132: Why Goodwill Is The Most Powerful Currency w/ Rob Booker
There are many moments in business and life when we are confronted with a situation where we just don’t know what to do. However, these are often truly defining moments for us because, if we persevere, we almost always come out better on the other side.
Rob Booker, one of my new best friends, is many things. He is a former commodity trading advisor who managed a small hedge fund. Today he hosts The Traders Podcast, is the author of Adventures of a Currency Trader, and runs an amazing YouTube channel. He’s been on an incredible journey. After “mistakenly” starting a company 18 years ago in finance he’s found brilliant ways to continually rebuild his business so that it will stand up to the challenges that present themselves over time.
In this conversation, Rob and I talk about how we can all easily and effectively support and promote each other in many ways. Goodwill is a powerful currency in business and it’s important to build it up from the start. Rob explains how it is the number one reason that we want to help each other but is woefully missing in today’s world.
Rob also drops some real truth about where self-esteem comes from and how it is the most important element of success. We’re often confronted with difficult and unclear situations, but as Rob tells us, these moments make us who we are and show us what we are truly capable of achieving.
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In this episode
- How to easily make a testimonial look authentic
- The importance of building up goodwill with others from the very start
- The source of self-esteem and how it applies to everything that you do
- What happens when you don’t stand for anything in your business
- What to do when you feel like you need to be constantly creating
- The amazing results that come from knowing your mission in life and business
Quotes
“From a very early age, I equated my self-worth, self-esteem, and value with how much I could give of myself to other people…. You can let that get out of hand in your life.” [14:04]
“There’s got to be some amount of goodwill built up in today’s world. It’s the one thing that’s missing all the time now.” [23:58]
“The only place from which self-esteem can come is from doing things which you know are right and building up a deposit of all of those things which is transferable to other things which you’ve never done before which scare you.” [32:35]
“We’re a little bit afraid of rocking the boat because we’re like, who am I going to offend that was going to be my next $100,000 customer? And I say, no one wants to hire someone who is going to play by the rules. You’re going to hire someone who’s going to game the system and be a little bit edgy.” [47:19]
“When you buy something, you’re asking to be transported out of your current life into something else. There’s no way that vanilla boring person is going to take you there.” [52:17]
Links
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The Go-Giver by Bob Burg and John David Mann
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