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🗓️ 21 June 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Have you ever had an idea for a product or service? The founder of The Pictionary game shares why Ideas are easy & execution is everything, how to go from having an idea & turning it into reality, why it’s about resourcefulness & not resources, how to deal with rejection, & more.
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0:00.0 | On today's show we interview Robert Angel, who's the creator of the Pictionary game, the game that so many of you have played with your family and friends, the game Pictionary. |
0:10.0 | He's the founder of the Pictionary Company in the game and he joins us to drop an endless |
0:14.7 | buffet of knowledge bombs. Now he's got knowledge bombs about why ideas are easy and |
0:20.3 | why execution is everything. Having an idea is one thing. |
0:24.0 | So when we started sketching the words, we're having a wall, |
0:28.0 | and I thought, okay, it would make a good work in. |
0:30.0 | I'm a-ha moment, it's my 50s. |
0:32.0 | And until I started working on it it didn't you know it was just an idea and so and so I decided I started over thinking so instead of getting started I started telling myself you know |
0:47.1 | negative self-man just a waiter I don't have a plan I don't have the skills |
0:52.4 | necessary to do this right and so yeah so it was like I put it away I started |
0:58.3 | buying into my own my own negative he talks about how to go from having an idea and actually turning that idea into reality. |
1:05.1 | He talks about the importance of being resourceful as opposed to just looking for the most |
1:09.5 | resources. |
1:10.5 | When you do a thousand games, there's 500 cards per game, so that's half a million game |
1:16.2 | cards. |
1:17.2 | So they were supposed to come from the printer sorted in groups of 500 to the thousand games. When they came from the printer, |
1:25.0 | they came a thousand of card one, a thousand of card two. |
1:29.0 | It's like, they're not collated, they're not sorting. |
1:31.0 | I freaked out, I did not handle it well. not done. He talks about how to deal with rejection and how he was able to go out there and sell the |
1:45.8 | Pictionary game to people all over this great country, one rejection at a time. |
1:51.0 | And then he shares why he decided it was ultimately time to sell the company |
1:54.6 | and to move on to the next phase of his career. Ladies and gentlemen grab a pen and a |
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