Episode 58 features the seventh edition of the Inspiration Session with Gerrit McGowan & Dries Faems in which they share what makes them think, learn, and laugh.  

This week they touch on some of these thought-provoking topics:   

• How to measure personality with your digital footprint 
• Is fake it till you make it the right strategy to use as an entrepreneur? 
• How can the chance of burnout be reduced? 
• Should we expect a wave of entrepreneurial burnout next year?
• How Art is evolving in the advanced technological world   
• AI and they’re influence on our world 

We hope you enjoy the show!  

References

Something that made you learn  

Dries: 

Computer-based personality judgments are more accurate than those made by humans , Youyou Wu, Kosinski Michael, Still David, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2015) 

Gerrit: 

Matthew S. Wood, David J. Scheaf, Sean M. Dwyer,  Fake it ‘til you make it: Hazards of a cultural norm in entrepreneurship,  Business Horizons,  Volume 65, Issue 5,  2022,  Pages 681-696,  ISSN 0007-6813  

https://www.betterup.com/blog/fake-it-till-you-make-it 

Something that made you think 

Dries 

Emotional demands and entrepreneurial burnout: the role of autonomy and job satisfaction (2022) Yosr Ben Tahar · Nada Rejeb ·Adnane Maalaoui · Sascha Kraus ·Paul Westhead · Paul Jones Small Business Economics 

Gerrit 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-man-set-an-alleged-frida-kahlo-drawing-on-fire-then-he-started-selling-its-nft-180981110/ 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/10/damien-hirst-burn-thousands-paintings-owners-refuse-switch-nfts/  

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/17/burnt-banksys-inflammatory-nft-not-art  

https://www.businessinsider.com/justin-bieber-bored-ape-nft-value-dropped-after-ftx-collapsed-2022-11 

Something that made you laugh 

Gerrit 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/19/polyamory-penthouses-and-plenty-of-loans-inside-the-crazy-world-of-ftx 

https://decrypt.co/114719/tumblr-blog-linked-ex-alameda-research-ceo-explored-race-science-imperial-chinese-harem-polyamory 

Chapters:

(1:02) Gerrit Introduces the podcast inspiration session  

(3:00) What did Dries learn? Topic: Personality 

(4:19) Researchers are taking an alternative approach to measuring personality 

(7:38) Results of the study on whether the footprint can predict your personality 

(9:00) How is your digital footprint able to predict the likelihood of you experiencing certain outcomes in different life areas 

(10:31) On what basis is your personality assessed? 

(12:00)0 Discussion on the findings of the personality paper  

(14:00) Problems with personality models  

(16:20) Ethical questions for using data for investigating personality  

(17:25) Recruiters and your social media presence 

(18:30) What did Gerrit learn? Topic: Fake it to you make it  

(22:30) What fake it till you make it means  

(28:05) What to do instead of faking it? 

(32:25) Dries and Gerrit share advice on how to pitch 

(35:36) Does the personal story in storytelling need to be true? 

(38:00) Entrepreneurs thinking like scientists  

(42:45) What made Dries think: paper on entrepreneurial burnout  

(44:58) Does the feeling of autonomy increase the likelihood of burnout? 

(49:45) Should we expect a wave of entrepreneurial burnout next year? 

(55:35) Instead of being the best – be the best version of yourself 

(56:2) Mental struggle of having a bore out 

(57:50) What made Gerrit think: the technology of art and its destruction  

(59:00) Artists destroying art and turning them into NFTs 

(1:03:20) Are treasures in the art world being lost through NFTs?  

(1:07:30) Can the AI-generated art be called art? 

(1:10:10) Discussing what the new world will look like with AI 

(1:18:20) What made Dries laugh: his first encounter with TikTok 

(1:22:00) China’s strategy behind TikTok  

(1:29:00) What made Gerrit laugh: FTX downfall tweets 

(1:45:00) The economic shift and new topics 

(1:48:36) Gerrit thanks you for listening!