383: Guy Raz - 383: Guy Raz - How To Ask Questions, Tell A Story, & Build A Career You Love

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Ryan Hawk

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🗓️ 13 September 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

#383: Guy Raz - How I Built This

Excellence =
- Ambition
- Desire to produce for the sake of personal fulfillment -- "It's oxygen"
- Bill Gates is constantly challenging himself... Having a growth mindset. "To survive means to grow."
How has Guy become one of the greatest interviewers in the world?
- "I've been shooting free throws for 25 years. I've gotten a lot of reps." To be great, you have to be bad at the beginning... And keep going.
How to connect with others? "I interpret the non-verbal feedback."
Purposeful Practice:
- It's a team effort -- "I've worked with my team for twenty years. There is a strong bond and connection. They are very honest with their feedback. Constructive criticism is essential. We need outsiders to assess us."
Guy thanks his mom and dad in the acknowledgement section of his book:
- They came to America in the 1970's. "Being courageous requires resilience."
- Guy has covered four wars, but he still doesn't feel he's as courageous as his parents.
- "Without taking a risk there is no reward."
- When Guy is afraid to take a risk, he thinks of his parents.
How his fellowship year at Harvard impacted him: They teach through case studies and stories. It helped him understand business and storytelling.
Guy is inspired by Joseph Campbell's hero's journey...
His 'Must-Have' qualities to get hired to work on his team:
- Kindness - "We filter for kindness"
- They have to "want to improve"
How Guy prepares to interview someone for one of his shows:
- Contact them well ahead of the interview date
- Do a deep dive on them and people around them (read, watch videos, listen to podcasts)
- Do a background check
- "All of us are imperfect... That's what make someone relatable. We all have flaws. You need to hear the failures."
  - "The interviewee must be generous with their emotions.
- "The idea that I can learn from someone excites me."
- "I love transmitting the story."
The idea for How I Built This came to him in 2008 when he took a class at Harvard Business School during a sabbatical year as a Nieman journalism fellow after nearly eight years as a foreign correspondent.
Guy demands that those who sit for an interview with him are completely open. “I ask them, ‘Are you willing to come to this interview and surrender?’”
Guy stared as an NPR intern and didn't get the initial jobs he wanted...
I asked... "How much of your success can be attributed to luck and how much skill/hard work?"
Life advice:
- Get a job in sales -- All jobs have a selling component. Learn this crucial skill.
- Be methodical about your experiences.
- Keep your eyes open for problems all around you... Look for problems to solve. All businesses are built on solving a problem.

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0:00.0	Real quick before we get to this great episode with the legendary Guy Raz.
0:07.0	I have a request if you've listened to the show for a while.
0:11.0	I would love it if you would go to Apple Podcast, write a thoughtful
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0:21.7	Apple Podcast, write a thoughtful review, rate the show hopefully five stars.
0:26.0	All right, thank you.
0:27.0	Here we go.
0:28.0	I ask people to be generous.
0:32.4	You know, these, most of the people I know these most of the people I interview most of the people
0:34.7	profiled in this book are extremely wealthy. Some are billionaires. I'm not
0:40.0	asking for your money. I'm not asking you to give our listeners your money. I'm asking you to be generous with
0:46.7	with yourself with your thoughts. That's very hard. It's easy to be generous with your money.
0:52.4	It's very hard to be generous with your money. It's very hard to be generous with your emotions.
0:55.0	But if you can convince somebody, and I believe you can because I do this every week,
1:02.0	if you can convince somebody that the more generous they are with their emotions,
1:06.7	the greater the payback to them will be, you know, the greater the return on that.
1:10.7	It's a very important investment. If you can have that conversation with somebody, you will find that by and large people will surrender. We'll be willing to do that.
1:27.0	Welcome to the Learning Leader Show presented by Brixi Meyer.
1:32.3	I am your host Ryan Hawk. Thank you so much for being here. If you're new,
1:38.6	text learners to 442-22 in order to join tens of thousands of learning leaders from all over the
1:46.8	world received mindful Monday updates. What I'm reading, writing, watching,
1:52.0	thinking about.
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