Paul Daniels, Jr. is an international speaker, board advisor for three startups, bestselling author of Innovation Whisperer, Co-Chair for the Climate Tech Awards in Paris, and Founder of Peripheral Thinkers.
Born and raised in Southern California, Paul lived in 26 homes before turning 30. Despite this constant change, he remained determined to succeed. At the age of 18, he started working full-time to pay for his studies and managed to balance his job and education. His hard work and dedication have enabled him to advance through various roles in his career.
In 2010, Paul discovered that he has dyslexia, the same time his daughter was also diagnosed with the condition. As someone with dyslexia, he has developed a unique way of observing the world around him.
His experiences with dyslexia have had a significant impact on the way he approaches challenges. He has acquired a unique perspective that allows him to think uniquely and creatively.
The way in which Paul deals with challenges has been greatly influenced by his experiences with dyslexia. He has acquired a unique perspective that allows him to think uniquely and creatively, creating an impact on companies of all sizes.
Routine | Peripheral Thinking
Despite facing unique challenges due to his dyslexia, Paul has turned them into impressive skills and now utilizes peripheral thinking, which he shares with others. He implements this principle in his routines, which include:
- Taking all inputs around him that might help him learn
- Capture and categorize lessons learned
- Writing in a journal before the day ends
- Schedule three breaks throughout the year to explore new places
Success
Paul Daniels, Jr. believes that true success comes from living a life of purpose, driven by a deep passion to serve others. Through his remarkable journey, he has transformed the lives of countless individuals, and his insights have proven invaluable to businesses of all sizes. His story continues to serve as a beacon of hope for all those who, like him, face challenges due to dyslexia. He has inspired countless individuals and founded Peripheral Thinkers, sharing this super-skill with numerous leaders to help them develop and prosper in any market.
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Connect With Paul Daniels, Jr.
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Transcript
Hannah Mitrea 0:04
Hello, everyone. This is Hannah, your host and you are listening to the Success is Routine Podcast. Our show is on a mission to talk to leaders in life and business that have achieved success and to learn what their routine is. If you’re ready to create your routine to success, you’re in the right place. Now let’s get started. Well, hello, hello, everyone. Welcome back to Success is Routine podcast. I am super excited to have Paul Daniels here with me. Paul is an international speaker, board advisor for three startups. Bestselling author, co-chair for the Climate Tech Awards in Paris and Founder of Peripheral. Thinkers. I said that right.
Paul Daniels, Jr. 0:45
I’ll explain more about why that’s so funny. When we talk, I’ll welcome to the show. Thank you, Santa, it’s great to be here. Thank you for inviting me. Yeah, I’m
Hannah Mitrea 0:55
super excited to talk to you and really learn. I know you have like your whole method. And we did our free call and learned a ton about what you do, but share a little bit of background with us. And like where you got started. Born and
Paul Daniels, Jr. 1:05
raised in Southern California, we moved a lot when I was a kid, I’m in the 27th house, I was born since I was born. And the first 26 foot before the age of 30. So lots of moving. And I got started early, just working my needed to pay my way through school. So I was doing full time work at 18. And going to school full time to put myself through university. And and then progressed through a lot of different things I’m now is you know, the the head of peripheral thinkers, and it is a think tank and an advisory group where we help executives and corporate leaders find new ways to overcome challenges and thrive in any market environment.
Hannah Mitrea 1:54
Well, so you moved 26 times before you’re 30. So what was that one thing that made you want to stay the 27 the time
Paul Daniels, Jr. 2:02
I got married and my wife is is is from Texas, born and raised, you know lots of generations of cattle ranchers and so and living in Dallas, it’s a great airport. So I can get anywhere in North America, Western Europe, Southeast Asia, all direct flights.
Hannah Mitrea 2:21
Yeah, I relate because I planned on moving after two years of being in Texas and then I met my husband. Here we are still. I agree. DFW is great. That was a little harder to get to but so good. Right, right. But share with us what is peripheral thinkers.
