#54: The Power Of Peer Groups

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0	Put Amy on this book.
0:01.3	On this episode of Seeking Wisdom.
0:04.5	What?
0:05.8	You have no idea what I'm going to talk about.
0:07.4	No idea.
0:08.7	On this episode of Seeking Wisdom, we're going to talk about the power of peer groups.
0:14.8	Hmm.
0:15.4	Oh.
0:16.3	Okay.
0:16.6	Okay. So you had this, this idea came from about a month ago.
0:31.7	You part took, partaken, I don't know.
0:34.7	You, you did the CEO forum.
0:54.9	Yep. And you said to me, you just got, you just got beat up for three days. And then you came back and you said, man, we need to do a podcast episode on the power of peer groups. Yep. And so we talk a lot about role models, but I want you, you know, explain a little bit about, like, why this, what was like the revelation that you had while you're there maybe you know you already knew it obviously but
0:58.4	what what reinforced this for you while you were there why is it so important so uh so this was
1:04.6	kind of a three day kind of CEO kind of peer group These were all people that I didn't know before.
1:12.0	I actually knew one person, but I didn't know the rest of the folks that were there.
1:15.7	And lots of interesting things in the way that they structure from, you know,
1:20.7	not having access to cell phones, an email, and having to go through from, you know,
1:25.3	8 a.m. to 11 p.m., you know, dinners afterwards. It was nice. D.C. was nice and quiet for two days. It was glorious. No one is sending, no D.C. sending D.G. messages all day. It was great. We should have a message count. We should keep like a, you know, like, Times Square has those tickers. We should have a ticker seeking wisdom tick ticker, that shows how many messages I send to DJ. No, I actually, last night I was thinking, I was like, I need somebody to build me an app, and it's just called inbox. And it just takes my Instagram DMs, my Snapchat DMs, my Twitter DMs, my Slack messages from you and just aggregates them all into one thread. Yeah, yeah. That would be amazing. I usually hit them up on like four at the same time with different messages.
2:04.2	It's, you know, it's great.
2:06.2	It pushes you to get better.
2:07.5	But anyway, so we were offline and it just reinforced to me this kind of idea that we've
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