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Hi Folks! 👋
Happy Monday!
Some updates from Gritty & Curious HQ:
This was the first full week of the Gritty & Curious Community! We onboarded our members through 1-on-1 meetings (if you join, we’ll be sure to set up a 1 on 1 meeting as well) and have had some great discussions already.
We recorded our first episode of Gritty & Curious’s second podcast, G&C Founder’s Journal.
One of our Gritty & Curious community members, Rahul Rana wrote a book! It's called Making Moonshots. It the book, Rahul explores moonshot companies, the philosophies of founders, and blueprints to solving complex problems. Right now, it’s on pre-sale! If you are curious behind the reasons as to why Rahul wrote this book, Austin and Rahul recorded a podcast a while back which you can listen to here.
Alright, let’s jump into this week’s podcast guest!
In episode 27 of G&C, we have the extremely Gritty and CuriousJuan David Campolargo. He’s a 17-year-old author, 2 times TEDx speaker, entrepreneur, and investor. Yes, it’s a mouthful and yes it puts my 17-year-old self to shame.
As the author of Generation Optimism, Juan David strongly believes that optimism is one of the most important traits and being successful, and contrary to popular belief, it can be learned.
In this episode Austin and Juan David discuss…
How he learned to speak English fluently in 6 months
Starting a business at 13 y/o
His mission to create the next generation of doers
The importance of Optimism
…. and more!
Take a listen below or in the audio player above!
Podcast Highlights
How Juan David learned to speak English (3:13)
Strategy for Learning a new language (5:33)
Starting a Business at 14 (13:55)
How to Focus/Set Goals on What Matters (19:54)
On what Juan David's book Generation Optimism is about (22:47)
How to develop an optimistic mindset using BEST method (29:07)
Juan David's Favorite Books (34:26)
Important Future Technologies (38:36)
On Future-proof skills to have (43:10)
Future of Education (46:20)
The Takeaways from MIT LaunchX Incubator Program (58:50)
What does it Mean to be Gritty and Curious? (1:06:27)
Weekly Motivation
“Most people overestimate what they can do in a day, and underestimate what they can do in a month. We overestimate what we can do in a year, and underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade." - Matthew Kelly
“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary." - Vince Lombardi
Thanks for reading! Let us know what you think about this new G&C Newsletter format. We’re constantly working on improving our content and would love to hear from you! See you next Monday!
Stay 💪 & 💡,
Austin & Andy
Gritty & Curious #27 - Juan David Campolargo - Author of Generation Optimism