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Noah Kagan Presents

Entrepreneur Appetizer #1

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Recently, I had a surprising conversation with an Uber driver. It inspired me to think about business and leadership. In today’s new type of episode, I share the story of my Uber — and 3 things I learned. You can use these tips to be more successful at work… or even find work that you really love.

Full show notes at http://okdork.com/podcast/70

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is up you sexy beasts? It's your boy hot tub

0:05.1

aka rabbi can't lose aka no-a-kagan. Today I'm trying out something completely

0:09.6

brand new called entrepreneur appetizers. These are hashtag sumo life.

0:14.0

They're two to five minute stories that I share with the sumo.com every week.

0:18.0

There's stories that I think you would enjoy.

0:20.0

They're about leadership and business and hopefully inspire you or give you some food for thought they're going to be really really short and real meaty just like a tasty appetizer

0:27.4

Today's story is about my Uber driver in the beginning of this year

0:30.9

It was Monday morning. I got in the minivan,

0:34.1

and he started talking and he said,

0:35.9

oh, how are you feeling about work today?

0:37.6

And what do you think he was expecting me to say?

0:39.6

What do you think?

0:40.6

He's like, I was gonna say,

0:41.4

yeah, it sucks, my boss, I hate my bald boss all this stuff but what I said was I'm insanely excited

0:48.7

He said he was shocked and he's never heard anyone say that before. And it's not about being insanely excited,

0:54.0

but the fact that I was excited to go to work.

0:56.0

Think about this for yourself.

0:58.0

With your current job or company,

0:59.0

how are you feeling Sunday nights?

1:01.0

How are you feeling driving on Monday morning? I haven't... feeling favorite day of the week because every week at Intel I was like oh it's Sunday

1:13.5

damn I have to go to work Monday morning and so I've been feeling that way for two

1:16.9

years with sumo why because I haven't really had something that I was

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