10 insights on how to defy the odds — mick ebeling
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NOT IMPOSSIBLE
This presentation consists of highlights from the interview with Moe Abdou,
founder & host of 33voices®.
Recently honored as one of the Top 50 Most Creative People of 2014 and the 2014 Muhammad Ali Humanitarian of the Year Award, Mick Ebeling is a film/
television/commercial producer, philanthropist, technology trailblazer, author, entrepreneur and public speaker. Ebeling is CEO of Not Impossible Labs, an
organization that develops creative solutions to address real-world problems.
On January 6, Ebeling’s first book, Not Impossible: The Art and Joy of Doing What Couldn’t Be Done, hit selves. For more
information on the book, please visit notimpossible.com
Mick Ebeling@mickteg
Founder of the Not Impossible Foundation
Say ‘yes’ to opportunities and you’ll discover that all problems can be solved with the right
people, the right tools and the right ideas.
Insight #1
Insight #2
Next time you find yourself inthe midst of a challenging project, remember these 3 rules of ‘how’:
Insight #2
Next time you find yourself inthe midst of a challenging project, remember these 3 rules of ‘how’:
Singularity of focus
Insight #2
Next time you find yourself inthe midst of a challenging project, remember these 3 rules of ‘how’:
give it away
Insight #2
Next time you find yourself inthe midst of a challenging project, remember these 3 rules of ‘how’:
Beautiful, limitless naïveté
Insight #3
The best way to get a bunch of hackers to solve a problem is to tell them that it can’t be
done. Opt for what’s never been done before.
Insight #4
If you want to find your greatest love, look inside the hardest thing you
do — that’s where it will be.
Insight #5
Success is hitting the ground with 70% of the skills you need so you
can stretch into the other 30%.
Insight #6
The secret to withstand any challenge is to stay calm, for it’s that stillness where you’ll
discover your most creative solutions.
Insight #7
If you want do good in the world, be selfish. Do what makes you feel good, and that
will wind up helping everyone else.
Insight #8
In moments of doubt remember Rabbi Hillel’s words, “If I am not for myself who is for me?
And being for my own self, what am I? And if not now, when?
Insight #9
Greatness is doing something that lives after you, for our highest mission is to make
a positive difference, not to prove how smart or how right we are.
Insight #10
The trick to achieving something impossible is not to think yourself into a different way
of acting, it’s to act yourself into a different way of thinking.
If you were doing something to save someone’s life, how far
could you stretch yourself?
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Presentation created by Chase Jennings
Insights by Moe Abdou