On Being with Krista Tippett

Seth Godin — Life, the Internet, and Everything

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Sep 20, 2018
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ANECDOTE

Failures That Taught Resilience

  • Godin recounts early professional failures: 900 rejections and years near bankruptcy that taught resilience.
  • He learned to treat failure as temporary feedback and to extract lessons for the next attempt.
INSIGHT

Bottom Up Cultural Evolution

  • Cultural and technological change rewires expectations and capabilities over generations, enabling bottom-up evolution.
  • The internet exemplifies bottom-up creation: protocols and projects built by thousands without central control.
INSIGHT

Individuals Have Industrial Era Power

  • The shift from industrial leverage to individual leverage makes everyone a potential artist, not just factory cogs.
  • One person now can design a product or idea and reach a tribe without thousands of employees.
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