Everyone I know has been telling me that I have to interview Jill Coleman, who is like a fitness model and captain of industry all rolled into one. Jill is the owner of the hugely successful brand JillFit, where she helps people in the areas of mindset, physique, and business.
In This Conversation We Cover:
Stoic Philosophy & Playing Hard
Memento Mori translates to remember death, and it’s a phrase at the heart of Stoic philosophy.
For Jill, it really means creating or living life to the fullest. “Remember Death reminds me that this is finite. I have a limited amount of days or hours or minutes that I get to live and be in this space, and for me, it reminds me to take action, to do the scary stuff, to invest, to make a choice when I’m scared.”
Practical Pessimism & Productivity
Practical pessimism is really just a systematic way of looking at all of the scenarios that could happen if you take a big leap.
Say you’re going to start a business. Ask yourself, what is the worst thing that could possibly happen? Most people might go to I’m broke, homeless, or have to move back in with their parents.
Then ask yourself two more questions: If that happened, could you handle it? And if that did transpire, what is one single step you could take to get back to baseline?
There’s actually a lot of freedom in the worst-case scenario because it’s almost never as bad as you think it’s going to be.
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