“I am the DEEP STATE, Pal!” - CIA Whistleblower Removes the Mask
James Erdman
Michael Sahagian is a sales expert, executive, and podcaster. Currently, he is a senior member of the SDR team at Stella Connect in New York City (NYC). He also Co-Host’s State of Sales, a podcast rethinking sales culture in the modern day business environment.
TIMESTAMPS DOWN BELOW
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TIMESTAMPS
2:41: Learning sales skills through experience; New York City during Covid; Recapping the frantic beginning of the Pandemic in America
14:21 : Corporate groupthink in face of Pandemic and legal liabilities; When “it got real”; Paralysis by analysis; “This isn’t a political thing, this is a freedom thing”
30:13 : Jordan Peterson; Twitter Echo Chambers; The desire to be proved wrong
42:12 : Comment threads; People think in different ways; Empathy
47:38 : Personal responsibility; Nuance; The loudest voices; What TV Shows can teach us
56:02 : Headlines & Assumptions; Cancel Culture; Why things are never as bad as they seem
1:03:00 : What the State of The Union Response Speech Says about rapid response culture; Central Banks and CYA culture; Michael talks about the money-grubbing congresswoman he worked for in college
1:10:14 : AOC, Trump, & Attention Politics; Julian tells a Trump a story he heard about Trump’s media approach; the Pareto Principle; revisiting Jeb Bush’s flameout from the 2016 GOP Primary
1:20:53 : How your priorities change as you get older
1:24:36 : The importance of Curiosity; Michael talks about his confidence in figuring things out and trying new things; Michael and Julian discuss “The Plan” society sells you and why it’s a lie
1:43:55 : The inverse relationship between Mental Toughness and Comfort; “The War of Art” By Pressfield; The importance of living free to try new things; Michael tells a story about his first time in Brooklyn
1:56:28 : Groupthink; Getting stuck and bad habits; The value of Time in life; The problem with labeling all situations and people; Why there’s no such thing as “the one thing that has all the answers”
2:11:33 : 2Pac (Tupac Shakur), the “spark” and what he said about figuring things out for yourself;
2:19:38 : “Tribe” By Sebastian Junger; The downsides of tribal culture in modern society; How internet culture gathers tribes to practice predictable behavior; The importance of Context
2:26:28 : Virtue Signal Culture and the assault on Freedom of thought and critical thinking; A discussion about how society no longer curiously asks questions; Julian tells a Kobe Bryant story from his 2019 interview with Patrick Bet-David;