210: Johann Berlin on Living a Fulfilling Life

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Johann Berlin has worked with some of the world’s greatest leaders, Fortune 500 companies, has spoken at a Ted conference and is in the process of writing a book about what it means to live a fulfilling life. Have you ever found yourself hating your day job? Wishing you could do the thing you truly love? Not sure what would make you happy at work but you know what you’re doing now isn’t helping? In this episode, Johann shares really helpful and practical approaches that you can start applying today in order to bring more meaning and fulfillment into your daily life – both at work and otherwise.

This week we talk to Johann Berlin

Johann Berlin is the CEO of TLEX U.S. Johann has grown TLEX nationwide and into leading institutions and Fortune 500 companies. Prior to joining TLEX, Johann scaled boutique triple bottom line and social sector companies from concept to high-impact with a special focus on innovative and disruptive wellness, leadership, innovation initiatives with the project being mentioned in Harvard Business Review, New York Times, and Wharton Journal.

Johann has participated as a speaker/facilitator at TEDx London, Stanford Center for Compassion, Harvard Executive MBA Alumni Summit, Wharton School of Business, UC Berkeley’s Leadership Symposium, Yale School of Management, Impact Investor Sustainatopia Conference, GE HealthCare’s Health Ahead Summit Paris, and Dartmouth on Purpose.

In This Interview, Johann Berlin and I Discuss…

The Wolf Parable
That what you put your attention on grows
What love means in a corporate environment
The difference between a question and a wonder
Moving from desire to finding things that bring you contentment
It’s not always what you do but that you have meaningful relationships at work
“Do service”, doing things with honor, treating things as special
How if you hate your job, you don’t have the energy to do the things you love
What you resist, persists
Suppressing your thoughts
How hating your job causes you to suffer
His troubled youth
The role that the kindness of other people has played in his life
His three reflections on kindness:
We choose who we are kind to
No act is too small
The starfish story
Don’t lose hope
Choosing to show up in the moment
If you honor the moment, you can choose to show up for it
Living wisely with the changing, advancing age

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A grandfather is talking with his grandson and he says there are two wolves inside of us which are always at war with each other.

One of them is a good wolf which represents things like kindness, bravery and love. The other is a bad wolf, which represents things like greed, hatred and fear.

The grandson stops and thinks about it for a second then he looks up at his grandfather and says, “Grandfather, which one wins?”

The grandfather quietly replies, the one you feed

The Tale of Two Wolves is often attributed to the Cherokee indians but there seems to be no real proof of this. It has also been attributed to evangelical preacher Billy Graham and Irish Playwright George Bernard Shaw. It appears no one knows for sure but this does not diminish the power of the parable.

This parable goes by many names including:

The Tale of Two Wolves

The Parable of the Two Wolves

Two Wolves

Which Wolf Do You Feed

Which Wolf are You Feeding

Which Wolf Will You Feed

It also often features different animals, mainly two dogs