The Keys to Exponential Personal and Professional Growth with Salim Ismail
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2016
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Salim Ismail, Singularity University’s global ambassador and founding executive director, joins us to discuss the keys to exponential personal and professional growth.
HIGHLIGHTS
- How institutions and organizations can adapt to a new world
- Controversial theories on the success of Indian CEO’s
- Navigating complex human relationships
- Combining lunacy and rational thinking
- The role that forcing functions play in our lives and our work
- Expanding your capacity to push boundaries
- Tools for internal transformation and rewriting our operating systems.
- Disruptive technologies that will have profound impacts on our lives
- The Power of Thinking at Scale
Quotes
Almost all profoundly successful entrepreneurs were dismal failures the first three or four times around.
Real power comes from when you can put yourself over the edge and pull yourself back.
Life at its core level is just a process.
The purpose of life is to grow.
If you try to do something disruptive, the immune system of the organization will attack you.
If you’re on the consumer internet, the two attributes you’d better have are speed and risk
Salim is a sought after speaker, strategist and entrepreneur – his last company, Angstro, was acquired by Google in August 2010. Salim spent two years as SU’s founding Executive Director and currently serves as its Global Ambassador focusing on its global presence. He Twitters his thoughts at @salimismail and blogs infrequently at www.salimismail.com
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| 0:00.0 | You have your body which is your hardware and then you have the external world right and at an early age you develop the software operating system to |
| 0:09.1 | Interact between the hardware and the external world and that operating system is formed in the first seven years and this is why the Jesuits say give me the child and to the age of seven I give you the man right and so that early education inputs did you get bullied how did you respond how do you navigate playground dynamics |
| 0:26.7 | how did you deal with parental stress or family trauma or whatever you kind of form this operating system. |
| 0:33.2 | Then we become adults and we start running applications on it. |
| 0:35.8 | Career, love life, sports, money, finance. |
| 0:39.1 | And the applications start crashing. |
| 0:41.6 | And we blame the application. we never go back to rewrite the operating system. |
| 0:47.7 | And so in a newer world that we live in today, which is infinitely more complex global information |
| 0:54.8 | based we actually need to rewrite our basic operating systems and so our old |
| 1:01.1 | tools for that worked when you had a lifetime to kind of think about it, |
| 1:05.0 | but the world is moving too quickly now for somebody to take 10 years to meditate and get to some level of transformation. I'm Sreni Rao and this is the unmistakable creative podcast where you get a window |
| 1:20.1 | into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements, |
| 1:25.0 | built thriving businesses, written best-selling books, and created insanely interesting art. |
| 1:29.5 | For more, check out our 500 episode archive at unmistakable Creative. |
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