Paul Daniels, Jr. 2:41
So peripheral thinking is, is a set of skills. Peripheral Thinkers is the company and it’s also the name I give people that think using peripheral thinking. Peripheral thinking is a set of super skills to found in about 10% of the population. 10 to 15% of the population are born with these skills, and they represent some of the most prolific innovators throughout history. Back to they represent a very disproportionate amount of innovations and contributions to society in the world than just about any other group and the pin the population. These 10 to 15% of people are dyslexic. And Dyslexia has been found to be a set of super skills. There are 19 skills, six categories. And what I’ve done is I’ve taken those skills, skills from people like Richard Branson, Einstein, Henry Ford, JFK, Agatha Christie, Erin Brockovich, Muhammad Ali Lee, Kobe Bryant, all those people are dyslexic, and they, they were innovators are innovators. And they use their dyslexic thinking to improve their skills, the skills or the people around them, and in some cases, even created new industries. Now we’ve taken that and we’ve we’ve cracked the code, and those thinking skills can be learned and used by people that are neurotypical or non dyslexic, if that’s easier to say. The funny part about peripheral thinking is when I came up with the name for this way of thinking, it’s funny because it seems difficult for neurotypical people to say the word Yeah, it’s kind of my way of digging back at whoever came up with the phrase dyslexic because as a dyslexic, I can’t spell that word. Right. So it’s it’s a little dig it’s only come to my attention in the last few years when people are introducing me the difficulty of saying that so I’m not a great marketer I should have come up perhaps with something better but it’s fun nevertheless.
Hannah Mitrea 4:55
Man I think it’s it’s better right? And I’ve to be honest, I can spell this Alexei either And I don’t have dyslexia. I don’t know where am I proud?
Paul Daniels, Jr. 5:06
Yeah, it’s funny today, you know, they come up with a word to talk about a learning difference. Dead people with learning different skins. Yeah, whatever
Hannah Mitrea 5:15
that said same was like a list and things like that. So they do it frequently. What kind of so I’m, you have Dyslexia as well, correct?
Paul Daniels, Jr. 5:27
I do I found out I have dyslexia at age 40 Oh wow, we diagnosed at the same time our daughter was diagnosed. And that was a big lightbulb moment for me. Because up to that point have been pretty successful in the business but had difficulty explaining to people how I had generated this idea created this pro, a proud approach a process. One this opportunity, whatever that was, it was difficult to explain, because they couldn’t follow my thought process. Now I’ve got the tools. And I realized I’ve been helping organizations now for four decades, 31 industries, 27 countries. And, you know, one of the outputs is we’ve generated $2.5 billion in new revenue for my clients and companies using dyslexic or peripheral thinking.
Hannah Mitrea 6:16
Well, that’s incredible. I think, you know, I’m gonna make my daughter listen to this episode so that she can like, you know, realize that it is not something that should stop you, but empowering
Paul Daniels, Jr. 6:26
100%? Absolutely. I find it as a gift. And I’m excited to share it with more and more people.
Hannah Mitrea 6:33
Yeah, definitely. And so but you mentioned, you know, before you got into the peripheral, thinking, and thinker, that you weren’t highly successful. So share with us a little bit of like, you know, what did that look like? What did that routine look like? And did you have a routine back then that led you to where you are now,
Paul Daniels, Jr. 6:49
as dyslexic or frankly, anyone? I’m, I’m very observant. Just to be clear, this is not bragging. Hopefully, no ego comes out in these statements. This is to help your audience. And it has been proven medically that Dyslexics have a broader peripheral vision. So we actually see more of the periphery and we see it in more detail. That’s very helpful, especially when you’re trying to learn the spoken word without being able or the written word without being able to read it, right. So the practice that I learned from being dyslexic, but not knowing it, was taking in all of the inputs around me that allude to or infer the meaning of what’s being read or taught as a student. And that allowed me also to see more of the interactions between people and situations and pick out patterns that are emerging over time, you start to see oh, I’ve seen this before. I’ve seen that pattern before, what we see and, and here always reminds us of something else as a dyslexic. So we’re great in conversation if you’re willing to listen, because we’ve got story after story, after story, you’ll say some Oh, that reminds me of this. But the way that I succeeded was a, I just simply work longer and harder than everyone else, it was what I had to do to get from school. Because, you know, one hour assignment was three hours for me 10 Page written report was very long. So I got into the habit of knowing it would take me longer and to put in the effort. But then, I started to categorize and captures getting capture and categorize these lessons that I was learning throughout life, right. And it created my peripheral Resource Library, which I show other people how to use. And it’s, it’s that core of experiences that I continue to add to every day, not just when I’m on holiday, or when a big event happens. I think of ideas and things throughout the day that come to me through experiences, walking the dog, going to Home Depot, or Lowe’s, whichever one you choose. And then capturing those. And I typically do it before the end of the day or at the end of my day, just writing in a journal, I’ve got kind of a database online, we’re up putting stuff in, and I use that then to go back in when I have a challenge or an obstacle to use the peripheral Resource Library as my source for finding previously proven solutions approaches whatever I can use in combination with other things to overcome that challenge or to reach that goal or to set you know, often to a new market.
