Oct. 16, 2022
A podcast that I listen to regularly
Today, I'd like to share a podcast that I really enjoy listening to on a regular basis, which is called "How I built this" from NPR.
This podcast is conducted in a relaxing yet formal interview form. In each episode, the host would invite a successful entrepreneur to talk about how he/she got a business idea and then turn it into a multi-million company. Unlike Forbes, which would often focus on the top ranked enterprises out there, the scale of business doesn't matter that much to the podcast. Instead, the podcast gives more credit to those who have unique business models.
Each guest speaker come from different backgrounds. The inventor of TRX, for instance, got the inspiration of a portable training kit when he was in the Navy, whereas the founder of Taskrabbit tapped into her experience at IBM to launch an online errand-running service before the gig economy caught on.
Personally, the part where a guest speaker shares his/her failure in the early stage of launching a business is as engaging to listen to as the part where he/she describes his/her success, if not more so. Sometimes, a guest speaker may have been blamed by the board of directors on his/her leadership. At other times, there might be other issues, such as the wrong business plan and the downturn of the economy. Compared to the failure caused by external environment factors, nothing is worse than the one caused by the founder himself/herself.
Another thing I like about this show is the way the host interviews the guest speakers. The host (Guy Raz) has been doing a great job asking questions and giving short feedbacks without interrupting the guest speakers. In my opinion, the speech style of the host has a direct impact on the quality of a show.
Every time I finished listening to the show, I'd try to put myself in the guest speaker's shoes and think how I would address the problems he/she was having in a different way. Of course, there is no guarantee that you will achieve success just merely by listening to a show like this, but it can inspire people to turn their ideas into reality, and execute the whole process successfully. If you look into the cases studied on the show, you'd find that roughly more than half of the business models are not new at all, but these people are so smart in the way they can discover the potential demand and make profits out of it.
A podcast that I listen to regularly
Today, I'd like to share a podcast that I really enjoy listening to on a regular basis, which is called "How I built this" from NPR.
This podcast is conducted in a relaxinged yet formal interview formstyle.
We don't say that you do something in a 'form', we do something in a 'style'.
In each episode, the host would invites a successful entrepreneur to talk about how the/shey got atheir business idea and then turned it into a multi-million dollar company.
If you want to be gender-neutral with "he/ she", it's a little more common to just say "they".
Unlike Forbes, which wouldill often focus on the top rankeding enterprises out there, the scale of the business doesn't matter that much to the podcast.
"would" implies that they did in the past, but that they don't anymore.
Instead, the podcast gives more credit to those who have unique business models.
Each guest speaker comes from a different backgrounds.
I think:
"Guests come from a variety of backgrounds."
Sounds a little more natural.
Also, "guest speaker" isn't really suitable when talking about podcasts. We usually just call them "guests". A speaker implies that there is no conversation happening, which is contradictory to an interview style.
The inventor of TRX, for instance, got the inspiration of a portable training kit when he was in the Navy, whereas the founder of Taskrabbit tapped into her experience at IBM to launch an online errand-running service before the gig economy caught on.
Personally, the part where a guest speaker shares his/their failure in the early stages of launching atheir business is as engaging to listen to as the part where he/sthey describes his/their success, if not more so.
Sometimes, a guest speaker may have been blamscolded by their board of directors on his/their leadership.
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At other times -> Otherwise
A downturn of the economy -> An economic downturn
Compared to the failure caused by external environment factors, nothing is worse than the one caused by the founder hithemself/herselfves.
Another thing I like about this show is the way the host interviews the guest speakers.
The host (Guy Raz) has been doing a great job asking questions and giving short feedbackcomments without interrupting the guest speakers.
In my opinion, the speechhost's style of the hostspeech has a direct impact on the quality of a show.
Every time I finished listening to the show an episode, I'd try to put myself in the guest speaker's shoes and think of how I would address the problems he/sthey wasere having in a different way.
We call each podcast an "episode". Kind of like a TV episode.
Of course, there is no guarantee that you will achieve success just merely by listening to a show like this, but it can inspire people to turn their ideas into reality, and execute the whole process successfully.
If you look into the cases studied on the show, you'd find that roughly more than half of the business models are not new at all, but these people are so smart in the way they can discover the potential demandfind gaps in the market and make a profits out of it.
"discover the potential demand" we usually (in business) call "finding a gap in the market".
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This is a very impressive piece of writing, well done!
Oct. 17, 2022
Thank you very much for correcting my journal in detail! Especially, besides grammar corrections, you went the extra mile to check my wording(eg. guest, style and comments...etc) and taught me expressions like gaps in the market. Also, you helped me condensed my writing. (Every time I finished an episode). I am very grateful for you!! Now, I have noticed a stupid error I keep on making but it does bother me in both writing and speaking from time to time, which is about the usage of -ed -ing adjectives. Although I have heard of things like relaxed atmosphere and top ranking soldier, I can't seem to tell -ed and -ing adjectives apart.
A podcast that I listen to regularly
Today, I'd like to share a podcast that I really enjoy listening to on a regular basis, which is called "How I built this" from NPR.
This podcast is conducted in a relaxing yet formal interview form.
In each episode, the host would invite a successful entrepreneur to talk about how he/ or she got a business idea and then turned it into a multi-million company.
Unlike Forbes, which would often focus on the top ranked enterprises out there, the scale of business doesn't matter that much to the podcast.
Instead, the podcast gives more credit to those who have unique business models.
Each guest speaker come from different backgrounds.
The inventor of TRX, for instance, got the inspiration of a portable training kit when he was in the Navy, whereas the founder of Taskrabbit tapped into her experience at IBM to launch an online errand-running service before the gig economy caught on.
Personally, the part where a guest speaker shares his/their failure in the early stage of launching a business is as engaging to listen to as the part where he/sthey describes his/her success, if not more so.
You could use they or their instead of his/her
Sometimes, a guest speaker may have been blamed by the board of directors on his/herfor their lack of leadership.
At other times, there might be other issues, such as the wrong business plan andor the downturn of the economy.
Compared to the failure caused by external environment factors, nothing is worse than the oneat caused by the founder himself/herself.
Another thing I like about this show is the way the host interviews the guest speakers.
The host (Guy Raz) has beenis doing a great job asking questions and giving short feedbackssummarising without interrupting the guest speakers.
Present tense as I assume he is still directing the podcast.
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Every time I finished listening to the show, I'd try to put myself in the guest speaker's shoes and think howabout if I would address the problems he/sthey was havere facing in a different way.
Of course, there is no guarantee that you will achieve success just merely by listening to a show like this, but it can inspire people to turn their ideas into reality, and execute the whole process successfully.
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Thought I would suggest some additional vocabulary. The words smart and discover are not incorrect.
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Well written. Keep it up.
Oct. 16, 2022
Thank you so much for the correction! It's very helpful!! I really appreciate that you fixed my grammar mistakes and taught me natural expressions like for their lack of something, conversational style, entrepreneurial, and identify the demand and so on.
It's funny that the moment I read your corrections, I noticed that there's something I have learned before, but not something I can put into my sentence spontaneously. I would often think to myself, why didn't I think of it when I was writing that paragraph!(Laugh) I will keep practicing until one day natural expressions will spring to my mind at ease:)
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