Seth Godin: 9/20/16

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

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4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Back for his 3rd appearance on the show – New York Times best-selling author and entrepreneur, Seth Godin, joins Brian this week to talk about his upcoming book, "What Does It Sound Like When You Change Your Mind?" (3:00). You can preorder Seth's book by clicking here. To start things off, Seth and Brian discuss the concept of "certainty" in creation (11:00), whether or not writer's block really exists (20:00), and why Seth used to ask the question "How many gas stations are there in the United States?" when interviewing potential employees (36:00). To round out the conversation, the two reflect on different artists and how they approached creating their art (40:00) and why fear is signal that you're doing something right (54:00). The Moment is brought to you by Upstanders, a new podcast from Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and Rajiv Chandrasekaran. Hear stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things to create positive change in their communities. Listen and subscribe to Upstanders on iTunes now. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.2	Hey, this is the moment.
0:09.2	I'm Brian Koppelman.
0:12.8	Thanks for listening. I'm at Seth Godin's office today.
0:18.0	Road Trip. It's a Road Trip pod, which may lead you to think that Seth Godin is going to be my guest.
0:25.0	Also the voice, his voice may lead you to think that he's going to be my guess and in fact
0:30.0	I'm not playing a trick on you.
0:32.0	Seth Godin is my guest today on the show.
0:34.0	Thanks, Seth.
0:35.0	Brian, it's such a privilege.
0:36.0	Well, yeah, man, this is what I was because first of all,
0:38.0	Seth is the first three-time guest on the moment.
0:42.0	But more than that, I was thinking about this, other than my coworkers,
0:48.8	partners, people I work with on billions, and my family, you're the person I've spent the most time with over the past year
0:58.1	and a half, two years.
0:59.1	Well, the benefit has been to me, but I think it must also mean that you don't get out as much as you used to.
1:05.4	Well, no, that's, I mean, that's clear. It just so happens that luckily our wives like each other too, so we get to spend...
1:12.0	Which is a huge bonus.
1:14.0	A tremendous bonus.
1:14.6	It means we get to spend a lot of time together
1:17.1	hanging out and talking.
1:18.4	And one of the things I was thinking about driving up here
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