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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Everybody is irrational

Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Midroll Media

Society & Culture

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Everybody is rational.


Akimbo is a weekly podcast created by Seth Godin. He's the bestselling author of 19 books and a long-time entrepreneur, freelancer and teacher.

You can find out more about Seth by reading his daily blog at seths.blog and about the workshops at akimbo.com .

To submit a question and to see the show notes, please visit akimbo.link and press the appropriate button.



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0:00.0

Two efficient market economics professors were walking through Harvard Yard.

0:06.0

It was a beautiful spring day. As they were walking, they passed a $20 bill lying on the ground.

0:12.0

One of them walked right on by. The other one said, why didn't

0:16.2

you pick up the $20 bill? And the first one said, because it's a counterfeit. The second one said, how do you know?

0:24.0

He said, well, if it was a real $20 bill,

0:27.0

someone would have already picked it up.

0:30.0

Hey, it's Seth, And this is a Kimbo.

0:35.4

You should write a book.

0:40.7

Hey, it's Seth.

0:41.9

Writing a book is a generous act. It focuses the mind, it shares your ideas, it earns you credibility.

0:48.0

And publishing a book has never been easier. Last year, a million books got published on the Kindle. But writing a book?

0:56.4

writing a book is still difficult. At akimbo.com we'd like to help do something about that.

1:01.6

We are launching a community of practice, a group of people

1:05.6

together for six months supporting one another moving forward making a book. It starts in

1:12.1

June, your book will be on the Kindle by January. Check out the details

1:17.3

at akimbo.com. You should write a book. You can write a book. we'd love to have you join us we'll see you there

1:26.0

write a book about it everybody want to tell a sunny story I'm a boss so it comes

1:30.6

with the territory write a book about it what does it mean to be rational? If someone is rational, that means that they are

1:40.0

going to do what makes sense, what we could predict that they are going to do.

1:45.5

Rational behavior is at the core of a branch of economics, but rational behavior is also

1:51.1

how we navigate our way through the world. We assume, because it's at the

1:55.7

center of the curve of how people are going to react, that people are going to do a rational

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