Guy Kawasaki, Chief Evangelist at Canva and author known for his insights into technology and entrepreneurship, discusses the journey to becoming remarkable. He emphasizes growth, grit, and grace as essential components of success. Kawasaki shares his thoughts on lifelong learning and encourages exploring interests rather than fixating on a single passion. He also addresses the importance of addressing user pain in business innovation and highlights overcoming imposter syndrome while setting meaningful goals. This engaging conversation inspires listeners to embrace vulnerability and strive for a positive impact.
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Remarkableness Through Action
Remarkable people focus on making a difference, not on achieving fame.
Their actions inspire others to see them as remarkable.
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Framework for Remarkableness
Embrace growth, grit, and grace to become remarkable.
These principles represent personal development, hard work, and giving back.
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Growth Mindset
Adopt a growth mindset, believing you can always learn and improve.
Even prodigies work hard; talent alone isn't enough.
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Remarkable people walk among us. Some of us may be remarkable ourselves. But none of us start out remarkable. The journey to becoming a person that makes a difference in the world is never easy, as with any story that includes a hero, there are struggles, tests and moments of self-doubt. Remarkable people overcome these feats, and when they are in a position to, they give back. But what kind of mindset do these people have, how do they make decisions? What keeps them on their path towards becoming remarkable.
Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva and the creator of Guy Kawasaki’s Remarkable People podcast. He is an executive fellow of the Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley), and adjunct professor of the University of New South Wales. He was the chief evangelist of Apple and a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation. He has written Wise Guy, The Art of the Start 2.0, The Art of Social Media, Enchantment, and eleven other books. Kawasaki has a BA from Stanford University, an MBA from UCLA, and an honorary doctorate from Babson College.
In the episode, Richie and Guy explore the concept of being remarkable, growth, grit and grace, the importance of experiential learning, imposter syndrome, finding your passion, how to network and find remarkable people, dealing with failure, management and encouraging growth, work-life balance, measuring success through benevolent impact and much more.
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