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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Akimbo is a weekly podcast created by Seth Godin. He's the bestselling author of 20 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 podcast at akimbo.link.

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	The advice in this podcast is not unsolicited. If you don't want or care about advice, it's best to skip this episode.
0:10.2	Because this is an episode of a podcast about advice. Hey, it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo.
0:20.4	When we back in a second to talk about getting better, but first, here's a message from our sponsor.
0:32.7	Hi, Seth. My name is Grant Brown, and I'm the founder of Happy Eco News. We provide positive
0:37.4	news about the environment five times a day and a top five newsletter for your inbox every Monday
0:42.3	morning. We only have two goals. One is to help people find hope for the future and two is to help
0:47.5	promote the good people that are doing the good work. I hope your audience will check us out at happy
0:51.9	eco news.com and learn how people of all types are making a difference and ultimately that there
0:56.7	is still reason for hope. Thank you. We might be in the golden age of advice. There is more advice
1:04.0	available to more people for free right now than ever before. There are more people paying to be in
1:10.8	therapy from more therapists than ever before. There are more coaches doing coaching for more people
1:17.2	than ever before by a lot. And one question is, is it doing any good? And another question could be
1:26.2	could we get better at it? Better at giving advice, perhaps, but mostly better at getting advice.
1:35.8	Giving advice will do that one first and fairly quickly. Unsolicited advice is probably not
1:43.2	advice at all. Unsolicited advice goes to people who aren't enrolled. They're not enrolled in hearing
1:49.9	what you have to say and they're not enrolled in changing. If you walk up to somebody in the street
1:55.7	and tell them that you don't like the clothes they are wearing or the way they combed their hair,
2:01.3	it's really unlikely that this will be well received. I think most of us know this,
2:08.4	but the internet is different because on the internet we can give advice in lots of ways. Synchronous
2:13.8	and asynchronous that we can shout from the rafters. We can tweet or put up videos or simply
2:22.5	call people out as if that's a useful hobby. So there's all this advice floating around
2:29.5	probably because the person giving the advice gets pleasure out of venting not because they
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