041: Carl Quintanilla | Why You Should Say Yes

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2015

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Carl Quintanilla, weekend NBC Nightly News anchor, decided to make the jump from The Wall Street Journal to Television when the future of print looked uncertain. Though he has secured a coveted position, he initially paid his dues by always saying yes to opportunities, including reporting in Iraq, where by that time, fortunately, hostilities were on the wane. The resilience he built up in such an ambitious career track explains why he coasted through the Spartan course prior to the interview. Joe and Carl discuss what they have learned through their interactions with the successful as well techniques that have helped them in their own lives.

Lessons:
1. Set a limited time to reflect on failure (3 days max) then move forward.
2. In general, yes is the best answer. Don't build walls.
3. The key to success is surviving long enough to get lucky.

Transcript

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0:00.0	All right I thought I was the one being interviewed.
0:04.0	No no no they said I'm going to be on c NBC. I thought I was doing your podcast.
0:07.0	You're listening to Spartan Up Podcast.
0:09.0	We're going to interview somebody every week from all over the world and see what they did in their life
0:14.1	to become successful no matter how they define it. We are in the barn the
0:19.0	Amy Barn and beautiful Pittsfield Vermont. I'm surrounded by amazing people. I'm going to go to the camera first. We have
0:26.0	Marion who makes us all happen. We have Joe who we're not quite sure what Joe does, but he's
0:30.9	a nice guy so we let him stick around we have
0:33.4	separate who brings out the big words and makes us all look smart and we have Colonel
0:37.0	Nye who just is smart and does need any help to begin with so speaking of
0:41.1	smart people car nantine nia carl cantinea yes
0:44.2	c n b c n b c a real smart guy uh the only thing that maybe question it is the whole thing
0:49.3	sort of an argument that we just saw yeah about who was going to interview who.
0:54.0	Yeah we had a little bit of an argument I mean he interviews people for a living
0:56.8	I do it I'm trying to make a living hat it's not really working no no
1:00.8	but let's take a look and see who wins.
1:04.0	How are you doing? Spartan Up Podcast.
1:06.0	We are here at an undisclosed island with Carl T. T. Kintonia, who is a C. M. C. C. M. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C.
1:13.8	You're like bigger than anybody now.
1:14.8	Pretty big. I'm pretty big pretty big on that show.
1:17.6	And it occurred to me on this secret island that you probably have interviewed
1:22.1	hundreds of people over the years that are successful because you're on
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