Srinivas Rao - Creating For An Audience Of One • Creativity Leads To Happiness • Cognitive Bandwidth
Episode 252
Srinivas Rao is the host and founder of the popular podcast, the Unmistakable Creative, where he's interviewed over five hundred creative people. Former guests on the show include Seth Godin, Elle Luna, Tim Ferriss, Gretchen Rubin, Simon Sinek, Adam Grant, and Danielle LaPorte. His self-published book The Art of Being Unmistakable was a Wall Street Journal bestseller. Srinivas' book An Audience of One was just released.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How surfing inspired Srini's writing
- Being present in the moment
- Why Srini started writing a blog after graduating from business school
- What life-changing advice Srini received
- Learning how to listen
- How does somebody find passion?
- The evolution from Blogcast FM to Unmistakable Creative
- The art of an interview
- Srini's struggle with depression
- Using metrics to quantify everything in Srini's life
- The world is full of other people's standards and information
- The role environment plays
- Clearing out things that aren't serving you
- The people you surround yourself with matter
- Everything is a deliberate choice
- The impact of the information you consume
- What is digital junk food?
- Cognitive bandwidth
- How to avoid information overload
- Creating for an audience of one
- Problems with social media
- Do the thing you can control
- Hold yourself to higher standards
- Srini's morning routine
- Creativity leads to happiness
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Related links:
Srinivas Rao - An Audience of One (book)
Srinivas Rao's website
Unmistakable Creative Podcast (Srinivas' podcast)
Follow Srinivas Rao on Facebook and Twitter
Srinivas Rao - Unmistakeable (book)
Srinivas Rao (books)
Unmistakable Creative Live from NYC with Sarah Peck
Blogcast FM (Srinivas' 1st podcast)
Unmistakable Creative Podcast - The 9 Environments That Make Up Your Life with
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