Simon Squibb: Investing in Strangers, Building Businesses and Our Education Problem (E322)
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Simon Squibb is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and passionate advocate for empowering the next generation. From starting his first business at 15 to mentoring others, Simon has dedicated his life to helping people unlock their potential and embrace their entrepreneurial spirit.
In this episode, Jake and Damian sit down with Simon to explore his mission for 2025: inspiring young people to take control of their futures by breaking away from traditional paths and embracing entrepreneurship. Simon shares why he believes university isn’t always the answer and encourages young people to use their early years to discover their true selves through exploration and learning.
He also dives into the key concepts from his book, revealing the seven barriers that hold people back from living their purpose. Simon talks about redefining hard work, the importance of building resilience, and how understanding the difference between a dream, a goal, and a purpose can lead to clarity.
This episode offers a thought-provoking discussion packed with practical advice, empowering ideas, and fresh perspectives on how to create a fulfilling future.
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| 0:00.0 | Don't forget you can watch our newest episodes before anyone else on the high performance app. |
| 0:03.9 | We've just released episodes with author of The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt, |
| 0:08.0 | and entrepreneur Simon Squib. |
| 0:11.4 | I've gone and ask thousands of people in the street what their dream is, |
| 0:14.3 | and I've seen what's stopping people. |
| 0:16.3 | And there's lots of things. |
| 0:17.9 | I think people should lean into pain more. |
| 0:20.3 | They should take risk more. On the other |
| 0:22.5 | side of pain is joy. But we can easily say no now, can we? We've got too weak and it's got too |
| 0:27.4 | easy. Go find out who you really are, not what the school's told you were going to be, what your |
| 0:31.4 | friends think you are. Go find out who you really are. That's the voice of businessman, podcaster and social media creator Simon Squibb, |
| 0:40.5 | who joins us today on High Performance. I'm Jake Humphrey and alongside our brilliant expert, |
| 0:45.9 | Damien Hughes. This is the show that explores stories, ideas and mindsets from some of the |
| 0:51.0 | world's greatest high performance. Now, it's likely that you'll recognise Simon |
| 0:54.8 | from his social media videos, which often go viral, where he just walks up to strangers with a very |
| 1:00.1 | simple question. What's your dream? A question which is also the title of his new book. And look, |
| 1:06.8 | it can sometimes feel really easy to get this pressure that you can always be hustling or grinding or pushing yourself to the next level. |
| 1:14.1 | But in this episode with Simon, we actually explore the importance of having dreams, the reality of pushing to get to the next level, |
| 1:21.7 | how you can identify what it is that you want in life. |
| 1:24.8 | And once you've done that, how you can go about achieving it. |
| 1:28.6 | This was a really interesting conversation with someone who, as you're going to hear, |
| 1:32.7 | is keen to challenge assumptions and conventions wherever he sees them. |
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