Best of 2019: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi: The Universal Laws of Success
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In this incredibly interesting episode, we get to chat with Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, a Physicist and Data Scientist in Network Theory. Why does hard work not always measure up to success? We out-perform expectations to go the extra mile but somehow always finish a mile short of where we want to be. For too long the link between performance and success has remained a mystery. Now, Albert has used raw data and historic case studies to uncover the unspoken rules behind success so that we can leverage them to our advantage. This is definitely an episode you'll want to revisit.
To find out more about Albert-Laszlo Barabasi and his work, you can easily find him on Google or visit www.Barabasi.com
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| 0:50.0 | So let's talk about what the Q factor is, right? So one of the things that the fact that each |
| 0:57.3 | project has exactly the same probability of being the most successful of your life, that actually led to a mathematical mother of how creativity |
| 1:05.3 | works. |
| 1:06.4 | And the way this works really is that every project that you start is like a random number. |
| 1:11.3 | You pick a random number from a hat, and you and I have access to the same |
| 1:15.2 | hat, so we pick a random number from that. And that could be one or six, throw a dice, right? |
| 1:20.8 | It's like, it's totally random. |
| 1:22.5 | And then you bring your knowledge and expertise on that |
| 1:26.4 | and that's your cue factor and turn that idea into product. |
| 1:30.2 | If you're a scientist, it could be a paper. |
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| 1:36.0 | or it could be a book if you are a writer, |
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