036 | Creative Problem Solving For Successful Entrepreneurs, With Mark Sylvester

Mark Sylvester and Manuj Aggarwal discuss creative problem solving, and importance of storytelling in this brand new episode of Bootstrapping Your Dreams Show.

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In this episode, we will learn about:

How to creatively solve a problem

• The "See what you think" method to solve problems.
• The importance of listening as an entrepreneur
• How to stay focused on your goals
• The effects of meditation practice on overall personal and professional development
• How to identify the problem and think of a realistic objective  
• How storytelling is imperative for your business
• How to effectively communicate using storytelling

About Mark Sylvester

• Experience: Mark Sylvester. Mark has been working every day since he was 15. He was a Chef until he was 30. Then he started an Animation Software company that eventually won 4 Academy Awards for Scientific and Technical Achievement and has been recognized as one of the Pioneers in the Computer Animation industry. 
• At 50, he turned his relationship with the TED Conference into an opportunity to create a novel software application that connected attendees at the conference to one another - it would show attendees the ten people they had to meet based on a matching algorithm. In 2010, he started TEDxSantaBarbara as a community service project, and have helped coach 85 speakers to the stage, capturing over 15.7M views of their Talks. In 2012, Mark started his first podcast to tell the stories of the amazing entrepreneurs located in the 805 regions of California (from San Luis Obispo to Santa Barbara to Thousand Oaks), now, 200 shows later, he's the showrunner on 6 shows from an NGO involved with the UN, to a high-end Speakers Bureaus's top talent, a show for Educators focused on Apprenticeship to teaching the leading Public Affairs Consultancy's methodology for overcoming objections into something called a PodClass.
• Fun Fact: Mark Sylvester has started several companies. Was the private Chef for the Jesuit Priests for 5 years, Worked on Lord of the Rings in New Zealand. He is the premier podcaster for the TEDx Organizer ecosystem, having talked to organizers on all 7 continents - yes, even Antarctica!
• Obstacle Overcame: He needed $20 to pay an electric bill when he was 20 and raising his son on his own - he called his mother to ask for the money, and she told him, "You'll find a way to get it" and hung up. He wanted to learn Computer Graphics after taking a one day workshop in 1983 and learned that there was no software available outside of University computer research labs and that hardware was over 200K to run software one had to write by oneself. Plus 10 years experience as a Chef – He had never worked in an office. Yet, he went on to create the company that invented MAYA - the software that to this day is the preeminent animation platform used for visual effects, product design, data visualization and game development around the world.

Links & Mentions from This Episode:

• Mark's company: https://MarkSylvester.com
• TetraNoodle consulting services: https://go.tetranoodle.com/boot-podcast
• TetraNoodle professional training: https://courses.tetranoodle.com

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