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Joe Wehbe
There's a Da Vinci in everyone, but it has been locked away. Daily short episodes breaking down the truth behind learning, education and philosophy to unlock those Doors and bring it out.
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Jan 1, 2022 • 10min
#179: Is There A Da Vinci In Everyone? A Reflection On The Podcast
Is there a Da Vinci in everyone?
We are naturally creative and multi-potentialite
This has been locked — gift of Da Vinci’s time in Florence was broad self-expression. Da Vinci today would have been an outcast
Somewhat ‘impulsive’ and ‘unproductive’
The real pursuit is wisdom
Creative contribution comes from freedom
Common pitfalls
Overcome by ego and seek status
Zoom in on our goals and lose perspective
Come from a place of calm, and my philosophy for life comes from here. There is no acceptable state for putting off living now, if we love the process.
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Dec 31, 2021 • 7min
#178: From Viktor Frankl To Jim Collins — The 5 Lines of Wisdom That Have Most Influenced Me
Happy New Year! To celebrate the start of 2022, I wanted to kick off with a few special types of episodes.
Top 5 Lines of Wisdom that have influenced me:
5 — 'You might want to think about whether you want a life to envy or a life to admire.' — Jim Collins
4 — Viktor Frankl on self transcendence “The more one forgets himself--by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love--the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself. What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it. In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.”
3 — Buckminster Fuller "the search for the principles governing the universe and help advance the evolution of humanity in accordance with them ... finding ways of doing more with less to the end that all people everywhere can have more and more"
2 — ‘Focus on what you have, you'll gain what you lack. Focus on what you lack, you'll lose what you have’ — Greg McKeown
1 — ‘I only do what only I can do’ — Jack Delosa
BONUS
Some men see things as they are and ask, ""Why?"" I dream things that never were and ask, ""Why not?"" — George Bernard Shaw

Dec 30, 2021 • 8min
#177: The Campus, Not The Degree — Focus On The People & Ecosystem
Notes:
The lesson I learnt from Scott McKeon
Where to go to meet future co-founders and business partners
How to treat someone else's organisation as your own 'launchpad' or opportunity-rich environment
Most people struggle to understand these concepts around journeying
Two questions around, where are you finding the people? And, how can the things you're doing now act as an ecosystem?
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Dec 29, 2021 • 8min
#176: How To Crush A Generation Of Young Talent
Chris Dixon wrote a piece around how the next big thing will look like a toy. Think about the internet, cryptocurrencies, gaming, TikTok, Youtube used to be cat videos
This is what we normally do. In the movies like Bend It Like Beckham the conservative parent can't wrap their head around the changes in the next generation. From their worldview, it makes no sense, they are being irresponsible with their lives
The Fourth Turning by Neil Howe and William Strauss unpacks the four different generational archetypes we cycle through, each lasts about 20 years meaning the four turnings reset every 80 years or so.
We can crush the generation by insisting they jump through old hoops or stay with what fits with the cultural narrative
HIgh Jump Metaphor
In episode 168, we talked about how education caters least towards these people, the young who drive innovation
Lesson from yesterday is, university is not for everyone. For some people, it will slow them down, the most proactive, artistic and entrepreneurial
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Dec 28, 2021 • 10min
#175: Six Reasons For Going To University (Best To Worst)
Six Common Use Cases:
Campus Experience
Social Experience
Qualifies for a job
Prestigious
Everyone else does
You have to do it (Adrian Caputo)
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Dec 27, 2021 • 6min
#174: Are We Sending The Wrong People To University?
Examples of the capabilities of incredible young people in this day and age... if they can already do this, why do they need to go to university?
Examples of teenage entrepreneurs referenced in this show.
Lexy McDonald, HerHelp
Nick Mihailou, Appstra
Kai Lovel
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Dec 26, 2021 • 4min
#173: Are You On The Education Conveyor Belt?
My decision to go to university:
I'm interested in film but scared of becoming a failure, ending up with nothing, seemed risky
University degree would give me a sense of progress regardless
Even though I didn't like it, I enjoyed it more than holiday time because at least I was doing something, engaged in something
Education Conveyor Belt:
Grade 1, 2, 3, 4, you’re given the stages
Everyone’s following everyone else
Alan Watts: Life Is Not A Journey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBpaUICxEhk
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Dec 25, 2021 • 6min
#172: Our Problematic Culture Around Going To University
'He already had a job working for a bank in software development and in, I think, security as well. And he knew everything. It was almost, it was so pointless because he had done that.'
A crucial and controversial topic today as the With Joe Wehbe Podcast continues with another daily episode.
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Dec 24, 2021 • 5min
#171: Education Cannot Be A Mass Product — It Must Be Individualised
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
The conversation continues on another daily episode of the With Joe Wehbe Podcast!
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Dec 23, 2021 • 7min
#170: BONUS Preparing For The Exponential Career & The Brains Trust
Update on the Constant Student
Exponential Career — Alternative as the current infrastructure is built for linear pathways, leaves things somewhat open
Check it out at https://www.constantstudent.com.au/
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