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Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle

Episode 155: TMBA 155 (TTR24) – “If You Cannot Exercise This Kind of Control in Adult Life, You’ll Be Totally Hosed”

Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle

Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen

Digital Nomad, Business, Ecommerce, Society & Culture, Amazon, Founders, Cash Flow, Places & Travel, Founder, Business Owner, Cashflow, Management, Entrepreneurship, Million, Operator, Operations, Profits, Distributed Team

4.9527 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2012

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

It’s time for another Tropical Talk Radio podcast, which gets published every Friday afternoon (Hong Kong time).

In this week’s episode Dan hands off the mic to a recording of David Foster Wallace’s commencement speech given in 2005 to Kenyon College in Ohio. It’s inspiring and thought-provoking. Give it a listen.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Yeah, buddy, you've downloaded Tropical Talk Radio where we talk about all things,

0:09.8

entrepreneurship, travel, and lifestyle. If you're interested in more about this program,

0:14.5

check out tropical MBA.com. And if you sign up for our mailing list, I will personally send

0:20.0

you 50 free podcast episodes

0:22.5

that take you along on our journey and expose the insider story on how we started a million

0:28.3

dollar honest to goodness product business while we travel the globe.

0:33.6

Hey, everybody, happy Friday.

0:36.1

I couldn't be happier that you decided to join us here today.

0:40.9

I gotta assume that you're looking for a weekend full of fulfilling work.

0:45.9

I gotta assume that you've made a conscious choice in your life to build things that are

0:52.0

of true value to others, you know, to live a better life through that work.

0:56.7

And I was thinking about some of this stuff.

0:58.3

You know, on Thursday's Lifestyle Business podcast, we talked about the attention economy.

1:03.9

And I've really been thinking about, you know, what that means and how important not only it is for us earning the attention of others,

1:11.9

and that's why I'm so thankful you're here,

1:13.4

but the importance of deciding how we spend our attention.

1:18.4

And I thought a lot about that today,

1:20.1

and it reminded me of an audio that DC or Dylan Hassinger sent me a while back,

1:27.1

and I always wanted to play it on the podcast than I never did because, I don't know,

1:31.8

I just never got around to it.

1:33.0

And it's just sort of weird sort of handing off the podcast to a guy who's now passed away

1:37.4

for a long period of time.

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