#89 - Empathy | A Guide To Happier Relationships
Becoming Great.com
This is a deep guide to happier relationships and the skill of empathy. Learning this skill will make you important in other people's lives. You will be able to know what to say in difficult situations and solve almost any conflict. In this episode we will dive into six different topics. Topic 1 - Why empathy is important Empathy is a complicated word. In our first topic we will explain what it means and how it feels. We used to be bad at empathy ourselves, without even knowing, so here we will also dive into how to know if you are good or bad at empathy. Topic 2 - 4 Stages of...
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#88 - Lying | 4 kinds of lies. When to use them, and when not to
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For you listening, today you will learn the answer questions like "Why are we lying?", "How can I be more honest?", "How can I stop lying?", "How can I make others stop lying to me?" and much more! In this episode, we will dive into five different topics. Topic 1 - Lying to avoid difficult conversations. These are the kind of lies we tell our friends and family members when we are put in difficult situations. Lies like saying we would love to visit our parents in law, when we actually don't, or saying that sure we want to come to that dinner, when in fact we would rather stay home. When are...
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#87 - Personal Values | The truth of who you are (and what secretly runs your life)
Becoming Great.com
For you listening, today you will learn: How everybody have values they don't even know about, and how these values secretly runs out lives. How these values are the reasons why we make certain decisions and why we take different actions.
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#86 - Long-Term Thinking | How to apply it for money, health & relationships
Becoming Great.com
Today we will talk about "long-term thinking". What does it even mean to "think long term" and how can you listening apply it in your life?
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#85 - Confidence | 4 important steps to building strong self-confidence
Becoming Great.com
If your confidence is low, you will have so many regrets. You will be too afraid to start that business, you will not tell that person you love them, and you will let people walk all over you.
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#84 - Self-esteem | A deep understanding of what it is & how to build it
Becoming Great.com
If you are suffering from overthinking, envy, comparing yourself with others, procrastination, or fear of failing - you most likely have the same problem as we've had - you are emotionally poor.
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#83 - How to network online - find inspiring friends, love, mentors and business partners
Becoming Great.com
Networking is a very misunderstood term. Most people think that it's just about business - but your networking skills can even mean the difference between a sad and lonely life, and becoming rich and happy.
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#82 - 26 Habits for better FOCUS
Becoming Great.com
Your dreams will never come true unless you beat the number, one dream killer - procrastination.
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#81 - How to stop overthinking and procrastinating
Becoming Great.com
Erik has over 200 000 followers on Instagram and "How to stop procrastinating?" and "How to stop overthinking?" are by far the most common questions that he gets. Almost everyone has this problem. You are not alone.
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#80 - What is the business model of Great.com?
Becoming Great.com
Erik has invested $900 000 in the domain name Great.com because he wants to build a company that will change an entire industry from the inside and out.
info_outlineThere are four mistakes that almost everyone does in conversations. They are easy to avoid but most people are not even aware of them. You are most likely doing them as well - and they will lower your chances of happy relationships and successful careers. Today we are diving into how to develop the most important social skill by avoiding these mistakes.
Today's episode has been split up in four topics:
1. How do you stop making these mistakes?
2. What are the two most important mistakes to avoid?
3. Why giving advice at the wrong time is a huge mistake?
4. How do you stop making these mistakes?
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Today's episode is a personal development episode, where Erik Bergman and Emil Ekvardt explore topics about how to grow as a person.
We are both personal development junkies and spend many hours every week sharing our ideas and reading about new things. This episode is great for you who want to learn about our latest perspective. We share lots of personal stories, talk about how it applies in our lives, and where we have learned it from.
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1. We start by looking into how Erik was called "The radio" when he was a teenager and why he was talking so much. What were then underlying factors that made him be a person that always had something to say.
We are also looking into what it feels like to be around someone that talks a lot and shows how it will impact your life if you are a person who does.
2. In the second topic, we look into a painful memory from Erik's childhood and how he early on learned that he was doing social mistakes without fully understanding what they were. The look at the two most important mistakes to avoid, mistakes that we both have done over and over again in our lives and that we are now working on fixing.
3. In the third section we end up in a painful situation were we look into how Emil dealt with Erik's sadness when he had broken up with his girlfriend three years ago. Emil did some big mistakes that he wished that he would have avoided and we are looking at what he could have done instead.
4. In the fourth part, we talk about where do you start? What are the steps to take after this episode to make sure that you will quickly become a better listener, develop the most important social skill, and be more popular in social situations?
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