The Hedonic Treadmill
Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin
Midroll Media
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Be careful what you wish for
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.
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| 0:00.0 | very special because if you can see the numbers all go to 11. |
| 0:05.8 | Look right across the board. |
| 0:08.0 | 11, 11, 11, 11, and then... |
| 0:10.6 | amps go up to 10. |
| 0:11.8 | Exactly. Does that mean it's louder is any louder well it's one louder isn't it it's not 10 you see most most |
| 0:19.3 | blokes gonna be playing at 10 you're on 10 here all the way up, all the way up, you're on 10 on your guitar, |
| 0:25.4 | where can you go from there? Where? |
| 0:27.4 | I don't know. |
| 0:28.4 | Nowhere, exactly. |
| 0:29.4 | What we do is if we need that extra push over the cliff you know what we do put it up to 11 exactly |
| 0:35.7 | one loud why don't you just make 10 louder and make 10 be the top number and make that |
| 0:40.8 | a little louder. |
| 0:45.0 | These car to 11. |
| 0:47.0 | Unlike amplifiers, human beings do not go up to 11. Hey, it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo. |
| 0:58.0 | We'll be back in a second to talk about the Hedonic treadmill and the culture |
| 1:07.1 | we're all in. But first here's a message from our sponsor. |
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