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🗓️ 13 February 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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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 | James Prescott Jewel was a very good brewer, a physicist, and a pioneer of everything that we understand about thermodynamics. |
0:11.0 | His 200th birthday is right around now. He was so influential he and his friend Lord |
0:17.4 | Kelvin that they named the Kelvin after Kelvin and the Jewel a measure of energy after James Prescott Jewel. |
0:28.1 | The joke's on him and his heirs though because he pronounced his last name Jowl. |
0:34.0 | Hey, it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo. |
0:39.0 | We'll be back in a second after this message from our sponsor, Lenovo. |
0:49.0 | My story? It starts over 50 years ago with my father. |
0:53.0 | My dad was a German immigrant who learned the art of violin making over half a century ago in Europe. |
0:58.0 | His dream was always to open up his own store, his own shop, and to share the gift of music with others. |
1:05.6 | My dream has always been to carry on my father's legacy, to spread his love of music, and |
1:10.2 | to make music accessible to everyone. |
1:12.8 | My name is Paul Prier, and my small business is Peter Prier and Sons violins, |
1:17.5 | a shop that's been running since 1965. |
1:20.5 | But when you've been in business as long as we have, there are things you have to do to keep up with the times. |
1:25.0 | Stay tuned to hear the rest of my story and to see what makes a difference for me in my small business. |
1:30.0 | It gets even more ironic, A researcher named Rensis Leichert, pioneered a survey format that you've seen, no doubt, maybe even today. |
1:41.0 | And in it, you're asked what you like, good choice of name on Rensis's |
1:46.2 | part. The Likert survey basically says, on a scale of 1 to 10, where one 1 is I hate this more than anything and 10 is I love it |
1:56.1 | That sometimes it's 1 to 5. Where on the bar chart do you want to put your feelings |
2:01.8 | It's been discovered that this is far more useful than |
2:06.4 | up-down voting for finding out consumer preferences. But back to the irony part, |
2:11.7 | Rensis Leicher, pronounced his last name Lickert. |
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