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🗓️ 14 December 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Watch out for Bambi
Akimbo is a weekly podcast created by Seth Godin. He's the bestselling author of 20 books and a long-time entrepreneur, freelancer and teacher.
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0:00.0 | Do you have a shark problem or a deer problem? |
0:07.0 | Hey, it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo. |
0:16.0 | We'll be back in a second with a short rant about the two kinds of problems most of us face. |
0:21.0 | But first, here's a message from our sponsor. |
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0:56.0 | OK, I think a shark problem is pretty obvious. |
1:01.0 | I don't have to play very much music to help you understand what a shark problem is. |
1:09.0 | That's right, a shark problem is when a really horrible creature unexpectedly comes from the depths and causes an enormous amount of carnage, a vivid sudden impact on our lives as we know them. |
1:23.0 | And then disappears back to the depths, making us wonder when they will return. |
1:30.0 | There's a long history of shark problems in literature and in life. |
1:35.0 | But what about a deer problem? |
1:37.0 | Well, if you live in the suburbs near a city as I do, it's possible that you have deer running around your neighborhood. |
1:46.0 | If you are in one of these deer-infested neighborhoods, they might not be called deer-infested. |
1:53.0 | They might be called bucolic. |
1:55.0 | It might be that the real estate broker hopes that a deer will gamble by running and frallicking with the antelope as they are showing the next home on their route. |
2:06.0 | Because deer also have a long history in media. |
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