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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Listener Favorites: Craig Swanson | The Power of a Willingness To Be Wrong

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Entrepreneur and startup studio owner, Craig Swanson, argues that the ability to embrace being wrong is essential to success in any field. Swanson explains that most people are afraid of being wrong. As a result, they're constantly second-guessing themselves and their ideas, which stifles creativity and innovation. Instead of being afraid of being wrong, we should embrace it as a necessary part of the process.

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0:00.0

As you probably notice, this month, we're bringing you our Life of Purpose series and revisiting

0:04.6

some of our most transformative episodes. Tune in to explore expert insights and practical

0:09.4

strategies on help, performance, and community well-being, all aimed at helping you achieve

0:14.4

personal and professional fulfillment. If you sign up for the newsletter, you'll not only get

0:18.5

recaps of the key ideas in each interview, but at the end of the series, you'll receive our free life of purpose ebook.

0:24.7

What you have to do is go to unmistakablecreative.com slash life purpose. Again, that's unmistakable creative.com slash life purpose.

0:32.3

We set our career basically working for ourselves. Like we create a career by the things that we do for free that

0:37.7

we invest our love into. We build a business by serving others. And that balancing act is almost

0:45.3

like the inside person versus the outside person. So I am usually basically the inside person

0:49.8

that's building the structures, building the systems, trying to like wire everything together

0:53.7

on the

0:54.2

financial and legal and technical and, you know, business structure and including staffing and teams.

1:02.2

And the, and the people I partner with are basically driving the mission and the, and the,

1:08.1

public face.

1:09.0

Like, it is their name and entity and vision that is basically

1:12.9

driving the purpose and the mission that we're after. And then I am basically crafting the engine

1:19.0

for them that allows that mission to be accomplished.

1:26.9

I'm Sreeny Rao and this is the unm Unmistakable Creative Podcast, where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements, built thriving businesses, written bestselling books, and created insanely interesting art.

1:40.3

For more, check out our 500 episode archive at UnmistakableCreative.com.

1:48.3

Craig, welcome to The Unmistakable Creative.

1:50.1

Thanks so much for taking the time to join us.

1:51.9

I really appreciate you having me.

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