Generation You with Catalin Matei: Recent Episodes
Catalin Matei
Generation You’s purpose is to have multidisciplinary conversations around the big challenges of tomorrow. From education, health, food, climate, technology and many others - we strive to empower people to tackle these challenges and advance mankind. Your host, Catalin Matei, is an entrepreneur that's working on ever-more complex problems.
Here is an interview with Dan Ariely, professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University.
He shares valuable insights and opinions about a variety of topics like:
- extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation
- how we should communicate with our colleagues and employees
- why beauraucracy is killing joy in your company
And, of course, we talked a lot about what he calls "misbelief", which is at the center of his newest book. So if you are curious about the ways misbeliefs impact our lives and society as a whole, while also understanding how and why they arise, I hope this interview will help you.
You can find Dan on:
- https://danariely.com/
- https://twitter.com/danariely
- https://www.instagram.com/danariely/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/danariely/
Time stamps:
0:00 - Teaser
1:32 - Intro
3:00 - Human Capital and Motivation (How to motivate your employees and colleagues)
10:37 - Why Dan wrote a book about misbelief
17:23 - The definition of misbelief
21:33 - Why stress is dangerous
24:26 - Misbeliefs are a Reaction to a Real Need (We should not discount misbelievers)
26:06 - The Social Element of Misbelief
31:03 - People Want to be Extreme
33:12 - Personality Traits that Increase the Risk of Misbelief
37:54 - How to fight misbelief
44:38 - Being skeptical is a good thing
47:13 - Is human nature good or bad?
50:42 - The Essence of Dan’s New Book
53:38 - Rapid Fire Questions
54:05 - Is War Rational?
55:33 - The Ethics of Marketing & Misbelief
56:53 - Is Sport Fandom a Good Thing?
58:23 - Why Dan has a Half Beard
1:01:25 - How Dan’s Injury Impacted His Life
1:05:43 - Dan’s Startups
1:08:29 - Doing Unpleasant Things
1:10:40 - Outro
Catalin Matei is a young Entrepreneur and marketer. Ex-Professional Dancer for 9 years now turned Entrepreneur, Catalin loves to share his journey and the things that worked for him along his trip of building businesses, growing, learning, failing, succeeding and so much more.
He believes that in life mastery of your craft and the people around you are the most important things in the world, and that's what this channel is going to be about.
Find Catalin:
- Facebook: http://facebook.com/iscatalin
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/atcatalinmatei
- Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/catalinmatei1
- LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catalinma...
- Snapchat: catalinmatei
In today's episode with Neil Patel, we talked about:
- Current Business Overview: Neil provided a brief overview of his current ventures and the ongoing expansion of his agency, NP Digital.
- Role within His Business: Neil clarified his role in his company, outlining that most of his time is spent on strategic work with business customers. He also discussed the importance of staying connected with the market's pulse by being involved in day-to-day operations.
- The Evolution of Personal Branding: We discussed the importance of personal branding, where he provided insights into his journey starting from the world of SEO.
- Building a Successful Personal Brand: He advised on the necessity of using an omnichannel approach in marketing and leveraging all platforms to achieve optimal reach.
- Passion and Purpose: Neil emphasized the significance of loving what you do, expressing his belief that passion can drive success more than monetary motives.
- The Importance of Family: Neil touched on the role of family in his lives, discussing the challenges and joys of raising kids and maintaining a balance with work.
- Transfer of Life Lessons to Children: He talked about his approach towards teaching his children the value of hard work and not taking things for granted.
Time Stamps:
00:00 - Introduction
00:49 - About Neil’s International Marketing Speeches and Travel Challenges
03:41 - An Inside into Neil Patel's Business: A Blend of Strategy, Growth, and Hands-on Involvement
06:28 - The Potential of AI in Marketing and the Importance of Data Analytics and Process Automation
10:35 - Comparing Marketing Strategies: Different Approaches of Large Corporations and Startups
12:28 - Exploring the Future of AI in E-Commerce
14:54 - Data Regulations and Their Future Impact on Paid Advertising
15:38 - Neil Patel's Key Success Factors for SMBs
18:33 - Influencer Marketing and Celebrities in Business: The Value of Choosing the Right Market and Product
24:07 - How to Build a Successful Personal Brand: An Omnichannel Strategy Guided by Passion
28:28 - Neil Patel's Perspective on Doing What You Love
29:56 - Passing on the Success Ethic: His Approach to Teaching His Children about Life and Work
Resources:
Neil Patel:
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Online Resources:
- Neil Patel's Blog: https://neilpatel.com/blog/
- Marketing School Podcast: https://marketingschool.io/
- Ubersuggest (SEO Tool): https://app.neilpatel.com/
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Social Media:
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilkpatel/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/neilpatel
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/neilvkpatel
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/neilkpatel/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neilpatel/
- Online Courses: Neil Patel offers a free online SEO course named "SEO Unlocked", which can be found here: https://neilpatel.com/training/
Catalin Matei:
- SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-231043544/sets
- iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ro/podcast/generation-u/id1305109779
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0eGb3ViiIILLVXV1jnlCNV
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/catalinmatei11
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catalinmatei1/?hl=ro
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catalinmatei1
- Email: catalin@increasemedia.com
In today’s episode, you will find out from Grant Cardone, the founder, and CEO of Cardone Capital, how everyday investors can access the institutional-grade real estate deals that are normally reserved for only the largest investors.
