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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Midroll Media

Society & Culture

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Perfect isn’t the point, and our narrative about errors and effort is keeping us from being the humans we seek to become.



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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Transcript

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0:00.0

Somewhere outside of Sydney,

0:02.0

Sydney, Australia, a scientist named Katie Green

0:06.0

is working with Silicon,

0:08.0

Silicon that took years to create in Russia

0:12.0

and was grown into pure crystalline form in Germany.

0:16.8

She's using that silicon to create a new weight and measure.

0:21.2

A kilo, the perfect kilo, a sphere, the roundest sphere ever created on earth. It's perfect and it weighs exactly a kilo.

0:32.0

Today in Hastings where I'm recording this, the weather was perfect, 40 degrees,

0:39.1

cloudy, raining, cold, perfect for the ecosystem, the plants, the way nature needed it to be.

0:47.0

And about 50 years ago, a guy named Bob Dylan recorded a record called Like a Rolling Stone.

0:55.4

In a roundup a few years ago, Rolling Stone magazine picked it as the perfect rock and roll

1:01.3

song, The Best One of the million that the critics had listened to.

1:07.3

Hey, it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo.

1:20.0

And now a word from Zipp recruiter, our presenting sponsor. What can a comfy office chair teach you about running a business?

1:25.0

Hi, I'm Ian Siegel and I'm the CEO and co-founder of Zip Recooter,

1:29.0

the smartest way to hire.

1:30.0

Being an entrepreneur and owning a business has been quite a ride and I've learned a few things along the way on how to make it go smoother.

1:37.0

Like what management lessons you can learn from a cushy office chair.

1:40.0

More on that later in the show.

1:42.0

I founded Zip Recooter because I knew there was a

1:44.0

smarter way for businesses to find talent. Today companies of all sizes and

1:48.1

industries use Zip Recooter to fill their hiring needs. And if you're hiring now

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