The Outlier Code: Recent Episodes
Arnold Gates
A catalyst podcast striving to ignite the untapped potential in others and move them along the path toward self-actualization.
"In The Arena: Becoming a Person of Action"
In this episode, I share my thoughts on being a person of action and the importance of stepping into the arena of life. Using Theodore Roosevelt's famous quote as a starting point, I discuss the challenges and rewards of pursuing our dreams and making a difference in the world. Whether you are looking to make a big impact or simply positively impact one person's life, this episode will motivate and encourage you to be your best self. Let's get after it!
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"The Power to Create: Stop Waiting for the Perfect Moment"
In this episode, I strive to inspire you to tap into your own inner strength and power. I want to remind you that you already have everything you need to progress and that it's embedded within you. Instead of waiting for perfection, I encourage you to focus on improving your present moment and taking action toward your aspirations.
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"The Morning Wake-Up: The First Test of Discipline"
In this episode, I delve into the power of discipline and determination in achieving our goals. I share how seizing the day and owning the morning can set the pace for the rest of our day, and emphasize the importance of discipline, particularly in the morning wake-up routine as the first test of discipline.
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"The Warrior Within: The Moment I Decided to Take Action and Change My Life"
In this podcast episode, I discuss the transformative power of inspiration and how to break free from feeling trapped in a suboptimal life. I share my personal story of overcoming a difficult job and poor health to discover the importance of finding inspiration to strive for greatness and create an extraordinary life. I emphasize the need to feed our minds with various forms of inspiration and take full responsibility for our progress.
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"Choosing Your Own Path: Embracing Individuality and Overcoming Fear"
In this podcast, I talk about the value of hard work and determination, and the risks of feeling entitled. I share my personal experience of pursuing a path that felt true to me, even though it was difficult and different from my original plans. I believe that embracing our unique selves and pursuing our passions helps us achieve our full potential and become the heroes of our own lives.
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"Embrace The Dream: The Importance of Grit and Determination"
In this episode, I cover the importance of dreaming and taking action in order to keep your dream alive. I emphasize the importance of being kind to ourselves, believing in ourselves, and having grit in order to achieve our goals. I encourage you to embrace failure as a learning opportunity and to stay on the path.
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**In this episode, I discuss the need to know what makes the journey worthwhile, what inessentials you can remove so you can focus on the essential work of your life, and what discomfort should be prescribed into your schedule to continue to grow.
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Most individuals fail at achieving their ambitions because of a lack of attentiveness and effort. This blues-inspired episode challenges you to be less casual with your pursuits and to be focused by removing the distractions that plague your genius.
I hope you enjoy it, AG.
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This episode is all about the enemy within. There's a famous quote, "If there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do you no harm". I tell a short parable about a wolf crossing the desert, a poetic attempt at illustrating our innate ambitions, the need to face unfamiliar territory in pursuit of more, and how negative thinking can prevent progress.
I hope you enjoy it, AG.
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The greatness you are seeking belongs only to the individual that has mastered their inner world. We are all tested and pestered by doubt. Yet, we must have faith and continue to press on, preparing and waiting for our moments of courageousness.
This episode focuses on two notes:
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Don’t value others' opinions over your own.
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Watch What You Say To Yourself.
I hope you enjoy it,
AG.
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This episode is about taking time to detach and reflect on your pursuits. We can get so caught up in our ambitions that time away can benefit our performance overall. We can take time to calibrate ourselves on what we are building or pursuing and how we've grown and changed. Then we can re-engage with our pursuits with renewed energy and focus.
AG.
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"Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly" - Franz KafkaIt can be difficult at times to stay true to what you want and who you want to become. Especially when you are on the cusp of big change or when the endeavor gets complex.
This is when mindset and passion have high utility.Trust your deeper self - AG.
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This episode is about the power of meaning and asking ourselves what responsibility should we take on in that meaning. This quote says it all:
“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.” - Viktor Frankl
I hope you enjoy the episode - AG.
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Marcus Aurelius wrote, “At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself. I have to go to work – as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for – the things I was brought into the world to do?”This episode is about starting before we have it all figured out. Starting so we can learn as we do, that nothing gets done or manifested without first getting started. Lastly, I speak to the importance of developing and achieving with values as guiding principles. Because who we are becoming is more important than simply achieving.
