Seth Godin — The Pursuit of Which means, The Life-Altering Energy of Selecting Your Perspective, Overcoming Rejection, Life Classes from Zig Ziglar, and Committing to Making Constructive Change (#672)

“It’s fully attainable that you just work in a spot the place you don’t have any choices. You don’t have any company. You don’t have any significance. If that’s really true, you must stop, since you don’t get tomorrow over once more. My guess: it’s not really true. My guess is you’ve gotten extra company than you are ready to embrace.”

— Seth Godin

Seth Godin is the creator of 21 worldwide bestsellers which have modified the way in which folks take into consideration work. His books have been translated into 38 languages and Seth’s books embody Tribes, Purple Cow, Linchpin, The Dip, and This Is Advertising. Seth writes one of the vital widespread advertising and marketing blogs on this planet, and two of his TED talks are among the many hottest of all time. He’s the founding father of the altMBA; the social media pioneer Squidoo; and Yoyodyne, one of many first web firms.

His new ebook is The Tune of Significance: A New Manifesto for Groups.

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Need to hear the final time Seth was on the present? Have a take heed to our dialog right here by which we mentioned the etymology of the phrase “hack,” the making of magic, why hiding behind phrases like “high quality” or “perfection” as a way of suspending motion to keep away from threat is a cop-out, what Isaac Asimov and Gary Gilmore can train us about author’s block, abilities with a disproportionate return on funding that entrepreneurs and creatives ought to think about cultivating, the significance of making use of constraints and bounds to the training course of, and way more.

What was your favourite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know within the feedback.

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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE

Web site | Seth’s Weblog | Instagram | Fb

• Seth’s earlier appearances on the podcast: 476, 402, 343, 177, 138
• The Tune of Significance: A New Manifesto for Groups by Seth Godin | Amazon
• Different Books by Seth Godin | Amazon
• Be Higher Right here | Sugarbush Resort
• The Ups and Downs of Telemark Snowboarding (And 5 Causes Why You Ought to Give It a Attempt) | Appalachian Mountain Membership
• What’s Skate Snowboarding? | Advnture
• Boomer Impact (Child Boomer Issue) | Investopedia
• The Carbon Almanac: It’s Not Too Late by The Carbon Almanac Community, Edited by Seth Godin | Amazon
• Man’s Seek for Which means by Viktor E. Frankl | Amazon
• An Overview of Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy | Merely Psychology
• Permission Advertising: Turning Strangers into Pals and Pals into Prospects by Seth Godin | Amazon
• Purple Cow: Remodel Your Enterprise by Being Outstanding by Seth Godin | Amazon
• The Ministry for the Future: A Novel by Kim Stanley Robinson | Amazon
• The Place to Construct Civilized Communities | Discourse
• Is Plastic Recycling A Lie? Oil Corporations Touted Recycling To Promote Extra Plastic | NPR
• Exxon Scientists Predicted International Warming with ‘Surprising Talent and Accuracy,’ Harvard Researchers Say | Harvard Gazette
• Massive Oil Coined ‘Carbon Footprints’ to Blame Us for Their Greed. Preserve Them on the Hook. | The Guardian
• What Is Nihilism? | Verywell Thoughts
• The Final Policeman: A Novel by Ben H. Winters | Amazon
• Don’t Look Up | Netflix
• Unique: Amazon’s Attrition Prices $8 Billion Yearly Based on Leaked Paperwork. And It Will get Worse. | Engadget
• The Finest Job You Ever Had | Seth’s Weblog
• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Stay Wherever, and Be part of the New Wealthy by Tim Ferriss | Amazon
• Mechanical Turk | Wikipedia
• Amazon Mechanical Turk | Wikipedia
• Now’s the Finest Time | altMBA
• 15 Bridezillas Who Made Me Disgusted By Marriage ceremony Tradition | BuzzFeed
• Tune of Improve: Listening to the Knowledge of Honeybees for Kinder Beekeeping and a Higher World by Jacqueline Freeman | Amazon
• How Do Honeybees Survive the Winter? | Suburban Sodbuster
• Solitary Confinement: A Temporary Historical past | Mom Jones
• What Does the Panopticon Imply within the Age of Digital Surveillance? | The Guardian
• Practice, Monitor, and Share | Strava
• Right here’s Why Apple Is Flying a Pirate Flag to Have fun Its fortieth Anniversary | Mashable
• Shark Tank | ABC
• Personalised Movies That includes Your Favourite Stars | Cameo
• The Full I Ching | Amazon
• Empowering the World to Develop Expertise via Collective Data | Stack Overflow
• Work With Us | Automattic
• Creating the Most Horrifying Firm on Earth | Harvard Enterprise Overview
• Saatchi & Saatchi
• Let’s Get Actual or Let’s Not Play: Remodeling the Purchaser/Vendor Relationship by Mahan Khalsa and Randy Illig | Amazon
• Objectives Take You to The Prime!: The right way to Get What You Need by Zig Ziglar | Amazon
• Secrets and techniques of Closing the Sale by Zig Ziglar | Amazon
• See You on the Prime by Zig Ziglar | Amazon
• Enterprise Guidelines of Thumb by Seth Godin and Chip Conley | Amazon
• The Rise and Fall of Squidoo | Wizzley
• Steinway Mannequin D | Steinway Grand
• Create Your On-line Retailer At this time | Shopify
• One Platform to Join | Zoom
• We Are What You Learn | Penguin Publishing