The aim of this interview with Grant Cardone was to give young people a hands-on guide on how to become financially independent and wealthy.
We touched on topics such as: what types of income are necessary to have, savings and investment tactics, and what are the free events you can attend to find out more.
Time Stamps:
- 00:00 - Intro Grant Cardone
- 01:52 - Why Real Estate is Good Investment
- 06:47 - The Types of Income you Need to Have
- 08:55 - What are the Best Ways to Become Financially Independent and Wealthy?
- 15:04 - Top 4 Criteria and Ways of Becoming Wealthy
- 18:35 - Greatest Real Estate Opportunity for Non-accredited Investors
- 24:20 - How do Cardone Capital Investors Get Paid
- 25:33 - Next Grant Cardone’s Real Estate Events and Free Trainings
Here you can find the links mentioned in the interview
- cardonecapital.com
- https://grantcardone.com/rei
About the Guest:
Meet Simone Cicero, Italian designer, speaker, and entrepreneur. Creator of Platform Design Toolkit, and managing partner at Boundaryless, a company that helps organizations create platform strategies to mobilize ecosystems for growth, impact, and evolution.
Along with other partners, Simone Cicero launched the Platform Design Toolkit. Bringing together service design, business model innovation, lean startup, and customer development, the Toolkit helps designers and business people alike to identify and harness the power of platforms.
Time Stamps:
- 00:00 - Introduction to Simone Cicero - Co-Founder & CEO of Platform Design Toolkit
- 02:04 - How And Why Did Simone Cicero Created Platform Design Toolkit
- 04:58 - Explaining What Exactly is Simone Cicero doing on Platform Design Toolkit
- 06:27 - What Is A Platform? But What's An ecosystem?
- 10:20 - How Is A Platform Working?
- 15:48 - How Service Businesses Would Look Like In The Future?
- 24:40 - How Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Enabling Organization Work?
- 35:04 - How Can You Use Platform Design Toolkit For Your Startup?
- 43:33 - How Does Funding Work On This Platform?
- 52:00 - How Does EEEO Interconnect With Blockchain, DAO’s, And NFT World? How Does That Relate To Building Platforms?
- 56:30 - Where You Can Learn About Platform Design Toolkit?
Resources:
- Website - https://platformdesigntoolkit.com/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/meedabyte?s=20
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonecicero/
- Study Case - Haier: https://bit.ly/3uR6TXm
About the Guest:
Rupert Spira is an English studio potter and writer, famous for his carefully crafted minimalist bowls as well as his career as a spiritual writer and teacher, engaged in the practice and philosophy of Non-Duality, which is also called Advaita in Sanskrit.
The main point of Non-Duality teaching is the belief that we are the souls who create the illusion that there is an outside world. In this sense, major aspects of the outside world and reality as we know it are considered non-existent and what remains is based purely on the intimacy of our inner experience and true self.
Spira explores the nature of human experiences and perceptions in his essays, books, videos, and lectures. He has published a couple of books related to his teaching as well as a few DVDs with interviews and lectures.
He also organizes regular spiritual meeting events, video conferences, and retreat gatherings dedicated to Non-Duality, and these events are held in the UK, Europe, and the US.
In this conversation we talked about:
- How To Stop Identifying With Our Thoughts, Feelings, and Emotions
- How To Identify Our True Nature and To Get A Better Understanding Of Yourself
- How Can You Be The Best Version Of Yourself And Make The Highest And Biggest Contribution In The World
- How We May Find Lasting Peace And Happiness?
- What Is The Nature Of Reality And Our Relationship To It
- How Should We Live In The World
Time Stamps:
- 00:00 - Introduction
- 01:54 - How Would Rupert Describe Spirituality And Its Role? Why Is It Important?
- 04:56 - Three Core Questions Our Society Are Looking For Answers
- 07:45 - How Do Rupert See The World In This Moment? What's The Next Step Of Evolution For Mankind?
- 13:00 - What Is Non-duality? How To Find Lasting Peace And Happiness?
- 20:32 - We are Oneness - Rupert Explains How We All Are One
- 24:07 - Experiment! What Are Some Practices People Can Start Doing To Bring Awareness Of Ourselves
- 31:39 - The Power Identifying Our True Nature And Understanding Of Yourselves
- 38:08 - Understanding of Who We Truly Are Releases Us From Suffering
- 41:55 - What Is The Process Of Creation? What Is Our Power As Creators?
- 49:45 - What Is Real Creativity?
- 53:56 - How To Free Ourselves By Understanding The True Self
- 57:14 - Conclusion - How And Where Can People Learn More About Rupert Spira And His Teachings
Resources:
- YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/rupertspira
- Website - rupertspira.com
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/RupertSpira
About the guest:
Patrick is a successful startup entrepreneur, CEO of PHP Agency, Inc., emerging author, and Creator of Valuetainment on Youtube. As a natural critical thinker, Patrick takes complex leadership, management, and entrepreneurial ideas and converts them into simple life lessons for today's and tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
Patrick is passionate about shaping the next generation of leaders by teaching thought-provoking perspectives on entrepreneurship and disrupting the traditional approach to a career.
