Personal Socrates: On Self-Reflection, Self Improvement, and the Socratic Method | Marc Champagne, Author

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“You need to understand if you're climbing the right mountain to begin with and understand who you're optimizing to become.” – Marc Champagne

Marc Champagne (@marcchampagne) is author of Personal Socrates: Questions That Will Upgrade Your Life from Legends & World-Class Performers. A self-proclaimed Mental Fitness Strategist, Marc is a speaker and corporate trainer and hosts the top 50 podcast, Behind the Human. Marc previously co-founded the journaling app (KYO) which reached 86.9 million people.

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Chapters in this interview:

00:00:00 – Introduction
00:01:55 – We are one question away from a different life
00:07:22 – Building a mental fitness practice
00:11:33 – Marc's morning reflection routine
00:16:00 – Behind the Human podcast
00:20:09 – Simplifying the Socratic method
00:28:45 – Profiles and questions in Personal Socrates
00:34:50 – The writing process
00:39:28 – Pausing the autopilot of life and work

Links from this interview

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Personal Socrates: Questions That Will Upgrade Your Life from Legends & World-Class Performers
Calm
Headspace
KYŌ
Wim Hof breathwork
Behind the Human podcast
James Clear
Kobe Bryant
Mel Robbins
Maya Angelou
Socratic method
Joey Cofone
Baron Fig
Robin Williams
Mikael Cho
Unsplash
Chip Conley
Airbnb
Coco Chanel
Cal Fussman
Apple
Behind the Human

Learn More About This Topic

Marc’s book is full of thought-provoking questions and profiles of some amazing figures who embody those questions. A few of our favorites that you can start thinking about now: