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Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

#81: The Reason We Started Seeking Wisdom

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5610 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. ----- It only took 81 episodes, but it finally hit DC why we started Seeking Wisdom. Here's a quick bonus episode on the why behind Seeking Wisdom.

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This morning I came in, I'm like, oh, I know why we started seeking wisdom.

0:03.8

All right.

0:04.2

80, 81 episodes later.

0:56.9

We're on? Yeah. We got this? Yes. All right. It's impromptu. Let's do it. It's not going to be impromed. All right. Why do we start seeking wisdom? Great question. It hit you. It hit me last night. Okay. I actually last night, this morning I came in, I'm like, oh, I know why we started seeking wisdom. All right. 81 episodes later. 81. This would be 81. Yeah, I finally figured out. You see how on point I am? Yeah. I knew which episode number were on. I love that. It's new. It's new. All right. So what I figured out was the way that seeking wisdom started was when Dave and I used used to have conversations all of us at Drift would have conversations internally about different things whether it was personal

1:02.6

growth or professional growth or physical health or whatever books we were reading articles there

1:07.4

we had a channel on Slack like learning just just put stuff in there. Exactly. So we

1:11.0

have these conversations internally. And the reason we were having these conversations

1:15.0

internally is that we were deliberate as part of recruiting people to this day, but especially

1:21.7

in the early days, recruiting people that were obsessed with learning and wanting to get better.

1:26.7

So that was the common thread between all of us.

1:30.0

And so we had these conversations.

1:32.1

Then all of a sudden, I think it dawned on us that, hey, we could record these conversations.

1:36.9

Let's start recording these conversations, see if we could turn it into a podcast.

1:40.8

And if it's successful, maybe we could find other like-minded people who care about

1:46.7

accelerated learning to join us here at drift from a recruiting standpoint and then we did it

1:52.3

and then it was like oh wow there are other people that care about this right a lot of other

1:56.5

people are like oh I love the way and if you go back and you probably look at the first you know

2:00.1

zero to ten episodes they're all about like morning routines, books, you know, books, habits, learning. Like, yes, we still talk about that a lot. Yeah. But those were very intentional, like, okay, these are things that we talked about. Yeah. And then it dawned on me that, wait, listeners, the people listening are people that are people that are interested in transformation, right?

2:21.9

In the personal and professional transformation.

2:24.4

They're interested in hypergrowth, right?

2:27.0

And there are people who want to question conventional wisdom.

2:31.8

And those are exactly the type of people that are the best people for us as a business

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