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Morgan Housel — Contrarian Money and Writing Advice, Three Simple Goals to Guide Your Life, Journaling Prompts, Choosing the Right Game to Play, Must-Read Books, and More (#702)

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“I’m not interested in anything that’s not sustainable. Friendships, investing, careers, podcasts, reading habits, exercise habits. If I can’t keep it going, I’m not interested in it.“
— Morgan Housel

Morgan Housel (@morganhousel) is a partner at The Collaborative Fund. His book The Psychology of Money has sold more than three million copies and has been translated into 53 languages.

He is a two-time winner of the Best in Business Award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and winner of the New York Times Sidney Award. In 2022, MarketWatch named him one of the 50 most influential people in markets. He serves on the board of directors at Markel.

Morgan’s new book is Same As Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes. You can find my first, widely popular interview with Morgan at tim.blog/morganhousel.

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Want to hear the last time Morgan was on the show? Listen to our conversation in which we discussed unorthodox career decisions, teaching children the value of money, lessons learned from being gamed by the market, counterintuitive bets, preparing for financially bumpy long hauls, understanding the difference between a fee and a fine, tolerance for petty annoyance as a valuable life skill, and much more.

#576: Morgan Housel — The Psychology of Money, Picking the Right Game, and the $6 Million Janitor

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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Morgan Housel:

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Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes by Morgan Housel | Amazon The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness by Morgan Housel | Amazon The Morgan Housel Podcast | Apple Podcasts For Entrepreneurs Pushing the World Forward | Collab Fund Insurance, Ventures, and Investments | Markel Corporation Morgan Housel — The Psychology of Money, Picking the Right Game, and the $6 Million Janitor | The Tim Ferriss Show #576 Warren Buffett: Snickers Is the Most Dominant Candy Bar on the Market | The Profit Pathway Motley Fool: Pundits Pandering Your Wealth Away | USA Today Knuth versus Email | Stanford University Finding the One Decision That Removes 100 Decisions (or, Why I’m Reading No New Books in 2020) | Tim Ferriss Cuneiform: 6 Facts About the World’s Oldest Writing System | HistoryExtra The Tao of Seneca: Letters from a Stoic Master (aka The Moral Letters to Lucilius) | Tim Ferriss On the Danger of Knowing Your Audience | Morgan Housel, Twitter The Serenity Prayer | Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis What Is Stoicism? A Definition & 9 Stoic Exercises To Get You Started | Daily Stoic Stoicism for Modern Stresses: 5 Lessons from Cato | Daily Stoic Stoicism Resources and Recommendations | Tim Ferriss Morgan Housel on Writing | Ted Merz The Swooper/Basher Dichotomy | Steven R. Southard Respect and Admiration | Collab Fund Rich and Anonymous | Collab Fund Expectations Debt | Collab Fund Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper | Amazon Financial Advice for My New Son | The Motley Fool Financial Advice for My New Daughter | Collab Fund Die With Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life by Bill Perkins | Amazon Why the 3rd Generation Always Destroys a Family Business by Scott McCollum | LinkedIn Microphilanthropy 101 | Charity Navigator A Few Laws of Getting Rich | Collab Fund The Solitary Billionaire: J Paul Getty (1963) | YouTube Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson | Amazon 1980s: How Donald Trump Created Donald Trump | NBC News “Sports Do Not Build Character; They Reveal It” | Quote Investigator The Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center | University of Nebraska Medical Center What Makes You Happy | Collab Fund The Three Sides of Risk | Collab Fund Little Ways The World Works | Collab Fund David McCullough on “1776” | Charlie Rose Be Here Now by Ram Dass | Amazon Global Uncertainty Related to Coronavirus at Record High | IMF Experts Say the ‘New Normal’ in 2025 Will Be Far More Tech-Driven, Presenting More Big Challenges | Pew Research Center What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany by Eric A Johnson and Karl-Heinz Reuband | Amazon Public Enemy? At Home in Mexico, ‘El Chapo’ Is Folk Hero No. 1 | The New York Times A Few Things I’m Pretty Sure About | Collab Fund Very Important and Hard to Teach | Collab Fund The Optimal Amount of Hassle | Collab Fund Useful and Overlooked Skills | Collab Fund 11 Reasons Not to Become Famous (or “A Few Lessons Learned Since 2007”) | Tim Ferriss The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder | Amazon The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss | Amazon Gothic Tropes: The Faustian Bargain | The Gothic Library Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs | Verywell Mind This American Life MrBeast | YouTube “Fake Famous” and the Tedium of Influencer Culture | The New Yorker How I Built The Tim Ferriss Show to 700+ Million Downloads — An Immersive Explanation of All Aspects and Key Decisions (Featuring Chris Hutchins) | The Tim Ferriss Show #538 The Home for Great Writing | Substack The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A.J. Jacobs | Amazon I Think You’re Fat by A.J. Jacobs | Esquire Tim Ferriss | TED Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers by Tim Ferriss | Amazon Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David von Drehle | Amazon Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell Jr. | Amazon The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst by Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall | Amazon Working by Robert A. Caro | Amazon The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro | Amazon The Civil War | PBS Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire | Wikipedia President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal | Library of Congress No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin | Amazon Endless Uncertainty | Collab Fund Tao of Charlie Munger: A Compilation of Quotes from Berkshire Hathaway’s Vice Chairman on Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Wealth with Commentary by David Clark | AmazonSHOW NOTES

