Sweating the Small Stuff with Steven Bartlett (Part 1)

A Bit of Optimism

The Optimism Company from Simon Sinek

Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Management, Education

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

How you do anything is how you do everything. Steven Bartlett embodies this old adage. His high standards and focus on the finest details launched him from a broke university dropout to one of the world’s most influential entrepreneurs. At the age of 30, he has already founded multiple companies, stars on Britain’s hit tv show Dragon’s Den, and is now the host of one of the planet’s most popular podcasts, Diary of a CEO. He is a leader for the new era. It was a joy to turn the tables on him and have him talk about himself for a change. This is…a Bit of Optimism.

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0:00.0	Steven Bartlett has a unique ability to get people to open up and talk about things they
0:11.6	probably haven't talked about in public before.
0:14.8	I should know.
0:16.8	He did it to me.
0:18.3	So I invited him on to a bit of optimism, to see if I could get him to do the same.
0:24.5	He's quite remarkable.
0:26.1	He started building companies when he was just 18 and took himself from being a broke
0:30.7	university dropout to a millionaire by the age of 23 and one of Britain's most influential
0:36.9	entrepreneurs.
0:38.2	He's been one of the regulars on Dragon's Den, the British equivalent of Shark Tank.
0:42.9	And most importantly, he's become a voice for the modern entrepreneur.
0:47.5	In part one of our two-part conversation, Steven proves himself to be vulnerable, introspective,
0:53.9	and curious.
0:55.4	Not just about how he achieves, but why he feels the need to achieve in the first place.
1:02.0	This is a bit of optimism.
1:08.7	So the best part about sitting down to do a podcast with you is that you are never on
1:13.8	the receiving end of these things, and you have made quite a career out of getting people
1:21.9	to say all the things they don't want to say.
1:25.0	And now here you are on the receiving end.
1:27.2	Yeah.
1:28.2	It's terrifying.
1:29.2	Now you know how we feel.
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