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🗓️ 8 April 2020
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Where do we find resilience?
Akimbo is a weekly podcast created by Seth Godin. He's the bestselling author of 19 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 workshops at akimbo.com.
To submit a question and to see the show notes, please visit akimbo.link and press the appropriate button.
Akimbo is a weekly podcast created by Seth Godin. He's the bestselling author of 19 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 workshops at akimbo.com.
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 | When I was a little kid we had a toy in our house. It was a bongo board. It consisted of a long board and a cylinder and the board rolled back and forth on the cylinder. My sister was two years younger than me. |
0:14.3 | I was standing on one end of the board. |
0:17.2 | She ran across the room, jumped on the other end. |
0:19.7 | I flew through the air and broke my wrist. |
0:23.2 | Hey, it's Seth. |
0:25.5 | And this is a Kimbo. |
0:28.3 | We'll be back in a second to talk about leverage, but first, here's a message from our sponsor. |
0:40.0 | It's back. The Real Skills Conference is back. A conference for people like you, not a bunch of speakers, but interactive. |
0:50.0 | Two hours on the tips of your toes, seeing and being seen, being part of a |
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1:04.8 | We don't run it very often. |
1:06.3 | It's proven it's effective. |
1:08.4 | 97% of the people who started it last time're there at the end. |
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1:16.1 | All the details are there. |
1:17.7 | I hope you'll consider joining us. |
1:19.6 | Come make a ruckus. |
1:21.7 | Thanks. Of course it wasn't Marjorie's fault. |
1:25.0 | She didn't mean to break my wrist, but it was a perfect example of leverage. |
1:30.0 | As Archimedes probably didn't say, if you give me a lever that is long enough and a place to stand, I could move the entire earth. |
1:41.0 | A lever gives you leverage. It gives you the chance to exert far more power |
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