Jason Feifer is the editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur magazine, a keynote speaker, startup advisor, and host of the podcast Problem Solvers. 

But the throughline of his career is not a title or a resume. It's a single skill: taking complicated ideas and making them simple. 

In this conversation, Liz and Jason explore what it means to build a career that isn't anchored to a job, how entrepreneurs think differently than everyone else, and why the goal might not be happiness at all but something closer to momentum. 

This one went deep fast, and it never slowed down.


Key Takeaways

  • Self-conceptions are powerfully limiting.
  • The thing that does not change in times of change.
  • Horizontal thinkers vs. vertical thinkers.
  • Opportunity Set A vs. Opportunity Set B.
  • You can be entrepreneurial whether or not you work for yourself.
  • $1 is not inherently better than $0.
  • Success is a state of being, not a specific outcome.
  • Baseline is clarity.


Timestamps

  • [0:00:25] Book Deal and Podcast Rebrand
  • [0:04:09] Nonlinear Career and Pattern Recognition
  • [0:08:40] Defining the Thing That Doesn’t Change
  • [0:10:50] Work Your Next Job Philosophy
  • [0:13:57] Horizontal vs Vertical Career Thinking
  • [0:21:39] Balancing Creativity and Strategy
  • [0:27:22] Personal Metrics of Success Spreadsheet
  • [0:31:23] State of Being vs Outcome Goals
  • [0:37:30] Negative Emotions in a Well-Lived Life
  • [0:39:39] Saying No to Misaligned Funding
  • [0:46:39] Emotional Baseline and Sustainable


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