32 min
Season 2, Episode 8: "Don’t Let People Tell You What to Do" You Said What?
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- Relationships
How comfortable are you with risk? When you’ve got one safe option and another, more precarious but potentially exhilarating one --which do you usually choose? Adam Najberg always wanted to be a foreign correspondent in China, but he had lots of debt and no job lined up there. Then one day, he met a hero of his -- arguably the most famous China correspondent of all time--who told him: ‘Just go. Don’t think about it.’ So he did. It turned into a 30-year career in Greater China. In this episode, Adam and I talk about how easy it is to overthink things and to fixate on practical matters when dreams are at stake. Adam has gone on to work for some of China’s biggest tech companies, and he and I also discuss how that’s different from working for a U.S. company.
How comfortable are you with risk? When you’ve got one safe option and another, more precarious but potentially exhilarating one --which do you usually choose? Adam Najberg always wanted to be a foreign correspondent in China, but he had lots of debt and no job lined up there. Then one day, he met a hero of his -- arguably the most famous China correspondent of all time--who told him: ‘Just go. Don’t think about it.’ So he did. It turned into a 30-year career in Greater China. In this episode, Adam and I talk about how easy it is to overthink things and to fixate on practical matters when dreams are at stake. Adam has gone on to work for some of China’s biggest tech companies, and he and I also discuss how that’s different from working for a U.S. company.
32 min