Time Stamps:
- 00:00 - Introduction
- 02:00 - What are the problems that Patrick is currently facing
- 03:56 - How to figure out your next moves
- 08:57 - What are some growth tactics for good times and bad
- 12:38 - How to build the right team in your company
- 19:10 - Why is trust so important in growing fast
- 22:40 - How is Patrick handling high-pressure environments
- 25:23 - Patrick’s message to the world
Resources:
Pre-Order “Your Next Five Moves” here: https://yournextfivemoves.com/
This book comes from the creator of Valuetainment, the #1 YouTube channel for entrepreneurs. It’s a practical and effective guide for thinking more clearly and achieving your most audacious business goals.
Both successful entrepreneurs and chess grandmasters have the vision to look at the pieces in front of them and anticipate their next five moves. In this book, Patrick Bet-David translates this skill into a valuation methodology that applies to high performers at all levels of business. Whether you feel like you’ve hit a wall, lost your fire, or are looking for innovative strategies to take your business to the next level, Your Next Five Moves has the answers.
About the Guest:
Beniamin Mincu is a tech entrepreneur, particularly focused on Blockchain Technology and Artificial Intelligence. He is the founder & CEO of Elrond.com, where he spends most of his time.
He worked at NEM as part of their founding core team, which is a blockchain technology that delivers a world-class platform for the management of almost any kind of as.
In this conversation we talked about:
- The impact of having access to basic financial infrastructure
- What is the promise of Elrond / Decentralized Finance
- How is Elrond different? What is Maiar, the cash app on the blockchain?
- How Elrond was built & how an effective team works together to make such great progress.
Time Stamps:
- 00:00 - Introduction
- 02:18 - What is Beniam Mincu’s Mission
- 06:12 - The Importance of The Financial System in The World
- 11:37 - The Impact of Having Access to Basic Financial Infrastructure
- 18:58 - What is Elrond and How is Different
- 22:59 - What is the Performance Criteria for Elrond Transactions
- 28:27 - What is the Innovation that Allows doing 10,000 Transactions per Second
- 35:08 - What is Maiar - the Cash App on Blockchain
- 38:40 - How Romania Would Look Like if it Would Run on Elrond
- 45:48 - What are Beniamin's Thoughts on GameStop / Robinhood Situation
- 48:15 - What are Some other Top Fundamental Problems That Blockchain Could Solve
- 52:12 - What is the Differentiator Factor That Allowed to Make Great Progress so Fast
- 57:22 - What Was the Initial Founding Team
- 59:22 - How Can People Contribute
Resources:
- Twitter - https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/beniaminmincu/
- Website - https://elrond.com/
About the Guest:
Bob has been an innovator and building things for more than 40 years. He has worked with people like W. Edwards Deming, Dr. Genichi Taguchi, and Prof. Clayton Christensen, Jason Fried & Ryan Singer. He is one of the principal architects of the Jobs-To-Be-Done theory. Bob has continued to develop, advance, and apply the innovation framework to everyday business challenges in a wide range of industries. He has dedicated his life to developing products and services that help people make progress in their life.
Bob has developed & launched over 3,500 products and sold everything from design services, software, and houses to consumer electronics, and investment services. He’s an adjunct lecturer at Kellogg School at Northwestern University, lectures on innovation at Harvard and MIT, and enjoys mentoring at incubators.
Show Notes
- What “Jobs-To-Be-Done” Is?
- What Demand-Side Selling Is?
- How To Be a Better Consumer?
Time Stamps:
- 00:00 - Introduction
- 02:42 - What allowed Bob to see the world from a different perspective
- 05:18 - What was the motivation behind writing his book
- 10:02 - What are the feeling and the theme of the book
- 13:08 - Supply-side selling vs demand-side selling - the Casper story
- 16:28 - Flip the way people think of sales - real selling feels like helping
- 19:33 - How to help people in their buying process
- 24:08 - The timeline for progress
- 27:34 - What causes people to buy?
- 28:59 - Types of motivations and the four forces of making progress
- 31:55 - How to sell from the buyer's perspective
- 36:16 - How to create demand in people
- 40:34 - What people think about Bob’s Moesta book
Resources:
- Book: http://amzn.to/3q0fswG
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/bmoesta
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobmoesta/
About the Guest:
Ivan Smolnikov is the founder of Smartcat (2016), which spun out of ABBYY. Smartcat’s mission is to make translations better for everyone. The platform connects linguists, companies, and language service providers (LSPs) across the globe to streamline the translation of any content into every language on demand. You can use our platform to build and manage translation teams and get your translation management automated like an autopilot.
As of September 2020, the platform has more than 350,000 freelancers in its marketplace and provides an “app store” that allows users to integrate their Smartcat account with third-party tools.
Show Notes
- What is Smartcat and how it revolutionized the translation industry
- How did Smartcat solve the chicken and egg problem that the marketplace faces
- What is a vertical market network and how is it different from a normal marketplace
- Why vertical market network is the future of service marketplaces
- How Smartcat provides 10x better services in benefits and cost for everyone using it
Time Stamps:
- 00:00 - Who Is Ivan Smolnikov And How Did He Get Into The Entrepreneurial Field
- 05:05 - What Is Smartcat And How Did The Idea Come Up
- 10:55 - Main Reason For Separation From Abbyy
- 19:45 - What A Vertical Market Network Is
- 24:48 - Why Many B2B Service Marketplaces Fail
- 26:13 - What Makes A Successful Service Marketplace
- 36:29 - What It Will Be The Future Of Service Marketplaces
- 42:44 - How Smartcat Maintain Freelancers Happy
- 47:48 - What Are The Next Exciting Steps In The Future Of Service Marketplaces
- 53:00 - Learn More About Ivan Smolnikov
Resources:
- Ivan Smolnikov Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivan-smolnikov/
- Smartcat: https://www.smartcat.com/
- Vertical Market Networks (Medium Article): https://ivan-s.medium.com/the-next-service-marketplace-wave-vertical-market-networks-615307acbe9f
- About guest:
Keneth Stanley is one of the founding members at Uber AI Labs and a Charles Millican Professor of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of "Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective", a book that seeks that offers an analysis of something fundamental in our culture: Objectives, they're everywhere, and nobody questions them, but this book does, and possibly offers a useful alternative(s).
