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🗓️ 3 July 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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A live Q&A about confusing education and learning
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.
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0:00.0 | Management and leadership are not the same thing. |
0:05.0 | Management is done with power and authority, |
0:08.0 | compelling others to do what we need them to do when we need them to do it. Leadership on the other hand always |
0:16.4 | involves voluntary compliance. It always involves people eagerly following the leader. people is often done to us. It is mandatory. People show up and say you will learn this |
0:35.5 | and there will be a test. That's different than learning. Learning is a process we |
0:42.2 | choose to go through. |
0:45.0 | Learning needs to happen more and more. |
0:48.0 | There are more learning opportunities than ever before. |
0:52.0 | And yet, too many people are hung up on the education |
0:56.8 | industrial complex and some of them are about to go to jail. Hey, it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo. |
1:07.0 | More about the college admissions scandal in a minute, but first here's a message from our sponsor. |
1:20.0 | We haven't done one of our live Q&A podcasts in over a year, so I thought it was time to do it again. |
1:26.0 | Here it is from March 2019, a conversation about learning, |
1:31.0 | about education, about the college admission scandal, about the |
1:35.0 | false sorting for meritocracy and most of all about how each of us |
1:39.0 | whether we are students and where students are whole lives or parents can make a difference in how we choose to |
1:48.6 | level up. Let's go to the table. |
1:51.3 | Hey it's Seth, thank you for checking this out. |
1:55.0 | 41 years ago, two things happened to me that I still remember as if they were yesterday. The first thing that happened was, |
2:04.0 | I applied to Brown University early decision. |
2:07.5 | I know a little bit about game theory and odds making, |
2:10.7 | even at the age of 18, |
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