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    Poke the Box
    Poke the Box
    Poke the Box
    Audiobook2 hours

    Poke the Box

    Written by Seth Godin

    Narrated by Seth Godin

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    About this audiobook

    We send our kids to school and obsess about their test scores, their behavior, and their ability to fit in.

    We post a help wanted ad and look for experience, famous colleges, and a history of avoiding failure.

    We invest in companies based on how they did last quarter, not on what they’re going to do tomorrow.

    So why are we surprised when it all falls apart?

    Our economy is not static, but we act as if it is. Your position in the world is defined by what you instigate, how you provoke, and what you learn from the events you cause. In a world filled with change, that’s what matters—your ability to create and learn from change.

    Poke the Box is a manifesto about producing something that’s scarce, and thus valuable. It demands that you stop waiting for a road map and start drawing one instead. You know how to do this, you’ve done it before, but along the way, someone talked you out of it.

    We need your insight and your dreams and your contributions. Hurry.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMar 1, 2011
    ISBN9781455811014
    Poke the Box
    Author

    Seth Godin

    Seth Godin is an entrepreneur, speaker, and the bestselling author of a number of business books, including E-Marketing—the first book ever published on how to do business online—as well as Permission Marketing, This is Marketing, The Practice, and The Song of Significance.

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    • 5/5
      I really loved this audiobook, so motivational and life changing. Thank you!
    • 5/5
      A great book. Everything Seth writes or says is worth taking into account.
    • 4/5
      A great book to start with to get inspired and move forward!
    • 4/5
      Great book. Would highly recommend. Great for inspiring innovation where ever you go.
    • 5/5
      Seth Godin does it again! Simple in theory, Seth’s Poke The Box does an excellent job of poking us off the cliff of inaction and willing to free-fall into the life we dreamed of.
    • 5/5
      Extremely motivating! Just the kick in the @ss I needed to move forward on my next thing. The book is concise, to the point, and powerful. It's only 2 hours long but I spent several hours with it as I kept pausing to write down ideas and clarify my thinking about how to proceed. Feel really confident now. Honestly my previous concerns now seem pretty silly and I'm realizing that I actually haven't been thinking big enough! But I'll take Seth's advice and "go go go." Not going to let that hold me back from getting started.
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this book, it’s a great call to leadership

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Poke the box. See what happens. Do it again. See what happens; learn; grow; succeed. Godin gets in the reader's face and challenges him or her to start something: initiate; fail; try again; fail; try again (as often as necessary). Although he is admittedly not measured, Godin pushes his reader to be bold, to risk and (more than anything) to just start something. This is a great book for the person sitting on a hundred great ideas, or the person sitting on just one, or even the person that think that he/she doesn't have anything to offer. Try. Fail. Try again.

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    • 4/5
      Simple concept but well-written and inspiring.
    • 2/5
      84 pages of someone shouting at you to get up off your backside and go out and do stuff. Relentlessly positive and undoubtedly good advice but for me other books have a better grasp of detail in how to improve yourself. Good advice, but given offputtingly. Save yourself time and spend a few minutes listening to Britney's Do Somethin', or Gwen Stefani's What You Waiting For?, the same message condensed to four minute pop singles.
    • 5/5
      Reading this book is quite possibly the easiest way to change your life forever.
    • 4/5
      Just like some of Seth's other books, he has a brilliant idea that he hits from every angle with many great real-world examples. His short, blog-like "chapters" make for an easy read with many memorable quotes. But, the bottom line is to stop planning, "poke the box", and ship!