How to Disrupt Yourself with Whitney Johnson
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2015
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the podcast, writer, coach, and co-founder of the investment firm Rose Park advisors talks about incorporating the principles of disruptive innovation into our lives.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Dealing with and Resolving Parental Expectations
- Why Some of Our Biggest Strengths Come from Our Biggest Challenges
- The Different Types of Intelligence
- Identifying the Types of Intelligence You Have
- The Path from Secretary to Investment Banker
- Why We have to Play to Our Strengths to Reach Our Full Potential
- Character Traits That Enable a Drastic Identity Shift
- Why All Successful People Deal with Self Doubt and Fear
- The Antidote To Low Grade Depression That Gives You an Edge
- Determining How you Measure Success
- The 7 Keys to Personal Disruption
Whitney Johnson is the leading thinker on driving innovation through personal disruption. Johnson is the co-founder of Rose Park Advisors, along with Clayton Christensen where they led the seed round for Korea’s Coupang, currently valued at $5+ billion.
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| 0:00.0 | People tend to overvalue what they aren't and undervalue what they are. |
| 0:04.4 | And so, and because this thing that you do is as natural as breathing, you can't actually even value it. |
| 0:10.3 | It's like you can't put your finger on it. |
| 0:12.3 | If you'll look at those |
| 0:13.1 | different compliments that you get over and over again you'll be able to start |
| 0:16.6 | sort of classifying them and saying, oh this must mean that I'm you know I'm |
| 0:22.1 | good at math and logically mathematically intelligent, or I'm really good at music, you know, I'm able to pick up these sounds, or I'm really good at reading people. |
| 0:31.0 | And so you'll be able to kind of look at those compliments start to |
| 0:34.4 | classify them in the Howard Gardner multiple intelligence this sort of way and |
| 0:39.3 | start to pick up on what your strengths are as a means of then playing to your strengths. |
| 0:43.6 | Because I don't think that you can get to the top of your career or discipline if you're not |
| 0:48.8 | actually playing to those unique and most innate strengths that you have. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm Sreni Rao and this is the unmistakable Creative Podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who've started movements, built thriving businesses, written best-selling books, and created insanely interesting art. |
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