Growth Mindset Show Ep. 14 - 2022

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My name is Mahesh Chand. I'm founder of C-Shout Corner and host of this Growth Mindset Show

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If you are joining us first time, welcome to the show. I'm here, I'm outside of Philadelphia, not far from it

And today is very nice, amazing, beautiful 80 degrees or maybe 90 degrees

So summer is almost here. Outside is nice, beautiful, flowers everywhere. Today we got a very exciting show

We are going to talk about energy, a very important show. as well if you focus on health and energy and productivity and motivation and everything else

We have a special guest, Aaron Johnson. Aaron Johnson is a motivational speaker. He's also

a former professional player, basketball player, and also runs his own company. So he will talk

more about himself when we invite him. If you are joining us first time, just want to let you know

that this show is actually focused around you. We take all kinds of questions

Just post your comments, post your questions. Chime in what you like, what you don't like

You agree, disagree. Venkat, welcome back to the show. Everybody's good. Good morning to you

Good evening there in India. Everybody welcome to the show. Yeah, just say hi when you join the show first time

Just say hi so we know you're here. let us know if you watch frequently or you are here first time. Again today we are going to talk

about energy and how it's important to kind of think about energy when you're thinking about

productivity and efficiency. So yeah let's get this started. So what I will do today is actually

first I will start the show with our topic of the day. Today I'm going to invite our guest

and end of the show, we are going to talk about some of the things we have done on the website

C Sharp Corner, as well as we have some upcoming excitement coming up on the, in the community

not just, not just from the online part, but also, you know, I don't know if you saw the news

but Simon, you know, we have started doing some, you know, in-person meetup meetings

at least start traveling around and things are getting better. so all right so let's get this started uh let's make this screen uh big uh i'm doing this show

from my iphone today hopefully you all can see it looks nice and bright and black oh i'm matching

today see my shirt with mindcracker and mindcracker logo here awesome what a mess that's

great you see my background now i mean this wall has always been there but this is nicely now you

can see Swami Vivekananda which is awesome my favorite person all right so

let's get started so today we're going to talk about energy and how energy

matters and I'm going to relate it all that to our productivity and how we do

work right so before we start anything I'm gonna talk about what energy is and

I'm sure some of you already know think of energy it's a fuel right so if you

have a car you have a car you need a fuel to drive the car there's no fuel the car can't go anywhere

right so we as a as a human body if you compare this human body to a car you know or even a

computer i like to compare with the computer because we are in computer that's easy for us

to kind of compare uh energy is electricity right so we need electricity to run our power to run the

computer so it's important to you know we need energy we need to get energy we also need to

spend energy that's what energy is all about right and this how we consume and spend energy

can lead to good results and bad results and that's really where we are here today to talk

about so what i will do is let's invite our friend Aaron Johnson so we can take these topics together

and just talk together and just share with you. And if you have any questions, any comments

you agree, disagree, feel free to chime in, post your comments, post your thumbs up

thumbs down, ask your questions. So let's get our guest in here, Aaron Johnson

Hey, Aaron. Hey, Maj. Great, thanks for having me today. I'm excited to be on the show

No, awesome, awesome. You're welcome back. I know you were there before one more time

You want to quickly tell our audience about yourself? Sure. Yeah, it's a pleasure being here on this show

Growth Mindset Show. And my background is a former professional basketball player

played 11 years professionally, stood in the NBA. The rest was in Europe

I was able to start a company called Ball Beyond, which is a training and consulting company

for mostly basketball players and athletes. I helped get the third player ever to be drafted in the NBA or G League affiliate from India

Here in America, drafted by an NBA affiliate team. I started an education company that helps place international kids from all over the world

And now I'm doing a lot of motivational speaking and life coaching with a lot of different people as well as companies

So I'm just excited to be here and share my thoughts and hopefully everyone gains some perspective from it

That's great. That's great. So we have audience joining up, Kesav is joining us. Good morning, Kesav. Vaskar, welcome to the show. Naveen, welcome to the show. I'm glad you guys are here