His research goes from introducing novelty search, an algorithm that has no defined objective; instead, it simply searches for novel behaviors, to Evolutionary Complexity and many others. You can learn more about him on his Scholar and University Profile page that will be attached in the notes below, including with a link to the book.
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Timestamps and main topics:
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00:00 - 04:29 - Introduction to Kenneth Stanley
- 04:30 - 06:45 - What is Novelty Search
- 06:46 - 11:28 - Why the More Attached You Are Towards The Goal, The More Likely You Will Deceive Yourself
- 11:32 - 16:16 - Most of The Problems In Life Are Not Direct Lines From Point A to Point B
- 16:17 - 24:55 - How Revolutionary Inventions Were Created
- 25:08 - 35:17 - You Don’t Need To Have An Objective or Explanation For What You’re Doing
- 35:18 - 45:25 - How a Search Process Should be Performed When The Goal Is to Discover Something Great
- 45:36 - 58:10 - Evolution Is Not Trying To Do Anything Specific. It's A Fully Open-ended Process
- 58:10 - 1:00:00 - Carl Jung Idea of Circumambulation of The Self As Curiosity Towards Maximum Development
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1:01:00 - 1:03:23 - Kenneth Message To The World
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Resources:
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/kenneth0stanley?lang=en
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenneth-stanley-3a159b/
- Book: https://amzn.to/3nFH7mf
- Scholar and University Profile: https://www.cs.ucf.edu/~kstanley/
- About guest:
Alexander Laszlo, PhD, is a polycultural systems scientist, residing in Argentina. His research and work has delivered outstanding contributions in the fields of leadership, systemic innovation, and sustainability.
Laszlo was the 57th President of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS), known for his work on systems theories and "education ecosystems". He, furthermore, is the President of the Board of Directors of the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (BCSSS),based in Vienna, Austria. He also functions as the Director of Development at the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research (L-INPR), which is based in Lucca, Italy.
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Timestamps and main topics:
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00:00 - How Would Alexander Define the Work That he Does
- 04:45 - What Does It Mean To Be Danced
- 09:12 - How To Get In Syntony With Your Environment
- 20:19 - From Where You Should Start To Get In Harmony In Life
- 25:33 - How to Understand and Develop Syntony
- 30:45 - What it Means To Be A Powerful Human Being
- 39:40 - Allowing Energy To Flow Through You
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44:17 - Alexander's Message To The World
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Find Alexander:
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexanderlaszlo/
- Alexander Institute: https://laszloinstitute.com/
- Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science: https://www.bcsss.org/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Laszlo_(scientist)
Enjoy our new series of Superhuman – The New Normal where we challenge the status quo. Our first quest is Wim Hof, known as the Ice Man but so much more than that. The Wim Hof Method is composed of breathing techniques, ice bath, cold therapy, and techniques that can regulate your immune system and even your autonomic nervous system generating natural healing.
Your host, Catalin Matei welcomes you to charge yourself and be part of the new wave of superhumans where Wim Hof is a powerful role-model.
Extraordinary people, superhuman people are not out of the ordinary, they are a glimpse into the new normal. Natural abilities, natural healing powers are inside us, unexplored, not educated, letting us be a sheep in the crowd. Wim Hof comes and shows the opposite and involves science and scientists to test him and see that the new normal is not that far away. Anyone practicing the Wim Hof Method, any of them will see changes and can experiment on its own.
It’s time to create your reality. The invisible enemy such as Covid19 creating such a disaster in the world, the new COVID crisis that disrupted everything is a testament that it’s time to change the paradigm and start to transcend to a new normal, the future of humanity where we can be healthy and connected with nature.
As Wim Hof says it’s time to live from the heart because there is strength, natural healing, and happiness. We need to gain control over our happiness, health, and strength.
WE are part of nature. We are one. We can boost our immune system and become superhuman. Heal yourself in and out. Don’t worry. You have more power inside than you think.
This new documentary series is dedicated to you – the Superhuman, man or woman, who wants to surpass this mediocre reality where your strength is undermined and controlled by others.
