Summary

“Are you living life or just paying bills until you die?”

Jay Alan Samit is a dynamic entrepreneur and intrepreneur who is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on disruption and innovation.  He launches billion dollar businesses, transforms entire industries, revamps government institutions, and for over three decades continues to be at the forefront of global trends.

He has recently launched his book called Disrupt You! This book aims to share and teach you how the same strategies and principles used to disrupt industries, can be applied at the individual level.

Samit is a change agent, who combines his bold vision and humor, to motivate audiences to become disruptors within their organizations or within their own lives.  Samit gets people passionate about innovation, overcoming obstacles, and teaches them how to think bigger and embrace change.

This is a great conversation with many great take-outs. I hope you enjoy. Peace, passion and purpose…

Key Take Outs

“You will have much more regret for the chances you didn’t take than the ones you attempted and failed.”

• Start with yourself: What is the story you are telling yourself? Give up on what is holding you back, let go of that old story and start creating the story that you want to live. This takes courage, action and the ability to learn. Throw yourself into personal development and transformation.
• No Limitations: With the advances in technology we now have greater access to information and connectivity than ever before. This is allowing us to transform those ideas we have more easily and at a faster rate. The boundaries that use to exist are decreasing across most, if not all industries- now anyone can do almost anything.
• The Idea Machine: James Altucher talks about writing 10 ideas about any topic each day. Put this task into daily practice and you will become an idea machine. You may eventually find that one idea that can solve a problem and if it is a problem that millions of people have- you’ll have a grand idea.
• The Disruptors Mindset: Have a mindset that constantly questions how things could be made better. In your everyday life you will no doubt come across many scenarios that in some way could be improved. Create this.
• Find your apostles: Find 10 people that can benefit from the problem you aim to solve and have them test your idea. Get them to tell you how bad it sucks. Learn and fine-tune it and then present it to people willing to back it. Your audience will validate your service or product.
• Insight and drive: These are the two qualities required to create your success, combined you can create and solve just about anything.
• Dream Big: Big ideas and big dreams attract great things. Don’t set your life goals on a small scale, instead make them mammoth! In doing this you will stretch yourself further, your ability’s, your learning’s, your ideas will 10x themselves and what you end up achieving will be much greater than any small goals you may have otherwise set yourself.

What advice would you give to your 20-year-old self?

Don’t worry about not having all the answers or don’t worry about the world not having all the answers. Go out there and discover them, this creates greater joy in life.

Jay’s interpretation of success

Wealth is what you take from the world, success is what you give to the world.

Quick round questions

Favourite Food

Pizza

Favourite Leisure Activitiy

Magic

Favourite book(s)

The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong by Lawrence Peters

Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation by Jay Samit

Quote

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, no one thinks of changing themselves.” Tolstoy

“If you think you can or you think you can’t, your right.”

What does living life with passion and purpose mean?

Having a life so full with opportunity that you’re running out of hours in the day.

How to find Jay and other links

You can visit Jay’s website here.

Get his 40 page workbook here.