3 steps to ruining a young person's life, How long Seth Godin failed as an entrepreneur & Summarising episodes 147–153
Latest top 5 highlights from With Joe Wehbe Podcast
Step 1: Give young people lots of random advice from your own experience without any context.
Step 2: Rob Bolton, former Education Editor at the AFR (20 years of service) always qualifies his media advice to me with a disclaimer ‘it’s just my experience Joe, it may/may not be useful’. Avoid this sort of wisdom at all costs — present any advice or prescription you give as biblical rhetoric 👑.
Step 3: Reverse oxygen mask rule — don’t listen to the airlines. Give others advice and instructions on what to do before following it yourself. Why should you be the one to test it?
In the recent podcast episodes we discuss Tim Ferriss’ book advice, how long Seth Godin spent failing as an entrepreneur, and what Alan Watts’ rule was about when is a smart vs. dangerous time for ‘planning’.
I’m making my next ☕ so I don’t have time to write it out. I promise, it’s all in the episodes.
🖐My top 5 takeaways from the most recent With Joe Wehbe Podcast episodes
I do this every week, because apparently 7x 10 minute podcast episodes is too much to listen to.
Comfort is the enemy of adventure
Where Tim Ferriss’ book advice might lead young people down the wrong path (Episode 147)
How my chapter in 18 & Lost? So Were We, might lead young people astray. (148 & 149)
Stories beat advice and prescriptions. Stories give context and leave space for interpretation. Advice is light on context and pushes the interpretation that there is a ‘way’. There are many ways.
If you’re not good enough yet, perhaps you haven’t been bad enough yet.
What were yours?
🎙 Recent Episodes
Still working on getting Season 2 episodes onto Youtube! For now, these are links to Spotify but you can also go to your preferred podcast player here.
#147: Why Is Giving And Receiving Advice So Hard? (6 min 56 sec)
#148: Everyone Misinterprets Advice & Stories, Not Prescriptions (10 min 10 sec)
#149: Careers Advice Is The Most Dangerous Advice Of All (4 min 10 sec)
#150: Christopher Columbus, Unique Discovery And Specialised Generalists (7 min 51 sec)
#151: Finding A Calling Aged 62 & Things Change Along The Way (6 min 9 sec)
#152: Giving Young People High Salaries Is Dangerous (10 min 10 sec)
🎁 #153: BONUS EPISODE — 5 Reasons Why We Made 18 & Lost? So Were We (15 min 19 sec)
🖊 Recent Writings
How To Win The Game — “For they looked at it as a competitive game. But I looked at it as a journey.”
Not up to these episodes yet? Check out the summary of the previous seven episodes here.