EXCELLENT ADVICE: Life Lessons From Wired Co-Founder Kevin Kelly

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🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Kevin Kelly has made a career out of looking to the future. He helped pioneer online social networking all the way back in the 1980s, and he co-founded Wired, the magazine devoted to digital technology, when the internet was still an infant. But in his new book, “Excellent Advice for Living,” he looks backward. It’s a collection of 450 bits of wisdom he wishes he’d known when he was young. Things like “Being enthusiastic is worth 25 IQ points” and “That thing that made you weird as a kid could make you great as an adult—if you don’t lose it.” Today on the show he shares his best advice for building careers, nurturing relationships, solving problems, and finding satisfaction. He also explains why he’s more optimistic than ever about technology (yes, even AI). P.S. Have you checked out our new audiobook, "Immortality: A User's Guide" by Steven Johnson? Download it today by visiting nextbigideaclub.supportingcast.fm

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0:00.0	LinkedIn's Talent Connect Show is the event for talent teams to dive into the most pressing
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0:17.2	Hey folks, a quick note before we get started. We recently launched our first original audiobook.
0:24.4	It's shorter by design. It's just over an hour. It's called immortality a user's guide
0:30.8	and it's written and read by the great science writer Steven Johnson.
0:35.0	He goes deep on the astonishing science of radical life extension.
0:39.6	Is it possible for you to live to 120 or even 150? To find out, listen to immortality a user's
0:48.8	guide by going to nextbigideaclub.supportingcast.fm or download the next big idea app.
1:05.0	I'm Rufus Griskym and this is the next big idea.
1:09.2	Today, indispensable life advice from the great Kevin Kelly.
1:18.8	7 years ago, I started to get this feeling, a feeling I couldn't shake, that I was a pregnant
1:37.6	sea turtle. Metaphorically, of course. I had what felt like a clutch of eggs inside me.
1:45.2	It was all the hard one wisdom I'd stockpiled over the years that my kids were too young to hear.
1:50.8	And I needed to put it somewhere for safe keeping. If I were hit by a street car I figured,
1:56.0	it would be nice to be able to counsel my mischievous boys from the grave.
2:00.7	So I went on medium and published an article called Unsolicited Advice for My Three Sons.
2:07.1	All these years later, my three sons, now 12, 15, and 18, can you believe it, have yet to read it.
2:14.0	But much to my surprise, it went viral. It was republished in the New York Observer,
2:19.2	The Daily Mail, picked up by the Today Show and read a few million times.
2:23.8	I stand by most of what I wrote. I still begin conversations with people on airplanes,
2:29.9	when I hear we have begun our descent. I still give money to street musicians, even bad ones.
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