John Marty: Recent Episodes
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Uncommon by design is a philosophy. A relentless pursuit of self awareness and personal development to uncover and follow your life’s purpose. This channel is dedicated to sharing all the invaluable lessons I’ve learned on personal growth, happiness, my perspective on entrepreneurship, business, and leadership. A new video will be posted every Wednesday afternoon, so please feel free to "SUBSCRIBE" so you can be one the first to view them!
Monday Motivation - Overcoming Fear: This is a cinematic motivational video about overcoming fear to reach your dream. Don't ever let anyone's self limiting beliefs, or criticism stop you from going after your dreams. Put your head down, ignore the haters, and start taking action.
In this video, I'll share my perspective as an Amazon employee on how I answer the question "Tell me about yourself." My approach is non-traditional, but can be very effective at kickstarting a quality 2-way dialog.
Often times the job description is written by the recruiter and not the person that will become your boss. This creates a disconnect between what your eventual boss is looking for and what you actually applied for.
My approach is simple, non-traditional, and effective. It starts with a 90 second intro, that includes a brief summary of my education, followed by two accomplishments I am most proud of. Next, I ask a single question to uncover the key problem the hiring manager is looking to solve.
This approach get's your soon to be boss more engaged, allows them to tell you specifically what they are facing, and turns what would have been a 1 way conversation into a consulting session where you control the pace.
In this video I'll share 8 things I noticed and then changed during a real life resume writing exercise. These tips can be used by anyone looking to stand out. The inspiration from this video came from a quora post I did that received 45,000 views. In my post, I shared my opinion that resumes should always be one page.
In this video I'll talk about why it's important to celebrate and appreciate small victories.
It can be intimidating to start taking action towards a big dream or goal, especially because we compare ourselves to those who have already reached the top.
We often don't realize that if we just start, we'll grow, and when we grow, new opportunities will come our way.
Always point towards your goal, but spend 95% of your time focusing just a few steps ahead, and celebrate each small victory along your journey.
There's a lot of chatter about building a personal brand, but most people are thinking about it the wrong way. In this video, I'll break down how to think about personal branding the right way in 2018.
We’re told all the time to follow our passion, but should we really? Mike Rowe from the hit TV show Dirty Jobs says that following your passion is a bad idea. In this video I’ll reveal research from Harvard that back’s up Mike Rowe’s claims, and I’ll discuss the two origins of passion as well as provide a slightly different way of looking at following passion.
The phrase follow your passion has been woven into so many college commencement speaches and although it's inspiring, Mike Rowe points out that it could be a trap. Some young adults hone in one one passion and then try to find the perfect job to match that passion out of the gate without having an open mind. They set these huge expectations about how their career should be and become dissapointed when they start to struggle. If you do this and you set these types of expectations, the minute you struggle or face adversity your gonna think to yourself this can’t possibly be my passion because I should love what im passionate about...... and this is a big trap as Mike Rowe points out.
I was recently hired by Amazon as a Sr. Product Manager, but that likely wouldn't have happened if I didn't have College under my belt. I'd like to share my perspective on going to college and why, for me, I think it's still worth it in 2017 to go to College, despite the cost and investment in time.
I was able to leverage my business school degree after a failed entrepreneurial venture and land a six figure job, that I used to pivot into an amazing role at Amazon. Ultimately, I like to view College as an insurance policy that you can pull from your back pocket in the event you need to course correct your life.
In other news -
For those of you who are subscribers, It's been a while since my last post due to my recent move to Amazon in Seattle. As you can see, I've taken a different direction with the style of my videos, and I plan to post more regularly, now that things have settled down.
We always have the best intentions to workout consistently and reach our fitness goals, but after a while we sabotage ourselves and give up. Why do we give up when we know that reaching our fitness goals is so important?
In this video I'd like to take you on a journey to understand what willpower is, how to get more of it by understanding how Starbucks trains their employees to increase their willpower, and I’ll close with 5 tips on how to motivate yourself to go to the gym consistently and reach your fitness goals.
In this video I'll provide you 6 tips to make an unforgettable first impression that can be used for any encounter from a job interview to a date to a meeting with a potential client. All of which are backed by research. At the end of the video I’ll also reveal one thing you should never do when trying to make a great first impression.
According to a Princeton University study in 2006 it only takes 1/10th of a second to make a snap judgement of someone’s trustworthiness and attractiveness based on facial appearance alone. It's crazy to think how quickly people make first impressions of us!
What I found most fascinating about doing research on the topic of making a great first impression was that it's actually hard for people to make snap judgements on Competence. Humans only tend to care about trustworthiness at first to quickly determine friend or foe. This is likely a built in survival mechanism.
I think one of the key takeaways of this video if your trying to make a first impression for a job interview is to not worry so much about showing off your skills. What really matters is creating an emotional connection thought small talk where both parties have common ground.
Interestingly, when I went to software development school our teachers kept telling us that the people who got great jobs weren't the ones that had the most skill....they were the ones that you could envision sharing a beer with. Looks like the research confirms this! Skills can be taught, but the emotional connection is the primary concern.
Starting your day grounded in a sense of gratitude has been proven to lower stress, increase healthy eating, and even reduce the effects of aging to the brain.
Gratitude gives you a sense that what you have and who you are is enough. Gratitude is a force that acts against our constant drive for more in our personal lives, it acts against anxiety about the future, and depression.
“It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful"