Halftime Talks Episode 175 The Field

Podcast Recommendations vol 4

How many times do we step out of our own field and look for ways to improve across domains?

Date
April 9, 2019
Duration
8 min
Thread
The Field

Before you listen

I keep playlists of podcast recommendations, and I love the shows that challenge you to see the existing world differently. The beauty we are out to discover may be standing right in front of us each day, waiting for a receptive mind. This week is a pair that gives me my prescriptive dose of tangential thinking.

I’m a listener. I can listen probably five times faster than I can read, and a podcast becomes a reference point for new experiments and research. The first pick is The Dave Chang Show. Chang is the chef behind Momofuku, and what I like is how he thinks: he uses football and basketball to understand trends in his own field, and he is open about his highs and lows. The second is The Multiplier Mindset with Dan Sullivan of Strategic Coach.

Listen for the inside baseball of a highly competitive kitchen, and for why Sullivan’s strategic thinking changed how I size up a new idea.

From the talk

  • When I conceive of an idea, I don't think incrementally. I evaluate it on the merits of the capacity for scale and growth.

  • The blank canvas is more than just possibility. It is the beginning.

Transcript

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Welcome back to another episode of Halftime Talks. My name is Rahim Rasul, and you’re listening to the podcast that recognizes that in the middle of your game of life, whether you’re up by 10 or down by 20, we all need halftime talks to uplift us, inspire us and challenge us to bring that level of performance it’s gonna take to win the game. Sometimes we use some teaser, because we’re here with breezy holding them easy for now, Georgia, easy. So easy does it? Is it? Cuz I rocking beats, beat beats. So we’re back with another episode of halftime talks. And if you’ve been here enough times, you know the first thing that we begin with is appreciate a little bit of appreciation.

So without further ado, let’s get it started. Today. I want to appreciate the state of the blank canvas, knowing that all possibilities exist, exist for me now in the potentiality that sits in the void of not yet. And to put something to begin the journey, to mark the canvas, to put the brushstroke on it and build upon it over and over, subtle changes upon subtle changes until the composition, the work of art, the body of work, the person that we become in the moment, or this product itself, is complete. The blank canvas is more than just possibility. It is the beginning. It is stage, one of many that are necessary and integral in the blossoming of our vision, and that’s what I appreciate today.

You So we started these episodes cutting a little trim in the fat from previous episodes, and we want to jump right into it. This episode, we’re back to one of our familiar styles, called podcast recommendations. And before we jump fully into it, I want to tell you why. Maybe you’re like me. Maybe you’re not. A lot of times we’ve we’ve grown up reading like really praising reading and me personally, the type of learner that I am. I’m a listener. I’m able to listen five times, probably faster than I was able to read. I can listen to a book in one day. I can listen to a podcast and use that as a reference point to spark off new ideas and explorations of experiments in my life or research to do.

And so the first podcast that I want to recommend is the Dave Chang show. Now you may recognize his name. He is a world renowned chef, and what I like about him is not his food, because I haven’t been to his restaurants yet. I’ve seen it. He owns momofuco, and I think there’s a few in the stable of restaurants that he owns, but what I like about him is how he thinks, and we could all tune how we think a little bit better. And in a few episodes, he’s used sports. He’s used football and basketball to try to understand some of the trends going on when within his domain, how many times do we step out of our own field and look for ways to improve across domains?

He’s been through it all. He’s had highs, he’s had lows. He’s had balances with his emotions and success and failure. And he’s very open, very open canvas, no pun intended, with our appreciation this week about his trials and his adversities along the way. And you know, I really, really like his podcast. And he’s, he’s really cool guy. You get to hear the inside baseball, no pun intended, of the kitchen, and especially in its highly competitive nature. So the first podcast recommended. It is Dave Chang’s show. It’s on the ringing network. It’s really good podcast, and yeah, you should check it out. Another one of the podcasts I want to recommend today is the multiplier mindset podcast.

This is with somebody who I’ve referenced before. I think he has at least four podcasts, Dan Sullivan. Dan Sullivan, just the multiplier mindset, like those words right there. They do it. It’s not iterative or incremental growth. It is multiplier growth and the way that he presents the ideas and the depth in which he presents them. In it challenges our way of thinking. It challenges everything. And that becomes infectious, because now when I conceive of an idea, I don’t think incrementally. I evaluate it on the merits of the capacity for scale and growth, multipliers, exponentiality and that’s one of the things that Dan Sullivan just Google.

Dan Sullivan in podcast, he has an organization called Strategic Coach, and it’s his strategic thinking that I value most. And this podcast is, is one of those podcasts which I truly value, and that’s going to do it for this episode, short, sweet and succinct. And yeah, thank you for listening to another episode of halftime talks. The two podcasts which we recommended are the Dave Chang show. He gives inside baseball to cooking and the kitchen life, and also challenges you in how you think about what you think about, and the multiplier mindset. By Dan Sullivan and so thank you for joining us for this episode of halftime talks until we hear from each other again.

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