The Creation of Atari and Finding The Next Steve Jobs with Nolan Bushnell
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2014
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Nolan, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese and Steve Jobs’ mentor, shares views on education, reconnecting with your curiosity, and developing creativity to connect it to our vision.
In this episode:
- How do we better prepare people for today’s society?
- How schools have become warehouses
- How do we recognize early mentors?
- Credentials vs knowledge
- Are we born with awareness or can we cultivate it?
- Is ability to navigate emotional uncertainty something we are born with?
- The future of the web
“If you’re curious and passionate, school is unnecessary… We’re finding more and more the true movers and shakers of society are not educated.”
“Be entrepreneurial early and often.” ~ Nolan Bushnell
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Nolan Bushnell is a technology pioneer, prolific entrepreneur, and scientist. He’s often cited as the father of the video game industry. Nolan is devoted to fixing education with his new company, Brainrush. A biopic, tentatively titled “Atari” is in pre-production, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Nolan.
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| 0:00.0 | and I call it mental fluidity. |
| 0:03.0 | Even though it's good to have your project and be clear about it, |
| 0:08.3 | you want to be able to recognize change and adapt to it in the appropriate way and I'll be damned if I can |
| 0:16.5 | quantify what appropriate means in this case but you want people to be knowledge sponges for example I get people |
| 0:27.3 | all the time saying I want to you know would you mentor me and they talk about |
| 0:32.2 | their product that sort of thing and I start asking would you |
| 0:35.0 | mention me and they talk about their product and that sort of thing and I start asking them questions about you know who's your competitors and |
| 0:39.0 | who else is doing something like this and a a lot of times they'll say, well nobody and that sort of thing. |
| 0:46.0 | And I pop onto the internet and do a search word around their things |
| 0:50.0 | and all of a sudden there's 40 competitors. |
| 0:52.0 | And I say, you this this they haven't |
| 0:54.8 | done their homework you know goodbye I don't need you you you really have to be the |
| 1:00.1 | world expert on the business that you're creating. |
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