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The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

The Essential Is Invisible

The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

Vox Media Podcast Network

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Scott Harrison, Founder and CEO of charity: water, discusses the state of nonprofits, leadership, and gratitude. Scott Galloway also answers listener questions about gap years, Lululemon, and advertising. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Music

0:08.0

In America we're capitalist.

0:11.0

You're the fuck are we kidding? We're croniest.

0:14.0

Music

0:25.0

Today on the PropG show we speak to the CEO and founder of charity water, Scott Harrison,

0:30.0

take your questions on office hours and end as we always do with an algebra of happiness moment.

0:35.0

I think all of us are trying to take perspective from this crisis.

0:39.0

Perspective is a photographic term. It means as you zoom out you see the bigger picture.

0:44.0

Supposedly people when they see the earth from space feel more of a comedy, more of a humanity become very spiritual.

0:49.0

I also think that a certain amount of perspective happens as you get towards the end of specifically near death.

0:55.0

My father is near death. He's not sick but he's almost 90 and is probably playing the back nine if you will.

1:02.0

And I do get a great deal of perspective from him.

1:05.0

He mostly is just hanging out in his senior's home abusing Xanix and watching reruns of Maple Leafs games.

1:11.0

So he's an intensely intelligent individual who's fearless and high.

1:16.0

In some he is my Yoda.

1:21.0

The other night I asked him as I was screaming, how are the Leafs going to do next season?

1:25.0

I said, do you have any takeaways on America?

1:28.0

And he said that America is a terrible place to be stupid.

1:34.0

Now what did he mean by that? The reason he came here and he took a lot of risk to get here,

1:39.0

he wanted to be in a place where there were winners and losers in the cruel truth of capitalism is you can't reward the winners without punishing the losers and we've had an immigrant gene here in the US.

1:49.0

Where if you're lucky work hard, take risks, you get bigger upside.

1:52.0

But also if you're unlucky or make take stupid risk, there's some downside.

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