209: How to Trick Your Teenager into Following Good Advice | Feedback Friday
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 6 June 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
You'd love for your teenager to listen to this show and learn some life advice by proxy instead of having to endure it in real time like you did, but it seems unlikely. Why are teenagers so stubbornly opposed to parental wisdom? We can't say for sure, but we do have some tricks for making them follow good advice against their own bratty proclivities.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. I'm here with producer Jason |
| 0:06.8 | de Philipo. Here on the Jordan Harbinger Show, we love having conversations with our fascinating |
| 0:11.0 | guests. And this week we had Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, partner at Greylock, and |
| 0:16.0 | myself hosting the commencement episode of his podcast, Masters of Scale. We dissected |
| 0:21.1 | clips of wisdom from Daniel Eck, founder of Spotify, Marissa Mayer, former CEO of Yahoo, |
| 0:26.0 | as well as loads of others, including Reid Hoffman himself. It was a two-part episode |
| 0:30.2 | that will go down as one of the most in-depth interviews Reid Hoffman has ever done. I also |
| 0:35.0 | write every so often on the blog. The latest post is about how to use embarrassment to your |
| 0:39.9 | advantage. It's not just took a lesson over time to get embarrassed. I have real tactics |
| 0:44.0 | for what embarrassment is, the function, the positive results that can come from it, |
| 0:48.8 | then I give results are pretty clear in how we can reframe and use embarrassment to |
| 0:53.8 | our advantage, whether it's something small or whether it's something fairly serious. And |
| 0:58.1 | that's at JordanHarbinger.com slash articles. So make sure you've had a look and a listen |
| 1:02.6 | to everything we've created for you this week. Of course, our primary mission on the show |
| 1:06.1 | here, we always want to pass along our guests, insights and experiences, and our insights |
| 1:11.0 | and experiences along to you. In other words, the real purpose of the show is to have conversations |
| 1:15.6 | directly with you. And that's what we're going to do today here on Feedback Friday. You |
| 1:18.9 | can reach us Friday at JordanHarbinger.com. Try to keep them concise if you can. It does |
| 1:23.4 | increase the chance your question. We'll get answered on the air. |
| 1:26.6 | And we do love hearing from you. We've had some really fun questions recently and this |
| 1:29.9 | week is no exception. For me, man, Jason, I'm getting ready for this baby coming in, coming |
| 1:36.5 | in hot. Oh my God. Coming through, lady with a baby. That's right. That's right. Coming |
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