Hannah Mitrea 9:44
I love that you kind of created this system that works for you around that and really being able to identify a couple of questions like that are coming to my head or one if you’re able to see so much more like and just like you’re taking in so much more information constantly. How do Do not get overwhelmed with it where you can actually organize it. And then you mentioned journaling. And so what, what made you realize that that was going to be a method that kind of helped you go back and refer to things?
Paul Daniels, Jr. 10:13
It is. So I created that peripheral resource library method for people that are peripheral fingers, which means they’re not dyslexic. So no bragging, sorry, but all of my experiences are still here. And they’re immediately triggered by something else goes on. So what I’ve done is I’ve gotten into the practice of what I’m teaching, which is, here’s a tool for resource library, here are the categories, here’s how to quickly capture a thought, on phone, whatever, and get it in there. Because your access to that information may not be you may not need that immediately. But because of the way a dyslexic brain is wired, we store everything up here. And I can tell you, you know what I ate for lunch in ninth grade, and that Susie was the ones that next mean, she stole my ridges or whatever, right? So I got into that practice, to make sure that what I was what I’m doing, translates that neurotypical people can do this simply and easily. And it’s also given me an opportunity to just kind of relish in the things that I learned during the day. Yeah. Did that answer the question?
Hannah Mitrea 11:31
Yeah, kind of just being able to, you know, so you just kind of started the journal, because to really help, you know, neurotypical people, or people like me, who would be, you know, be able to keep all the things together in a place so that you have them in your head. So is there a way that you’re using, or way that you are able to kind of know how to say it exactly. When you’re getting all that information in? So say, you’re not drilling? Because you know, you didn’t need to do that? What does that tell us to be able to not constantly be going in different directions?
Paul Daniels, Jr. 12:06
Oh, yes, I’m sorry, I do my regression outs are quite tan that little tangent. Unless
Hannah Mitrea 12:12
you answered the general part that
Paul Daniels, Jr. 12:14
is kind of bad. I’ll add it to the journal that it did listen to Hannah’s question intently. By by journaling, it allows you to get it out of your head, if you will, and, and not be overwhelmed by all of the possibilities, because it is the experiences primarily the experiences that happen in the periphery, when you’re not working. When you’re living, you’re just breathing and walking, that an experience can can trigger something, but you need to store that and allow a process if you will, of facing a challenge, identifying with the goal of overcoming that challenges. And then looking at your peripheral resource library, or your journal, or a category that is similar to what you’re trying to achieve. So I’m trying to achieve 2x growth in a year. And so the category might be growth. So I look at my peripheral resource library for the category. And there are five C’s to the interpreting skill of peripheral thinking, I didn’t go through all of that stuff, I won’t. But it basically is my entry point into the peripheral resource library to find all of the the entries that have a category similar to growth, or has growth, and then trace it back through to the content, which is the idea of the lesson, a principle, the proven solution, that then is pulled out, combined with other lessons to create a new approach or a proven way of overcoming something that you hadn’t previously experienced.