It’s enough! You are not powerless. You are a Superhuman – the New Normal. With best wishes, Catalin Matei
TimeStamps:
- 00:00 - Introduction
- 01:29 - Wim Hof - The SuperHuman
- 05:43 - Matthijs Kox Experiment
- 12:44 - SuperHuman Abilities Are The New Normal
- 16:44 - How To Take Control Over The Uncontrollable
- 23:02 - Why The World Is Upside Down And Who’s The Real Enemy
- 27:15 - The Roadblock That's Keeping You Away From The Life You Want
- 29:40 - How To Regulate Your Mood
- 35:59 - How To Transcend Your Current Situation And Find Your Own Path
- 43:23 - Wim Hof’s Special Message To The World
- 46:50 - It’s Your Moment To Take Control Of Your Life
Wim Hof Links:
- Free Mini-Course (EXPERIENCE THE INCREDIBLE EFFECTS OF THE WIM HOF METHOD): https://www.wimhofmethod.com/free-mini-class
- Free Wim Hof Method App: https://www.wimhofmethod.com/wim-hof-method-mobile-app
- Wim Hof Method - Main website: https://www.wimhofmethod.com/
Today's guest, Dr. Yaneer Bar-Yam is president of the New England Complex Systems Institute. He's a data scientist who studies pandemics and is an expert in complex systems science that are solving problems in healthcare, education, systems engineering, international development, and ethnic conflict.
Time stamps:
- 00:01 - Introduction
- 01:40 - What Is The Current State Of The World
- 04:50 - What Are Effects Of The Current Problems On Us
- 05:59 - What Are The Biggest Problems That Understanding Complex Systems Can Help Us
- 12:00 - How Complex Problems Look Like And How Can We Solve Them
- 22:44 - What You Need To Change If You Want To Prosper
- 25:19 - The Science Behind Coronavirus Spreading
- 31:41 - Why Coronavirus Spread So Easily And How To Stop It
- 33:53 - What Is The Application Of Complex Systems
- 36:24 - How Can We Understand Complex Systems
- 40:42 - What Is The Cause Of Ethnic Violence
- 47:25 - What are Yaneer Bar-Yam next projects
- 50:12 - How Can People Participate
Dr. Yaneer's Books and Links:
- https://grouper-chiton-2853.squarespace.com/dynamics-of-complex-systems
- https://grouper-chiton-2853.squarespace.com/making-things-work
- https://necsi.edu/teams-a-manifesto
- http://bit.ly/complexityrising
Today's guest, Rishad Tobbacowala is the author of “Restoring the Soul of Business: Staying Human in the Age of Data” and a Senior Adviser to the Publicis Groupe, the world’s third-largest communication firm with 80,000 employees serving most recently as its Chief Growth Officer and Chief Strategist.
He was named by BusinessWeek as one of the top business leaders for his pioneering innovation and TIME magazine dubbed him one of five “Marketing Innovators"
Rishad has a BS in Mathematics from the University of Bombay and an MBA in Marketing and Finance from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.
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Timestamps and main topics:
- 00:35 - 02:49 - Introduction to Rishad Tobaccowala
- 02:50 - 05:30 - The thesis of the book
- 05:31 - 11:10 - Why data is necessary for success, but it is not sufficient to succeed
- 11:11 - 12:52 - How do you actually get meaning from the math
- 12:53 - 14:57 - Why data is not the way forward
- 14:57 - 17:40 - Why is important to talk about the Turd on the Table
- 17:41 - 28:47 - Why change is hard and how incentives work as a way to change people
- 28:50 - 32:42 - How to update your mental operating system
- 32:44 - 38:06 - The future does not fit in the containers of the past
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Resources:
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- Website: https://rishadtobaccowala.com/
- Book: https://amzn.to/3idePvx
Today's guest, Jim McKelvey is a serial entrepreneur, engineer, and glassblower, the co-founder of Square, a $35 billion company that changed the way businesses could get paid. McKelvey also founded Invisibly, a project to rewire the economics of online content; LaunchCode, a non-profit that trains people to work in technology; and Third Degree Glass Factory, a publicly accessible glass art studio & education center in St. Louis. He’s the author of “The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time”, in which he shares the story of building Square and beating Amazon, amongst others.
Timestamps and main topics we discuss:
- 00:00 - 04:17 - Introduction to Jim McKelvey
- 04:18 - 11:26 - How Did Jim Decide To Write His Book?
- 11:30 - 15:55 - What Is An Innovation Stack? How to Build an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time
- 16:06 - 23:31 - Real Innovation Doesn't Have a Checklist To Follow
- 23:32 - 27:57 - Finding The Perfect problems That We Have The Courage And Power To Solve
- 27:58 - 31:40 - The Story Of Meeting Jack Dorsey
- 34:20 - 43:40 - What is Jim’s Advice On Starting An Innovative Company
- 43:40 - 49:31 - About him as a person
- 52:55 - 55:02 - Jim’s new ventures
Resources:
- Book: https://www.jimmckelvey.com/books/
- Website: https://www.jimmckelvey.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mckelveyjim/
Today’s Guest Sean Ellis coined the term "Growth Hacking" and is considered the founder of the worldwide Growth Hacking movement. He developed and applied Growth Hacking at companies like Dropbox, Eventbrite, LogMeIn, and Lookout, which led to breakout growth for these companies (all worth billions of dollars today).
Today Sean helps companies around the globe accelerate customer and revenue growth through workshops, keynote presentations, and select advising roles. His work has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, WIRED, Fast Company, Inc.com, TechCrunch, and MSNBC.
Timestamps:
- 2:17 - 4:53 - What is Growth Hacking
- 5:00 - 6:44 - What is the function of a business
- 6:49 - 9:55 - How to build a sustainable business
- 9:58 - 15:20 - Why is it hard for companies to implement the growth hacking strategies
- 15:27 - 21:18 - Can you reorganize the business model of a company?
- 21:20 - 29:02 - What Sean learned from his podcast?
