Patrick Lencioni

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1,711 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Aug 2025 last heard 13 Apr

Patrick Lencioni’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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I studied really hard because my purpose in life is to get a job, make enough money to make my dad proud.

I studied economics with a minor in Spanish because I studied abroad.

But what's funny is my dad sent me to college and said, study economics, accounting and computers.

That's where all the jobs are going to be.

Well, he didn't know about DISC and Myers-Briggs and certainly Working Genius because I didn't know.

None of those were really up my alley.

I was a creative person, but he was very much into safety and hard work.

So I barely held on to economics, studied Spanish, took psychology classes, writing classes.

I was really a liberal arts kid who wanted to be a writer.

But I was like, no, my dad spent money for me to go to college.

I better get a good job.

I took a screenwriting class in college my senior year and was totally hooked.

And I wrote five screenplays in the next five or six years.

And Ron Howard's company read one of them.

And I went to a conference and some directors took an interest in some.

But I realized I'm going to have to go move to Hollywood and work at a Starbucks.

Yeah.

and pitch these damn things for the next 20 years.

And I was like, okay, this can be a hobby.

And what's crazy is years later, when somebody suggested I write a book about this theory I came up with, I decided to write fiction.

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