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Managing Uncertainty and Continually Doing the Best Work of Your Life With Julien Smith
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NYT Bestselling author and CEO of Breather, Julien, returns to the show to talk about managing uncertainty and constantly doing the best work of our lives.
In this episode, hear:
- Detecting patterns
- How technology is a series of Jenga blocks
- Creation with our backs against the wall
- Risk aversion
- Consumption that influences creativity
Quotes
At the end of your life, you better have a lot of scars…You better not leave the world the same way you came into it. It means you didn’t actually encounter the world if you didn’t have any scars. ~ Julien Smith
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