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George Bryant on Being Seen, Survival, and the Cost of Hiding

George Bryant on Being Seen, Survival, and the Cost of Hiding

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We will pick the disaster we already know how to live through. We will skip the win we have never survived.

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We will pick the disaster we already know how to live through. We
will skip the win we have never survived.

George Bryant said that out loud and I felt it in my chest. He is
a former Marine, a New York Times bestselling cookbook author,
and the man behind Mind of George. He also spent years using a
polished origin story as a moat. Enough pain to look open. Not
enough truth to be seen.

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He grew up outside Boston in a house full of drugs, fists, and
sexual abuse. He joined the Marines because home was worse than
Parris Island. Honor graduate. Somalia at 21. Almost lost both
legs. A year in a wheelchair. Opiates. A night in the barracks
when he swallowed the whole bottle and did not want to wake up.

Then a food blog that became Civilized Caveman. An ebook he says
did a million dollars in six days. A cookbook tour where he
taught people to love themselves with food while he binged and
purged before every keynote. Austin. Four thousand people. His
ex-wife asked if he was going to walk on stage and lie to them
again. The only sentence that would come out was, "I've been
lying to all of you."

He later named the gap I keep seeing in high performers:
authenticity is a story you can recite on 9,000 podcasts.
Intimacy is letting someone close enough to help you. He found
God in Costa Rica the hard way, wrote his purpose on a piece of
paper, and gave the seven-figure company away because he was told
to.

If you run a real company and still feel unseen, this is a map of
the hiding places that look like strength. George's close is the
whole episode in one move. Nobody will see you until you can look
in the mirror without putting yourself on trial.

Connect with George Bryant:

Website: https://mindofgeorge.com/

Podcast: The Mind of George Show —
https://mindofgeorge.com/podcast/

Instagram: https://instagram.com/itsgeorgebryant

Book: The Paleo Kitchen (Juli Bauer and George Bryant) —
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1628600101?tag=findingpeak-20

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