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🗓️ 15 July 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Can you spare a nickel?
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 .
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0:00.0 | Almost nobody would pay $20 an episode to listen to a Kimbo. |
0:07.0 | Almost everybody would consider paying a penny an episode to listen. Hey, it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo. |
0:19.2 | We'll be back in a second to talk about micro payments, but first here's a message from our sponsor. |
0:30.0 | Hi, it's Benedict Ewe and I'm here to talk to you about how you can become a better storyteller. |
0:38.0 | Storytelling is not an art reserved for the chosen few, it's a skill that you can learn, just like the students who've taken part in the story skills workshop have done. |
0:48.0 | Actually I had a story to tell that was really important for me, but also was going to be very, very |
0:57.6 | important for people in the future. |
0:59.7 | It's been absolutely life changing for me to see stories everywhere and to see my own stories. |
1:04.8 | I was surprised that the learning was as much in the giving as in the receiving. |
1:10.5 | We got to not only learn about storytelling, we actually got to practice using |
1:16.6 | stories in our everyday life. The biggest shift I've found is now my own stories and |
1:22.2 | the stories that I really want to tell are bubbling to the |
1:24.9 | surface I can't stop seeing them. Whether you're just starting out or you're an |
1:29.4 | experienced storyteller this is a place where your stories will get better in a very short time, |
1:36.3 | guaranteed. |
1:37.0 | If you're ready to become a better storyteller, I hope you'll join us. Find out more at the Story Skills Workshop.com. |
1:47.0 | How are we going to pay for all of this content? The Internet is jammed to the top with content. |
1:54.0 | More content is created every day on the internet than was created in the entire world in |
2:00.4 | 1840, maybe even in 1940, there is an explosion of it and most of it isn't any good. |
2:08.0 | Lots of it is seeking the largest possible audience. |
2:13.2 | There's a reason for that, a reason beyond the vanity of having a hit. |
2:17.5 | And it has to do with how we monetize our content. The thing is that attention is scarce. We can't make any more attention. |
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