719: Reid Hoffman | Adaptability Is the New Stability
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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🗓️ 31 August 2022
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Reid Hoffman (@reidhoffman) is a co-founder of LinkedIn, investor at Greylock Partners, host of the podcast Masters of Scale, and co-author of the fully revised and updated bestseller The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career.
What We Discuss with Reid Hoffman:- Why you should think of your career as a startup — from the perspective of an entrepreneur rather than an employee.
- What it means to evoke a permanent beta mindset in which you treat every day like day one and commit your life to personal growth.
- Why it’s important to continually generate professional opportunities even if you're happy where you are.
- Why you should ignore hacky influencers who tell you to "begin with the end in mind" when it comes to your career (and what you're better off doing instead).
- The soft and hard assets you should be tracking to make yourself, as friend of the show Cal Newport has famously said, "so good they can't ignore you."
- And much more...
Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/719
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:03.0 | And so yes, there's a part of it. |
| 0:04.6 | We said, well, I just want stability. |
| 0:05.8 | And it's like, well, but adaptability is the new stability. |
| 0:08.4 | And so this is the way that you need to do it. |
| 0:10.6 | And trusting in large-scale mechanisms, which might be volatile. |
| 0:15.2 | We're living in volatile times. |
| 0:16.4 | Look around you. |
| 0:17.4 | Having some ability to have that kind of knowing that you can rely upon yourself |
| 0:21.8 | and you can rely upon your colleagues and friends at network, |
| 0:24.6 | you can rely upon the way you've invested in your career. |
| 0:28.2 | That gives you the adaptability that then gives you the basis |
| 0:31.8 | by which you can be stable and safe. |
| 0:38.8 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:39.8 | I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:41.0 | On the Jordan Harbinger Show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills |
| 0:44.0 | of the world's most fascinating people. |
| 0:45.8 | We have in-depth conversations with scientists and entrepreneurs, |
| 0:48.8 | spies and psychologists, even the occasional mafia-unforcer, |
| 0:52.0 | drug trafficker, neuroscientist, or hostage negotiator. |
| 0:55.4 | And each episode turns our guests wisdom into practical advice |
| 0:58.8 | that you can use to build a deeper understanding of how the world works |
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