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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Midroll Media

Society & Culture

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

So the world can make it better



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

German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said something that is often quoted and has wasted many, many lives.

0:09.0

He wrote, All Truth passes through three stages.

0:13.4

First, it is ridiculed.

0:15.0

Second, it is violently opposed.

0:18.4

Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

0:23.0

Hey, it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo.

0:28.0

We'll be back in a second after this message from our sponsor.

0:37.0

If you want to learn to write a bicycle, don't read a book.

0:44.8

Hey, it's Seth, and I'm here to talk about the akimbo workshops.

0:49.2

These are interactive real-time online workshops that work and we're devoting 20-20 to

0:56.4

finding one that matches where you need to go. If you're ready to level up I hope you'll check

1:01.8

out a Kimboe.com to find out about our proven

1:06.2

effective workshops.

1:08.1

And where does the waste come from? It comes from the people who are being ridiculed and believe that

1:15.7

being ridiculed is a symptom that they have found the truth. There's a drug

1:22.2

called Neseritide. If you have heart failure, Neseritide, could have been a

1:28.0

God's end. It's a drug that when administered intravenously can do wonders for people who have had heart failure.

1:36.7

In 2001, Johnson and Johnson got approved by the FDA to sell the drug and due to their marketing muscle it got off to a great

1:45.0

start. It had sales of billions of dollars a year and was on track to become a

1:49.9

blockbuster. Then a few years later a cardiologist, Dr. Jonathan Sackner Bernstein looked at the available data, the data

1:59.7

that the FDA requires every drugmaker to file. And what he found is that Neserotide

2:06.8

doesn't work better than a placebo. Sure it has side effects, low blood

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