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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Organized learning

Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Midroll Media

Society & Culture

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Culture is a choice


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

If you took your time machine and went back 6,000 years ago or 20,000 years ago or 100,000 years ago and found a small baby abandoned,

0:11.0

brought them to the present day, and raised them, they would not grow up to be

0:16.4

a Sumerian or a caveman.

0:19.3

They would grow up to be someone indistinguishable from someone born today.

0:25.0

Hey, it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo. We'll be back to talk about organized learning and its consequences, but first, here's a

0:41.1

message from our featured nonprofit.

0:44.0

I'm going to start a chapter because I believe the fight against poverty and literacy is a very big fight.

0:52.3

And it's one that we need to be universally

0:55.0

together in. We started a chapter together and it proved to be a really great way

1:00.9

for us to develop our leadership skills and get involved with a larger

1:05.3

organization that would empower us to change our lives and the lives of individuals around the world

1:10.5

in our own community.

1:11.5

What I took away from this whole experience

1:13.7

was that the more you give, the more you gain.

1:15.9

The harder I work to improve the lives of others,

1:18.2

the more it gave me a life-changing experience in return.

1:21.1

Build On.org. Check them out. They're doing important work. I think the most

1:27.6

important and impactful innovation that the human species has come up with in 200,000 years is organized learning.

1:37.9

Every other species that lives in community does it in the moment. If you drop off a kitten with a bunch of feral cats,

1:46.2

soon it will learn to run with them, to eat, to hide, to understand the status rolls, or it will perish.

1:54.8

But the thing is that Pacofiral cats wasn't that different

1:57.7

100 years ago or 1,000 years ago.

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