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Jun 2023
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TIP561: Discovering Your Hidden Genius w...

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About this episode

Clay Finck and Polina Pompliano discuss her book "Hidden Genius," exploring mental frameworks of high performers to unlock their full potential.

After five years of writing The Profile, Polina Marinova Pompliano has studied hundreds of successful people and examined how they reason their way through problems, unleash their creativity, navigate relationships, and perform under extreme pressure.


IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

00:00 - Intro.

02:11 - How Polina defines success.

04:40 - What people-based learning is and why it’s so powerful.

06:41 - Why creativity is like a muscle that can be trained and improved upon.

14:47 - How we can master the skill of mental toughness.

27:16 - What an alter ego is and how it can be used to elevate our lives to the next level.

34:04 - Challenges Polina overcame to go from working at prestigious companies like CNN & Fortune to working for herself.

55:50 - How to ensure you have a healthy content diet.

63:14 - How to balance in-person and online relationships in the modern digital world.

65:16 - Polina’s lessons from studying MMA heavyweight world champion Francis Ngannou.

74:17 - Why you should bet on yourself by tying your identity to your name.


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