So Aaron today we are talking about energy and you know how energy is very important for us to do anything in life right And energy can be in bad ways in good ways and how goal really is to share some tips like how do you convert your energy into

the right direction right it's all about pointing the right direction right so I'm going to share

some of your slides here so Simon if you can bring the slides in so you know before we talk on the

topic so I want to break down this energy there's two kinds of energy right as a human you know

there's six kind whatever but I'm breaking simplifying it there's an energy you know like

body energy and brain energy body energy is physically what we do and usually obviously for

body energy we need food exercise sleep all that so physical energy that's think of that and there

is a brain energy brain is all means you know you may be sitting or sleeping or whatever but brain

is still doing something right so goal really is to think about these little bit give you little

thoughts on that. So when you are thinking about you need more energy, you're tired, you feel tired

What can you do so you don't feel that tired? Also, how you can use your brain as a being more

productive. So that's kind of we want to break around here. You know, it's just two, three more

slides and then we will talk. So we know that in this universe, energy is finite, right? E equal to

MC square. I'm sure everybody, all people you are watching here, you have read that E equal to MC

square, right? So same thing with us, right? Energy in, energy out, and we have to make the balance

Sometimes if you are spending too much energy, then you already have, that means you're going

to get tired. So when you feel tired, it's that simple that you have less energy, you're spending

more, but you have less. Sometimes you are too energetic and you don't have a lot of work

it simply means you are taking too much energy in, and then you're not taking out too much

um so how do you balance that and balance is the key that's the difference balance is the key

so Aaron I want to bring you in and sure what do you do like how do you balance your energy like

when you think of you know in day to day you know obviously we all do sometimes less work sometimes

more work sometimes we are tired sometimes we are motivated how do you balance that in your day-to-day

life? I think the biggest thing is when you wake up in the morning, that sets a menu of your day

So, you know, a menu for something to eat would be, you know, breakfast, lunch, dinner, then you

have your main courses. I set up energy that way. When I wake up, I do 50 push-ups to get my blood

flowing, to get my body going, and then I take a cold shower. After that, I go get either a

sweat in or I get on calls and I start my day. I think it's so important to get your blood moving

and your body moving to start your day so that you can create that positive energy. And I think

a lot of negative energy and a lot of low energy people, they have a tendency to speak low. I think

your voice and the way you carry yourself gives you an opportunity to create positive energy and

energy that people are drawn to. I think energy, people draw to positive energy and people stay

away from negative energy. And you can see that by the way people talk, the way they carry

themselves, the way they're passionate about things. So I think on a daily basis, the way I

address it is I have a menu of energy every day from what I do from an exercise point, what I put

into my body and then ultimately at the end of the day how I settle myself down after a long day

of hard work which we've all had well that's interesting that's great so we just heard that

energy is like a menu right it's like a to-do list it's like your task yeah you just you just

can't go and wake up and do whatever you have to kind of plan it right and you said it that's great

that that's great that you can you start with this doing some push-ups and then you start with cold

shower that kind of I think wakes you up which means get your your engine running it's like

engine running yeah you start the car and then get the energy flowing and then obviously good

food matters too so yeah so take those tips that I didn't know that voice yeah that's very important

I never thought of that like if you are speaking up you kind of are more like have a lot more

positive energy then you are you know low and yeah that's a good point I never thought of that

do you guys everybody who's watching us do you agree disagree also share your thoughts what do

you think of when you think of energy when you see somebody talking really low and down what do

you think of that do you get drawn to them or do you yourself what kind of energetic person are you

so let us know let us know start posting your comments here so one thing as you know we know

that similar to any gas or, you know, electricity and all that, you, I think what a lot of people

here's a funny story I'll talk to. Yesterday, I was in New York, okay? Yesterday, I was in New York

I took a cab. Obviously, New York cab takes forever, you know, from one place to other place

And this taxi driver, he's been talking almost for, I like, I'm listening to him and he's talking to

somebody for like literally 42 minutes. And I'm not sure what he's talking, but obviously, if he's

talking to somebody for 42 minutes here, somebody's talking to 40 minutes to two minutes from there

So what I have noticed, Aaron, is in my life is people who are really don't have anything to do

or they are not really successful. To me, they seems to be talked a lot more and seems like

they're really busy. You will always see they're always busy. They're always late

But if you should look at the traits of successful people, like including Bill Gates

