Bruce Daisley - How 'Cartoon Boy' finds the fast lane

Mar 20, 2019

Ask episode

Chapters

Transcript

Episode notes

We wished we'd had longer with Bruce. He's a brilliant demonstration of what you can achieve if you truly understand your strengths. He seems very able in many areas but what sets him apart is his ability to understand and therefore reach his audience. He seems to always find a way to stand out from the crowd and when he doesn't, he persists. Bruce is a people person through and through. We talked about:

His frustration with Greenpeace*
Working hard but not compromising on his 8 hours sleep.
Why he shies away from telling people he works at Twitter when on holiday
The different hierarchies of Birmingham and London
His period working for Capital Radio, the Fawlty Towers of media
The cultural power of 'companions at love'
The benefits of being a trouble-maker
Discovering he was the third poorest kid at school
Studying Economics because he wanted to solve injustice*
Why Bruce's next job will be an eco-warrior
How his mum encouraged him to work hard at school
His prolific letter writing
The influence comics played in his career
His ability to get noticed*
His super-skill of persistence
How Bruce backs himself
How Bruce always looks for the fast lane
How to go from 'bottom of the class' to 'top of the class'
Bruce's time at YouTube and his approach to promoting YouTube in the early days
How he's unafraid of rejection
'The Joy of Work' becoming Sunday Times No. 1 best seller and how it was not an accident
How the tyranny of numbers affects your relationship
How comparison can lead to unhappiness
How stress has become the operating system of modern-day work
The increasing importance of creativity versus Our increasing inability to be creative
How the science of open plan offices reduces face to face communication and increases emails
Why he looks to create a climate rather than direct
The problem with appropriating US norms
His interest in the compelling science of laughter and how it can save your life
How our fear of being judged leads us to become more agreeable and less authentic
The importance of finding the kid within

* We wonder what would happen if these things could come together?

https://twitter.com/brucedaisley

https://twitter.com/eatsleepwkrpt
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/eat-sleep-work-repeat/id1190000968?mt=2