The talented mosquito
Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin
Midroll Media
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
1,000 generations later
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.
You can find out more about Seth by reading his daily blog at seths.blog and about the workshops at akimbo.com .
To submit a question and to see the show notes, please visit akimbo.link and press the appropriate button.
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| 0:00.0 | In 1920, the most famous person who had ever lived, Charlie Chaplin, got divorced. |
| 0:07.0 | Shortly thereafter, he was walking down the street, and he was bit by a mosquito. |
| 0:13.0 | That mosquito escaped with its life |
| 0:15.3 | and went back and fed its kids. |
| 0:17.7 | A mosquito generation takes about a month. |
| 0:20.3 | There are 10 generations a year. |
| 0:23.0 | That means that since Charlie Chaplin's mosquito |
| 0:27.6 | had its kids, there have been 1,000 generations of mosquitoes. |
| 0:34.1 | Hey, it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo. |
| 0:39.7 | We'll be back in a second to talk surprisingly about talent, but first here's a message from our sponsor. |
| 0:51.0 | And then a seven-year-old kid in Texas starts knocking on doors and he's asking for his |
| 0:57.4 | age and dollars. |
| 0:59.4 | 77, he raises 22 grand. |
| 1:04.0 | And we said, wow, this is a big idea. |
| 1:06.7 | You know, everybody in the world could care about clean water. |
| 1:08.8 | Everybody in the world has a birthday every year. And we have enough stuff. What if we could turn the birthday into a giving |
| 1:16.0 | moment into an unselfish day, our birthdays so people could live longer and have birthdays? |
| 1:21.6 | To find out more, visit charitywater.org. |
| 1:27.0 | So this is a really short podcast, a rant, more likely, about talent. |
| 1:34.6 | One thousand generations of mosquitoes between Charlie Chaplin's mosquito and that one that |
| 1:40.0 | was buzzing in your ear last night when you were trying to sleep. |
| 1:45.2 | The DNA of those mosquitoes is almost indistinguishable. |
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