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Success: what does it look like in the Instagram age?
Season 1, Ep. 3
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On this week's episode, we ask what does success look like in the Instagram age?
Anna shares her story about the early days of what is now her very successful newsletter, The Professional Freelancer. She talks about that moment when she almost gave up but tells us why she didn’t.
We try to get to grips with why humans have always had the desire to be famous and how in modern culture success appears to happen overnight. We then ask how this drive for external validation in our society impacts normal working environments.
In the last segment of the show, we share how we’ve redefined success so we hope you too can think about what success really means to you in today’s working world.
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Links
- Have we hit peak podcast? By Jennifer Miller in The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/style/why-are-there-so-many-podcasts.html
- Arianna Huffington’s The Iceberg Illusion on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz_EHwyBkf9/
- Why The Rise Of 'Work Porn' Is Making Us Miserable, by Vicky Spratt in Grazia: https://graziadaily.co.uk/life/real-life/work-influencers-instagram
- On the Origin of Celebrity, by Robert Sapolsky in Nautilus: http://nautil.us/issue/5/fame/on-the-origin-of-celebrity
- The Fame Motive by Benedict Carey in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/22/health/psychology/22fame.html
- You Accomplished Something Great. So Now What? AC Shilton in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/smarter-living/you-accomplished-something-great-so-now-what.html
- Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment by Tal Ben-Shahar
- Getting Fired At 29 Was The Best Thing To Happen To Me by Tiffany Philippou in Refinery29: https://www.refinery29.com/amp/en-gb/2019/07/237705/getting-fired-how-to-get-another-job
- A kinder, gentler definition of success, TED talk about Alain de Botton: https://www.ted.com/talks/alain_de_botton_a_kinder_gentler_philosophy_of_success
- Phoebe Waller-Bridge on Elizabeth Day’s How To Fail podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s5-ep2-how-to-fail-fleabag-is-back/id1407451189?i=1000443506972
- Reid Hoffman Masters of Scale podcast, Make Everyone A Hero episode: https://mastersofscale.com/reid-hoffman-make-everyone-a-hero/
- The Professional Freelancer, Anna’s newsletter on freelancing: https://theprofessionalfreelancer.substack.com/
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