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Last Lecture Series: “How to Win Without Crushing Your Soul” - Graham Weaver

We’re all playing two games at once. There's the external game — the job, money, accolades, titles, the things everyone can see. And there’s the internal game, the one that quietly decides whether any of it actually fulfills us.

Graham Weaverhost

Jul 14, 202634mWatch on YouTube

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EPISODE INFO

Released: July 14, 2026
Duration: 34m
Channel: Stanford Graduate School of Business
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

We’re all playing two games at once. There's the external game — the job, money, accolades, titles, the things everyone can see. And there’s the internal game, the one that quietly decides whether any of it actually fulfills us. Most of us pour everything into the first and avoid the second for decades. In this Last Lecture graduation speech to the Stanford Graduate School of Business Class of 2026, Graham Weaver makes the case that life is an internal game of self acceptance played in an external arena — and gives three concrete practices to start winning it and achieving goals: fire your coach (the inner voice that mistakes fear for motivation), pull the nails out of your head (face the thing you are avoiding, because everything you want is on the other side of worse first), and trust your second voice (the voice that speaks through energy instead of fear). You can build something extraordinary in your life while actually loving who you’re becoming in the process. Chapters / Timestamps 00:00 – Introduction 03:54 – "And now I was that guy"—realizing he'd rushed through his own life 07:20 – The internal game vs. the external game 08:46 – What is metacognition? (thinking about your own thinking) 10:07 – Practice #1: Fire your coach 14:31 – Practice #2: Pull the nails out of your head 20:59 – Practice #3: Trust your second voice 26:11 – Recap: Fire the coach, pull out your nails, trust your second voice 31:04 – "The good old days" 32:29 – Closing message to the Class of 2026 Graham Weaver Social & Website Youtube: @grahamcweaver Instagram: @grahamcweaver Tiktok: @grahamcweaver Website: grahamweaver.com Newsletter: grahamweaver.com/subscribe

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Graham Weaver
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Investor and lecturer featured in Stanford GSB’s Last Lecture Series, speaking on performance, self-worth, and life/leadership lessons.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Stanford Graduate School of Business, featuring Graham Weaver, Last Lecture Series: “How to Win Without Crushing Your Soul” - Graham Weaver explores Three metacognitive practices to succeed without losing self-love Graham Weaver recounts how decades of chasing external achievement failed to fix an internal sense of not being enough, culminating in a crash after his first major financial ‘payday’ changed nothing inside.

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