Welcome to the pilot episode of the Serial Learner podcast with Caleb Jones. This first episode, you're going to need to bear with me. I'm truthfully just needing to start. I wanted to make a podcast for some time and the biggest time has recently just been starting.
I've been ideating on what the podcast would be and cover our titles and I found that I've gotten caught in that trap of continual preparation without actually just doing it. I've realized that there's going to be a lot that needs to change and evolve and that's just going to happen as the podcast is going to not come to the preparation stage. So, this first episode, I'm really just explaining probably mostly to myself why I'm starting this podcast. I really want to work on my own thought articulation and begin creating something of my own rather than solely consuming what other people are putting out there.
I've had ample opportunity to listen to other podcasts to read books and that's been partially due to my schedule commuting to school and to work. I've loved the podcast that I've listened to. The ideas that have been inspired while listening and I just have a note on my phone filled with ideas that I'm excited to dive into the medium I've chosen as a podcast. So, that's where this is going.
I love the quote, writing makes an exact man. I heard that in a talk one time and it got me thinking about how when we hear something and when we're taught something, we absolutely are going to come away having learned. But when we take something and make it our own, then it has a whole other layer where it has to be personable to us. We can actually get more inspiration that leads us in a new direction and the learning is just that much deeper.
So, I'm really hoping that happens as I take the ideas that I've had while listening to their podcasts, drawing from thought leaders and making podcast episodes of my own. Some thought leaders that I've loved recently are Alex R. Mosey, Jesse Istler, Simon Sinek. I definitely have a bias towards entrepreneurial business mindset content.
So, that bias is going to be blatantly obvious throughout this podcast. I'd love for any who are interested to tune into the podcast and take away something meaningful. Hopefully something I say applies on a personal level or strikes a chord of some sort. The good news is that I'm starting this podcast the day before New Year's.
So, technically, it's not a New Year's resolution and there's a higher chance that I'll actually stick with it. I think New Year's resolutions have around an 8% failure rate by January or February. So, this I'm hoping to stick with and here's the New Year, here's the learning.