Guy Kawasaki
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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are people who are remarkable at an extreme if some billionaire who ran a hedge fund asked to be on my podcast the answer would be no because i don't give a that you have figured out financial arbitrage and you've made billions of dollars because you have not made the world a better place you've made your world a better place but you haven't made the world a better place
And so I've been dropping all these big names, but I can also drop names of people most of you would never heard of. A high school teacher in Rogue River, Oregon. A guy who is now a respiratory therapist, but he grew up in the projects in Brooklyn and both his parents are crack addicts. I've had Halim Flowers, who's one of the hottest young artists in America today.
You know, he's the next Jean-Michel Basquiat. He was sentenced at 16 to 44 years of prison for being an accomplice to a murder. Six years he got out early, and now he's one of the best artists. You know, most of you have not heard of him. You will hear of him, but he is remarkable. I have another woman who was smuggled across the U.S. border from San Diego as a baby.
She lives in a house with 15 other relatives, and now she's working for Adobe as a middle manager. You know what? I think that's remarkable. On the other hand, you know, it's not like I have hedge fund billionaires, trust fund babies. None of those. They don't qualify.
Well, in a sense, we've been talking about this the whole time, right? Because the book is based on growth, grit, and grace. And that's what I learned from him. I would be hard-pressed to think of somebody who has more grace and graciousness than Jane Goodall. That's what I learned. And... This is a sample of 200 people, highly selected.
It's not scientific in the sense that I took a random sample of people and I waited for all the factors, and then I gave them objective tests so that they pass. It's not like Mensa, where if you got an IQ, you're in, right? So this is subjectivity, self-selection. A lot of things. On the other hand, there is a lot to learn from these people.
And I just want that to get out in a form that people can easily gain access to. Now, my podcast is free. You can download all 200 episodes, but that is literally 200 hours of listening. You can read my book. My book is less than 200 pages long. And you could read it in probably two or three hours. And that's how it should be. This is not the Chicago Manual of Style that's 700 pages.
This is not the war and peace of self-help, okay? This is more like how to be remarkable for dummies. I mean, I want this to be quick. Part of making a difference and part of being remarkable, you can only read and study so much.
I already talked about the guy who had two crack addict parents. I talked about the guy who was in prison for 20-something years. Another woman, and just FYI, if you're a woman listening to this and you're thinking, oh, this is a typical Silicon Valley tech bro. And when you look at my podcast, you're going to say, oh, it's like 90% men and 10% women.
I hate to disappoint you, but if you look at my podcast, it's probably 60 or 70 percent women and 30 or 40 percent men. It's heavily. I should just name my podcast Remarkable Women, but that's a different discussion.
I mean, OK, we could really go down a deep, dark hole here. But I think that men have been screwing it up for now 2024 years. And I think we should give women a chance. I think like, you know, I want the Angela Merkel's and the Stacey Abrams. And what's her name from New Zealand? Jacinda Ahern or, you know, Melanie Perkins from Canva.
I want women to run the world because men have proven that they are incompetent and cannot do it. So now I just lost all the male readers listening to this, but maybe they'll buy the book to give to their daughters. Okay. Anyway, the woman's name is Andrea Lytle-Pete. And 10 years ago, she was diagnosed with ALS. Those of you not familiar with ALS, typically you die after two years.
So she's lived eight years longer than expected. And when she got diagnosed, she decided that she was going to complete a marathon in all 50 states with ALS. Now, she started running. She ended up in a recumbent bike, but she did do it. And I look at that and I say, you know, that is remarkable. It's remarkable she's still alive.
It's remarkable that she went through all the effort and time and expense to go to 50 states and participate in all this and overcome barriers. Like, one of the best stories in the book is the 50th... Marathon that she wanted to run was the Boston Marathon. Okay. And the Boston Athletic Group or whatever its name rejected her application.
And they said, well, we have categories for people who have, you know, wheelchairs and we have cars. People who have this and we have people who have that and these kind of, you know, issues and disabilities. But we don't have a category for people on recumbent bikes. So you cannot run or bike the Boston Marathon. Like, what the hell? Yeah. Wrap your mind around that, right?
So now that's a good enough story about overcoming resistance, but it gets better. So what she did is she and her team, Drea, her name is Andrea. So team Drea, small crew of volunteer, they get to Boston. The day before the race. And she runs the race by herself. How can it get better? I mean, seriously, how can it get better than that? Sticking it to the man. I love that story.
Well, the first path is to build the foundation. I first want you to understand that, as I said, this is not a self-help book. So this is not about instant success, how to make yourself remarkable in 10 easy steps, because being remarkable is not easy. If it was, there would be more remarkable people, quite frankly, right? So the way to be remarkable is not to decide to be remarkable.
The way to be remarkable is decide to make the world a better place. So this could be as a teacher, as a coach, as a mentor, as a parent. You could also make the case you could make the world a better place by turning your own life around. There are people in the book and podcast you've never heard of because they impacted in terms of sheer numbers, very few people.
But what they did was remarkable. And so you have to get it in your brain that this is not about putting lipstick on a pig to get a prettier pig. You cannot start with the pig. You have to start with people. How can I make the world a better place? How can I make one person's life better or a team or a classroom or my kids, whatever it is?
And I would make the case that if you do make a difference, people will have no choice but to consider you remarkable. So this is not chicken or egg. I'm remarkable. Therefore, people call me remarkable because I can make a difference. The order is make a difference. This book is how to make a difference. And guess what? Hallelujah. You make a difference. People will think you're remarkable.
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