Art of Accomplishment, a transformational coaching program that has helped tens of thousands of people, including many tech executives and founders from companies like Apple, OpenAI, and Google. His unique method of transformation comes from over 25 years of exploring neurological, psychological, and spiritual traditions, tested against real-world challenges. In our conversation, Joe shares:

• Why the critical voice in your head is always wrong, and how to change your relationship with that voice

• Why authenticity trumps self-improvement

• The importance of embracing all of your emotions

• How to create more enjoyable and effective meetings

• The power of gratitude in transforming your life

• Practical experiments for personal growth

• Much more

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• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-hudson/

• Website: https://www.artofaccomplishment.com/

• Podcast: https://www.artofaccomplishment.com/podcast

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In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Joe’s background

(02:31) The critical voice in your head

(06:39) Changing your relationship with the critical voice

(13:19) Understanding and embracing emotions

(19:52) The importance of emotional fluidity

(24:40) Questioning assumptions and self-perception

(30:25) The consequences of avoiding emotions

(36:57) Experimenting with self-improvement

(39:42) Understanding efficiency and enjoyment

(43:17) The power of enjoyment in daily tasks

(45:03) Innate enjoyment vs. learned enjoyment

(46:31) Authenticity vs. self-improvement

(50:01) Embracing emotional experiences

(55:49) How understanding your emotions helps you make better decisions

(01:02:53) Creating effective teams and meetings

(01:10:40) Gratitude practice for personal growth

(01:15:36) Conclusion and final thoughts

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Referenced:

• Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain: https://www.amazon.com/Descartes-Error-Emotion-Reason-Human/dp/014303622X/

• Joe’s quote about joy: https://x.com/FU_joehudson/status/1756837774743790030

• “Emotional Inquiry”: https://www.artofaccomplishment.com/podcast/emotional-inquiry

• Inside Out 2: https://movies.disney.com/inside-out-2

• “Question the Assumption”: https://www.artofaccomplishment.com/podcast/question-the-assumption

• Bodega Bay: https://www.bodegabay.com/

• Elon Musk reveals the interview question he asks every candidate to instantly spot a liar: https://www.good.is/elon-musk-reveals-the-one-job-interview-question-he-asks-every-candidate-to-instantly-spot-a-liar

• Great Decisions course: https://www.artofaccomplishment.com/course/great-decisions-course

• HBR Analytic Services: https://hbr.org/hbr-analytic-services

• Connection Course: https://www.artofaccomplishment.com/course/the-connection-course

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0:00.0	A lot of the people in my circles may have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to try to arrange a life that they enjoy and it doesn't fund them work.
0:08.0	What is holding people back? It's the fact that they have emotions that they are not sitting feeling or expressing
0:14.3	whatever emotion that you're trying to avoid you are inviting into your life in exactly
0:18.9	the way that you're trying to avoid it.
0:20.7	What the hell why would it?
0:22.0	What does this? this have this really amazing
0:24.5	insight? The voice in your head is often telling you bullshit. What most people
0:28.1	try to do is they try to stop it and that doesn't work very well. I think the
0:31.0	best way to work with the voice in the head is to pick an experiment every day and respond to the voice in the
0:36.2	head in a new way every day. One of my favorite responses is, oh I see that you're really scared.
0:40.9	Don't worry, I'm right here with you I got you you really big
0:43.2	on helping people feel joy is like such an important tool for productivity if you
0:48.3	say I'm going to figure out how to enjoy what I do 10% more and you succeed you are 10% more efficient.
0:55.0	Not only that usually the quality is going to get a lot better too.
0:57.8	Is there just like one thing you recommend that basically everyone try to experiment with?
1:02.0	Yeah, it'll change your life dramatically, really quickly.
1:05.0	Today my guest is Joe Hudson.
1:11.0	Joe is one of the most sought after executive coaches amongst
1:15.1	tech leaders and has worked with folks from open AI SpaceX Apple and other
1:19.3	world-class companies. Joe's unique approach to coaching draws from his spiritual, psychological, and neurological practices.
1:26.0	And in his intimate courses that he runs a few times a year and in his podcast, he helps people create the life that they want with enjoyment and ease.
1:34.6	In our conversation, Joe shares the two things that he finds most often keep people stuck in their
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