Zigzag | Step 3: The Weird Ideas

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🗓️ 30 April 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Today, another episode from ZigZag, hosted by Manoush Zomorodi. This is episode 3 of The ZigZag Project, a special season all about how to realign your work with your core values. The third step requires getting weird. Because we're gonna need to dig deep to find new ways to roll back climate change, bring equity to society, and pay our bills. If, after a year of lockdowns and stress, you feel drained at the thought, meet Rob Walker, author of The Art of Noticing. Rob has some unusual ways to inspire you to get creative and figure out your next job, business model, or project. Manoush turns Rob’s insight into this episode’s assignment: The Board of All Ideas, No Matter How Weird.

The ZigZag Project is six steps (and episodes) to help you map out a path that aligns your personal values with your professional ambitions. Think of it as a RESET for your career or business.

Find the assignments, survey, newsletter and more at ZigZagPod.com

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:07.0	Hi, it's Medubeh and today we're sharing another episode from Zigzag, the business show about being human that is also a part of the Ted Audio Collective.
0:16.0	Hope you enjoy it.
0:18.0	Support for this podcast comes from BCG. What you're about to hear is a work of imagination, but not fantasy.
0:24.0	So starts every episode of BCG's new podcast, Climate Vision 2050, which pulls us into a future where we've radically reduced carbon emissions and saved ourselves from climate catastrophe.
0:34.0	From the future of travel to food and fashion, what might life be like in a world that has actually managed to address climate change?
0:42.0	Listen to BCG's Climate Vision 2050, wherever you get your podcasts. A net zero world is within reach.
0:50.0	Hey listener, a quick favor. We are conducting an audience survey and we'd be really grateful if you could take just a few minutes to respond.
0:57.0	Please visit survey.prx.org slash business to take the survey today. That's survey.prx.org slash business. Thanks.
1:08.0	Okay, I really think this might be like take 47 of me trying to write or speak a voice memo.
1:17.0	I've been feeling really scattered over the past several months and I've just been bogged down with work and trying to put out fires every single day from start to finish.
1:27.0	And it's left me feeling quite rudderless.
1:33.0	Yeah, haven't we all between the incessant Zoom calls and worrying about our health. It's hard to concentrate.
1:40.0	Much less be super creative. Some of you have felt like you were struggling with that even before the pandemic.
1:47.0	I'm Bryce. I'm 25. I'm in Boston and I'm a software engineer. My struggles with mostly is just I'm not an idea person.
1:57.0	Bryce, please don't tar yourself with that name. Not an ideas person. These things take nurturing.
2:05.0	I am going to call you a pre ideas person because you are preparing yourself and your mind for ideas to sprout just by being here with thousands of other listeners on the same wavelengths.
2:20.0	I wish I could reinvent myself or maybe not so much reinvent has to find a new expression.
2:26.0	I wish I can start a new career outside of my normal box. I wish I just light it up and get it going again.
2:36.0	It's step three of the zigzag project listeners and we're going to unlock a new expression.
2:43.0	Climb out of your mental boxes and juice the idea gears in your brain.
2:48.0	I'm Manouche Summerodi and this is zigzag the business podcast about being human.
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