Chris Guillebeau: The Upside of Giving Up

克里斯·吉尔博:放弃的好处

Good Life Project

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2016-04-08

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Finish what you start. Don't be a quitter. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. It's a lesson we all learned from well-intended advice-givers somewhere along the way. It's all about character. Life's hard, things get hard, the people who survive and do great things in business and life are the ones who keep going, no matter what the road throws in our way. But, what if that was wrong? FWhat if the people who do great things are are the ones who aren't afraid to quit a parade of wrong things in the name of making the space needed to see and then do the right ones? What if finishing what you started was only half the story? The other half being the potential benefits? This is what today's GLP Guest Riff is all about, and it comes from World Domination Summit founder and New York Times bestselling author of the new book, Born For This, Chris Guillebeau. Chris delivers some straight-shooting myth-busting about "stick-to-it-iveness," or when it makes sense to keep going and when the best option, both for you and for those you eventually seek to serve, is to just walk away. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • Today's Good Life project, Riff is a.

  • Guest riff from a friend of mine, Chris Guillebeau.

  • You may know him from a series of best selling books as the founder.

  • Of the annual conference.

  • I don't even know if the conference.

  • Or an event or a festival called.

  • World Domination Summit, where thousands of people come from around the world and flock to Portland, Oregon, every summer as the person who literally visited every country in the world.

  • And he's got a new book out called Born for this.

  • And I asked him if he would.

  • Just share a little bit, an idea.

  • Or two around something that's a little bit provocative, and it's the idea of quitting and actually the upside of quitting.

  • So with that said, turning it over to Chris Guillebeau.

  • What's up, good life project?

  • It's Chris Guillebeau, and I'd like to talk to you about the power of giving up, or if at first you don't succeed, give up.

  • And I'm going to do this in the context of speaking a little about the new economy or the changing world of online work and hybrid work that many people have been pursuing over the past decade in particular.

  • But I think it has some greater relevance as well.

  • And speaking of new economy, lately, I've actually been using the phrase new, new economy because there have been a lot of changes and there's been a shift taking place.

  • Just like every social network has a natural lifespan, it kind of rises and then falls.

  • So, too, do many of the mediums that we use, as well as the business strategies that we use.

  • And so in this shift that's taking place, there's a lot of tactics that people have used for a long time that simply don't work, or at least they don't work as well.