Hannah Mitrea 13:53
Interesting. So you’re kind of like categorizing things to make sure that the thing you need is within arm’s reach. But then you can kind of like go through that dictionary to you know, grow,
Paul Daniels, Jr. 14:03
right. And, and for me, we’re working now with with a couple of people, I can’t say the name, but a large organization, global organization that goes around the world discovering new things, and has a yellow square on its magazine, and another one that everybody uses to search the internet that has very colorful letters to its thing. And we’ve got all of these, these experiences and we’re overlaying peripheral thinking on top of that, so that we can create this massive global intellectual sharing for everyone to access. It’s not chat GPT it’s not. It is sort of AI driven, but it allows the categorization of data and stuff. But the easy access then to Hey, If this is the problem I’m facing, what are some options? This is the goal that I want to achieve what So many approaches.
Hannah Mitrea 15:02
As soon as you start matching the name that cannot be named. I like Oh, I wonder how AI balls into this, but we don’t have time to really dive into that side of it, because the big thing, but let’s let’s jump to routine a little bit and really share the your routine, but also the routine of being able to do this journaling. Because, you know, everybody, a lot of people say to journal in some way, but you know, it’s a big daunting task, how do you really sit down and make that discipline and that routine of journaling to be able to create the peripheral library that you have?
Paul Daniels, Jr. 15:35
Right? Okay, so let’s, let’s go there, because it is something that’s worth delving into these these five C’s, we’re going to talk about the four C’s that make up the peripheral resource library or your journey. The first one is contact, which means contact somebody, get to know someone that is not associated with what you do, or your interests or anything, just someone that is completely different than you to know them, start talking with them, as you speak with it. And when you get to know them, or observe what they’re doing. You learn what’s working for them, what’s not working for them, why that’s content, the content are those lessons, ideas, principles. Those the content, then can also have should have a conclusion, which is the third C conclusion, which is the measurable results. And that measurable result can be categorized. And what I teach corporate executives and in the like, spend less than 90 seconds and write down just a few words that trigger your memory. So the contact I’m contact might be Hannah, Hannah Hana slash, discipline. So just our conversation or Hana podcast, the content might be how we’re interacting, the things that I’m learning, it might be organized, approaches, things discipline, and with a routine that’s repeatable, those are just quick things. The conclusion is a successful podcast, a successful reach, growth, last category, but you get the idea that the conclusion is success, or whatever the category then could be growth reach, or however I want to categorize it, because it’s the way I’m thinking right? Now, I have that done. And I go through it on my keynote speeches. In about four minutes. We learn this, and throughout the keynote, they walk away with the beginning of their first entry in a peripheral research library. I said you did that in you, I give them 10 seconds to answer each of those four. So that in 40 seconds, surely you have one experience each day that you can spend 40 seconds, or 80 seconds once a week and get to know it’s the discipline is just setting the time in the day to do it. Now, I don’t think you can even schedule 90 seconds. ganger. Right. So Oh, come out and scheduled five minutes and have four minutes of coffee. Enjoy. But it’s it’s doing that. And what happens is you start to just become more aware and more proficient in getting that content in so that you can access it. The best part? Is it that routine increases just your awareness of things that are going on, you realize, Wow, that wobbly wheel on the cart at at Home Depot. I wonder how they get back? And how do you determine which one isn’t wobbly? I wonder if I can use that same principle for my offering to make sure that nothing goes out. That’s wobbly.
Hannah Mitrea 19:05
Yeah, that’s me. I’m thinking of Walmart. grocery carts. Yes, they have an orange handle typically are better than the blue.
Paul Daniels, Jr. 19:13
Right? So do you already have that you’ve done? Absolutely. And you can categorize that as there is there is a trigger that tells me which one is better than another? Good. I applied that principle to my podcast, so that people know this is the one you want to listen to. All the ones you can this is it. How do I create that? That experience so they can go to others, but they keep coming here and they see. I get a bunch of Hannah’s guests.
Hannah Mitrea 19:43
Yeah, that’s almost like so to think I’m really bad at asking two questions at the same time. So I apologize. The first one is, you know, first one’s a question. Second one’s more of a statement and does it make more sense to You know, because you gave the example of a person so me, Emma. So it was it make more sense to kind of start where you’re categorizing one kind of type of thing at a time to each person, you need to start there coming categorizing the people, and then you start categorizing things. And like, you know, categorizing experiences, or is it kind of something that people do in general. And then the other part of that was, you know, almost sounds like you’re creating a library of tiny routines. And a way
Paul Daniels, Jr. 20:30
you can absolutely see, to your point, it can be the creation of, of routines are capturing the routines that you want to use now or in the future. And so, the first, I got the second part, I’m just reading the question again,
Hannah Mitrea 20:51
kind of like starting with categorizing people categorizing different things, and they.
