#100DaysOfX Podcastering

[MarkBruns]

I have sorta dabbled in the matter of podcastering before ... but the effort was sorta bound to fail because, from the start, it was just sort of dabbling, ie not something that was planned or visualized with any kind of intention. It was dabbling ... and there's nothing wrong with dabbling as long as one knows it's just dabbling.

The real inadequacy or predisposition to failure is lack of INTENTION ... this lack of intention begins before the beginning ... in the case of podcastering, I had not bothered to DEFINE or SCOPE or DOODLE or somehow sketch out on the back of napkin anything about my intention ... I didn't have even a clue about the precise WHY of WHY I should do it.

Podcastering is an example of something that I "should" learn ... it's not something that I see as a "need" to learn ... hopefully, it's clear what a "NEED to learn" is, but it's something that you will HAVE TO have learned in order to accomplish your life's mission ... "should learns" are things that one really SHOULD learn because these skills are going to support the NEEDED skills and greatly enhance the overall likelihood of success... whereas "NICE to LEARN" is making the best use of your time on a flight by reading a book or maybe learning a new topic in nanoscale imaging and practicing your scientific/engineering Russian with a Russian speaker.

My WHY for "should learn podcastering" is that it's good add-on skill that really helps communicate and LISTEN more carefully ... it's like Toastmasters or practicing the skills in public speaking in front of an audience ... a secondary or more accurately a tertiary skill which can complement or enhance my primary or secondary skills in several different dimensions.

I am not especially interested in being some sort of TimFerriss, JoeRogan or LexFridman, JockoWillink ... some iconic panthe-wearer in the pantheon of the Manliness genre of podcasts... I get the level of relentless intention that Tim/Joe/Lex/Jocko+Echo bring to the practice of the craft ... my level of interest is JUST in learning the skill well enough to be able to do it ...so it's like Toastmasters for me, ie I want to speak competently [for thesake of people who have to listen to me explain quantitative engineering analysis and data science -- I may lack the personal WHY as a speaker to have a career as someone as inspiring, entertaining and professional as Steve Harvey, but I appreciate Steve more more after being in Toastmasters and my Plimpton-esque foray into the world of world-class auctioneering.

So I decided to do 100 Days of Podcastering ... the project car for this rebuild will be Bruno.Solutions ... which will set out to be something akin to the RedGreenShow of the Whole Manliness genre of podcasts; those other Manliness shows in the "For Fellars Only [Including Manly Lady Fellars [to be PC and all inclusivey]" ... not something that is funny except possibly in an intentenionally unintentional way ... mostly it's about idiotic conservativism and stubbornness vs genuine toughness and legit discipline-buildings.

[MarkBruns]

Success is function of how much failure you can endure ... not just failure in the sense of Edison's 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration and trying 1000s of light bulb filaments before anyone else believes that anyone wants a light bulb, but can you endure the failure of being completely ignored ... can you endure 100 days of doing something without getting any kind of encouragement or reaction ... or are you one of those who needs spammy clickbait, a large enough population of suckers to opt in and give you the MRR to make your invention appear successful?

[MarkBruns]

Write 1000 ROUGH rough draft words every day in order to get a 100 word rough draft a week later after editing/revision ... that may give you 3 tweets, but it will probably be one, if it amounts to ANYTHING.

[MarkBruns]

When your solution requires action or investment by someone else, it is not a solution. What are YOU going to do to change your habits to need less and better lead by example. BEFORE you propose any kind of change, it's much better if you start by doing 100DaysOfX