#152: Seeking Wisdom Is Back: How Disruption Leads to Opportunity

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Seeking Wisdom is back! During this 25-episode season, David Cancel shares what he wishes he knew when he was younger – and the stories behind the lessons – to help you avoid making the same mistakes. But first, in this very special episode, DC shares his thoughts on the COVID pandemic, how to pull out silver linings when possible, and why massive external events can trigger personal and professional behavioral changes. And why that just might be a good thing for you and your business. Like this episode? Be sure to leave a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review and share the pod with your friends. You can connect with DC and his co-host, Adam Schoenfeld, on Twitter @dcancel @schoeny @HYPERGROWTH_Pod.

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0:00.0	Okay, DC, why are you back?
0:07.0	All right, so I'm back on seeking wisdom.
0:10.0	It's been a long time and I can't even remember the last time that we did a seeking wisdom.
0:15.0	I'm back for a number of reasons.
0:17.0	For most, I'm back because of the seeking wisdom community.
0:26.1	Seeking wisdom community has been DMing me, has been tweeting at me, has been sending us collectively messages for a very long time now, asking us to bring back the show.
0:31.1	I didn't know anyone was listening, and now I know people are listening, and they miss the show.
0:36.4	So that's first.
0:37.3	And then second, my personal mission is to try to help people go through this journey
0:43.0	by ideally saving them from making some of the same painful mistakes that I made
0:49.5	by sharing all the problems and messes that I've gotten myself into with them.
0:55.0	So hopefully some small percentage of them will be saved from learning through pain and misery
1:00.7	the way I did.
1:01.9	And then the third reason is that it's somewhat therapeutic doing seeking wisdom and talking
1:06.6	about some of these ideas.
1:07.8	It's me clarify in my own mind, in my own thinking, these ideas that I'm wrestling
1:12.8	with.
1:13.2	There's a community motivation.
1:16.0	There is a selfish motivation in this, and so we have all bases covered.
1:21.9	The world's changed a little bit since the last episode, hasn't it?
1:25.3	Yeah, the world is turned upside down. And so we all know,
1:30.0	and we all have gone through all the negative repercussions of what, at least so far,
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