Think Grow Prosper: How Ruben Chavez Turned Struggle Into Success

思考成长繁荣:鲁本·查韦斯如何将奋斗转化为成功

Good Life Project

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2016-08-14

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Facing a tough period in his life, this week's guest, Ruben Chavez, turned to books to both reconnect with curiosity and rekindle the spark of possibility. As he read, he began to take voracious notes, and write down quotes he connected with. Around the same time, he discovered Instagram. So, he began sharing bite-sized wisdom distilled from his favorite books on his ThinkGrowProsper Instagram account. People took notice and a community began to form. That community has now grown to more than two million people around the world, and allowed Ruben to build a business and his career around his passion for learning and sharing wisdom, and work with everyone from authors to large brands along the way. We cover a lot of ground in this conversation as Ruben shares his backstory, his deeper motivation for growth, the steps leading to the popularity of his account, and the opportunities and lessons that came with it. We discuss the reluctance many of us feel when sharing our imperfect, in-progress work with the world -- a fear that Ruben debunks by trusting in the compassion and encouragement of community. Ruben also touches on the importance of considering your desired lifestyle when weighing career opportunities. In his experience, one can live an equally fulfilling life with less than you might think -- and sometimes, even more so. Mentioned in This Episode: Connect with Ruben: ThinkGrowProsper | Instagram | MotivationMafiaThink and Grow Rich by Napoleon HillShow Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered by Austin KleonHow to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale CarnegieTim Ferriss - Solopreneur Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • It's more important to me to not have stress than it is to make a few thousand more dollars.

  • So today's guest, Ruben Chavez, did what he often does when, and what many of us often do when actually we're going through times of struggle.

  • We turn to books to learn from things, teachers and the seekers who've gone before us and to dive into their wisdom.

  • And he was going through a particularly rough time, so he started to do that.

  • And at the same time, he kind of stumbled upon this app, Instagram.

  • Many of you, I'm sure, know it.

  • And he used it first, just privately to catalog the thoughts, the ideas that he was seeing so that he could kind of collect them in one place and add a little bit of a visual element to reflect on them.

  • He decided at a certain point to turn that account public.

  • And what happened was pretty stunning.

  • Matter of a few short years, the following on that account grew to over a million people.

  • As I record this, it's about 1.7 million people.

  • And he's also added other accounts as well, and then turned around and actually found a way to turn his love of growing and reading and learning into a venture that allows him to live very comfortably in the world.

  • So how he actually did that, the journey behind it, why he became deeply fascinated, and how he's built community and the idea of leveraging something as simple as an app to actually grow a company and then make a sustainable living while doing something you really enjoy and that fills you up and you would have done anyway.