What to do When It’s Your Turn with Seth Godin
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2015
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Unmistakable Creative, Seth Godin returns to the show to discuss his new book, It’s Your Turn.
- Leveraging books as a tool to change the people around you
- Writing a book that begs to be shared and gets under people’s skin
- The choice between creative or cog that we’re always making
- Why we must be willing to be wrong to do work that matters
- How the connection economy rewards people
- Our search for reassurance and how to stop it
- Learning to take your work seriously and not personally
- The mythical time when we think we’ll be ready
- A look at what school is actually for
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A book only happens when I can’t let an idea go
If you go into this saying, how do you know, you’ve already lost.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, I hope you're having a fabulous day whenever you're listening to this. |
| 0:04.0 | Before we start the episode, I wanted to read something on the air that we received from one of our |
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| 1:01.0 | Let's get into what today's episode is about. In this episode, one of my all-time favorite guests returns to the show, |
| 1:07.0 | Seth Godin comes back to talk about his new book, It's Your Turn. He discusses what school is really for, how we overcome our fear of failure and a bunch of other really interesting things. |
| 1:17.0 | I think he was going to really get a kick out of this interview. |
| 1:20.0 | And without further ado, let's get to the show. I'm Sreni Rao and this is the unmistakable Creative Podcast, where you get a window into |
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