Editor’s Note: Timestamps will be added shortly.

Buffett’s Snickers.What prompted Morgan to write Same As Ever?Morgan’s worst advice for aspiring writers is what works for him.The upsides of being rich and anonymous.Tips for raising unspoiled kids.Should families avoid passing along dynastic wealth?Finding worthy charities and causes.Money and happiness.Avalanches and other random, life-changing flukes.We can prepare for the future, but we can’t predict it.What current unknowns will seem shockingly obvious in a year?Which of our current views would change if our incentives were different?The most valuable personal finance asset.Optimizing the chance of marrying the right person.Mending divergence in a marriage or relationship.Trying to eliminate a hassle that’s an unavoidable cost of success.Guessing at the future of text vs. audio/video.Books vs. podcasts.Recommended reading.Has writing Same As Ever changed how Morgan operates in the world?Who is the intended audience for Same As Ever?Parting thoughts.MORE MORGAN HOUSEL QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“Let’s focus on what we know with certainty is going to be a part of your future, and that’s the best that we can do to see the future.”
— Morgan Housel

“In anything you do in life, you want feedback that what you’re doing is working. And in a lot of these situations, you don’t get it.”
— Morgan Housel

“Does money buy happiness? I think that answer is pretty firmly no. Can money buy contentment? I think that’s a pretty firm yes. And that’s great. Contentment is a great trait that makes your life better, but it’s very different from happiness.”
— Morgan Housel

“Some people have fuck you money. Charlie [Munger] has fuck you intelligence.”
— Morgan Housel

“I think you do your best work if you are being introspective about yourself. And “knowing your audience” slips into pandering very quickly. And pandering is the worst writing. Not only is it the worst content, it’s the worst writing style.”
— Morgan Housel

“When people want something from you, they treat you differently, and it’s not good.”
— Morgan Housel

“A lot of investors try to eliminate volatility, and they view it as a burden and something that you should get rid of when, actually … it’s the fee and not the penalty.”
— Morgan Housel

“I’m not interested in anything that’s not sustainable. Friendships, investing, careers, podcasts, reading habits, exercise habits. If I can’t keep it going, I’m not interested in it. And I think the only way to really do that is if you are going out of your way to live life at 80 percent to 90 percent potential. If you’re always trying to squeeze out 100 percent potential for something, almost certainly it’s going to lead to burnout, whether it’s a friendship or a relationship or an investing strategy.”
— Morgan Housel

PEOPLE MENTIONEDWarren Buffett Naval Ravikant Donald Knuth Seneca the Younger Jason Zweig Kurt Vonnegut Monica Lewinsky Anderson Cooper Shelby M.C. Davis Chris C. Davis Bill Gates Arnold Schwarzenegger J. Paul Getty Elon Musk Walter Isaacson Justine Musk Donald Trump George Carlin Bill Burr Brendan Allan and Bryan Richmond Tim Urban Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz George Washington David McCullough Charlie Rose Adolf Hitler Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Louis C.K.Justin Bieber Faust Abraham Maslow Matt Levine Joe Rogan A.J. Jacobs Donald Crowhurst Robert Caro Lyndon B. Johnson Robert Moses Napoleon Bonaparte Winston Churchill Ken Burns Frances Perkins Franklin D. Roosevelt Doris Kearns Goodwin Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Nassim Nicholas Taleb Charlie Munger

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Published on October 31, 2023 12:56

Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff (#700)

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“Evaluate danger. Don’t nurture fear.”
— Guy Laliberté

Guy Laliberté (@guylalibertedj) is the founder of Cirque du Soleil, One Drop Foundation, and Lune Rouge. He was named by Time Magazine as one of the most influential personalities in the world and has been recognized as one of the most creative and innovative minds by Condé Nast.

