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0Jack Canfield is the coauthor of more than two hundred books, including, The Success Principles™: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be and the Chicken Soup for the Soul® series, which includes forty New York Times bestsellers and which has sold more than 600 million copies in 50-plus languages around the world.
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Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 Who is Jack?
- 00:01:57 How a single “yes” from Jack shaped my career.
- 00:04:55 A contract lesson: How Chicken Soup for the Soul sold millions in China with zero royalties.
- 00:06:45 Jack’s background: From poverty to Harvard.
- 00:09:43 Discovering Chinese history and the “easy A” that changed everything.
- 00:11:07 Winning “Teacher of the Year” teaching Black history.
- 00:14:35 High praise from Sammy Davis Jr.
- 00:17:37 W. Clement Stone: The $600 million mentor who turned motivation into a science (and insurance).
- 00:21:35 Stone’s challenge: Take 100% responsibility and stop watching TV (a 14-month year hack).
- 00:22:40 From visualizing $100,000 to a million.
- 00:25:42 Chicken Soup origins.
- 00:27:35 Mark Victor Hansen joins.
- 00:29:15 144 rejections later.
- 00:31:28 The ABA miracle.
- 00:34:05 The Rule of Five.
- 00:36:05 Selling The Soul and splurging on sweaters.
- 00:37:27 The Soup sourced from the universe.
- 00:39:33 The big break.
- 00:41:22 Word-of-mouth magic.
- 00:45:37 Lessons from live feedback.
- 00:47:27 The burnout years.
- 00:49:25 Life after Chicken Soup.
- 00:51:05 Late-night typing marathons and pun-laden chapter transitions that led to The Success Principles.
- 00:54:02 How Jack’s love of transformation beats any royalty check.
- 00:55:07 Retirement reflections.
- 00:59:32 Jack’s longevity formula: Laughter, organic food, love, and letting go.
- 01:02:10 An ayahuasca awakening.
- 01:03:39 The story of Rythmia Life Advancement Center and how it’s affected Jack.
- 01:06:43 Breaking belief loops and understanding community as medicine.
- 01:10:06 E + R = O and strategies for taking 100% responsibility of one’s life.
- 01:22:27 Why “clean up your messes” is first in Jack’s list of productivity tips.
- 01:29:27 Where to begin if you’re unfamiliar with Jack’s work.
- 01:31:08 Ken Blanchard: “Feedback is the breakfast of champions.”
- 01:32:13 Parting thoughts.
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