#170: Avoid Consensus (Unless You Want Average Results)

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

You have to pick an edge, pick a side. You can't be in the middle. Because the middle is where there's consensus. This week on Seeking Wisdom, DC and Adam talk about why consensus is dangerous for companies – and why you need to avoid it at all costs.

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0:32.9	If you're watching YouTube, you can see this.
0:35.4	Drift.
0:36.1	Thank you, Drift, for making this possible. Allift. Thank you, Drift for making this possible.
0:38.3	All right, young Adam, we are here.
0:40.3	What are we talking about?
0:41.3	We're back on seeking wisdom.
0:43.3	The universe is only six-star certified podcast.
0:46.3	It's unprecedented.
0:47.3	We're talking about what you wish you knew when you were younger going down this tweet storm
0:52.3	into one of my favorites, which is avoid consensus, avoid conventional
0:56.0	wisdom, that is, unless you want average results.
0:59.6	Boom.
1:00.3	That's an easy one to talk about.
1:01.9	I like that one.
1:02.8	That's a strong tweet right there.
1:04.4	That's a strong tweet.
1:05.3	I like that.
1:05.8	Someone's been doing their little homework on headline writing at Drift, I can tell.
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