252: Srinivas Rao - Creating For An Audience Of One • Creativity Leads To Happiness • Cognitive Bandwidth
The Jesse Chappus Show
Jesse Chappus
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2018
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Srinivas Rao is the host and founder of the popular podcast, the Unmistakable Creative, where he's interviewed over five hundred creative people. Former guests on the show include Seth Godin, Elle Luna, Tim Ferriss, Gretchen Rubin, Simon Sinek, Adam Grant, and Danielle LaPorte. His self-published book The Art of Being Unmistakable was a Wall Street Journal bestseller. Srinivas' book An Audience of One was just released.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How surfing inspired Srini's writing
- Being present in the moment
- Why Srini started writing a blog after graduating from business school
- What life-changing advice Srini received
- Learning how to listen
- How does somebody find passion?
- The evolution from Blogcast FM to Unmistakable Creative
- The art of an interview
- Srini's struggle with depression
- Using metrics to quantify everything in Srini's life
- The world is full of other people's standards and information
- The role environment plays
- Clearing out things that aren't serving you
- The people you surround yourself with matter
- Everything is a deliberate choice
- The impact of the information you consume
- What is digital junk food?
- Cognitive bandwidth
- How to avoid information overload
- Creating for an audience of one
- Problems with social media
- Do the thing you can control
- Hold yourself to higher standards
- Srini's morning routine
- Creativity leads to happiness
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Related links:
Srinivas Rao - An Audience of One (book)
Unmistakable Creative Podcast (Srinivas' podcast)
Follow Srinivas Rao on Facebook and Twitter
Srinivas Rao - Unmistakeable (book)
Unmistakable Creative Live from NYC with Sarah Peck
Blogcast FM (Srinivas' 1st podcast)
Unmistakable Creative Podcast - The 9 Environments That Make Up Your Life with Jim Bunch
Unmistakable Creative Podcast - Naveen Jain: The Business and Mindset Blueprint of a Billionaire
Srinivas Rao - To Reach an Audience of Millions, Create for an Audience of One (article)
Unmistakable Creative Podcast - Mars Dorian: Expanding Your Creative Capacity through Collaboration
Chris McChesney, Sean Convey, & Jim Huling - The 4 Disciplines of Execution (book)
Listen to Greg McKeown previously on TUHP (episode #250)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We as a culture have gotten to the point where we have quantified virtually everything. |
| 0:04.1 | Even when you hear celebrities being interviewed or even be-list celebrities, |
| 0:08.0 | you'll hear them actually talk about the number of followers they have on Instagram |
| 0:11.6 | as if that's something to be proud of. of episode 252, Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman, and we are here on a weekly basis to take |
| 0:26.4 | your health to the next level. |
| 0:28.3 | This week our featured guest is Serena Rao. |
| 0:30.6 | He's the host and founder of the popular podcast The Unmistakable Creative |
| 0:34.2 | where he's interviewed over 500 creative people. Former guests on the show |
| 0:38.2 | include Seth Godin, L Luna, Tim Ferris, Gretchen Rubin, Simon Scenic, Adam Grant, and Danielle |
| 0:44.3 | La Port. His self-published book, The Art of Being Un Mistakable, was a Wall Street |
| 0:48.1 | journal bestseller. Serini's book, an audience of one, was just |
| 0:51.5 | released and it's the focus of today's talk. |
| 0:54.0 | What I really liked most about this interview is that we talk about being creative |
| 0:58.3 | and finding outlets in your life to express that creativity and we do get into how being creative can actually lead to |
| 1:04.8 | happiness. And I think so many of us don't always get the opportunity in our life to find our |
| 1:10.1 | creative passions and then it's another thing to actually get the opportunity to |
| 1:14.4 | express them so hopefully you get a lot of inspiration from today's show and here's some of what we get into |
| 1:20.3 | with Sreeni we talk about being present in the moment, learning how to listen, how to clear out things that aren't serving you, what digital junk food is, how to avoid information overload, how to hold yourself to higher standards, and how creativity leads to happiness. |
| 1:36.6 | You guys are truly in for a treat. |
| 1:38.2 | This is such a great conversation. |
| 1:40.0 | Here we go with Serene. |
| 1:41.4 | Hi Serene, how are you? Welcome to the the podcast. Yeah thanks so much for having me. |
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