Nick Seneca Jankel is an author, philosopher, and professional speaker who develops tools for organizations, leaders and everyday people to transform themselves. He is the creator of The Switch On Way a process that has been used by over 50,000 people and 50+ Fortune 500 companies across the globe and has been featured on the BBC and MTV. He is the author of two books, Switch On, and new book, The Spiritual Atheist available on Amazon.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Nick’s network of peers
When business started difficulties overcame:
“Business 1.0 wasn’t that hard for me because I had nothing to lose literally – I have no kids, I had no house, I had no mortgage, I had nothing, I didn’t even have a fear of it. I just started it did it. I guess at the time there is probably one thing that I did have to overcome was this sort of sense that business was a bit sort of rubbish in general… I had a kind of negative sense about what entrepreneurship was… I had to grow really quickly I had no management or leadership experience and no training… overcoming some of the pain I had along the journey for basically being a rubbish boss for quite a long-time and a bit of a control freak egomaniac in my early version of me. And I disconnected from people and I think that took a long time for me to overcome.” …[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Dao De JingFavourite Quote:
“The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become” Charles Frédéric Dubois
Recommended Online Resources:
- Aeon Magazine – Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. They publish in depth essays, incisive articles, and a mix of original and curated videos.
- Springwise – Discovering Innovation since 2002. The original & most relevant digital source of current innovations and ground-breaking ideas from around the world.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“make sure that you build your business based upon what your heart feels as much is what your mind knows”…[Listen for More]
More About Nick Seneca Jankel:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft
Other Quotes From the Chat with Nick Seneca Jankel:
- “everything you do is either forging the future or failing the future, what it isn’t is static”
- “entrepreneurship seems to be thematic”
- “It really helps to be an entrepreneur if you have mastery in something. You can develop mastery during your entrepreneurial journey but then it’s more expensive because someone else isn’t paying you, you have to pay yourself”
- “learn from every system that you see”
- “every business model has to balance itself – you can’t win in every area”
- “those who use both intuition and data make more money than those who use one or the other”
- “a really key thing in this entrepreneurial thriving is standing somewhere between a lot of ambition and challenge and not enough, and knowing how to keep the balance”
- “the most important moment of entrepreneurship is making the right decision for you and your project and the world”
- “Brazen and ballsey with out being worried about what people think”
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