690: How to Get Luckier and Create Serendipity with Christian Busch

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

Decisions, Collaboration, Wins, Mockaitis, Mental Health, Education, Speaking, Success, Interview, Fun, Career, Business, Development, Health & Fitness, Winning, Careers, Training, Thinking, Sharpening, Skills, Writing, Selfhelp, Self-improvement, Meaning, Money

4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Christian Busch reveals how to create good luck.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How to connect the dots for smart luck

2) How to turn random incidents into serendipity moments

3) How serendipity develops grit

Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep690 for clickable versions of the links below.

— ABOUT CHRISTIAN —

Dr. Christian Busch is the director of the Global Economy program at New York University's Center for Global Affairs, where he teaches on purpose-driven leadership, impact entrepreneurship, social innovation, and emerging markets.

He is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics (LSE) and the co-founder of Leaders on Purpose, an organization convening high-impact leaders, as well as the Sandbox Network, a global community of young innovators active in over 20 countries. Previously, he served on the faculty of the LSE's Department of Management and as the inaugural Deputy Director of the LSE’s Innovation Centre.

• Book: The Serendipity Mindset: The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck

• Twitter: @ChrisSerendip

• Website: SerendipityMindset.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

— THANK YOU SPONSORS! —

• StoryBlocks. Enhance your video storytelling quickly, beautifully, and affordably at Storyblocks.com/awesome.

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to the How To Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.
0:04.2	The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required
0:08.6	to flourish at work.
0:10.2	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McIdoz.
0:19.2	Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 690 with Christian Bush.
0:23.8	How would you like to get lucky?
0:25.4	And no, this is not that kind of a podcast or to create more luck in your life, more
0:30.3	serendipity.
0:31.3	Well, Christian has figured it out.
0:33.7	There is some science behind it.
0:35.2	So you'll learn one, how to connect the dots for smart luck, two, how to turn random incidents
0:40.0	into serendipity moments, and three, how serendipity develops grit.
0:44.2	So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to ours, we've
0:46.5	referenced.
0:47.5	Please drop on by awesome at your job.com slash EP 690.
0:50.7	And if you're at awesome at your job.com, check out some of our cool stuff like little
0:54.8	minifying glass search bar, search the full text transcripts, listener emailed me and
0:59.7	said, Hey, there was someone who was on a potato farm in an episode a while ago.
1:07.0	It's some great perspective on crafting story and being succinct.
1:11.4	Well, you can search potato farm in the search bar.
1:15.2	And there you can find, Oh, yeah, it was Daveness Stanley.
1:18.6	Yeah.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from How to be Awesome at Your Job, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of How to be Awesome at Your Job and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.