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
4.9 • 527 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.
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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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