Building for Tomorrow with Jason Feifer
New year, new you! Right?
Well, as much as we’d all like to believe that we embrace the new… the reality is that we often resist change.
That’s why we’ve brought in someone who has studied how humans respond to and adapt to change – or sometimes how we fail to. That person is Jason Feifer – long-time editor in chief at Entrepreneur Magazine, host of two popular podcasts, and recent author of his book Build for Tomorrow.
Today, Jason shares 6 specific frameworks around the very natural human responses to change, which he’s developed through interviewing and studying some of the most influen…
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AI Lesson Summary
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This video teaches the importance of adaptability in entrepreneurship and innovation, and provides historical examples and frameworks for understanding why people resist change. It also discusses the impact of new technologies on society and the importance of experimenting and iterating to find success.
Key Takeaways
- Run experiments to test hypotheses
- See hypotheses through to completion
- Carry a hypothesis out into the world and see how people react to it
- Be adaptable enough to take data and build it back into something better
- Focus on the one percent problem to make a big difference
- Use digital products to identify and address the one percent problem
💡 The one percent problem can be a 100 percent problem, but it can also be the thing that makes something work. Digital products provide data to identify and address the one percent problem.
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Chapters (10)
Introduction
4:06
Why adaptability matters
8:10
Framework 1: We do not believe in our own adaptability
22:24
Framework 2: We don’t know what new things are for
28:26
Framework 3: Innovators don’t build a bridge
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Framework 4: We mistake a 1% problem for a 100% problem
44:38
Framework 5: We imbue innovations with personal anxieties
51:22
Framework 6: We oversimplify problems
1:03:45
Framework summary
1:04:55
Game: Jason assesses current technologies!
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