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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

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

What happens when the world changes


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

Supple is undeniably a cool word. It's onomatopoeic. It sounds like it is. It's something we all aspire to.

0:11.0

Nobody says, I wish I was more brittle. Hey it's AJ and this is a special

0:19.1

archived episode of a Kimbo. What will you do when the world changes?

0:27.0

Because the world is going to change. This is certain. The world has been

0:36.0

changing for as long as there have been species on the planet. And if you work in an

0:41.8

organization or if you work in an organization, or if you work in our culture, trying to get picked, trying to pick others, trying to make a change happen,

0:50.0

the one thing that is certain is that the world will change and it will change faster than you expect.

1:00.0

So supple, resilience, is a choice.

1:04.9

It is an outlook.

1:06.4

It is a way we can plan our day, our week, our month,

1:09.8

and our career.

1:11.9

So let's start with the example of Lucille Ball.

1:14.8

Using the human larynx as a sounding board for mechanical sound is the latest wonder of science.

1:19.6

The human voice isn't used, only the mechanical sounds are afflicted from the larynx as the silent lips form the words.

1:26.0

Listen to Lucille Ball.

1:28.0

I've just returned from a trip across country by rail, and at every crossing this is the way the train whistle sounded to me.

1:35.0

In 1939 Lucille Ball made a video, a movie as an actress talking about a new kind of technology.

1:45.0

She went on to be a star on Broadway and then of course on television.

1:52.0

As technologies changed, so did she,

1:55.3

where she stood how she worked.

1:58.5

As she matured in her career,

2:00.7

she became the first woman to run a studio in Hollywood. If it weren't

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