Episode
#057 - Alexander Cortes - Skills For The 21st Century
1:01:35
Published: Thu Mar 14 2019
Description
Alexander Cortes is a trainer, writer and speaker. Expect to learn what skills Alex would give a human if he was designing them for the 21st century, why we think Gary Vaynerchuk might have been pressing on the CEO of Fyre Festival's amygdala and our strategies for reading more throughout 2019. Extra Things: Sign up to Alex's Newsletter - https://cortes.site/newsletter/ Follow Alex on Twitter - https://twitter.com/AJA_Cortes (he tweets some GREAT stuff) Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact
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Episode#057 - Alexander Cortes - Skills For The 21st Century
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Episode#057 - Alexander Cortes - Skills For The 21st Century
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Episode#057 - Alexander Cortes - Skills For The 21st Century
PodcastModern Wisdom
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Episode#057 - Alexander Cortes - Skills For The 21st Century
PodcastModern Wisdom
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Episode#057 - Alexander Cortes - Skills For The 21st Century
PodcastModern Wisdom
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Episode#057 - Alexander Cortes - Skills For The 21st Century
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Episode#057 - Alexander Cortes - Skills For The 21st Century
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Episode#057 - Alexander Cortes - Skills For The 21st Century
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Episode#057 - Alexander Cortes - Skills For The 21st Century
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Episode#057 - Alexander Cortes - Skills For The 21st Century
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