I hope you enjoy the episode - AG.
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Pushing yourself and being outside your comfort zone, what I refer to in the episode as "the edge", can wear on you. But we cannot allow our minds to take hold of the negativity and have it overshadow the positive. We must remind ourselves that we are the architects. We have decided to step out onto the edge. Sometimes disconnecting and recalibrating is necessary, so we can return to the intensity of our pursuits with clarity as we progressively grow our endurance and stay true to our ambitions.
I hope you enjoy the episode - AG.
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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man”
-George Bernard Shaw
On some level believing that things could be different for you can appear a bit unreasonable at times. We often have hidden genius and creativity that we’ve compiled away in the basements of our minds, yet long to bring into the light.
Many of us are natural creators, playfully dreaming and imagining what we could bring into the world, the identity we could manifest, the life we could mold and design. Is it unreasonable for us to hold so tightly, to not allow the dream to fade for a more reasonable ambition?I hope you enjoy the episode - AG.
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When was the last time you thought about who you are becoming?
"Sow a thought and you reap and action. Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny" - Emerson.
This episode is all about thinking about the "why" behind our change and the power of being emotionally connected to that "why". This emotional charge gives us the catalytic energy to take action and ultimately reap the character we desire.
I hope you enjoy the episode - AG.
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We go deep in this episode, diving into questions like:
How ambitious are you?
Do you understand what it'll take to achieve your ambitions?
Is it balanced and in line with what you value most?
Get calibrated on what you want out of this year. This life. Get focused and serious about it and live it with intensity and love. Give what you can to your family and friends, laughing and celebrating, and doing as much of what you love to do. Get on course sooner rather than later and avoid the endeavors that are distractions.
Be an outlier - AG
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Mark Twain wrote, “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear”
No one wants to live a constrained, conformed life, a life dictated and limited by their fears. The ambition in us calls for more.
In this episode, I share a story of when I reached the field phase of my Air Force Special Warfare training that took place in the Florida Swamps. This moment, of stepping into the darkness and the unknown is intended to communicate the necessity of courage.
I hope you enjoy it - AG
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With the new year on the horizon, we begin to reflect on the year that has passed, and we gear up for the year ahead. Many of us will set new year’s resolutions.
We hunger for change, to step closer to the desired identity, spend more time in fulfilling activity, and rid ourselves of unfavorable habits.
In this episode, I speak to the intuition for evolving, connecting to a higher realm, finding stillness and silence, and practicing gratitude.
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I believe that we are facing a battle of the spirit.
I once read a quote that states, “The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man”.
It appears we are barely holding this battleline, darkness and evil are formidable foes. Each of us, day to day, is either choosing the good or not.
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What would this world look like if we all pursued what we loved?
Williamson stated, “as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others”
We should feel a responsibility to pursue our ambitions with intensity, with fire, and to rebel against the forces of doubt.
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Discipline, “the root of all good qualities, the driver of daily execution” Jocko Willink.
If you want to make things happen, you need to decide that you will be disciplined. No one can give or take it from you. You earn it. You just got to accept that it’s going to be a fight. A fight of willpower. You need to will yourself to do the things you know you need to do.
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“Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor” Alexis Carrel.
Do not stray from the hard work, the early morning wake-ups, the long hours, the rigorous training sessions, the difficult thinking, and planning. Face them. Be bold and wild - be a disruptor and raise the standards of the individuals around you.
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"Ambition is the choice to be, have, do, or experience something greater in our lives" Brendan Burchard
We all have a desire for something greater in our lives. Though, we don’t always pursue it. We succumb to the mundane. The mediocrity of comfort and forgo our responsibility to our calling. Let’s take a stand against our own compulsions to cage our minds and souls and get aggressive about our ambitions.
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There is nothing more fulfilling than the pursuit of your highest ideal. We want to be the hero of our own life’s story. To accept the call from ambition and cross the threshold into the extraordinary.
You must be willing to be different. To separate yourself from the majority, from the familiar, from the average, and be an outlier.
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