Kevin Kelly - 70 Years of Wisdom

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I talk to Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired magazine.

Kevin is a writer, photographer, and philanthropist best known for his role as the executive editor of Wired, one of the top technology magazines in the world!

He travels all over the world giving talks on things like the clock he built that will tick for 10,000 years, and why he’s cataloging every living species on earth.

Plus, he’s a best-selling author of many books, and his latest one is out now!

Check out Excellent Advice for Living for bits of advice Kevin wished he knew earlier in his life, and tweet-sized bits of wisdom. You can order it on Amazon right now!

If you’ve ever wanted to learn about what EVERYONE’S life purpose is, you’ll love this episode.

In this conversation, you’ll enjoy 3 BIG things:

1. Why you DON’T want to be great (greatness is overrated)

2. What actually stops people from succeeding (spoiler alert: it’s NOT money)

3. The “immediacy filter” that defines his schedule

Enjoy those 3 things… plus a bunch more ear nuggets along the way.

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0:00.0	Great is overrated. You don't want to be great, really. Greatness is an extremity. You have to be so extreme to have people remember your name after you're gone. And that extremity comes at a cost to other parts of your personality and if you're extreme over here that means you're going to be extreme in this
0:20.8	corresponding direction and the people who consider great
0:24.2	have great weaknesses.
0:26.2	That's the kind of the trade-off.
0:27.2	What's up you beautiful bastards?
0:32.3	It's your boy Frenchy aka Mr.
0:34.2	Baguette aka Jeremy Moore Marie. In today's episode Noah talks to Kevin Kelly
0:39.7	co-founder of Wired magazine. Kevin had an article about 70 pieces of wisdom in 70 years, which is so freaking good.
0:48.0	It was amazingly popular so he decided to turn into a book.
0:51.0	It's called Excellent Advice for Living, tiny bits of advice Kevin Kelly wished
0:55.7	he knew earlier in his life. It's really, really good. In this conversation you'll enjoy
1:01.1	three big things.
1:03.0	Numer one, why you don't actually want to be great?
1:07.0	Numer two.
1:08.0	What actually stops people from succeeding.
1:10.0	Spoiler alert, it's not money.
1:12.0	And fina, numero three. spoiler alert it's not money. If you're not money,
1:14.0	the immediacy filter that defines his schedule.
1:18.0	Enjoy those twa things plus a bunch more ear nuggets along the way.
1:23.0	Before we dive into the show, make sure you're subscribed to the YouTube channel at
1:26.4	YouTube.com slash okay dork. Oh and make sure to check out tidycal.com.
1:32.0	It's a really convenient way to schedule meetings. I use it to schedule my podcast recordings for my podcast backstage career plug. Check it out at tidycal.com. Also a special pre-show shout out to listener,
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