Guy Kawasaki
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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Yeah, I think that based on my interviews with these 200 remarkable people over the past four years, and when I say remarkable, I truly do mean remarkable. These are people like Jane Goodall, Stacey Abrams, Margaret Atwood. Angela Duckworth, Woz, Stephen Wolfram, the youngest MacArthur fellow, you know, over and over again.
And so what I noticed is this common pattern of you don't get to be remarkable unless you have a growth mindset. People with fixed mindsets, they believe that they are what they are. They cannot embrace new subjects, new topics. The skills they have are the skills they'll all ever have. They can't make it better. And it won't get worse. And that's just not true of remarkable people.
Remarkable people are always learning and trying and working hard, which leads us to the second phase. Because, I mean, even if you're willing to learn a new sport or a new subject, It's not going to be easy. I took up surfing at 60 and I've had to dedicate a fair, one might say, obsessive portion of my life to become a surfer.
So you don't just wake up one day and say, I'm going to be a musician forever. And it magically happens. That's the grit phase. And finally, the grace phase is where you decide that it's not about you anymore. It's about making a mark and making the world a better place.
and for me when i die i want people to say you know guy empowered me he empowered me with his book with his podcast with his speaking with his investing with his advising so just if members of your audience are used to reading self-help books this is not a self-help book
like i think a lot of self-help books you know the whole purpose is to get you to come to my conference right and you know we're gonna be at the miami ritz-carlton and for five thousand dollars in 48 hours i'm gonna teach you how to be remarkable and in the general session you know you the visionary guru you walk out and you get a standing ovation and you tell people oh
Say to the person on your right, you're remarkable, and then look to your left and tell that person you're remarkable. And, like, stand up and raise your hands because we're all remarkable. That ain't happening. I'm not that kind of guy, okay? This book is not, you know, the guy's way. This is my analysis of 200 remarkable people. filtered through 40 years of frontline tech experience.
So it's not like I'm a 22-year-old millennial wannabe that says, oh, I met all these famous people. Let me tell you what I learned. Because at 22, I've already created a remarkable track record. Like, give me a break.
Oh, my God. I mean, were you ever on Clubhouse?
I mean, holy shit, Heather. On Clubhouse, every conversation was, I'm 25 years old. I've already built up a really successful practice. If you click on the link in my profile, you'll get $200 off my $1,000 course on how to make money in social media. I mean, you know, there's a lot of reasons for the death of, or I don't know if it's dead yet, for the demise of Clubhouse.
But I swear, 90% of the conversations were people talking about how great they were and how you should click on their link for their online conference.
Yeah. Well, you can contact any of the schools that I said I attended to see that I really attended them. That's number one, including UC Davis Law School, where I quit after two weeks.
I went to law school for two weeks and couldn't take it. So I quit. You know, a lot of people cover that up on their resume by they say they attended as opposed to graduated. So I'm from Honolulu, Hawaii, a lower income part of Honolulu, though. I you know, don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to paint this picture of how I overcame crushing poverty and
And, you know, lifted myself up by my bootstraps. I came from a lower income family, but my parents made a lot of sacrifices so that I could get a great education. So don't feel sorry for me. I've had a charmed life. And a sixth grade teacher convinced my parents to take me out of the public school system in Hawaii, put me into the private school system because she said I had too much potential.
Thank you, God, for that teacher. Thank you, God, that my parents listened to her. That enabled me to get into a private school in Hawaii called Iolani. At Iolani, I cannot tell you why, but for some reason, I applied to Stanford. I also cannot tell you why, how the hell I got into Stanford, but I got in. And so I went to Stanford, and from Hawaii to Stanford, it was a religious experience.
Now, Hawaii is a wonderful place and, you know, all that. Don't get me wrong, but in Hawaii... Your sort of horizons are limited by, well, if I'm really successful, I'll run the Sears Roebuck or I'll run the Hilton Hawaiian Village Hotel or something. Now, I'm not saying that that's not remarkable accomplishments. It takes something to get to that level.
But there's none of the sort of growth of Hewlett Packard or Apple or Facebook or Google in Hawaii. So I get off this airplane in SF full, you get in a van, you go to Stanford. This is like the holy land. I mean, this is like, thank you, God, the scales are removed from my eyes. And at Stanford, I met someone and we became very good friends.
And years later, he hired me into Apple, into the Macintosh division. And just so you know, I majored in psych because that was the easiest major I could find, right? If you looked at my background on paper, thank God that, you know, it was an AI analyzing my resume back then. It would say psych major, two-week dropout from UC Davis.
And at the time, I was more or less in the jewelry business, the jewelry manufacturing business, so schlepping diamond gold. You know, you wouldn't say, oh, perfectly qualified. You know, let's bet Macintosh Software on this psychology major from the jewelry business. So I'm living proof that nepotism can have positive results.
So I worked at Apple as the software evangelist, convincing people to create Mac products. I left, I started some tech startups. I returned to Apple as Apple's chief evangelist. Then I left again and I started, you know, other companies, writer, speaker, and then Canva reached out to me. Do you use Canva? Yeah. So 10 years ago, Canva sends me a tweet saying, we noticed you use Canva.
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