166: Generating New Big Ideas from Your Hunches with Bernadette Jiwa
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 12 June 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Worldwide storytelling authority Bernadette Jiwa shares how to tap into hunches to uncover your next great idea.
You’ll Learn:
- How to begin trusting your gut
- The three qualities that cultivate good ideas
- The skill of selling your ideas through storytelling
About Bernadette
Bernadette Jiwa hails from Ireland, presently lives in Australia, and is a global authority on the role of story in business, innovation and marketing. She is also an advisor to business leaders and entrepreneurs, a regular keynote speaker, and the author of five #1 Amazon Bestsellers. Her website, thestoryoftelling.com, regularly tops blog awards in Australia. Her latest book, Hunch, released last week.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Bernadette’s website: TheStoryOfTelling.com
- Bernadette’s book: Hunch: Turn Your Everyday Insights into the Next Big Thing
- Author: Seth Godin
- Book: Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:16.2 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 166 with |
| 0:25.4 | Bernadette Jeeba. We are talking hunches in how they can help you uncover your |
| 0:31.3 | next big idea. |
| 0:33.4 | So you're going to learn one, how to begin trusting your gut, |
| 0:36.7 | two, the three qualities that cultivate good ideas, |
| 0:40.6 | and three, the skill of selling those ideas through storytelling. |
| 0:45.0 | So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items referenced here, |
| 0:50.0 | you'll find that over at awesome at your job.com slash epp 166 and I encourage you if you |
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