An artist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, Guy is a three-time winner of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award—including World Entrepreneur of the Year; a Knight of the National Order of Quebec; and an inductee of the Canadian Business Hall of Fame. Guy has been granted the insignia of the Order of Canada, the highest distinction in the country, and in 2010 received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Guy now dedicates his time to his company, Lune Rouge, and his international nonprofit, One Drop Foundation, which aims to “ensure sustainable access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene for communities everywhere through innovative partnerships, creativity, and the power of art.”

Visit Frooogs.com to discover Guy’s latest project.

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Want to hear another episode with a creative empire builder? Listen to my conversation with David Maisel, founding chairman of Marvel Studios and founder of Mythos Studios, in which we discussed wheeling and dealing with Bob Iger, creating the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), Broadway detours, early Hollywood lessons, and much more.

#676: David Maisel of Marvel Studios Fame — Never-Before-Heard Tales of Hollywood Dealmaking, The Art of Aiming Big, Lessons from Power Broker Michael Ovitz, Combining Business Smarts with Street Smarts, The Making (and Importance) of Iron Man, Selling to Disney for $4 Billion, and Much More

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Editor’s Note: Timestamps will be added shortly.

A galvanizing trip to Europe in 1977.Busking without going broke.Managing Mom and Dad’s misaligned values.Emerging from a dark teenage period.The transcendental power of Cirque du Soleil.Beginning a “theater troupe on stilts.”How Hawaiian epiphanies forged the spirit of Cirque du Soleil.Black sheep winning over the wolves.Drawing from P.T. Barnum and Walt Disney.Overcoming early financial hurdles.An opening day that signaled the beginning of never looking back again.Evaluating danger without nurturing fear.Buffering against betrayal without surrendering to cynicism.Steve Wynn for the win.Blue Ocean Strategy.Pioneering, inspiring, and imitated.Priority and mortality.Parting thoughts.MORE GUY LALIBERTÉ QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“It’s one thing to convince the government, but I’m telling you, it’s much more difficult to convince a bank.”
— Guy Laliberté

“Evaluate danger. Don’t nurture fear.”
— Guy Laliberté

“There’s many things that kill success. The first one I’ve seen is about once you have success, you get a lot of reward, financially. Then you start to nurture the fear of not having tomorrow what you have today, and that changes your entire way of addressing things.”
— Guy Laliberté

“The first month was a disaster. We lost our big top. It was raining. It was conflicts. The artists [were] fighting and there was a strike. Whatever happened at the beginning, we were in the mud up to the throat. But one month after, our show was so tight.”
— Guy Laliberté

“One of the biggest skills in business I learned was in the street because of this dangerous environment. You make friends or you run or you’re ready to face a more physical reality.”
— Guy Laliberté

“I’m not giving up. Unless the fish is cutting the line, I’m taking that fish out of the pond.”
— Guy Laliberté

PEOPLE MENTIONEDGaston and Blandine Laliberté Neil Armstrong Kahlil Gibran Gilles Ste-Croix Daniel Gauthier Speedy Gonzales Jacques Cartier René Lévesque P.T. Barnum Walt Disney Daniel Lamarre Benny Le Grand Steve Wynn Siegfried Fischbacher Roy Horn Henry Gluck Terrence Lanni Elvis Presley Bobby Baldwin Franco Dragone

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Published on October 25, 2023 12:59

Apollo Robbins, The World’s Most Famous Pickpocket — Pickpocketing the Secret Service, Manipulating Attention, Famous Con Artists, The Psychology of Deception, Self-Defense Techniques, The Secret Language of Thieves, and More (#699)

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“When we lose, we’re more curious. And when we win, we’re less curious about why we’re winning.”
— Apollo Robbins

Apollo Robbins (@ApolloRobbins) is often referred to as “The Gentleman Thief.” He ﬁrst made national news when he pick-pocketed the Secret Service while entertaining a former U.S. President. Forbes has called Robbins “an artful manipulator of awareness,” and Wired has written that “he could steal the wallet of a man who knew he was going to have his pocket picked.”

