856: How to Awaken Your Genius and Become Extraordinary with Ozan Varol
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 13 April 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Ozan Varol reveals how to surface your unique talents that enable you to achieve extraordinary results.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The surprising technique writers of The Office used to keep their ideas fresh.
2) A powerful question for uncovering your hidden genius.
3) How being a people pleaser is killing your genius.
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— ABOUT OZAN —
Ozan Varol is a rocket scientist turned award-winning professor and #1 bestselling author. He is one of the world’s foremost experts in creativity, innovation, and critical thinking. His writing has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Time, Washington Post, and more. His latest book is called Awaken Your Genius: Escape Conformity, Ignite Creativity, and Become Extraordinary.
• Book: Awaken Your Genius: Escape Conformity, Ignite Creativity, and Become Extraordinary
• Book website: GeniusBook.net
• Website: OzanVarol.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
• Book: How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
• Previous episode: 563: Accelerating Your Career by Thinking Like a Rocket Scientist with Ozan Varol
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required |
| 0:08.5 | to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.1 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.1 | With your host, Pete LeCaites. |
| 0:19.2 | Hello and welcome to Episode 856. |
| 0:22.1 | We got Ozan Varuel back because he is a genius at helping people become geniuses. |
| 0:28.8 | Or is it Geneye? |
| 0:29.8 | Either way, he shares how to zero in on your unique talents that really enable you to shine, |
| 0:36.5 | excel, achieve more, have more fun, so much good stuff from Ozan. |
| 0:40.5 | So you'll learn one, the surprising technique writers of the office use to keep their ideas |
| 0:44.9 | fresh, two, a powerful question for uncovering your hidden genius. |
| 0:49.6 | And three, how being a people pleaser can actually kill your genius. |
| 0:53.6 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that |
| 0:56.0 | we've referenced, please pace a visit over at awesomeatyourjob.com slash ep856. |
| 1:02.4 | And we're at awesomeatyourjob.com, a recommend you check out some of our goodies, like the |
| 1:05.4 | full text transcripts, which are searchable, the 10 days of working at work email course, |
| 1:11.4 | about slash and waste to add to your work day, the golden nugget email summaries, there's |
| 1:15.8 | a lot of goodies. |
| 1:16.8 | So have some fun over at awesomeatyourjob.com. |
| 1:19.8 | Now here's some fun about Ozan. |
| 1:21.2 | Ozan Varuel is a rocket scientist, turned award-winning professor, and number one best |
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