Seth Godin’s Poke the Box is available on Audible as a 2 hrs 14 mins unabridged audiobook, narrated by Seth Godin.
Publisher’s Summary
We send our kids to school and obsess about their test scores, their behavior, and their ability to fit in. We post a help-wanted ad and look for experience, famous colleges, and a history of avoiding failure. We invest in companies based on how they did last quarter, not on what they’re going to do tomorrow. So why are we surprised when it all falls apart?
Our economy is not static, but we act as if it is. Your position in the world is defined by what you instigate, how you provoke, and what you learn from the events you cause. In a world filled with change, that’s what matters – your ability to create and learn from change.
Poke the Box is a manifesto about producing something that’s scarce, and thus valuable. It demands that you stop waiting for a road map and start drawing one instead. You know how to do this, you’ve done it before, but along the way, someone talked you out of it. We need your insight and your dreams and your contributions. Hurry.
Audiobook Details
- Narrated by: Seth Godin
- Length: 2 hrs 14 mins
- Publisher: Brilliance Audio
- Release year: 2011
- Audible category: Business & Careers / Management & Leadership / Leadership
Listener Ratings
Poke the Box holds an average listener rating of 4.2/5 from 1130 Audible ratings.
On Audible, ratings for this title break down into narration performance and story separately:
- Performance (narration): 4.4/5
- Story: 4.3/5
- 5-star ratings: 52% of all ratings
What Audible Listeners Are Saying
4/5 stars — “Decent”
Basically a rant on starting. Got some decent ideas, but the author tends to be a bit repetitive at times. This small book could easily be written in the form of a decently sized blog post, but hey, I guess everybody wants to make money, right? 🙂— Audible customer, Audible listener
5/5 stars — “Good inspiration.”
I took away from this book the conviction that the most important thing is to start, and keep starting every day, even though it’s painful. I have resolved to pick myself first and not wait to be picked. Thanks Seth Godin!— Julie, Audible listener
5/5 stars — “Brilliantly executed with solid content.”
Seth coaches the masses to jump into their dreams and explore, instead of sitting on the sidelines wasting time thinking about "what if", and even those people get a good chuckle or two on this outing. Nice work.— Chi Turner, Audible listener
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