Leadership

S1E34: The Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong w/ Bestselling Author Eric Barker

SEASON 1, EPISODE #34

Dr. Bubbs sits down with Eric Barker, author of the Wall Street Journal Best-seller Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong, to talk about what really produces success. Eric explores what separates the extremely successful from the rest of us and highlights what we can learn to be more like them. He also explores the pitfalls of high-performers and his formula for success and work-life balance.

About Eric Barker

Eric Barker author of the Wall Street Journal Best-seller Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong, he’s also the creator of the hugely popular blog by the same name, which presents science-based answers and expert insight on how to be awesome at life. His work has been mentioned in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, TIME magazine, The Week, and Business Insider. He is a former Hollywood screenwriter, graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and holds an MBA from Boston College and a Master of Fine Arts from UCLA. Eric has fenced with Olympians, grappled with MMA Champions and trained in Krav Maga with members of the elite Israeli military. He has never killed anyone that didn’t have it coming and his mother considers him a great success.



S1E16: The 7 Traits of Elite Captains from the World's Greatest Teams w/ Bestselling Author Sam Walker

SEASON 1, EPISODE #17

Dr. Bubbs interviews The Wall Street Journal's deputy editor and former sports columnist Sam Walker about his new book The Captain Class: The Hidden Force That Creates the World's Greatest Teams. Sam talks about how the world's greatest teams had one glaringly obvious similarity: the unique characteristics of their captains. He dives into the 7 common traits these men and women share, and how this propelled them to elite performance. Sam also busts a few myths around the impact of coaches and locker room speeches on performance at the highest level. The traits Sam describes have tremendous cross-over to leadership and team success in all realms: sports, health, business and life!

About Sam Walker

Sam Walker is The Wall Street Journal's deputy editor for enterprise and investigative reporting projects. A former sports columnist, Walker founded the Journal's prizewinning daily sports pages in 2009 and oversaw the paper’s global coverage of sports news and major events across all print editions and digital platforms. He is the author of Fantasyland, a bestselling account of his attempt to win America's top fantasy-baseball expert competition (of which he is a two-time champion). Sam attended the University of Michigan and lives in New York with his wife and two children.

Follow Sam on Twitter @samwalkers and find out more at bysamwalker.com.