- 29:03 - 31:04 - What does Sean think of companies that could use this Coronavirus trend for growth
- 31:05 - 41:58 - How can we educate people around growth marketing
- 42:00 - 45:58 - On what is Sean currently working on
- 46:10 - 50:33 - What is the team around Sean and what people is he following?
Find Sean Ellis:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanellis/
- Website: https://www.seanellis.me/
- Podcast: https://www.seanellis.me/breakout-growth-podcast.html
- Book: https://amzn.to/3hxLn3b
- Course:https://gopractice.io/
Today's guest, Lomit Patel is the Vice President of Growth at IMVU, responsible for user acquisition, retention, and monetization. Prior to IMVU, Lomit managed growth at early-stage startups including Roku (IPO), TrustedID (acquired by Equifax), Texture (acquired. by Apple), and EarthLink. Lomit is a public speaker, author, advisor, and recognized as a Mobile Hero by Liftoff.
Here you can find the main topics we discussed:
- 10:04 - 21:58 - Introducing the concept of smart marketing
- 21:58 - 32:36 - What are the levels of the marketing autonomy scale?
- 32:36 - 39:34 - What are the opportunities of automation
- 40:29 - 43:22 - How can we make the revolutionary process of marketing faster?
- 44:23 - 47:13 - Can we automate the creative process?
- 47:25 - 52:57 - The biggest challenges and blindspots for people implementing processes like these
- 52:51 - 58:11 - How Lomit envision marketing in 5 years from now
Find Lomit Patel here:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lomitpatel/
Website: https://www.lomitpatel.com/
Book: https://www.amazon.com/Lean-AI-Innovative-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/1492059315
Today’s guest, Benjamin Hardy is an organizational psychologist and bestselling author of “Willpower Doesn’t Work” Book. His blogs have been read by over 100 million people and are featured on Forbes, Fortune, CNBC, and many others. I’m a regular contributor to Inc. and Psychology Today. In 2020, Benjamin will have two books coming out. "Personality Isn’t Permanent" book debunks the myth that personality is innate and unchangeable, and gives you science-backed strategies for becoming the person you want to be. "Who Not How" is a co-authorship with Dan Sullivan, the #1 entrepreneurial coach in the world.
Timestamps and main topics:
0:38 - 4.38 - How did the book come out?
4:38 - 9:35 - What personality truly is and what personality is not?
9:35 - 17:48 - Does personality tests reveal your true personality
18:15 - 21:55 - Can you improve some traits of your personality?
22:48 - 27:12 - Your behavior can shape your personality
27:12 - 39:25 - How trauma can stunt your personality development and how to overcome it
41:25 - 47:00 - From where should we start choosing our goals?
52:00 - 1:00:00 - What authenticity truly is?
- Resources:
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Benjamin website: https://benjaminhardy.com/
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Personality isn't Permanent Book: https://www.amazon.com/Personality-Isnt-Permanent-Self-Limiting-Beliefs-ebook/dp/B07N5H5C4N
About Generation You
Generation You’s purpose is to have multidisciplinary conversations around the big challenges of tomorrow. From education, health, food, climate, technology, and many others - we strive to empower people to tackle these challenges and advance mankind.
Your host, Catalin Matei, is an entrepreneur that's working on ever-more complex problems.
Today's Guest, Scott Young is the author of Wall Street Journal and National best-selling book: "Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career". Scott has been a prolific writer on his blog since 2006 where he writes about learning, productivity, career, habits, and living well.
He is known for documenting learning challenges such as learning a 4-year MIT computer science degree in one year, learning four languages in one year, and learning to draw portraits in 30 days. His work has been featured in TEDx, The New York Times, Lifehacker, Popular Mechanics, and Business Insider.
Here are some of the key concepts discussed in this interview:
- 02:08 - 16:45 - Introduction to the concept of Ultralearning
- 16:45 - 20:29 - How to reignite the joy of learning
- 20:37 - 23:52 - Headline: How to attack your weakest point in the learning process?
- 23:52 - 30:24 - Transfer problems - from theory to practice
- 35:39 - 47:00 - Memorizing vs free recall? Which one is better as an information retrieval process?
- 47:00 - 51:30 - Tip to memorize easily
Find Scott Young:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-h-young-867ab21
Resources from Podcast:
Website: https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/
Course: https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2017/07/24/top-performer-is-now-open-2/
Book: https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/ultralearning/
Resources:
Book: https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/ultralearning/
About Generation You Generation You’s purpose is to have multidisciplinary conversations around the big challenges of tomorrow. From education, health, food, climate, technology, and many others - we strive to empower people to tackle these challenges and advance mankind. Your host, Catalin Matei, is an entrepreneur that's working on ever-more complex problems. Today's guest, Paul Chek is a world-renowned expert in the fields of corrective and high-performance exercise kinesiology, stress management and holistic wellness. For over thirty years, Paul’s unique, integrated approach to treatment and education has changed the lives of many of his clients, his students, and their clients. By treating the body as a whole system and finding the root cause of a problem, Paul has been successful where traditional approaches have consistently failed. Paul is the founder of the CHEK (Corrective Holistic Exercise Kinesiology) Institute, based in California, USA, and the P~P~S Success Mastery Coaching Program. He is the author of a number of successful books on the biomechanics of tennis, golf and others as the well-known book, "How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy!", which is a great all-around book for everyone looking to improve their health. In addition, Paul is a registered Native American Spirit Guide and Medicine Man with the Nemenhah Band (people of the truth) and Native American Traditional Organization (NAC) where he initiates a process of awakening often fulfilling comprehensive healing through sacred ceremony. You can find Paul Check on: Website: https://chekinstitute.com/paul-chek/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/paulchekspage/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paul.chek/?... You can find Catalin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catalinmate... LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catalinma... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/catalinmatei11 Email: catalin@increasemedia.com
About Generation You
Generation You’s purpose is to have multidisciplinary conversations around the big challenges of tomorrow. From education, health, food, climate, technology and many others - we strive to empower people to tackle these challenges and advance mankind. Your host, Catalin Matei, is an entrepreneur that's working on ever-more complex problems.
