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Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver

Bob Pittman

Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Arts

4.6598 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Minnie questions Bob Pittman; co-founder, Chairman and CEO of iHeartMedia, Inc. and the co-founder of MTV. Bob shares why he’s grateful for a childhood injury, lessons from growing up in the South during the Civil Rights movement, and why plans are bad for business.

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0:06.0

Bob, well, I'm so grateful for your time and your wisdom.

0:11.0

Well, I don't know whether there's any wisdom,

0:13.0

but I always enjoy talking about these kinds of topics

0:17.0

because usually we don't in life.

0:19.0

And to me, these are probably the most important topics

0:22.9

that we can talk about because of the foundation of our life. Yeah, exactly. And I do really believe

0:28.3

in the sharing of experience because it's identifiable. It reminds us that we're part of something,

0:34.8

that however isolated we feel, are people you know you would be

0:38.2

identifiable as an extraordinarily successful person but it's good to know that you are a person

0:43.8

the best compliment i got to have thank you hello i'm mini driver welcome to mini questions

0:52.7

season two i've always loved Proust's questionnaire.

0:56.8

It was originally an 19th century parlour game where players would ask each other 35 questions

1:02.9

aimed at revealing the other player's true nature. It's just the scientific method, really.

1:09.3

In asking different people the same set of questions, you can make observations about which

1:14.2

truths appear to be universal. I love this discipline. And it made me wonder, what if these

1:20.0

questions were just the jumping off point? What greater depths would be revealed if I ask

1:25.0

these questions as conversation starters with thought leaders and trailblazers

1:29.5

across all these different disciplines. So I adapted Proust questionnaire and I wrote my own seven

1:34.7

questions that I personally think are pertinent to a person's story. They are, when and where were you

1:40.1

happiest? What is the quality you like least about yourself? What relationship real or fictionalised

1:46.2

defines love for you? What question would you most like answered? What person, place or experience has

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