What Steven Bartlett has said about Self-narrative archetypes

2 quotes · 1 episode · Sep 10, 2026

Steven Bartlett, British entrepreneur and host of The Diary Of A CEO podcast, has been quoted on Self-narrative archetypes 2 times in 1 episode of The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, most recently on September 10, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

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Bartlett says he manages his abundance of ideas with systems, citing Jeff Bezos on releasing ideas at a pace the company can tolerate.
“Jeff Bezos said, I've got enough ideas to sink the company. And he has to learn to release them at a cadence that the company can tolerate”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: Vanessa Van Edwards: The Conversation Habit That Makes Smart People Unlikable (Sep 10, 2026) · Listen from 1:37:41
Bartlett recounts that he identified with The Pursuit of Happyness after watching it at 18 or 19 while shoplifting food to survive.
“I was literally shoplifting food to feed myself, I watched that movie randomly”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: Vanessa Van Edwards: The Conversation Habit That Makes Smart People Unlikable (Sep 10, 2026) · Listen from 1:39:10

Vanessa Van Edwards: The Conversation Habit That Makes Smart People Unlikable
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Sep 10, 2026 · 2 h 27 min
Behavioral researcher Vanessa Van Edwards tells Steven Bartlett about her three-level conversation framework, over-talking, self-narratives, five story archetypes and the cues behind charisma.