Finding What You Were Born to Do with Chris Guillebeau
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2016
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Join us on Unmistakable Creative for an insightful conversation with Chris Guillebeau, the creator of The Art of Nonconformity and a New York Times bestselling author. In this episode, Guillebeau discusses his career and his new book, 'Born for This.'
Discover how to create a deliberate life without a grand vision and learn valuable lessons from failures and dead ends. Guillebeau shares his insights on balancing persistence with knowing when to quit and how sunk costs impact our decisions.
He also delves into the psychology and mindset required for significant goals and why an inciting incident doesn’t have to be something massive. Learn about the four elements that create emotional resonance in your work and the power of asking if there’s another way to do things.
Don't miss this episode to learn from one of the most influential voices in personal development and entrepreneurship today and gain insights that could transform your life and career.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm the founder of WDS. We have a great team but all of us are the first to recognize that, you know, what makes it a great community is at least 50% composed of the community. |
| 0:10.8 | It's like the people that come, they are bringing something that creates whatever that magic is that people feel. |
| 0:17.0 | And so I always want to acknowledge that first. I guess second though, I would say that I also believe in a curated experience I also |
| 0:25.6 | believe in an agenda in putting forward a message I think people should do this |
| 0:29.6 | more in their art or their work. I'm Sreni Rao and this is the unmistakable creative |
| 0:38.7 | podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most |
| 0:42.2 | innovative and creative minds who started movements, |
| 0:45.0 | built driving businesses, written best-selling books, and created insanely interesting art. |
| 0:49.5 | For more, check out our 500 episode archive at unmistakable Creative. |
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