Episode 58 features the seventh edition of the Inspiration Session with Gerrit McGowan & Dries Faems in which they share what makes them think, learn, and laugh. 

This week they touch on some of these thought-provoking topics: 

• How to measure personality with your digital footprint
• Is fake it till you make it the right strategy to use as an entrepreneur?
• How can the chance of burnout be reduced?
• Should we expect a wave of entrepreneurial burnout next year?
• How is art evolving in the advanced technological world
• AI and its influence on our world

We hope you enjoy the show! 

Chapters

(1:02) Gerrit Introduces the podcast inspiration session

(3:00) What did Dries learn? Topic: Personality

(4:19) Researchers are taking an alternative approach to measuring personality

(7:38) Results of the study on whether the footprint can predict your personality

(9:00) How is your digital footprint able to predict the likelihood of you experiencing certain outcomes in different life areas

(10:31) On what basis is your personality assessed?

(12:00) Discussion on the findings of the personality paper

(14:00) Problems with personality models

(16:20) Ethical questions for using data for investigating personality

(17:25) Recruiters and your social media presence

(18:30) What did Gerrit learn? Topic: Fake it to you make it

(22:30) What fake it till you make it means

(28:05) What to do instead of faking it?

(32:25) Dries and Gerrit share advice on how to pitch

(35:36) Does the personal story in storytelling need to be true?

(38:00) Entrepreneurs thinking like scientists

(42:45) What made Dries think: paper on entrepreneurial burnout

(44:58) Does the feeling of autonomy increase the likelihood of burnout?

(49:45) Should we expect a wave of entrepreneurial burnout next year?

(55:35) Instead of being the best – be the best version of yourself

(56:2) Mental struggle of having a bore out

(57:50) What made Gerrit think: the technology of art and its destruction

(59:00) Artists destroying art and turning them into NFTs

(1:03:20) Are treasures in the art world being lost through NFTs?

(1:07:30) Can the AI-generated art be called art?

(1:10:10) Discussing what the new world will look like with AI

(1:18:20) What made Dries laugh: his first encounter with TikTok

(1:22:00) China's strategy behind TikTok

(1:29:00) What made Gerrit laugh: FTX downfall tweets

(1:45:00) The economic shift and new topics

(1:48:36) Gerrit thanks you for listening!