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The Quitting Expert: Michael Jordan Is WRONG About Quitting, Do This Before AI Comes! | Seth Godin
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How to Choose Yourself When the System Won't
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The college industrial complex is a 400-year-old system whose logic is internal: you get a good grade so a college picks you, which lets a company pick you, which earns you a promotion, and then you die. For most of human history, this was the only path available. Then the tools arrived — microphone, video camera, typewriter, and now AI — and anyone can pick themselves. [1] — Seth Godin "For generations, the system told people to wait to be picked — by colleges, companies, publishers. That system is over. Godin explains why …" 52:50 Bartlett's story of his failed LBC radio audition (where staff members pretended to call in and he never heard back) and subsequent pivot to a podcast kitchen recording perfectly illustrates Godin's argument: the gatekeepers' silence is not a verdict; it's an invitation to pick yourself. Yet Godin acknowledges that most people still can't act on this, because the psychological conditioning of waiting to be picked runs too deep — being on the hook for something means accepting responsibility, which is terrifying in a way that being a cog never is.
For generations, the system told people to wait to be picked — by colleges, companies, publishers. That system is over. Godin explains why most people still can't act on this permission, and what picking yourself actually requires.
