Queuing theory
Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin
Midroll Media
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2020
⏱️ 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.
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| 0:00.0 | Here's a seemingly unrelated trivia question to get us started. |
| 0:05.0 | Name a word in the English language that has five vowels in a row, in the middle of it. Hey, it's Seth and this is a Kimbo. |
| 0:19.0 | We'll be back in a second, but first here's a message from our featured nonprofit, |
| 0:29.4 | Build On.org. |
| 0:31.5 | Check them out. They're doing important work. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm going to start a chapter because I believe the fight against poverty and illiteracy is a very big fight and it's one that we need to be universally together in. |
| 0:46.0 | We started a chapter together and it proved to be a really great way for us to develop our leadership skills and get involved with a larger |
| 0:55.0 | organization that would empower us to change our lives and the lives of |
| 0:59.0 | individuals around the world in our in our own community. |
| 1:01.6 | What I took away from this whole experience was that the more you give, the more you gain. |
| 1:05.6 | The harder I work to improve the lives of others, the more it gave me a life-changing experience |
| 1:09.7 | in return. |
| 1:10.7 | Yes, queuing has five vowels in a row and the reason it's only semi irrelevant is this. |
| 1:18.5 | If you figured out the answer or even if you tried to figure out the answer, the question is, did you start with the word |
| 1:27.1 | A and then the word A A and work your way all the way to Zebek, trying to find the answer? Probably not. your brain, if it works, if it works like most people's brains, |
| 1:32.8 | trying to find the answer? |
| 1:34.2 | Probably your brain, if it works like most people's brains, |
| 1:39.8 | started scrambling its way through possible answers. |
| 1:43.6 | We're not exactly sure how the brain works, |
| 1:46.7 | but we know how it works at a bank |
| 1:48.8 | and we know how it works at a supermarket. |
| 1:51.7 | This is the idea of queuing theory. And queuing theory is far more |
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