Seth Godin: How Creatives use The Practice to make great art, overcome fear & thrive on constraints! (#088)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Physics, Natural Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Seth Godin is a prolific writer, thinker, and self-declared “non-guru” guru to millions around the world. He invented email marketing. He started the AltMBA program. He has written 20 books, including the Practice. He thinks deeply about the way ideas spread whether these be née notions in quantum physics, science fiction, entrepreneurship, leadership, and–most of all- marketing. He’s worked with Nobel Prize winners, industry titans and even Sir Arthur C. Clarke. Seth’s past books include Linchpin, Tribes, The Dip, Purple Cow, and What to do When it’s Your Turn (And it’s Always Your Turn). Buy The Practice: Shipping Creative Work: https://amzn.to/3k2BNpY Seth has founded several companies, including Yoyodyne and Squidoo. His blog is one of the most popular in the world. In 2013, Godin was inducted into the Direct Marketing Hall of Fame. He is the host of AKIMBO podcast: https://www.akimbo.link and has his world famous blog at https://seths.blog Brian Keating’s most popular Youtube Videos: Eric Weinstein: https://youtu.be/YjsPb3kBGnk?sub_confirmation=1 Jim Simons: https://youtu.be/6fr8XOtbPqM?sub_confirmation=1 Noam Chomsky: https://youtu.be/Iaz6JIxDh6Y?sub_confirmation=1 Sabine Hossenfelder: https://youtu.be/V6dMM2-X6nk?sub_confirmation=1 Sarah Scoles: https://youtu.be/apVKobWigMw Stephen Wolfram: https://youtu.be/nSAemRxzmXM Host Brian Keating: ‍♂️ Twitter at https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating Instagram at https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating Buy my book LOSING THE NOBEL PRIZE: http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA Subscribe for more great content https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 ✍️Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php Join my mailing list: http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php Join my Facebook Group: https://facebook.com/losingthenobelprize ️Please subscribe, rate, and review the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast on iTunes A production of Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello there, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this episode of Into the Impossible podcast. I'm your host, your fearful host. In this time of pandemic podcasting, Brian Keating, co-director of the Arthur C. Clark Center for Human Imagination.
0:15.0	And our guest today is none other than Seth Golden, one of the most interesting, charismatic,
0:19.6	influential individuals I've ever had the pleasure of interviewing on this podcast.
0:24.0	Today we're going to learn about Seth's phenomenal new book called The Practice,
0:28.0	as well as his understanding of science and science fiction, including quantum gravity, and his questions and his
0:36.2	appetite for intellectual curiosity and even in science and science fiction, really knows no bounds. It's truly rapacious as they say.
0:46.0	So Seth is a truly influential individual and he's affected me so well. It was such a treat
0:51.4	to get to talk to this living legend and may he live and write and do well,
0:56.5	continue to do well. You'll also learn about his passion and even his connection to our
1:02.3	namesake, Sir Arthur C. Clark, which I never knew.
1:05.3	And so today there'll be a couple of exclusives that you'll learn about Seth, but most of all,
1:09.6	you'll get a sense of this remarkable mental magician and the things that he does to improve the lives
1:16.3	literally of millions of people. So sit back, enjoy this episode, Seth Godin of the Into the Impossible Podcast.
1:24.0	Please don't forget to like, comment, subscribe, tattoo, no, do whatever you can, leave a review,
1:31.0	especially I read them all and they really help us in the all important
1:35.8	algorithmic ascension that we are aspiring to on the Arthur C. Clark Center for Human
1:42.1	Imaginations into the Impossible Podcast.
1:44.0	Sit back and enjoy the ride.
1:47.0	Any sufficient advanced technology
1:52.0	is indistinguishable from magic.
1:57.0	And it's a treat to have Seth Godin on the podcast, a legend in many different ways, an inspiration, a mentor via remote mentorship.
2:11.0	And as you know on this podcast we talk about painful divorces, embarrassing stories from junior high school and now I can't imagine how many podcasts you've done.
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