Today's guest, Nir Eyal is an Israeli-born American author, lecturer and investor known for his bestselling book, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and now author Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, which was released a couple of months ago and can be acquired online and in-stores. He sold two technology companies since 2003 and now help teams design more engaging products. He has taught the "Using Neuroscience to Influence Human Behavior" course as a Lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and has been featured/contributed to TechCrunch, Business Insider, and Psychology Today.
Here you can see timestamps and topics that were discussed:
14:21 - What is the solution to procrastination
20:36 - What succesfull people do to mantain their focus
31:05 - Why feeling guilty is actually good
33:38 - The best thing you can do when facing problems
35:22 - How to get in the state of doing things that you hate
Link to the book:https://www.nirandfar.com/indistractable/
Link to the workbook: https://www.nirandfar.com/subscribe-behavior-change/
You can find Nir Eyal on:
Website: https://www.nirandfar.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nirandfar/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neyal99/?hl=ro
You can find Catalin on:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catalinmatei1/?hl=ro YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs4fhe-lH_XfsWcn-ry7ZnA/videos
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catalinmatei1/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/catalinmatei11
Email: catalin@increasemedia.com
You can find the video interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/g71bvL97eJE
John Vervaeke, Ph.D. is an award-winning lecturer at the University of Toronto in the departments of psychology, cognitive science, and Buddhist psychology.
In our interview, he shared a few fundamental lessons that are going to help you understand the role of meaning in our lives and what are some of the most common practices in order to develop it.
Here are some of the key concepts discussed in this interview:
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What's the definition of meaning and how it relates to our day to day activities
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The correlation between addictions and a lack of meaning
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What are some of the common practices that one can do in order to develop more meaning in their life
We had a very interesting conversation. Hope you enjoy it!
Find John:
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/johnvervaeke
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/
Catalin Matei is a young Entrepreneur and marketer. Ex-Professional Dancer for 9 years now turned Entrepreneur, Catalin loves to share his journey and the things that worked for him along his trip of building businesses, growing, learning, failing, succeeding and so much more.
He believes that in life mastery of your craft and the people around you are the most important things in the world, and that's what this channel is going to be about.
Find Catalin:
Facebook: http://facebook.com/iscatalin
Twitter: http://twitter.com/atcatalinmatei
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/catalinmatei1
LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catalinmatei1/
Snapchat: catalinmatei
Robert Kiyosaki is the best-selling author of the book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad", one of the most well-known books in the sphere of personal development. In our interview, he shared a few fundamental lessons that are going to help you in growing your financial situation. Here are some of the key concepts discussed in this interview: 1. "We're going down. Crashes make the rich, richer." Learn more about the potential financial crisis and what one can do about it 2. "You must understand taxes; the rich don't pay taxes." If you're looking to build your wealth, chances are you are in some type of debt (student debt, etc), so one of the fundamental skills you need is a good accounting understanding. 3. "We're going down. Crashes make the rich, richer." Learn more about how to profit in the down market. 4. Robert Kiyosaki's message to young people: "Challenge what you've been taught." 5. "Most people should be employees". It's an interesting argument since being an "entrepreneur" requires (like any other action) a price. What is the price of working for yourself and are people willing to pay that price? We had a very interesting conversation. Hope you enjoy it! I'm also doing a GIVEAWAY with this interview. So just watch the interview, post your favorite takeaway from it on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn, tagging Robert and me. We're going to pick 10 random answers and give away Robert's new book, "Fake" Find Robert: https://www.richdad.com https://www.facebook.com/RobertKiyosaki/ https://www.instagram.com/therealkiyosaki/ Resources: Fake - https://www.richdad.com/fake-money #robertkiyosaki #fake -
A conversation about the Hows, Whens, and Whys of Sales with Aaron Ross, the #1 best-selling author of "Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into A Sales Machine With The $100 Million Best Practices Of Salesforce.com". If you are an owner of a small business or intend to become one, this episode will provide you with plenty of powerful insights.
Find Aaron:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronross/
https://predictablerevenue.com/
Resources:
4 Phases Of Hiring A First Sales Team we've talked about on the podcast.
Tune in and enjoy this conversation about selling strategies, entrepreneurship & advice for young entrepreneurs. Danny has such a fantastic drive and energy.
Danny Nissan is a 22-year-old entrepreneur from New York. He owns a business called Glassware Destination DBA Sarona, that customers cut short to Sarona. Right now, Danny is traveling all over America to attend trade shows or meet with potential customers in order to expand the business.
Find Danny here:
https://www.instagram.com/dn1ssan13/
A conversation with Sujan Patel on B2B Marketing, Branding & Business, and specific strategy examples. He is the co-founder of Web Profits, a marketing agency that helps companies fuel their businesses.
