Had a super fun time recording this candid conversation with the one and only - Saksham Gaur bhai (famously known as ‪@whysaksham‬ on instagram). From engineering, martial arts, building personal brands, to cracking the content code, we discuss everything in boht boht zyada detail ;)
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:00 Not so usual academic Journey
8:25 Creating Football content to get going
12:30 Learning and Creating ki story
28:10 Why I followed whysaksham?
29:11 Understanding Pattern Recognition
32:40 Patterns Vs Blatantly Copying other people
40:25 Personality and Personal Branding
41:20 The Martial Arts Connection ;)
46:00 How martial arts change the way you look at life
48:31 Jiu-jitsu kya hota hai?
52:01 How did Saksham bhai get into becoming a martial artist?
55:00 KSI and his transformation's impact
58:24 The Jordan Peterson Quote that hit me hard
59:42 How to be okay with the possibility of being injured?
1:03:26 Dealing with the harshest realities of getting hurt
1:09:04 20s are to find your Limits
1:10:21 What does Saksham think about the term "influencer"
1:14:55 Saksham's PURPOSE decoded
1:23:34 Be the Value
1:24:50 What is Focus work?
1:31:30 Don't give yourself shit for not knocking off each task from the to-do
1:33:38 Plugging away distractions
1:35:14 Ek baar mein kitne videos shoot ho jaate hain?
1:36:26 How does Saksham differentiate between 'quality' and 'quantity' videos?
1:39:33 Saksham bhai's Tools Stack for Top Video Content
1:44:24 Pehla podcast?
1:45:29 What's The Purple Cow?
1:49:15 The 'Workshop' (happened a few months ago)
1:51:53 The right way to think about MONEY
2:02:30 Investing in Yourself
2:07:45 Strive to be more capable
2:13:17 McDonald's drive-through metaphor
2:18:01 When someone came to meet Saksham bhai all the way from Nashik
2:26:08 Meetups and feedbacks
2:29:50 Heart to heart baat cheet
2:30:58 Aspiration assessment
2:32:20 What is your 'identifying statement'?
2:34:50 Positioning Discover with Singh and Myself
2:40:49 Fun baat cheet
2:43:15 Best Knowledge Retaining hack