Peter Rex: Do rebels experience stress when they rebel?

Hi, my name is Stuart Alsop, and this is my podcast, Crazy Wisdom, where I interview creative people about how they work with and manage the stress that is inherent in creative work. What I've realized over the past 10 years of my research is that anybody who is creating something of value that is significantly different from what has come before is considered crazy. Most of us have a fear, an ingrained fear of going crazy. So what I'm saying is grab onto that fear, realize that it's there, and just go with it, because the problems we're going to be facing over the next 20 years require crazy people in order to solve them.

Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom podcast, and my guest here is Peter Rex, who has some great things to share with us today about the connection between creativity and stress. And I'll let him introduce himself.

Yeah, Stuart, great to be here. First, I want to open up by thanking you for really setting up a podcast that is aimed at helping out a lot of people who have been in the same exact position we've been in coming out of, you know, whether it's our profession trying to figure out a new position or what we're going to do next, or just coming out of college and not really knowing what the heck's going on, which way is up, you know, And I think it brings a lot of value and it's something I wish I had access to as a resource coming out of college as well, that type of wisdom and advice, especially the crazy type, which is pretty much the type that we're going to be talking about today. So, yeah. So who am I for the listeners? My name is Peter Rex, and why should you listen to me? Maybe you shouldn't. But here's my background. Right now I'm building the largest company that's ever been built, and we're in the middle of grinding on that. And it's realistically going to be that big. It's going to be the number one largest. And my background before this was I built a billion and a half real estate company, a billion and a half in assets, and went to Harvard Law School and went to 85 countries developing the concept around Trustworth. So that's it. You want to follow me? Follow me at PeterRecks. And we'd love to have people helping out with our mission. The mission I'm on is the mission of the company, which is to empower people to rise up and live abundantly. And we'll get into some of that or that'll be threaded through. And that kind of just comes through with the way I speak. That mission is a mission I came up with in collaboration with a lot of my partners. But I think it really comes out of my heart to empower people to rise up and live abundantly. So let's just jump into things and start jamming.