Scott Kriens, 1440 Multiversity Co-Founder

Scott Kriens (0:00)

There isn't enough stuff or accomplishments or trophies or championships in the world to scratch that itch inside of us. And the sooner that anybody can stare at that and look elsewhere, and it doesn't have to be instead of, doesn't mean stop working, earning, succeeding, just understand it differently.

And the longer that it takes to do that, the less time you'll have when you figure it out.

Michael Gervais (0:42)

All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. I'm Michael Gervais, and by trade in training, a sport and performance psychologist, as well as the co-founder of Compete to Create. And the whole idea behind these conversations, this podcast, is to learn, and then to apply that learning, right? So it's not just consuming information, but it's doing something with it for you to be better, for us together to be better. And what we wanna do in this podcast is understand from the best thinkers and doers in the world, those that have dedicated their life towards mastery, what are they searching for? What are they aching for? What are they craving in their life? Where does it come from?

Then we wanna understand their psychological framework. How do they make sense of life? How do they make sense of external and internal experiences? And then the third part is we wanna dig to understand the mental skills that they use to build and refine their craft.

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Okay, now this week's conversation is with Scott Kriens, chairman and former CEO of Juniper Networks. And Scott has been in the tech industry for more than 35 years.

And during his tenure at Juniper, he served as both chairman and CEO, growing the company to more than 10,000 employees in over 100 countries worldwide and 4 billion in revenue. And he still remains chairman today. Now think about that, growing from a very small startup into a $4 billion revenue radical. There's something that we need to learn from Scott here. And two pillars that have been important for him are passion and authenticity in relationships. And back in 2010, Scott and his wife Joanne founded the 1440 Foundation and recently just completed 1440 Multiversity. And it is a state of the art, immersive learning destination. It is beautiful, it is stunning. And what really stands out in this conversation is Scott's authenticity and his willingness to be vulnerable and just how much he genuinely cares about getting to the center of what's real.