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🗓️ 11 July 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Where did you get your special powers?
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 | Bruce Banner got hit with gamma radiation. |
0:05.0 | Ben Grimm was in a spacecraft hit by cosmic rays. |
0:10.0 | Bruce Wayne saw his parents killed by a hoodlum and Peter Parker was bit by a radioactive spider. |
0:17.0 | Barbara Gordon on the other hand simply chose to become Bat Girl. |
0:24.0 | Hey, it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo. |
0:29.0 | First, here's a message from our featured nonprofit build-on.org. |
0:40.0 | I'm going to start a chapter because I believe the fight against poverty and a literacy |
0:47.9 | is a very big fight and it's one that we need to be universally together in. |
0:53.0 | I think it's really important to fight for people around the world have education |
0:57.0 | because I've been blessed with that and every child around the world is equal to me. |
1:01.0 | It's a cause that is so big and is affecting so many people |
1:04.9 | that it just shouldn't be left alone. |
1:07.8 | And that's why I believe that starting this chapter |
1:10.5 | and helping fundraise money for schools across the world will be a great help in this fight against a literacy and poverty. |
1:17.0 | Everywhere we look there are origin stories. They go all the way back to |
1:28.0 | Greek and Roman mythology and probably before. But we know the origin story by heart. We've heard it a |
1:35.9 | million times about Superman. |
1:38.0 | Superman! Yes, it's Superman. Strange visitor from another planet who came to earth with powers and abilities far beyond those immortal men. |
1:47.0 | Or when King Arthur took the sword out of Excalibur. The whole! |
1:55.0 | Who goes there? |
1:59.0 | It is I, Arthur, son of Usa Pen Dragon from the castle of Camelot. The origin story often has two components. The first one is, something happened. Maybe it was random. Something happened to our hero, to our founder. |
2:15.0 | And then the second part is a choice was made. |
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