How to Think New: Leave Your Industry on Purpose
Oct 22
Co-host Pat Villaceran, creator of INNOVATIONLABS and founder of CITY JAM, joins Nathan Reardon to explain why most new ideas end up looking exactly like the rest of the market. Drawing on Pat's own daily idea routine, they show how boredom, analog time, reading, writing and meditation train the brain to think new, and why the executor, not the idea, is the real differentiator. Their message: most people don't have an idea problem, they have an input distance problem, so leave your industry on purpose.
Chapters
00:00 Intro: how do you actually think new?
01:02 Boredom is a luxury
03:48 Altitude and institutional routine
05:44 Moonshot thinking
08:04 Stop judging ideas too early
09:25 No idea is truly original
10:23 The burnt scrambled eggs
11:39 Everyone gets the same three eggs
13:06 Training the answer before the question
15:50 Pat's idea machine
17:26 A creative output
19:19 Analog activities and Steve Jobs's walks
21:18 Reading and writing
22:07 Training the brain like a muscle
23:59 Communication and leadership
25:22 VCs bet on founders
27:49 Blue eggs versus free range
32:29 Altitude always: impact over novelty
33:27 This week: widen who you meet
36:04 The next hour
36:49 Meditation
37:58 Close: leave your industry on purpose
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ABOUT PAT VILLACERAN
Award-winning POLYMATH: Author, Artist, IPO-driven Venture Builder. Creator of the signature 3,000% growth programme INNOVATIONLABS. Mentor to Fortune 5000 CEOs and founders of 8–9 figure firms. Founder of K88 by KASSIDIAN, Innovation Philosophie, CITY JAM and INDUSTRY.AIFF. Humanity 3.0 is her own blueprint. New York, London, Singapore.
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