Robbins’ entertainment credentials include the Warner Bros. film Focus, with Will Smith and Margot Robbie, along with appearances in Brooklyn 99, and the TNT series Leverage. He was a producer and co-host for National Geographic’s Brain Games, which was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Informational Series. Robbins applies his expertise in magic and misdirection beyond entertainment, pulling back the curtain to show how the principles behind these illusions can enhance strategic thinking and decision-making.

His contributions to attention and perception research have been published in Scientiﬁc American Mind and Nature Reviews Neuroscience. He has delivered lectures at Harvard Kennedy School, MIT Sloan School of Management, and the Society of Neuroscience. He has been proﬁled by The New Yorker and featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and The Wall Street Journal. Robbins’ TED Talk, “The Art of Misdirection,” is ranked in the 20 most-watched TED Talks of all time and has been hailed by the TED editors as a revelation in the ﬂaws of human perception.

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Want to hear another episode featuring someone who sees the world through a magic lens? Listen to my conversation with World Champion of Magic Simon Coronel in which we discussed radical earliness, the Magic Castle, gauging audience perception and finding balance before a show, ugly crying through victory, hotbeds of magical innovation, why learning magic can be so daunting for a beginner, and much more.

#679: Simon Coronel, World Champion of Magic — Quitting the Day Job, The Delights of the Magic Castle, Finding Glitches in Reality, Learning How to Use Your Own Brain, and Worshiping at the Altar of Wonder

