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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Making up your mind

Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Midroll Media

Society & Culture

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

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

I'd like to tell you a story. Actually, there are two stories. And the story I tell you first

0:07.0

is going to make a big difference on which story you believe. Hey, it's Seth. And this is a Kimbo.

0:21.4

We'll be back in a second to talk about making up your mind. But first, here's a message from our sponsor.

0:30.0

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0:38.0

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0:43.7

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0:49.9

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0:55.5

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1:07.2

Because I'm a believer in hope and optimism, I'll tell you the hopeful optimistic story first.

1:13.4

During the 1970s, a TV show called Mash was incredibly popular. It's last episode written by

1:30.8

Thad Mumford was the most popular TV show ever made. Thad Mumford had an up and down career

1:40.4

working as a screenwriter in Los Angeles. And he lived right near a young painter named Jean-Michel

1:48.2

Basquat. Jean-Michel also had a tortured career. He was a drug addict. He died far too young.

1:55.9

But in 1982, he was affiliated with the Gagossian Gallery about as fancy as you can get. And he was

2:04.4

beginning to make a real impact in the art world. During his career, he painted thousands and

2:11.4

thousands of paintings. Sometimes on refrigerator doors, sometimes on pieces of cardboard, sometimes

2:16.9

on canvases, and he is beloved for the impact he had on art. Okay, so those are our characters.

2:26.4

Jean-Michel, down on his lock, trying to cut Larry Gagossian maybe out of the deal, says to his

2:33.3

neighbor, I've got these paintings on cardboard. And his neighbor pays him less than $10,000

2:41.2

to buy these 25 paintings. He puts them into a storage unit. And as his life begins to unravel,

2:50.1

perhaps he forgets about them, all we know is the storage unit bill comes due. Thad Mumford

2:56.5

has passed on, and it goes up for auction. Guy named William Forse, who had probably seen

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