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It's a Good Life

Quick Cut: S2E333 Growth, Grit and Grace with Guy Kawasaki

It's a Good Life

Brian Buffini

Business, Unknown, Entrepreneurship, Life, Good, Entrepreneur, Coaching

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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What are the common traits of people who live remarkable and fulfilling lives? In this episode, world-renown tech titan Guy Kawasaki reveals the three pillars that can help you to transform from average to exceptional, live the life you’re meant to and make a difference in the world.

 

YOU WILL LEARN:

·     Why a growth mindset is vital.

·     How you can develop grit.

·     How to embody graciousness.

 

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:


Free Business Consultation


“Think Remarkable,” by Guy Kawasaki


“Mindset,” by Carol Dweck

 

“If You Want to Write,” by Brenda Ueland



NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:

 

“There's this distinction between people who have a growth mindset and people who have a fixed mindset.” – Guy Kawasaki   

 

“Grit means that you are happily persevering and happily continuing something, even though it's difficult.” – Guy Kawasaki   

 

“Anything that's worth doing, you’ve got to do it well, and you have to pay the price.” – Guy Kawasaki   

 

“You’ve got to work hard and you’ve got to grind.” – Brian Buffini    

 

“A great leader is outside of himself or herself and understands that he or she is not the center of the universe.” – Guy Kawasaki   


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0:00.0

Welcome to It's a Good Life with Brian Bafini, founder of America's largest business coaching company.

0:10.4

Here's a short classic cut from one of our all-time favorite episodes.

0:16.8

Well, top of the morning to you and welcome to It's a Good Life.

0:20.2

Today we have a remarkable guest, Guy Kawasaki, and Guy is the chief evangelist of Canva, which of any of you use that design platform for your social media or websites. You're very familiar with it. He's the host of the Remarkable People podcast, an adjunct professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Guy has written

0:39.1

14 books. The very first one I read was the McIntosh Way, which talked about when he was

0:44.0

the chief evangelist that Apple during their Think Different campaign. And today we're going to talk

0:49.1

to Guy about a brand new book. I'm holding an advanced copy in my hand called Think Remarkable, the nine paths

0:55.5

to transform your life and make a difference. You know, diving right in here, I love the fact

1:00.7

your book has these three pillars. I'm a big fan of the three major points framework. And it's

1:05.8

probably maybe three of my favorite words in the English language, growth, grit, and grace.

1:12.8

And I read that and I went, man, you know, this guy's been there and done that.

1:17.0

And I'd love you to walk us through that.

1:18.9

I love you to talk to us about growth.

1:20.4

I'd love you to talk to us about grit.

1:22.4

And I love to talk to us about grace and what does it mean and ultimately this concept of think remarkable.

1:29.1

All right. So I have a podcast called Remarkable People. It's about five years old.

1:34.6

And I've interviewed truly remarkable people from Stacey Abrams, Jane Goodall, Steve Wozni,

1:42.3

Bob Cheldini, Angela Duckworth, Ronnie Lott.

1:46.0

I mean, you name it, athletes, and Andrew Zimmerman, Chef.

1:50.5

And I started noticing these patterns about, you know, their career development.

1:56.2

And it became pretty obvious that every one of them had a growth mindset,

2:05.1

that they believed that they could learn new skills and, you know, take on new challenges.

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