3 Books With Neil Pasricha

Chapter 14: Rich Gibbons on paid public preaching, parenting prescriptions, and pickles with perfectionism

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“On the one hand, information wants to be expensive because it’s so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.” Recognize that quote? It’s from a conversation between Steve Wozniak and Stewart Brand at the very first Hacker’s Conference in 1984. We’ve heard it so many times. Information wants to be free. And in many ways, it already is. We live in The Information Age, a time when you can find the answer to just about any question with the push of a button. But if that is the case, then why is the paid speaking industry expanding? Why pay five or six figures to bring a big name athlete or author to your conference when you could just watch the video for free online? We have all this free content everywhere, yet the value of live is going up. Well, maybe when we have more online content, we miss out on other things. We have less … attention. We have less …