SHOW NOTES

• [05:42] The adjustments of getting old.
• [10:07] How Seth will get over momentary lapses of optimism.
• [16:13] The Carbon Almanac.
• [18:40] Addressing Twenty first-century nihilism.
• [26:23] Discovering significance and making a distinction.
• [35:34] The boss and the bees.
• [44:47] Ethically reclaiming that means from work within the Quaker surveillance state.
• [51:50] Seth’s impression of my efforts over time.
• [56:21] Circumnavigating false proxies.
• [1:02:17] Worker retention.
• [1:05:54] Let’s Get Actual or Let’s Not Play.
• [1:08:07] Zig Ziglar.
• [1:12:12] Seth’s early profession life.
• [1:13:45] Seth’s present profession life.
• [1:17:01] The 140-year-old piano.
• [1:19:35] Conferences.
• [1:24:04] Web page 19 pondering.
• [1:27:37] Soliciting helpful writing suggestions.
• [1:31:36] Parting ideas.

MORE SETH GODIN QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“What a present I’ve as we speak to be within the sneakers of anyone who, at 62, will get to do issues effectively, however solely as a result of I’m strolling away from issues I can’t do anymore. And as a substitute of specializing in what I used to have, I’m actually working arduous and getting satisfaction out of specializing in what I do have and what I can do.”
— Seth Godin

“We live in a tradition the place there’s an overhang of all these folks with loud voices speaking concerning the finish of the world as a result of it’s the tip of their world, however it’s not the tip of the world.”
— Seth Godin

“Some folks consider that the aim of enterprise is to allow tradition, to allow humanity. And a few folks consider that the aim of humanity and tradition is to allow enterprise. And I believe these folks have an excessive amount of affect proper now, they usually’re improper.”
— Seth Godin

“Once we take into consideration tomorrow or the tomorrow after that, given the injury we’ve all finished, we nonetheless dwell in tradition, we nonetheless have this miracle. You and I are speaking whereas 1000’s of miles aside, we have now entry to each piece of knowledge. We now have magical computer systems that may perceive us and discuss again. We will attain out to somebody in want. We will hook up with individuals who want to listen to from us. And if you wish to simply hand over as a result of the world goes to be totally different in 20 years, that’s your selection. However provided that we’ve received this window, it feels to me like we have to up our concentrate on humanity and connection and chance and enchancment of the situation, and possibly not fear a lot about public demonstrations of energy, firing folks on-line, being brutal within the service of revenue. As a result of we don’t have a revenue scarcity, we have now a that means scarcity.”
— Seth Godin

“If you happen to can work out find out how to get 5 or 10 folks collectively, you’ll be able to most likely ban gas-powered leaf blowers in your village. And that can have 50 occasions the impression of you switching to an electrical automobile. Plus the concept of banding along with 5 or 10 or 15 different folks, creating the situations for different folks to seek out one thing to care about and succeed at it, will fill you with that means, not with despair.”
— Seth Godin

“Milton Friedman simply made up this nonsense about the one goal of an organization is to maximise its revenue. It lets folks off the hook they usually turn out to be instruments of a system that grinds stuff out.”
— Seth Godin

“It’s fully attainable that you just work in a spot the place you don’t have any choices. You don’t have any company. You don’t have any significance. If that’s really true, you must stop, since you don’t get tomorrow over once more. My guess: it’s not really true. My guess is you’ve gotten extra company than you are ready to embrace.”
— Seth Godin

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