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Apollo Robbins: The Art of Misdirection | TED Talk Attention and Awareness in Stage Magic: Turning Tricks Into Research | Nature Reviews Neuroscience A Pickpocket’s Tale: The Spectacular Thefts of Apollo Robbins | The New Yorker “The Biggest Scam of All Time” | The Atlantic Science of Magic | The New York Times ‘You’re Not Aware That My Finger Is in Your Pocket’ | The Atlantic Sometimes, It Takes a Thief to Catch a Thief | Wired 11 Questions with Apollo Robbins | 417 Apollo Robbins: The Pickpocket Who Trains Spies | Spyscape Brain Games | Prime Video Focus | Prime Video Brooklyn Nine-Nine | Prime Video Leverage | Prime Video City of Enid, Oklahoma Human ABO Blood Groups and Their Associations with Different Diseases | BioMed Research International Help Us Solve the Cruel Mystery | Lupus Foundation of America Forrest Gump | Prime Video Tuberculous Meningitis Symptoms, Causes, Treatment | NORD Ozark | Netflix Springfield, Missouri Atheism and Agnosticism | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy The KJV Holy Bible | Amazon The Creation/Evolution Continuum | National Center for Science Education FAQ: Speaking in Tongues | Assemblies of God Doctrine: The Bible & Tongues | Baptist Press The Far Side Comic Strip by Gary Larson Murphy’s Magic Svengali Deck | Amazon Modern Coin Magic: 116 Coin Sleights and 236 Coin Tricks by J.B. Bobo | Amazon Complete Coin Vanish Tutorial | PigCake Impossible Location Easy Card Trick Tutorial | Doug Conn Equivoque | Magicpedia Mentalism | Magicpedia Warren Zevon Quotes | Goodreads The Fitzkee Trilogy by Dariel Fitzkee | Amazon The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation by Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas | Amazon Aikido | Wikipedia Caesars Magical Empire | PCAP Why Do Vampires Need an Invitation to Enter a House? And Why Does the Stake to Kill a Vampire Need to Be Wooden? | Quora What is Proprioception? | University of California Television FY20 Protective Operations | United States Secret Service “William Wallace is Seven Feet Tall!” | Braveheart 2010 Pentagon Shooting | Wikipedia Inattentional Blindness in Psychology | Verywell Mind Selective Attention Test | Daniel Simons The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons | Amazon Teller Speaks! | Magic of Consciousness Symposium The Magic Castle | The Academy of Magical Arts Ocean’s Eleven (2001) | Prime Video Gish Gallop: When People Try to Win Debates by Using Overwhelming Nonsense | Effectiviology The Short Change Con | The Real Hustle The Republic by Plato | Amazon Conditions for Intuitive Expertise: A Failure to Disagree | American Psychologist Project Nim | Prime Video Battle of Wits Scene | The Princess Bride Confirmation Bias | The Decision Lab Meet the Forty Elephants, the All-Girl Gang from London | Danny Dutch Woman Steals TV Under Her Skirt in Only 13 Seconds | Buzz60 Woman Steals Beer Under Her Skirt | On Demand News Tricking Mosquitoes into Thinking They’ve Mated Could Reduce Spread of Malaria | Imperial College London Misinformation and Disinformation | APA Artful Paltering: The Risks and Rewards of Using Truthful Statements to Mislead Others | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Propaganda by Edward Bernays | Amazon How Lobbyists Made Breakfast ‘The Most Important Meal of the Day’ | The Guardian Mere Puffery vs. False Advertising: Recent Trends | ArentFox Schiff The Perceptual Shaping of Anticipatory Actions | Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) | Wikipedia Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini | Amazon Nobody’s Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do about It by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris | Amazon How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion by David McRaney | Amazon The Person and the Situation: Perspectives of Social Psychology by Lee Ross and Richard E. Nisbett | Amazon Deception in the Digital Age: Exploiting and Defending Human Targets through Computer-Mediated Communications by Cameron H. Malin, Terry Gudaitis, Thomas Holt, and Max Kilger | Amazon Whiz Mob: A Correlation of the Technical Argot of Pickpockets with Their Behavior Pattern by David W. Maurer | Amazon The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man by David Maurer | Amazon The Sting | Prime Video The Sneaky Pickpocketing Glossary | Spyscape How Pickpockets Work | HowStuffWorks Harry In Your Pocket | Prime Video An Overview of the Dunning-Kruger Effect | Verywell Mind Situational Awareness: A Guide for Journalists | Committee to Protect Journalists The Four Stages of Competence | MCCC US Mother Gets Call from ‘Kidnapped Daughter’ – But It’s Really an AI Scam | The Guardian European Politicians Duped into Deepfake Video Calls with Mayor of Kyiv | The Guardian Study: One in Three People Is Distracted by Their Phone While Crossing Busy Streets | The Atlantic The Mere Presence of Your Smartphone Reduces Brain Power, Study Shows | UT News Everyday Carry (EDC) | Wikipedia Satisficing | The Decision Lab The Illusion of Knowledge | Mealtime Hostage The Greatest Obstacle to Discovery Is Not Ignorance — It Is the Illusion of Knowledge | Quote Investigator League of Legends Titanic Thompson | The Stacks Reader The Unsinkable Titanic Thompson by Carlton Stowers | Amazon The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice. | Smithsonian Magazine Your Guide To The Kepplinger Holdout Cheating Device | Casino.org Police Public Safety Software and Cross-Platform Data-Sharing | CODY Systems The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security by Kevin Mitnick and William L. Simon | Amazon DEF CON 30 Hacking Conference Human Error. Conquered. | KnowBe4 The Benefits of Boredom | Child Mind Institute SHOW NOTES[07:51] Was Apollo a naturally dextrous wunderkind?[10:26] The influence of Apollo’s blind minister father.[14:10] Apollo’s slide toward agnosticism.[17:24] Ben Stone enters the picture.[21:08] Taking in orphaned animals as a youngster.[23:31] An early lesson on the value of money.[25:20] Bear in a box.[28:19] Seeing magic as a ticket to the larger world.[30:55] Shoplifting for fun, profit, and education.[32:19] Equivoque magic and Jazz-based mentalism.[38:09] A magic book club and a year-round Santa.[44:10] Apollo’s first fateful trip to Vegas.[52:14] A false accusation leads to a real job and a vampire code.[55:27] Jimmy Carter and the Secret Service.[1:03:44] The pros and cons of becoming legendary.[1:05:39] Academic accolades.[1:08:01] A sauce less secret isn’t necessarily less rich.[1:09:28] Recovering when the reps get rough.[1:11:12] Sheet music versus jazz.[1:14:10] The introduction to — and enduring influence of — Apollo’s wife, Ava Do.[1:22:27] Perception science perceived but not yet entered into the lexicon.[1:26:16] The significance of Apollo’s silver ring.[1:27:01] Meeting (and stealing from) Penn Jillette.[1:29:10] Demonstrating the confidence of a con man.[1:33:03] Hallmarks that differentiate Apollo’s style.[1:40:14] Who has the advantage with arguments in the Robbins household?[1:41:18] 40 Elephants in the modern world.[1:42:52] Teaching kids about the cons — and pros — of deception.[1:45:50] Paltering and puffery.[1:49:14] Perceptual shaping and change raising.[1:51:14] Slick re-thievery.[1:54:01] Influential reading.[1:56:38] Whiz Mob.[1:59:22] How is a team of pickpockets organized?[2:04:54] The pandemic of the Dunning-Kruger effect.[2:08:37] Best practices to avoid becoming a target for theft.[2:11:14] The Illusion of Knowledge Project.[2:15:28] The Unsinkable Titanic Thompson and other noteworthy charlatans.[2:19:06] Rod the Hop, Kevin Mitnick, and Whizmob Inc.[2:23:11] How one word can make a difference to an impressionable child.[2:26:38] Parting thoughts.MORE APOLLO ROBBINS QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“When you can’t walk the same as everyone else, you end up watching everyone else. You become a people watcher, and there’s a lot of commonality between animals and people. You start to do a lot of what I call perspective shifting, of jumping into their head to think, ‘Why would they make that decision?'”
— Apollo Robbins