Warren Buffet and all that, you look at anybody who's successful, they always seem to have enough

time and enough energy. They always, you will never find them busy. I wonder what's that. Do you want

to share some thoughts on that? Yeah. You know, there's, I forget who said it, but there's, you

know, energy is so contagious, good or bad. And I think when you're, you know, you're in business

or you're in relationships and you're trying to do different things, you know, people have a

tends to say, I'm really busy. Busy is relative. Busy is relative to who you want to see. If you're

busy, but you really want to see someone, you make time. If you're busy and there's a deal you

want to close, you'll make time. I think the people that operate at the highest levels in business and

just in relationships in general are the people that don't let negative energy come into their day

where they may say they're busy because they understand that time will create negative energy

for them. And I think that's so important because in our lives, it's not being disrespectful to

somebody. But if you want to create, if you want to continue to grow, you have to grow with people

around you that want to do the same thing. And it's one thing to help somebody, but it's another

thing to continue to be around people that always tell you how you can't do things instead of how

you can. And I think in society globally, you know, we have, we have a tendency of friends

when, when you're growing and you're climbing that mountain, whatever it is in life or business

you know, people tell you how that you can't do it and why you shouldn't do it. And I think that's a little bit of obviously negative energy because they're afraid you're

going to do it. And there's a little bit of insecurity about their own life. I think the

best thing we can do is when someone says that is be positive with them and push them and don't

drag them down and say, this is stupid, you're not going to do it. That's that kind of is a

self reflection of what you are. And I think going back to what we're speaking about an energy is

that that draws incredibly negative energy. And then what it does is it makes you become almost

someone that always wants someone to fail, because you can say I told you so. So I think it's so

important to understand that busy is relative and it relative to who and what you dealing with If you really want to do something we always make time So that a good point Busy is relative right So what I have you know I not sure

Most of us know that when we are doing something or let's say talking to something or thinking about something

if you prioritize your task, as you said, like this is my priority in a day and this is my focus

So if you want to get, you know, your business going on or you want to get your book writing or article writing finished or you want to have your programming done, you need to prioritize that

Right. So a lot of people, what I see is they will do things, talk about things where they don't matter to them

Like I see people where they will talk about other people for hours and hours and hours

It's adding no value to their own goals. Right. So to me, that's the kind of biggest waste of energy because you may not be spending your physical energy a lot, but your brain is still drowning

It's literally spending all that energy. Your brain is thinking, right? If you're talking about some people, it's thinking about those people, the pictures in the brain

It's processing how bad they are, how good they are. So to me, the spending time on things that don't matter to your goals is kind of waste of energy

You know, right. So it's like it's like you are, you know, watering a garden with no flowers in it

You just like watering the grass. There will be no flowers. So you've got to focus where the flowers are. Right. Yeah

So that's great. Good point. So, yeah. So point is that, you know, when I was listening to this taxi guy and I said, hey, stop here, let's go

He's like, I'm busy. Give me a second. I'm like, you're busy. I understand. But you got to get moving because I need to go somewhere

So whenever everybody is watching this show, think about you feel like you're busy

But are you really busy? Are you busy? Busy in what? You know, some people in the I know you're busy without business, right

Sometimes you're busy without business. so you have no business but you're busy because you are working on things that don't matter to you

so try to prioritize those tasks all right so let's get back to our slides

so yeah so again that's what we just talked about is don't spend your energy on things that don't

add any value to your goals and i think it start with your goals in life your goals in a day

your tasks in the day once you start prioritizing things and revolve everything around that

your energy will then be focused and spend on right things. So that's kind of one of the biggest tips I can give you

Deepak, welcome to the show. Naveen, welcome to the show. Good to see you guys back

Hopefully you are learning something useful today. Today we have here Aaron Johnson, CEO of Ball Beyond

motivational speaker. We are talking about energy, how to, you know, get more out of your day or your time

Obviously, the last point here is that you've got to monitor and measure energy

And that's what really Aaron also mentioned that you need to, you know, start with your day

have your menu there. The menu means like, okay, this is what I'm going to do today

Start with the right, you know, mindset. All right. So let's back to there

So where do you, so now we just talked about energy. Now let's talk about how do we sometimes

you know, we don't have enough energy. Some say, oh, I'm so tired. Oh, I can't think straight

So, you know, we talk about two kinds of energy here. One is physical energy, body energy

