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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

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I Got Sick on a New Boat and I Got Lost

After an incident we can choose a narrative that begins to open doors for us. It changes how we see the next challenge and it's sort of worth in the 60s and 70s. The short version of the study, you take a three or four-year-old and you put the marshmallow here and I'm not gonna come back for 10 or 15 minutes. When I come back, if the marshmallow is still here, I'll give you two marshmallows. And this idea that after an incident we could choose a narrative begins to open Doors For Us.

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