672 Seth Godin The Pursuit of Meaning the Life-Changing Power of Choosing Your Attitude Overcoming Rejection Life Lessons From Zig Ziglar and Committing to Making Positive Change
#672 — Seth Godin — The Pursuit of Meaning, the Life-Changing Power of Choosing Your Attitude, Overcoming Rejection, Life Lessons From Zig Ziglar, and Committing to Making Positive Change
Full Title: #672 — Seth Godin — The Pursuit of Meaning, the Life-Changing Power of Choosing Your Attitude, Overcoming Rejection, Life Lessons From Zig Ziglar, and Committing to Making Positive Change
The Power of Conversations over Meetings in the Age of Zoom and Video
Key takeaways:
Recording a 10 minute video is an effective way to distribute information at one’s own pace.
Zoom eliminates geographical barriers in communication.
Memos are a great tool for asynchronous communication.
Video conferencing meetings are often disliked by employees.
Having more conversations and less meetings is recommended.
Conversations should involve questions and answers.
Transcript:
Speaker 1
Record a 10 minute video and send it to everyone to watch as many times as they wanted slower faster read the transcript and then get back to them and Toby said if you really need the meeting go ahead and put it back on your calendar you're welcome and what meetings have become so zoom is a miracle because zoom eliminates geography when it comes to be other connect with people and memos were a miracle because they eliminated time they're asynchronous and when we add video to this what we get is either we're going to have everyone get together for an hour so I can talk at you and I can take attendance based on you sitting there and what we know from surveys is people hate this it's one of the things they hate the most about their day and it's a form of power authority Status and control so conversations need to happen more meetings need to happen never you can have conversations all day you can have a two minute conversation a six minute conversation talk to this person or that person but a conversation means there are questions and there answers people are talking to each other everyone is changed at the end a meeting is a delivery of information for the convenience of the person who called it and I think it is possible I know (Time 1:20:23)
Embracing a Page 19 Mentality: Putting Pressure on Yourself to Produce Quality Work
Key takeaways:
Lowering expectations can help in iterating towards excellence.
Embracing page 19 thinking puts the pressure on to create work that can be criticized.
Danny Meyer broke the speaker's nose but offered to straighten it out.
Living in a page 19 world means not shipping junk and creating conditions for noodling to become something.
Transcript:
Speaker 1
And is the way to look for page 19 thinking to take the pressure off by lowering your expectations in a sense so that you can iterate your way to excellence is this applicable to a solo shop or a very small shop could you maybe elaborate on on what you mean what it could mean to embrace that thinking it puts the pressure on it doesn't need the pressure off it puts the pressure on because you can no longer be a prima Don who says I'm afraid someone's going to punch me in the nose because you have to say my nose is not involved yeah and I heard Danny's great story about my nose and it made me smile this is Danny Meyer folks for people who don't know yeah after he broke my nose he offered to straighten it out and as you can see in The video it's still crooked but once you understand that you live in a page 19 world the pressure is on for you to put out work that can generously be criticized don't ship junk not allowed but create the conditions for the thing you're noodling on to become real that doesn't happen by you hoarding it until it's perfect it happens by you creating a process for it to get better so now you're on the hook fish don't like to be on the hook people should be on the hook I love it and I (Time 1:25:37)