One is brain energy. So how do you really find energy or create more energy, right

And Aaron, I think you covered this a little bit. In my, I think I have here, as I say, if you want to have more energy in your body, you start exercising

You need to eat good food. You need to have really good sleep. You also need to figure out how to compete and also how to get motivated

Do you agree with that? Do you want to add something to that? Yeah, I think it's so important

And what we put in our body. I think, you know, when we have lethargic meals that are heavy in breads and butter and different things, it's automatically going to draw us to have a little lower energy because we're going to get tired

We're going to get sleepy. We're going to be kind of lackadaisical. And it's going to be hard to move throughout our day

And I talked about this with some of my athletes and some of the different places I've spoken is, you know, if you're training for a fight or you're training for a job that you want

You're training for a relationship. You want to be in the best shape possible, mind, body and physically

So it's the same thing with energy. Like it's what you put in is what you give out

So if you're if you're taking in foods that are giving energy that are high in, you know, vitamin C and vitamin D and give you that, you know, that extra morning, you know, burst, that's going to help you in your day

And I think if you're going to have meals that kind of are, you know, comfort meals, have them in the evening before you go to, you know, necessarily before you relax and do that

because I know so many people that, you know, my friends, for instance, I tell them, hey

stop drinking coffee, you know, having coffee and four donuts, because those donuts and all that

sugar is taking all that good energy out of your body and making you sleepy and, and wanting to

relax and not be motivated to the next thing. So I think, I think food is so important. And I think

you know, when you put good things in your body, it gives good things out. And that's something

that, you know, we say it's cliche, but if you really, like I said, build that menu of success

every day with your energy, what you eat physically, you'll start to have incredible energy throughout

your day and feel way better about yourself. Yep. Yep. And also, yeah, brain, let's talk about brain

energy now, right? So I was reading more. So there's something that can help you, you know

get your brain going on. Obviously, exercise helps both sides, physical and mental, but also reading

problem solving, running and learning new things. They kind of help your brain gets more energy

right? As you said already, energy is contagious. So hanging out with right people

So every time I know when, you know, I used to go to this MVP summit at Microsoft in Seattle

and this is once a year conference where all the MEPs around the globe they come so when you go

there and hang out with them for five days by the time you come back you just get so much energy

that's good enough for the whole year that fuels you motivates you like yeah I gotta do more of

that thing and it's this energy is not just that's done in one day this energy lasts you like for a

long time. So you want to share something on that, how people can achieve that, like where they can

get more energy by hanging out with the right people? Yeah, I think I've taken a lot of, I've

taken, I've gotten really good energy and really good motivation from learning from people who

who are where I want to be. And every, you know, the key with that is a lot of people look at

the person in front of them or where they want to be, and they try to emulate every step of the way

what they've done. And you can't do that because you're unique. You have your own story and you

have your own trials and tribulations that you're going to go through to get there

So I always like to look at people that have taken nothing and turned into something massive

Obviously, you have Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, who are visionaries. And I think

a lot of energy, good and bad, comes from fear. I think fear gives us good and bad energy. I think

in business, if you don't have any fear you're gonna fail, that's super dangerous because you're gonna be fearful

when you start a company or how you're gonna pay rent, but that's what drives you to win

And I think sometimes when you have, you either have fear that you're gonna lose it all

or you have fear that you never gonna get there And I think fear is good and fear can be you know taken in a way where you can drive yourself to face it We all know the psychology of fear is to face it if you want to get rid of it

If you're scared of spiders, you need to be in front of a spider and not run away from it. If

you're scared of snakes, you need to face it head on and hopefully not get bitten and get through

that situation. But I think fear does an amazing thing. When you're trying to figure out of what

your life is going, you have to be willing to step outside of your comfort zone. And that'll

create that energy and that momentum that'll get you to where you want to go. And I think

that fear energy all relates so much because, you know, when you're hit with that big hardship

whatever it is, you all your mind goes to the worst thing always. And it's hard to train your

mind to get to the next stage and say, no matter what is coming or what I face, I'm not going to

look at the glass, you know, half empty, but half full. So I think those type of things are really

important to find motivation and people that where you're trying to get to. And then when you feel

those moments of fear and anxiety, that you step into them with two feet and face them as hard as

you can. And I'm telling you, that will create the positive energy you need to finish your day or go

after your goals. Very good. Very good point. Good point. So everybody who's watching, joining us

we are today talking about energy on this growth mindset show. Everybody, welcome to the show

