ITL075 : How to Change the World w/ Special Guest Julie Borlaug
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2013
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Andy and AT bring special guest Julie Borlaug, granddaughter of Norman Borlaug (whom The Butterfly Effect and The Boy Who Changed the World is about), on the podcast to discuss the legacy of her grandfather’s life-changing work.
Norman Borlaug hybridized corn and wheat for arid climates, which ultimately saved the lives of over 2 billion people across the world from famine.
· Andy reverse engineered Norman Borlaug’s life in multiple books to show that everything we do matters.
· He absolutely changed the world.
· Julie now works for the Borlaug Institute at Texas A&M, which continues the work Norman Borlaug started.
Andy came up with The Butterfly Effect story when the military contacted him about the problem of suicide among soldiers.
· How do you prove to people that their life matters?
· He was researching George Washington Carver when he discovered Norman Borlaug.
Julie had the opportunity to work directly with Norman during the last six years of his life.
· Norman was adamant that we must believe in the young and inspire them and give them the resources to show them they can change the world.
· He made his breakthrough with wheat in his 30s after everyone told him what he was doing was not going to work. He was even fired and he quit a few times.
· He was working on a technique called shuttle breeding, and his stubbornness eventually paid off.
· Norman truly believed that it will be the young who will come up with the solutions to our greatest problems.
If you’re doing what everyone else is doing, you’re probably doing something wrong.
· Most people aren’t getting extraordinary results. So if you’re doing what everyone else is doing, you’re only contributing to the average.
· If you want extraordinary results for your life, your marriage, your children, your profession, you have to stop doing what everyone else is doing.
· Norman Borlaug’s least favorite word was “mediocrity.”
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop with Andy Andrews, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. |
| 0:12.2 | Now here's your host, Andy Trobb. |
| 0:15.4 | Andy Andrews, welcome back, my friend. |
| 0:17.9 | Hey, AT, I'm glad to be here today. |
| 0:20.2 | This is a special one today. I'm so excited about it as I can't stand it. You are amped, buddy. I can hear it. I mean, you usually bring your A game, but this is the A-plus game. So we are joined by Julie Borlaug. Anybody recognize the last name? Anybody recognize the last name? All right, go ahead. Go ahead. I'm sorry, I didn't even interrupt. So, Julie, well, let me just first say, welcome to the show. Welcome to In the Loop. Thank you. I'm excited to be able to participate. So, you know, half the people are thinking, wow, how cool Julie Borlaug. And the other half are going, who's Julie Borlaug? |
| 0:55.6 | So, Julie, why don't we to start with you? |
| 0:59.4 | How are you connected with Andy Andrews? |
| 1:02.8 | Okay, I have actually never met or spoken to him until today. |
| 1:09.4 | Never met. |
| 1:10.4 | But I have across paths because one of my colleagues who works in agriculture at the Borlaug Institute, |
| 1:18.3 | a few years ago happened to pick up the noticeer, read the back of it, thought his wife would like it, |
| 1:24.9 | took it home, gave it to her, and in the middle of night she woke |
| 1:28.7 | him up and said, you will never believe who is in this book, Norm Borlaug. |
| 1:33.3 | And Mike McWhorter, my colleague, my grandfather is his hero, so he went back and got |
| 1:39.8 | a book for me. |
| 1:40.8 | So that was my first introduction, and then we spread it around the family. And then when |
| 1:46.2 | the boy who changed the world came out, one of my cousin's friends called her and said, you won't |
| 1:54.1 | believe this, but I was just on Amazon looking for children's books, and I ran across a children's |
| 2:00.4 | book about your grandfather. |
| 2:02.4 | So, of course, we all had to get the book. So it's an honor to finally meet Andy, or at least speak with him. |
| 2:08.5 | I am thrilled. I am thrilled because I have a story. I don't even know if AT has heard this story, |
| 2:14.9 | but at some point I've got to tell you this story of how I even |
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