Episode 50: GRIT to Great with Linda Kaplan Thaler

Highlights of This Episode:

• Why Linda describes her first meeting with Robin Koval as “business-partner love at first sight”
• How Linda and Robin define grit (hint: they use it as an acronym)
• How Linda and Robin got interested in writing about grit
• Why it’s important to view retirement as another career and keep your brain active
• Why what makes us happy isn’t the absence of problems but the solving of them
• How the self-esteem movement has backfired
• Why the Torah celebrates people for being average
• Why we need to learn how to be bored
• Four reasons to have a task, like making your bed, that you do first thing every morning
• How celebrating small victories can help you with big accomplishments

“Celebrate who you are. Just don’t think you’re that special.” –Linda Kaplan Thaler (Click to share – thanks!)

About Linda Kaplan Thaler:

Linda Kaplan Thaler is an Advertising Hall of Fame luminary and creator of many of the industry’s most iconic campaigns, including Kodak Moments and the hilarious Aflac duck. Linda was the co-founder and CEO of the Kaplan Thaler group, which quickly became one of America’s fastest growing ad agencies. She is currently Chairman of Publicis New York and the coauthor of several national bestsellers, including Bang! Getting Your Message Heard in a Noisy World, The Power of Nice, and The Power of Small. She lives with her family in New York City.

Links and Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Kaplan Thaler Group
• Publicis New York
• Bang! Getting Your Message Heard in a Noisy World
• The Power of Nice
• The Power of Small
• Robin Koval
• GRIT to Great
• Michael Bloomberg quote
• Colin Powell
• Steven Spielberg
• Michael Jordan
• Jack Ma, Alibaba
• Sherry Lansing, Paramount Pictures
• James Henry, In a Fisherman’s Language
• James Dyson
• Neil Postman, We’re Amusing Ourselves to Death
• Todd Kashdan and Robert Biswas-Diener, The Upside of Your Dark Side
• Insight Timer
• Paula Radcliffe
• James Patterson
• Stephen King

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