Paul Daniels, Jr. 20:58
So contact in the exercise that we do. During the keynote, I say, think of a fond memory from your youth bursting to comes around, write it down. The first thing, you got 10 seconds, just a word or phrase, something like that. And then we walked through that, that and this is before he introduced the peripheral thinking or peripheral resource library. What made that memory so memorable? Why is it memorable? How did it influence who you are today? And go ahead and just give it a title? Okay, so I just did the four C’s. And that’s the 40 seconds that they spend, just writing it down later. I say, Okay, so these are the four C’s of the peripheral resource library, you’ve already got an entry. Here it is. Oh, so it could be a memory, it might have people it might be a location, it’s an it’s an observation. That’s your starting point. And do people’s people start wherever they are often, you know, they start with what I just described as a fond childhood memory. And as they add more, they start to see some connections. And they may even be reminded of something else that they want to put in their resource library. The point is less about having this repository of content and more about being more aware of what’s going on, and capturing that in some way. Because there are more answers than we have questions in our life, and especially in routines, you can be locked into that routine and miss opportunities to add something to the routine or slightly change it. Because of course, in corporations, we focus on our industry, right. And if you spend enough time in that industry, over 2030 years, you think that industry, industries are disrupted from outside, rarely from the inside. Because that conventional thinking sort of locks you into the industry’s best practices. I mean, the best practices are willing intention. But without broad set of experiences, they could be narrow perspectives, which leads to mediocrity, and eventually leads to irrelevance. That’s the sad part. So people start with whatever they comes to mind, and they just capture. The point is being aware I can I can have a peripheral experience without talking to anyone, I can observe a waiter, I can observe the way traffic moves, I can observe lots of things. And find the principles that make it good or bad. And determine at some point whether or not I want to use that.
Hannah Mitrea 23:40
So you’re creating this library now off of, you know, all these experience that you’re having. It’s are you physically writing it? Are you creating it, like digitally, or like, How’s that look,
Paul Daniels, Jr. 23:52
right and the I’m a, I’m a physical writer, but if that’s my choice, though, the proof of resource library I have in a variety of digital ways. And that’s part of the project that we’re working on. To make it simple to just go online, and I didn’t whatever you want, have your little piece of database and you choose what you want to share with other people and not. But the the access for me is not through my peripheral resource library. It’s instantaneous, because I have that’s the way my brain is wired. I can remember these things. And so that’s how I can quickly through issues or see beyond. For those that wired this way, that’s okay, you have your library and you start with your goal in mind, what’s the measurable outcome and category for that goal? Okay, now, let me go to my resource library and see how others have reached a similar kind of goals and category a measurable result from my experiences. And then capture in grab that content and say, Will this apply Maybe yes, maybe no, but I’ve got access to it. Or you can ask chat GP etc. And it’ll tell you what’s out there on the web. And, and you can decide whether or not that’s appropriate for you. But it’s not going to give you the why it will give you the experience, it won’t give you the logic behind what it’s spitting out.
Hannah Mitrea 25:18
Now, and I think it’s all it’s also interesting, and you know, thank you for sharing like these different things. And it’s really funny, I was watching a tick tock this morning, and you know, how you keep referencing chatty to be, whereas like, you know, Facebook was our parents believed everything they saw Facebook, millennials believe everything they see on tick tock, I feel like Gen Z in this alpha generation is going to believe everything that cat GDP tells them where we’re going. It’s also interesting, but it’s really interesting how people think, because I know like, you basically have this catalog that you’re going through in this dictionary of your library to find the pieces you need. And as I like, I just love learning how people think, because I think it is so interesting, how different we
Paul Daniels, Jr. 25:59
all are. Absolutely. And that’s a great segue, just to say that this is a tool, referral thinking is a set of skills, whatever you choose, the point is to choose it, and commit to it, and then measure the results, is it working? Sometimes you can try something for a few days and go, This isn’t gonna work. Sometimes it takes a little bit longer for you to realize it’s not going to work or that it will work. But it’s, it’s the routine. And it’s the commitment to that develops, develops the awareness, develops the perspectives develops, the solution, the ideas, the the, the direction that you’re going to take. So, you know, one of my routines is to schedule three breaks throughout the year, while I’m gonna go somewhere I’ve never been before. No, it’s not. I wish they were all like, Yeah, I’m gonna go to Bali, you know, I’m gonna go to Venice. No, it might be that I’m gonna go to a lake in Texas, or when
Hannah Mitrea 27:10
you have that DFW airport.
