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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin
Midroll Media
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The path to resilience
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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| 0:00.0 | About 30 years ago, Airbus set out to build a really big plane. |
| 0:06.7 | How big? |
| 0:07.7 | Well, the stretch version would hold 900 people in economy. |
| 0:12.9 | How big? |
| 0:13.9 | Well, in many airports, they would have to change signage and blast protection because |
| 0:19.1 | it was so big and heavy. |
| 0:21.6 | And yes, in some airports, it would have to reinforce every one way because it was so |
| 0:27.0 | heavy. |
| 0:28.0 | Hey, it's Seth. |
| 0:30.2 | And this is a Kimbo. |
| 0:37.3 | We'll be back in a second to talk about big projects and changing the world, not to mention |
| 0:41.8 | resilience and perfectionism, but first, here's a message from our sponsor. |
| 0:47.1 | Hi, it's Benedict, and I'm here to talk to you about how you can become a better storyteller. |
| 0:54.8 | Storytelling is not an art reserve for the chosen few. |
| 0:58.0 | It's a skill that you can learn, just like the students have taken part in the story |
| 1:02.7 | skills workshop have done. |
| 1:05.1 | Actually, I had a story to tell that was really important for me, but also was going to |
| 1:13.9 | be very, very important for people in the future. |
| 1:16.3 | It's been absolutely life-changing for me to see stories everywhere and to see my own |
| 1:20.8 | stories. |
| 1:21.8 | I was surprised that the learning was as much in the giving as in the receiving. |
| 1:27.6 | We got to not only learn about storytelling, we actually got to practice using stories |
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