Chapter 2: Frank Warren of PostSecret on understanding your past to control your future

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Our recording studio for Chapter 2! On a sunny balcony overlooking the Pacific Ocean

Frank Warren (@postsecret) is founder of PostSecret, an art project inviting strangers to anonymously mail in their secrets on homemade postcards. What started as a passion project quickly became a worldwide phenomenon. PostSecret.com has become the largest ad-free blog in the world with over 800,000,000 visitors and has evolved into six New York Times bestsellers, a viral TED Talk, a MOMA and Smithsonian exhibit, and hundreds of PostSecret Live events. Frank has received over 1,000,000 postcards mailed to him from around the world. 

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From a sunny balcony in San Diego overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Frank Warren and I uncover and discuss his three most formative books and pull out the resonant themes affecting us all. How do we give people a voice? In a flattening world, how do we build trust with new people? And what are the lessons we can take and apply to our own lives from these three life-changing books?

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What You'll Learn:

• The somewhat embarrassing strategy I first used to connect with Frank

• What was the first book to give voice to "the people" versus the power?

• How did Frank become "America's Most Trusted Stranger"?

• What are 2-3 specific suggestions Frank shares to help us build trust with new people?

• How do we learn to become better storytellers?

notable quotes from frank warren:

"We don’t really have as much control of our future until we more greatly understand our past." @PostSecret

"Everyday people have extraordinary stories to share." @PostSecret

"By learning history, it allows us to understand how there are many, many more possibilities and a direction forward we might not have thought of otherwise." @PostSecret

CONNECT With FRANK:

• PostSecret

• Twitter

• Facebook

• Instagram

Resources Mentioned:

• We reveal Frank's first book [7:54]

• We reveal Frank's second book [20:28]

• We reveal Frank's third book [28:12]

• Hard Times by Charles Dickens

• The Social Security Act of 1935

• 1000 Awesome Things

• Humans of New York

• Edelman Trust Barometer

• Youtube video: On how I approach strangers in the street | Humans of New York creator Brandon Stanton | UCD, Dublin

• The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield

• The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler

• The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck by Mark Manson

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

• MoMA PostSecret Exhibition

• Smithsonian PostSecret Exhibition

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Keith Haring

• The Rocky Horror Picture Show

• 1984 by George Orwell

• One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

• Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon

• The Book Thing of Baltimore

• Moby Dick by Herman Melville

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