Paul Daniels, Jr. 27:14
Right, right. I’m not talking about extravagant, elaborate things. I’m going to go experience something I you know, I’ve never I did this. Several years ago, I’ve, I’ve worked in manufacturing for many years. And I understand the logistics, but I never worked that last piece where the product makes it to a retail place, and is put on shelves for people to buy. So I went I worked at Target, night shift, the overnight shift, and we unpacked trucks, whenever it got distributed to the shelves to the right place, and, and so on. It was fascinating, because I’d never done that before. And so I did that for several months, and experience what that was like, and I got paid minimum wage. And you know, that’s tough. But it was, it was true. It was, was a long several months, because I had a job but yeah, it’s, it’s, it’s committing to that and wanting to learn, the curious people are the ones that are leading the future. So the discipline of being curious and making that a habit is, is something that we’re trying to do with peripheral thinking. And the peripheral resource library just gives you a tool to capture your thoughts.
Hannah Mitrea 28:32
Alaba. And so thinking of curious people and all the people you’re working with, share with us the success that peripheral thinking has had on people I’ve used it.
Paul Daniels, Jr. 28:45
So in 2010, I was working with a hospital in the Midwest. And they’re the end because they had been the go to hospital for that regional area. But their statistics and their rankings, it started to kind of drop down, they become marginalized. So I was working with the patient engagement group at that time that patient engagement is at that time, it was more around just making sure people were coming to their appointments and doing follow ups after they had left the hospital. And they wanted to increase a bunch of things. So I spent some time with them. I started teaching peripheral thinking the director of that department will call her Jennifer because it didn’t get proper permission to tell the story. So Jennifer goes on holiday. And she calls me on from vacation on a Sunday. And she is giddy kind of crazy Sunday afternoon and she says Pulpo I got this text we’re at the worth the resort my family and I and I got this text I want to read it to you so she read it out. And it was basically it was a great welcome text from the the general manager at the at the resort she then says, Why can’t I text patients in my hospital, I want them to have the same feeling of care support that, that I just felt within 10 minutes of getting into my room at this resort. And so she got peripheral thinking. And it was a proven solution that was low risk, because sorry, they’re texting man with immediate application for her hospital. That was the beginning, you see that now, right? You see texting between patients and their care providers all over the place. Now in 2010. She started it. She’s now the chief patient experience, experience officer and a 12 hospital healthcare system. And you all benefit from her peripheral thinking, being at the Waikoloa Village resort in Hawaii, and general manager sending a text because they knew when that card was scanned, to enter the room, that they were in the room, that was the time to send the message, same thing, a hospital, someone checks in between the time and checking the time again, to their room for whatever procedure is happening. Is it time to let them know we’re here for you to let their family know, hey, if you’re going to be here for a while here are the restaurants near us. Here are some hotels, if you’re staying longer. Here’s where the restaurant or the bathroom and the cafeteria are in our building. Here’s a map of the house, whatever that is, right. So she just saw it as I love this experience. I want my patients to have that same experience. And now you can imagine what that hospital did. And of course, Jennifer’s moved up the ranks in less than a dozen years.
Hannah Mitrea 31:49
Now that’s a good buy. Think of when we were in Denver, I walked into the hotel room and on the TV said welcome handless I love that she got that out of it is they’ve actually take that and like pulled over how interested
Paul Daniels, Jr. 32:01
Yes. Okay, so I’m dyslexic. So that reminds me, I was in Vegas speaking last week, and walked into my hotel room and there on the television said, Welcome, Paul. Now, see the technology is there. The switch is already there? How can you apply that same principle of feeling welcome to your business today in your community, whatever that is.
