Down A Rabbit Hole with Seth Godin

A Bit of Optimism

The Optimism Company from Simon Sinek

Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Management, Education

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Our time, energy, and emotions are valuable because they are finite. And yet conversations with Seth Godin always leave me feeling more patient, energized, and full of love. Seth is a prolific author and a marketing genius who knows first-hand how love can take an interaction from transactional to transformational. This is… A Bit of Optimism.

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0:00.0	Great Ideas are not magic tricks.
0:09.6	You don't just pull a rabbit out of a hat and there you have it, it's a great idea.
0:13.8	There's a lot of work that goes into great ideas.
0:16.9	It's more like a sculpture made out of stone, where there's a hammer and a chisel and you
0:21.5	chip away at something and it slowly takes form.
0:25.0	And one of the best ways to come up with great ideas is to allow someone to push you to
0:31.8	chip further and deeper and harder, to round all the square edges.
0:38.3	That's what happens whenever I talk to Seth Godin.
0:41.4	He is a God in the marketing world and a prolific author who just came out with a new book
0:47.1	called The Song of Significance.
0:49.3	Whenever I get together with him, he pushes me and challenges me and forces me to think
0:54.4	deeper about the ideas that I have.
0:57.6	So that when we get to the end, I guess it is a bit of magic.
1:03.6	This is a bit of optimism.
1:13.8	So I love you and I don't think I've ever told you the reason I love you.
1:21.1	My career was just starting out.
1:23.0	You and I had the opportunity to speak on the same stage and I had paid money to go to
1:28.2	events that you were speaking at in the past.
1:30.2	So I definitely knew who you were.
1:32.2	And you were sitting in the green room and you were off by yourself in a corner.
1:38.0	And I walked in and I wanted to introduce myself.
1:39.9	I mean, you were one of the people I admired and loved and I knocked on the door and you
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