They say, if you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
The idea being that we only get better when we surround ourselves with people who are brighter,
more experienced, or more talented than we are.
My name is John Dick, and I'm never, ever in the wrong room.
At my company, Civic Science, the brightest minds in the world are studying people, culture,
and markets in revolutionary new ways, providing glimpses into a future you've never seen before.
Me?
I drank my way through a party school in college and only became an entrepreneur
because I couldn't get a real job doing anything else.
I owe everything to a long list of colleagues, mentors,
and friends who made me better, or at least made me look better.
So I started a podcast to introduce you to some of the brilliant people I've encountered along the way.
You'll meet visionaries in business, technology, media, entertainment, even politics.
They'll tell us how they see the future and how they're making it happen.
But we'll also keep it real.
You don't go through life with the last name Dick without learning how to laugh at yourself.
So we'll ask these incredibly successful people to share some of their most embarrassing stories,
their dumbest mistakes, and how they made them into the people they are today.
And we'll do all of that with data at the center of everything.
Because the world has never been in greater need of truth, and you can only get there with honest,