564: Tapping the Motivational Forces of the World’s Most Successful People with Marco Greenberg
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 20 April 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Marco Greenberg shares how primal drives can be the key to unlocking your motivation and potential at work.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) Why the world’s most successful people are “primitive”.
2) How to tap into your primal drive using the ROAMING framework.
3) How to weaponize your insecurities.
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— ABOUT MARCO —
Marco Greenberg has spearheaded marketing communications and public affairs campaigns for an array of Fortune 500 corporations, healthcare organizations, and notable venture- and angel-backed startups, and has served as a senior advisor to foreign governments, democratic movements, and NGOs. Previously a managing director at global PR giant Burson-Marsteller, he sees his role as a creative catalyst for breakthrough communications. An in-demand speaker and facilitator, he has written opinion pieces for a range of publications, including Business Insider, Entrepreneur, NY Daily News, Tablet Magazine, WeWork’s Creator.
He holds a BA from UCLA and an MA from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and taught as an adjunct professor of Innovations in Marketing at NYU and entrepreneurship and PR at Fordham University. He splits his time with his wife and three grown children between the upper west side of Manhattan and Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
• Book: "Primitive: Tapping the Primal Drive That Powers the World's Most Successful People"
• LinkedIn: Marco Greenberg
• Website: PrimitiveBook.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Organization: HOBY, founded by Hugh O’Brian
• Book: “Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World" by Cal Newport
• Book: “Einstein’s Dreams” by Alan Lightman
• Book: "How to Stubbornly Refuse to Make Yourself Miserable about Anything: Yes Anything!" by Albert Ellis
• Book: "In Praise of Wasting Time (TED Books)" by Alan Lightman
• Book: “Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die" by Chip Heath & Dan Heath
• Book: "The 1940 Cincinnati Reds: A World Championship and Baseball's Only In-Season Suicide" by Brian Mulligan
• Book: "The Way of Go: 8 Ancient Strategy Secrets for Success in Business and Life" by Troy Anderson
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, |
| 0:04.0 | the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills |
| 0:08.0 | required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 564 with Marco Greenberg. |
| 0:24.1 | Marco is sharing how some of the most successful people, what's motivating them, |
| 0:28.7 | what's driving them and how you can tap into some of that primal motivational force if your motivations have been |
| 0:34.8 | dragged a bit lately. I think Marco's got some good answers for you. So you'll learn |
| 0:38.6 | one why the world's most successful people are primitive. Two, how to tap into your primal drive |
| 0:44.0 | using the roaming framework, and three, |
| 0:46.4 | how to weaponize your insecurities. |
| 0:48.6 | So if you want to check out the show notes |
| 0:49.6 | with the transcript or the links to As we've referenced, |
| 0:51.4 | you can expand your episode notes or |
| 0:53.9 | description or visit awesome at your job.com slash eep 564 to get those |
| 1:00.0 | goodies that way. Now here's Marco's story. Michael Greenberg has |
| 1:03.5 | spearheaded marketing communications and public affairs campaigns for an |
| 1:06.8 | array of Fortune 500 corporations, healthcare organizations, and notable venture |
| 1:11.4 | and angel-backed startups and to |
| 1:13.4 | serve as a senior advisor to foreign governments, democratic movements and |
| 1:16.8 | NGOs. |
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