Hannah Mitrea 32:24
I love it. And definitely makes you start thinking so. But I know we’re almost out of time. So a couple more questions. Oh, how do you define success?
Paul Daniels, Jr. 32:34
How do I define success? I’m living a life of purpose, with passion. And once again, I’ve never given you
Hannah Mitrea 32:46
a thank you. Then, you know, if somebody, maybe they’re dyslexic, maybe they’re neuro typical. And they’re like, how do I get started on this? What is that one thing they need to do?
Paul Daniels, Jr. 33:01
Oh, other than reaching out if they want some help for me, just recognizing that answers to your questions now, or questions in the future already exist. You can access everything you need to achieve anything that you can imagine, truly, you can access everything you need to achieve anything that you can imagine, when you know where and how to look, it’s just increasing your awareness by a half a percent. That’s enough, because it takes you off that line. And over time, it diverges to the point where you’re experiencing a fuller richer life with more meaning more content, or wit from which to draw and make decisions.
Hannah Mitrea 33:44
Awesome. And then number two. So there is is there a book or a person that you highly recommend following or listened to or reading?
Paul Daniels, Jr. 33:57
So some of the books that I think there are books that have that have touched me in all kinds of ways, but I am a peripheral thinker. So I read things. We read books about things I have no experience in. And I’ll always glean something from that. To people that I follow are typically innovators are our bleeding edge or leading edge, but have a strong message. And it really depends. That’s a question that I have trouble narrowing it down. Now, of course, I wrote a chapter for a book recently called Peak Performance mindset tools for entrepreneurs. If anyone on your podcast wants a copy of that, I’m happy to send it to you. I’ll send you an electronic version of of my chapter. There were 20 Plus authors that contributed that book. So reach out to me, I’m happy to send you that and I’ll give you an idea of how peripheral thinking was put into place in a given situation. And my recommendation instead of giving you a name or someone to follow is follow someone that is not associated with any foods you do this to just experience what it’s like to see the world through a different perspective. And go to the library don’t have to go to Barnes Noble or whatever. And pick up a book randomly, that has, again, nothing to do with your, your joy, your interest, your industry, what you’re thinking about the time, pick up something totally different. What that does is it starts to connect the neuro synapses in your brain in stronger ways and make new connections that expand your awareness.
Hannah Mitrea 35:44
Awesome. I love that. I’m just like thinking now. Okay, I gotta go to library and look at this thing. So tell people how they can get in touch with you. And we’ll make sure to put all that in the show notes to share with a Moundsville
Paul Daniels, Jr. 35:57
you can find me on LinkedIn, I’m linkedin.com forward slash in forward slash Paul Daniels, Jr. Paul Daniels, Jr. And you can also check out find me on my website, which is dub dub dub, Paul Daniels, jr.com. And there if you’re interested in me speaking at your event, or you’re interested in learning more about peripheral thinking, there’s a hold the date, there’s advisory, you can look at some of the speeches I’ve done online. And and if you want to call me my personal mobile phone, no, I’m not kidding. For sure.
Paul Daniels, Jr. 36:34
I bleep that out. No. I was just thankful that it wasn’t peripherial thinker.com I like I’m never gonna be right,
Paul Daniels, Jr. 36:44
right. But if you do do peripheral thinkers.com it will redirect you over to gap because I’ve got the trademark.
Hannah Mitrea 36:53
Well, thank you so much, Paul, for sharing all this information and being on the show.
Paul Daniels, Jr. 36:57
My pleasure, Hannah. I really enjoyed the time. I’ve enjoyed getting to know you. I love your program.
Hannah Mitrea 37:03
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Paul Daniels, Jr. 37:33
just recognizing that answers to your questions. Now have questions in the future already exist. You can access everything you need to achieve anything that you can imagine true. You can access everything you need to achieve anything that you can imagine, when you know where and how to look. It’s just increasing your awareness by a half percent. Because it takes you off that line and over time, it diverges to the point where you’re experiencing a fuller richer life with more meaning more content. For what from which to draw with someone that is not associated with any views you do is to just experience what it’s like to see the world through a different perspective.
