

James is the founder of The Exam Coach. You can find out more here: https://www.theexamcoach.tv/
Abundance is a gift, but only if we learn to harness its potential. The greatest inequality today isn’t the one concerning resources, but it’s the one between those who know how to use the tools of the modern world to regulate and enhance their own emotional reality and those who don’t. And that difference mainly has its root in one thing: taking responsibility.
It also means that in order to trigger that sense of adversity that’s gotten him this far, he has to rough up his life, so he doesn’t get too comfortable. He tries to do this daily, even with small things like carrying his groceries from the store rather than taking a cab. He fasts for 18 hours at a time. He regularly alternates first-class flights with middle-seat coach ones. He forces himself to read, which, with dyslexia, he says, is painful.
In spring 2018, Rahal read Skin in the Game, by former trader-turned-essayist Nassim Nicholas Taleb, which argues that people must risk personal success and failure in order to work at their peak. Rahal’s issue crystallized: “That’s when I was like, wait, I gotta leave,” he said. He broke the news to Kellogg’s senior management, who appeared to be less than surprised. …