097: Sir Tim Smit: Changing the World with No Special Skills
Tim Smit is the co-founder and Vice Chairman of the Eden Project in Cornwall, in the southwest of England.
He turned a lifeless, poisoned abandoned mine into a bountiful green world-class garden people love to visit. Eden has attracted millions of visitors and billions of pounds. Tim is a consummate doer—not complainer or blamer—and an environmental campaign and entrepreneur, Tim tells how he met challenges he couldn’t have foreseen.
I love that Tim has no special skills. He did what needed doing to finish the project, then to take it to the next level each time. How did he learn what needed doing? By doing the steps before it.
(Are you not starting because you don’t know how to do some later stage? Start with what you can, get as far as you can, and solve each thing when you reach it. That’s what Tim did. That’s what everyone successful did to become successful.)
Tim’s wisdom is useful for anyone looking to make a difference. You just have to start.
(Bonus points if you can tell what Tim Smit has in common with Anuta Catuna, winner of the New York City Marathon.)