"Boredom Is A Lie!" Navy SEAL Psychologist On Why You Sabotage Yourself

Dr. Doug Brackmann is a psychologist who works with Navy SEALs, PGA pros and founders — and he teaches meditation by putting a rifle in your hands and asking you to hit a target a mile away. He was a high school dropout living in a car. Now he's the guy those people call when the money arrives and the emptiness doesn't go away. In this conversation he explains the genetics behind the entrepreneurial brain, why 87% of lottery winners are bankrupt within five years, why hunting organizations physically cannot scale, and what happens to a founder's identity the day the phone stops ringing after an exit. Matt gets into his own version of it — what he's watched happen to sellers through the Crash Champions acquisitions, and why the check was never the hard part. Find Dr. Brackmann and take the driven assessment at iamdriven.com. Books: Driven and Sheep and Wolves. Want more Matt in your life? Of course you do!  (https://www.instagram.com/mattebertcc/) (https://www.facebook.com/MattEbertCC) (https://twitter.com/mattebertcc/) (https://www.tiktok.com/@mattebertcc) (https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-ebert-7169a5180/) Get paid while you learn on the job at Crash Champions: https://step.crashchampions.com/ 00:00 INTRO 01:50 Why entrepreneurs are unemployable 04:43 High school dropout who lived in a car 07:48 The alcoholism gene and the genetics of "driven" 11:05 Inside the driven brain: 9 to 13 thoughts at once 15:12 Hunters vs. farmers, and why school was built for farmers 18:54 The boredom gene and reward deficiency 21:46 What happens when you ask a driven person who they are 24:51 Why you can only scale a farm, never a hunt 28:21 Hiring farmers around you, and talking to your CFO 31:38 The wolf pack, the herd, and why drivens end up alone 35:32 Self-sabotage: 87% of lottery winners go bankrupt 38:37 Losing your identity after you sell the company 41:30 Trauma, somatic healing, and what the body records 45:36 Boredom is a lie 48:04 Sleep, willpower, and what meditation actually is 51:09 Energy, intuition, and the spidey sense 54:02 The shadow, Carl Jung, and the midlife turn inward 56:42 Where to find Dr. Brackmann and the driven assessment 58:33 Closing: the person he'd champion