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414 - Why Everything You Know About Success & Productivity Is Wrong | Seth Godin

The Marie Forleo Podcast

Marie Forleo

Education, Self-improvement

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Seth Godin shatters the biggest lies about productivity, business, and the self-help industry that are keeping you stuck. Discover why your morning routine isn't working, the "authenticity" trap you're falling into, and how to build massive success without social media. 

WHAT'S COVERED IN THIS EPISODE: 

0:00 - 3 steps to achieve your dreams

3:00 - Why you need a morning routine

5:15 - Seth's daily schedule

7:59 - How to protect your time

10:19 - When to quit

12:50 - 2 flavors of dread (aka what to say "yes" to)

15:24 - The myth of burnout

18:08 - Why Seth is NOT on social media

22:01 - How to grow a brand without social media

25:44 - The AI shift

34:03 - The only 2 pricing strategies

37:04 - How to "get the word out" 

41:07 - The "Authenticity Trap" 

48:26 - How to find fresh ideas

51:41 - Don't follow your passion

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Some might say there's a lot of unhelpful advice out there around productivity and success,

0:05.5

like you're going to sleep when you're dead, all that stuff.

0:08.5

If anybody watching or listening wants to truly retrieve their dreams, what do you think are three things they should focus on first?

0:17.3

The first one is you should get clear about what your dreams are as opposed to just have a

0:22.2

hint of them because soft intuitive

0:25.4

undisclosed dreams are just there to bother you but specific dreams can be challenged.

0:33.2

Specific dreams give you the chance

0:35.2

they, no, I don't really want that.

0:37.9

And the second thing is to be very clear

0:41.0

about the change you seek to make, the change you seek to make in yourself

0:45.6

and in others. You are not entitled to change other people. They have to go along with you,

0:52.3

which leads to the third one, which is to develop the empathy

0:56.0

to realize that other people don't see what you see,

0:59.0

don't want what you want, don't need what you need,

1:01.0

and that's okay.

1:03.0

So if we can bring other people something that helps them achieve their dreams

1:08.0

in a way that helps us, it's way more likely that's going to happen

1:12.0

than if we just sit in a dark corner whining about the fact that our intuitive dream hasn't come true yet.

1:18.2

The clarity piece, I feel like that's one of my favorite words and my favorite things to discover and to crystallize is that clarity.

1:29.0

It's like, what is it that I actually really want?

1:32.6

And what don't you want?

1:33.8

So you can't, like, you know, I was a couple years ago

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