Feel free to ask no questions. Feel free to chime in. What do you think about today's topic? Do you

like this? Do you agree, disagree? Feel free to post your comments. Yeah, let's get finished to

are almost done there right so other things um um you can also do is with uh you know you can stay

positive and read successful stories and challenge yourself i think challenging yourself is one of the

big thing you can actually train your mind and that will eventually turn into more and more

so with that said i think this is it this is our episode on the energy i want to go back to now

So, Aaron, Simon, you can remove the slides now. So, Aaron, now I know you are a motivational speaker and also trying to start your business and all that

So if anybody who's watching this show and they want to start their own business, what did you learn from your experience which you can share

You know they will go through that and they will probably get stuck. And how do you overcome from that

I think the biggest thing is don't be afraid to be vulnerable

I think vulnerability is so great if you can just accept it and understand that your path in business is going to be challenging

And no matter what you think is going to happen, it probably won't. It's almost like a fire that comes when you don't expect it

You have to put it out and rebuild that area that was burned. I think business has been the most challenging thing in my life, becoming a former athlete and then getting into the business world

I'm still learning every day. I'm still growing every day. But I'm realizing that you only have one

You know, when you're the business owner and you're creating something, the good thing about it is it's on you

It's on your shoulders. It's on you. You can't blame anybody. It's completely on you. And I think if you're willing to take that chance and you're willing to be vulnerable and humble yourself

you can be successful. And I think in the things that I've started and things that I'm involved in

I'm learning so much. And it's made me grow as a person because taking that on your shoulders

and creating wealth that never existed is an incredible feeling. And also when things aren't

going well, it's an incredible feeling. So my biggest advice if you're starting a business

and want to get started is be vulnerable, number one, and step into fear, number two

Number three, understand the market you're getting into. Number four, understand the demographic you're getting into, depending if it's a product

and service, or if you're trying to start a coding company or something in technology

find great mentors to help you through that process so you can have great information to

begin your business. And then lastly is read and just understand everything around your business, because the more you read, the more you see what's out there, the more you make better decisions

And I think those those things have really helped me to not just start the business, to grow the business

And then more importantly, when we have these challenges with a month or two months or we're going through like the pandemic, which we've all seen is how to pivot

I think being agile is the biggest trait for being a great business person

And I'm still learning and I'm not where I need to be, but I'm growing. And I think the ability to be agile, to be able to pivot when things aren't working that way and changing a model to be successful

That's great. Awesome. Awesome. And I think that concludes our show. It's perfect timing

This is great, Aaron. Thank you so much for. thank you for having me and hopefully i'll bring you back again in the future

love to come thanks again everyone appreciate it so everybody um in a one more second here the so

if um if you are up to date on c-sharp corner website you probably noticed that we launched

a couple of new features um we have added a company profile what does that mean is if you

have a company and you're writing an article or you're doing anything on the side you can actually

update that and it will come on your content. That's good for actually entrepreneurs

or people who have their own small companies, consulting companies. So yeah, you can see right there

there's a new company profile that's available. Besides that, we have actually a

I know Simon was traveling in the last couple of, I would say months

and he had recently connected with MVPs in Hyderabad. So we are going to start doing some more MVP chapter events

And then last thing I want to add here is that there's a conference coming up

It's a bcrypt conference. It's for blockchain, cryptocurrencies, web-free world. So NFTs and all that

So if you are into that world, check out the website bcrypt.live

actually it's the same umbrella but there's going to be two conferences

one is in New York coming up in first week of June

and there's going to be second one in New Delhi in the third week of June

so check this out if you are local in those areas you want to learn more about blockchain

crypto NFTs and Web 3.0 this conference is probably for you it's going to be an exciting conference

a lot of learning. With that said, so next week, Aaron brought up a good topic, it's fear. So next

week, I'm going to actually talk about fear and how to overcome any kind of fear you may have

And trust me, I'm going to share a lot of personal experience. So join me next week

same time at noon, let's talk about fear and how to overcome your fear. With that said

I will thank you everybody for joining and be a part of this live show

And I will see you next week. Thank you