Lessons From 50 Of The Worlds Greatest Minds with Jake Humphrey | E59

This week on the Diary of a CEO, we have a returning guest, Jake Humphreys. He is an entrepreneur. He is a TV presenter. He's also now a podcaster. And Jake has spent the last year on his podcast sitting down with some of the most high-performance people, some of the most accomplished people in their industries from acting, to business, to sports, you name it. And so because of that experience, because of all the insights he's gained over the last year since we last spoke, I wanted to sit down with him and compare notes. We have a lot of high-performance people on this podcast too. I wanted to understand the similarities. I wanted to pick into the minds of some of the guests and what he's learned from them. How are they the same? What makes them different? And that's what we're gonna talk about today. So without further ado, I'm Steven Bartlett and this is the Diary of a CEO. I hope nobody's listening, but if you are, then please keep this to yourself. (lively music) You've, um, you've had, what, 30 people on your podcast to date.

Yeah.

You've got a lot more coming up. One of the key questions that I, that I wanted to ask you, because it's, you know, something that I ask myself is, what are those, like, key lessons that you've learned? You've, you've interviewed, uh, you know, high-performance athletes, actors, authors, um, and really sort of high-performance pe- people-

Yeah.

... from all industries. What are the key lessons and the themes?

I think there is one key lesson that was summed up for me by Matthew McConaughey, the Oscar-winning actor who came on my pod recently, and his phrase is, "Don't leave crumbs." And what he means by that is, like when you're making a decision don't leave stuff behind. Don't make a bad decision now that later on you've got to go back and pick that crumb up and be regretful about it, and that's brilliant because sometimes when we talk on the podcast, we talk about really, like, big blue sky thinking. You know, like we talk to you about Social Chain, setting up Social Chain. Sometimes t- people that are listening in, that can seem, like, unreal almost, u- untouchable because it's this huge multimillion dollar business that you've created. But actually "don't leave crumbs" is about making the decisions for a big, big business like that and creating something amazing, but also, like, make sure that you don't have an extra drink in the evening in case it leaves you with a hangover tomorrow and you've got work to do. Or make sure you simply choose your clothes the night before so you're not doing it in a rush. And like I still leave crumbs all the time. Like I tell you, when we, uh, when we interviewed Matthew, like he's the first Hollywood actor we've had on the pod, so for me it was quite a big moment and I thought, "Right, I really want to be looking good for this." So I thought, "I'll have a shower and a shave before we do the interview." And I was having a shave in the bathroom. My wife was in the bath and she was gonna come down and, like, listen in the corner in my study 'cause she was like, she loves Dallas Buyers Club. She was excited. (laughs) And, uh, she... (laughs) I was having a shave and she goes, "It's 9:54." I was like, " (gasps) ," and I thought it was like 9:30 or something. We'd put the kids to bed. And then the next thing I know I'm running downstairs. I haven't done my hair properly. I'm on, I've got two Wi-Fis at home because our upload speed living in the countryside is horrendous. So I was then on the wrong Wi-Fi. I then looked for the script that I'd written for the questions for Matthew, couldn't find them, and I was like, "I was the last one in."