Andy Johns
14 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 10, 2023 by Andy Johns · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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Sep 10, 2023 neutral
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Sep 10, 2023
Johns: 90% of people undergoing change need micro-transitions like changing jobs
“90, 95% of the time, pretty confidently I can say that those changes are more of the micro transitions. It's okay. Let me change my job. Let me downsize my house. Let me break up with my partner. Still hard things. And for them, that may be all that is needed …”
Sep 10, 2023 neutral
Johns: Major personal transformations typically take seven to eight years
“There are many other examples I can pull up like that, including Siddhartha Gautama, Lord Buddha himself. That wasn't a couple weeks or a couple of months, his journey towards liberation from his own mind. If I can recall, that was also a seven or eight year j…”
Sep 10, 2023
Johns: Disrupted sleep and diet signal acute burnout over routine stress
“When their fundamental functions, when their core behaviors of diet, exercise, playfulness, socialization, sleep, when those things get disrupted, Like it's a sign that there is something going on here that you need to take a look at. And so the same is true w…”
Sep 10, 2023
Johns: People fail to transform by sacrificing individuality for social acceptance
“I would say that that is the number one reason why transformation doesn't take place is because a long time ago, we made that exchange to forego our individuality in order to be accepted by others because of that deep primal need for love and acceptance.”
Sep 10, 2023 positive
Johns: Listing recent acute emotional triggers accelerates the path to self-understanding
“If the goal is to understand oneself, then one of the quickest ways of doing that is to quickly write down a list of simple bullet points of
The most recent situations you can think of where you became most acutely reactionary and emotional.”
Sep 10, 2023
Sep 10, 2023
Severe burnout caused Andy Johns a heart scare and shattered teeth
“I almost had a heart attack at 35 and I got the classic talk from a Stanford cardiologist saying, like, you're just going to gonna be another 40 something year old CEO with a broken heart. The years of really poor sleep, the number of teeth that I had broken t…”
Sep 10, 2023 neutral
Sep 10, 2023 positive
Johns: Clients need therapists who match or exceed their own intelligence
“You're going to want a therapist that is at least as intelligent, if not more intelligent than you, because I think part of that openness to learning from them and to feeling somewhat comfortable, but also feeling inspired and kind of looking forward to it as …”
Sep 10, 2023 neutral
A 45-day mental health facility stay catalyzed Andy Johns's career departure
“I ended up actually spending 45 days in a mental health institute myself, and it was something that was extremely difficult to do. It was something that certainly contributed or was really the tip of the sphere of me stepping away from my career.”
Sep 10, 2023 negative
Johns: Over 50% of mid-career tech workers experience psychological distress
“From some of the surveys I've put out from my own anecdotal experience and from some proper research that's been conducted by experts who focus on entrepreneur and high performer wellbeing, you know, I, I'd say that it's a fair estimate to say that at least 50…”
Sep 10, 2023 negative