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Build For Tomorrow

The Best Ways to Use a Crisis

Build For Tomorrow

Jason Feifer

Business, History, Technology, Entrepreneurship

4.7573 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Everyone’s freaking out! How can that be put to good use? In this episode, we discuss the unexpected benefits of the bubonic plague, what the four-day workweek tells us about the future of work, how world-changing technologies become adopted, why business failures lead to success, how to use crises to change the status quo, and more. This episode originally aired on The Jordan Harbinger Show, as he interviewed me, Build For Tomorrow host Jason Feifer. The “Build For Tomorrow” book is almost here! Grab your copy at www.jasonfeifer.com/book Get in touch! Newsletter: jasonfeifer.bulletin.com Website: jasonfeifer.com Instagram: @heyfeifer Twitter: @heyfeifer mfmpod.com Ladderlife.com/buildfortomorrow Jordanharbinger.com/subscribe JenniKayne.com/home Nth Venture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hear that? It's your big McDonald's hunger calling, because the big arch is back, and this time

0:05.3

is here to stay with juicy beef, cheddar cheese and that big arch sauce. Hungry, you are now.

0:11.6

Order delivery on the McDonald's app.

0:15.1

Serve from 11am, upcharges and fees apply to delivery orders. Subjects availability, price and participation may vary.

0:20.4

Today, I am doing something a little different.

0:23.7

I have been hosting this podcast for years,

0:26.4

and I always hope that each episode provides a unique lens

0:29.9

into how we grapple with change.

0:32.3

You know, grapple with the new, scary things in our lives.

0:35.8

Sometimes it is about how people of the past rejected innovations

0:39.6

like radio and even forks and teddy bears and what that can tell us about the big moral panics

0:44.8

of today over social media and screens. Sometimes it's about the things that we think are new

0:50.1

and terrible today like participation trophies or checked out workers, and how actually those

0:55.2

things are not new at all. And sometimes it's more about us and how our brains work and how we

1:01.2

process the big things in our lives. But how does all that tie together? How can all these

1:07.0

random stories help you be a more innovative thinker or take bolder action? Well, I was

1:13.7

recently on a fantastic podcast called The Jordan Harbinger Show. Jordan interviews super interesting

1:20.1

people and turns their insights into action, and I have been both a fan and friend of his for years.

1:26.0

You should totally check the show out. He had me on to

1:29.0

talk about my book, which like this podcast is also called Build for Tomorrow, but we ended up having

1:34.2

a wide-ranging discussion about changing technology, the future of work, and how to find

1:39.0

opportunity in adversity. I just think you'll find it really interesting and useful. So on this episode, I am going

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