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Great ideas often come from a simple spark: A soccer player on the New Zealand national team notices all the unused wool his country produces and figures out a way to turn them into shoes (Allbirds). A former Buddhist monk decides the very best way to spread his mindfulness teachings is by launching an app (Headspace). A sandwich cart vendor finds a way to reuse leftover pita bread and turns it into a multimillion-dollar business (Stacy’s Pita Chips).

Guy Raz interviews the world’s best-known entrepreneurs to learn how they built their iconic brands. In each episode, founders reveal deep, intimate moments of doubt and failure, and share insights on their eventual success. How I Built This is a master-class on innovation, creativity, leadership and how to navigate challenges of all kinds.New episodes on Mondays and Thursdays for free. Listen 1-week early and to all episodes ad-free with Wondery+ or Amazon Music with a Prime membership or Amazon Music Unlimited subscription.Get your How I Built This merch at WonderyShop.com/HowIBuiltThis

Based on the highly acclaimed NPR podcast, How I Built This with Guy Raz, his book offers priceless insights and inspiration from the world’s top entrepreneurs on how to start, launch and build a successful venture.

Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. In our daily lives, too many of us favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt. We listen to opinions that make us feel good, instead of ideas that make us think hard. We see disagreement as a threat to our egos, rather than an opportunity to learn.

26 verblüffende Lektionen für Gründer. Wie haben sie das nur geschafft?! Um erfolgreiche Gründer und ihre Unternehmen ranken sich mehr Mythen als es Start-ups gibt. Aber Guy Raz hatte sie alle auf dem Interview-Stuhl und sie haben ihm ihre Geheimnisse verraten: Von James Dyson, dem Designer, der Erfinder wurde, bis hin zu Stacy Brown, einer geschiedenen Hausfrau und Mutter, die aus der Not heraus selbstgemachten Geflügelsalat verkaufte und heute die Restaurantkette Chicken Salad Chick mit 139 Filialen in den USA führt.

Some sample insights from this audio summary: Good ideas are hard to find; you have to try a lot of things. And it’s hard to know if you’ve found a good idea until you try it out. The intersection of passion and problem solving is where good ideas are born and how great businesses are built.