Also, head's up!
GIVEAWAY: Sujan was kind enough to offer 5 books for free. All you have to do is follow him on Social Media and leave a review of the podcast. To redeem your free copy, go to https://www.growthmanifesto.com/buy-now/ and use the podcast5 promotional code.
Find more about Sujan here:
You can find more about Sujan here:
https://sujanpatel.com/
Salim Ismail is the best-selling author of Exponential Organizations and also the Founding Executive Director of Singularity University whose mission is to "educate, inspire and empower a new generation of leaders to apply exponential technologies to address humanity's grand challenges."
I'm also doing a GIVEAWAY with this podcast.
So just listen to the podcast, post your favorite takeaway from it on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn, tagging me and Salim. We're going to peek the best three takeaways and give away a signed copy of Salim's book, Exponential Organizations.
A.J. Jacobs is an author and a human guinea pig. He has written four New York Times bestsellers, which are a combination of memoir, science, humor and a dash of self-help.
He recently decided to thank every single person involved in producing his morning cup of coffee and he wrote a book about it. It's called Thanks A Thousand and you can order it here:
https://thanksathousandbook.com/
Mark Metry went from building one of the most successful Minecraft servers at age 15 to failing and now to building one of the biggest podcasts in the world, Humans 2.0. He is an inspiration.
Here's where you can find more about Mark:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-metry/
https://www.markmetry.com/
Meet Alan Smithson. He lives in the future.
Alan is currently the Co-Founder and CEO of MetaVRse, North America’s Leading Virtual & Augmented Reality Consultancy platforms for Fortune 100 companies across different industries, and he's one of the industry's thought leaders on the virtual reality subject.
Here's where you can find him:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alansmithson/
Mastering both marketing and comedy, say hello to my special guest, David Vance!
Find out more about him: https://www.davevance.co/
He practiced 4-5 years medicine he also took his Ph.D., then returned to Romania in order to work in the transport industry. Now he is now the president of Eurolines Group, TUI Travel Center and has over 700 employees.
Meet Jordan Menard. He's a Media Buyer, for consulting.com. We talked about a lot of interesting topics, related to marketing, Facebook Ads & so much more.
Tune in and enjoy.
Here's where you can find Jordan:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordanmenard1/
https://www.consulting.com/
To mark his 10 years of professional experience in credit risk management, Iancu Guda wrote the book “Why do companies fail? 10 mistakes and 100 solutions, based on the analysis of the financial statements of 100,000 companies that entered insolvency.
Find Iancu here:
https://iancuguda.ro/
Evan Burfield, author of Regulatory Hacking: A Playbook for Startups,works with startups around the world tackling challenges in different areas.
Here's where you can find Evan:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eburfield/
http://www.evanburfield.com/
Doug Tatum is a startup legend and the author of No Man’s Land: Where Growing Companies Fail. (You can get the book from Amazon)
Here's where you can find Doug:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dougtatum/
https://www.newportboardgroup.com/
Andy Raskin is a strategic messaging & positioning expert, helping leaders tell strategic stories.
Here's where you can find him:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyraskin/
https://medium.com/@raskin
http://andyraskin.com/
Pat Flynn is an entrepreneur, blogger, and podcaster best known for his blog and podcast Smart Passive Income, where he conducts income experiments and shares the results.
Josh Silverman ran Design Operations for Twitter’s product design team and has been founding and scaling design businesses for over 20 years.
Brad Martineau is the Co-Founder and CEO of SixthDivision, a company focused on helping businesses with automation and systems for ideas implementation.
Jay Olson is a Montreal magician turned into a doctoral researcher in Psychiatry at McGill University, where he researched work fatigue and reducing jet lag. He hasn't been jet lagged since.
David Cancel is a 5x founder and 2x CEO, currently, he’s co-founder and CEO of Drift, where he’s helping marketers transform their relationships with customers to drive retention & growth.
Cy Wakeman is an international keynote speaker, business consultant and New York Times bestselling author. Her books Reality-Based Leadership, Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace and No Ego teaches people how to turn excuses into results and transform unhappy employees into accountable, successful members of the workforce.
Manu (Swish) Goswami, 20, has built a multi-hyphenate career. He is a serial tech entrepreneur, LinkedIn Youth Editor, TEDx speaker, Fortune 500 consultant, venture capitalist, and UN Youth Ambassador.
Mark Dorfman is biomimicry chemist, learning from and then emulating nature’s forms, processes, and ecosystems to create more sustainable designs.
Massimo Chieruzzi is a journalist, speaker, and CEO of AdEspresso, a self-service tool to help Small and Medium Businesses succeed with Facebook Advertising.
Neil Patel, top influencers on the web, he created one of the 100 most brilliant companies in the world, helps companies like Amazon, NBC, GM, HP, and Viacom grow their revenue.
Bill Tai is a venture capitalist and a kite-surfing fanatic who combines the two whenever possible.
Steve Bartlett, a British entrepreneur, public speaker and the CEO of influencer marketing agency Social Chain, about his story of building a great social media agency as well as talking about social media addiction and how to acquire the right experience.
Bob Proctor about his incredible story and mission, the power of mindset and how to win at life.
Debbie Millman is also an author, educator, brand strategist and host of the podcast Design Matters. As the founder and host of Design Matters, the first and longest running podcast about design.