Casey Fenton | Founder of CouchSurfing on Building Identity

 “All of us are architects of the games in our lives and games of other people’s lives. We have to make a great game where everybody can win more.”
– Casey Fenton
Today’s guest on the Art of Adventure is the co-founder of CouchSurfing, Casey Fenton. Founded over ten years ago, CouchSurfing was one of the first global communities for travelers and has become a platform for hosts and surfers to review and rate their experiences with each other.
In this episode, Casey shares his insights into building one’s identity. Casey also shares the exact ratio of positive feedback to constructive criticism that you need to maintain for people to be able to hear you. He also talks about how you become the person you need to be in order to achieve the big targets that you set for yourself.
Casey is a deep thinker who starts companies. You’ll love this episode as he shares his biggest lessons from CouchSurfing and weaves his startup experiences, understanding of psychology, and ideas about the labels we put on ourselves into the conversation.
What you’ll learn in this episode:


* How we establish trust between people who don’t know each other
* How Casey acquired his broad knowledge base
* The growth mindset and ego-hacking
* Casey’s Couchsurfing stories
* Casey’s new venture, Upstock
* Insights into building your identity

 Quotes:
“All of us are architects of the games in our lives and games of other people’s lives. We have to make a great game where everybody can win more.” – Casey Fenton
“Be who you want to be, create snowballs and help other people create snowballs for you.” – Casey Fenton
“If we have too much negative feedback, we can’t hear what people say.” – Casey Fenton
“How is it that we are so driven yet uninformed?” – Casey Fenton
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Casey Fenton
CouchSurfing
Upstock