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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Honest signals (E)

Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Midroll Media

Society & Culture

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Lessons from the poisonous dart tree frog


Akimbo is a weekly podcast created by Seth Godin. He's the bestselling author of 20 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 podcast at akimbo.link.

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

In October of 2017, one of the biggest recording artists in the world flew to Melbourne, Australia

0:09.5

for a gig.

0:11.4

Justin Bieber was in a jet that cost more than $10 million, far bigger than he needed for

0:17.1

his small party on the plane.

0:19.7

The jet landed, the door opened, the first one out was Bieber.

0:24.7

He stood one step down on the jetway, took out his cell phone, and took a selfie.

0:30.8

Hey, it's Ben Scota, and this is a special archived episode of a Kimbo.

0:42.0

A gazelle, surrounded by lions in the bush, will do something surprising.

0:49.5

That is, if you don't spend a lot of time watching gazelles, what it will do.

0:54.7

It starts jumping up and down.

0:57.5

Using all four legs, it will jump one, two, three feet off the ground, over and over again.

1:04.7

This is exhausting, it's exhausting for a person and it's exhausting for a gazelle.

1:10.0

Why would it do this?

1:12.8

Well the best theory that people have after studying it for years is that by jumping up

1:18.8

and down, and apparently exhausting itself, it is saying to the lions, don't come after

1:26.3

me, I can outrun you.

1:28.8

I can outrun you so easily that I'm willing to waste energy jumping up and down to send

1:36.1

you the signal that I'm the world champ.

1:39.4

Don't run after me, run after that other gazelle, the gazelle that's too weak to jump up

1:46.2

and down.

1:47.4

I don't have to outrun all the lions, I just have to outrun the other gazelles.

1:56.1

Consider the yellow-banded poison-dark frog.

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