0055: I’m Pretty Sure This Proves I’m A Frickin’ Genius

Raw transcript:

i’ve just discovered something very
interesting about myself
i’m a freaking genius
let me let me explain so uh sports
illustrated’s andy benoit uh was quoted
recently and when i read the quote i’m
like oh
that makes all kinds of sense
let me explain i’ll i’ll do so coming up
next in this episode of the vo heroes
podcast
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so in another episode of this podcast uh
i’ve talked about
uh for example why i use audacity i and
the reason was is because it’s so simple
and direct and perfect for what we do
i’ve talked about other
things that i’ve chosen to use like my
microphone the at2020 usb plus it’s very
simple it’s very powerful it’s very
direct it’s high quality
and i went back through a number of my
episodes and i realized that a whole
bunch of them were about
cutting out unnecessary stuff and just
using things that were direct and simple
and effective without gilding the lily
right so then i find out that andy
benoit which is how he pronounces his
name b-e-n-o-i-t
from sports illustrated he’s quoted as
saying this most geniuses
especially those
who lead others
prosper not by deconstructing intricate
complexities
but by exploiting
unrecognized
simplicities
boom that was like really powerful to me
because
i’ve noticed throughout my life that i
love taking something
and multiplying its force right being a
force multiplier if you can do this do
it once and then do it again over and
over and over again maybe expand on it
and that’s like kind of
adding to it as opposed to subtracting
from it but the other thing that i’ve
noticed
is that i’ll find a process
and i’ll cut out the things that i don’t
need about the process right
i love
finding ways to use google sheets or
excel that make it easier for me in the
long run
exploiting the simplicities of it
and in that other episode where i talked
about audacity when i saw this quote i
realized oh
that’s why i love audacity
because
it it exploits unrecognized
uh simplicities and why my stair-step
method works so well for me and for my
students
because there’s this really simple thing
that audacity does and i can exploit
that
for
the stair-step method
so i
think in our lives we don’t have enough
time to do everything that we want to do
i’ve got a bucket list that’s way too
long i haven’t found a single app that
can contain all of the things that i
want to do before i leave this earth
and
that means that i’d like to do things as
simply and direct and as as easily as
possible i don’t want to make it more
complicated than it needs to be
and so according to andy benoit i’m a
genius i’m a freaking genius
so just so you know that’s my new title
i used to use actor voice talent
storytelling coach and technologist
forget it david h lawrence the 17th
freaking genius anyway i wonder about
you do you ever find yourself wanting to
simplify the things in life to find the
direct path as opposed to the
complicated but mastering you know able
to be mastered path if you spend enough
time practicing it right isn’t it easier
to do things
i don’t want to guide you to your answer
but i’d love to know your answer below
how do you find yourself operating in
the world
with unnecessary
uh
you know uh complications
or with undiscovered simplicities
tell me
i’d love to know comments below please
do that
uh i’m david h lawrence the 17th i thank
you so much for watching and for
listening to the vo heroes podcast
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