Brian Grazer: Scale your curiosity
Masters of Scale
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4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Amidst the fast pace of entrepreneurial life, how can we make our networking more impactful? The acclaimed film and television producer Brian Grazer argues that curiosity is the elixir for deeper human connection and cultivating a healthy network that serves as an ever-flowing well of inspiration.
Brian joins Reid to share the unique practice that brings his healthy network to life. You’ll also hear how Brian founded Imagine Entertainment with his longtime creative partner, Ron Howard, and how iconic names like Warren Beatty and Jay-Z were injected with Brian’s curiosity. Plus, Brian shares lessons about seeking inspiration outside of your bubble, the hidden power of microexpressions, and why leaders everywhere should never turn up to a social meeting empty handed.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Bob Safian. You've been hearing me as the host of rapid response in this feed for a few years now, |
| 0:07.8 | with short newsy interviews alongside the deeper dives of Masters of Scale. Well, I'm excited to share that rapid response is expanding into its own feed. |
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| 0:31.2 | I'll see you on the other side. Swainson's Thrush, one of those birds that has a beautiful song, but you don't see |
| 0:47.1 | him that often. |
| 0:48.1 | They hang out in thick forests and they are migrating at night. |
| 0:54.0 | That's Jesse Berry from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in New York. |
| 1:00.0 | You can imagine this little songbird smaller than a robin, |
| 1:05.0 | traveling from perhaps somewhere in Northern Ontario |
| 1:10.0 | all the way to the mountains and the Andes. |
| 1:15.0 | Think about what they need to do to be ready for that journey |
| 1:18.0 | and then the risks that they face along the way. |
| 1:24.0 | Those risks are an essential consideration in Jesse's work every day. |
| 1:29.0 | Since 1970, North America's bird population has declined by around 3 billion. |
| 1:36.2 | We can see it in the data, but we can also see it in our personal observations, |
| 1:40.8 | where the numbers of birds that were around in the places that I went |
| 1:45.2 | birding when I was a kid have already changed. To be able to see that shift in my |
| 1:51.1 | lifetime is both tragic and motivating at the same time. |
| 1:57.0 | The Swainson's Thrush is one species at risk. |
| 2:01.0 | Jesse believes that communication across the ornithological community |
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