“‘Boring’ means that your imagination is broken. So you’ve got to find a way to do it, you’ve got to find something to do, and you’ve got to use your imagination better.”
— Apollo Robbins

“I found that lore can take you so fast so far, but also it can encapsulate what people think you are versus what you are. And it can be hard to underpromise and overdeliver when people have this expectation of what you can do.”
— Apollo Robbins

“When we lose, we’re more curious. And when we win, we’re less curious about why we’re winning.”
— Apollo Robbins

“Deception is a social lubricant. It happens all the time around us, from the moment we put on makeup to something else. So, whether it be a defeat for cancer by using decoy cells, there’s all these things that have a reason. But it’s about your intent, and that’s the big thing.”
— Apollo Robbins

PEOPLE MENTIONEDForrest Gump Paul the Apostle James VI and I Ben Stone Gary Larson Charlie Strothkamp Ava Do Mark Sparks Dariel Fitzkee Santa Claus Daryl Martinez Justin Tranz James Carter William Wallace Daniel Simons Christopher F. Chabris Stephen L. Macknik Susana Martinez-Conde Penn Jillette Raymond Teller Simon Coronel Adam Green The Yellow Kid Titanic Thompson Duane Gish Socrates Plato Aristotle Derren Brown Daniel Kahneman Gary Klein Edward Bernays Richard E. Nisbett Cameron Malin J.B. Bobo David W. Maurer Herbert A. Simon Daniel J. Boorstin Robin Hood Victor Lustig Rod the Hop Kevin Mitnick Mr. Miyagi Simon Henderson Anthony Pratkanis

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Published on October 19, 2023 06:01

Dr. Mark Plotkin on Coffee, the World’s Favorite Stimulant — Chemistry, History, and More (#698)

Welcome to The Tim Ferriss Show, where it is usually my job to deconstruct world-class performers to tease out their routines, habits, et cetera that you can apply to your own life.

This time around, we have a very special edition featuring Dr. Mark Plotkin.

Mark takes over my duties as host and shares an episode of the Plants of the Gods podcast. You, my dear listeners, are hearing the audio before anyone else, even before his podcast subscribers, so this is a Tim Ferriss Show exclusive.

So, who is Dr. Mark Plotkin? Mark (@DocMarkPlotkin) is an ethnobotanist who serves as president of the Amazon Conservation Team, which has partnered with ~80 tribes to map and improve management and protection of ~100 million acres of ancestral rainforests. He is best known to the general public as the author of the book Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice, one of the most popular books ever written about the rainforest. His most recent book is The Amazon: What Everyone Needs to Know. You can find my interview with Mark at tim.blog/markplotkin.

This tightly-packed episode explores all things coffee—the most widely consumed mind-altering plant product in the world.

Please enjoy!

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform.

This episode is brought to you by my very own COCKPUNCH Coffee !

The transcript of this episode can be found here. Transcripts of all episodes can be found here.

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This episode is brought to you by my very own COCKPUNCH Coffee! This year, one way I’ve scratched my own itch is by creating COCKPUNCH Coffee—the first coffee I’ve ever produced myself, which I now drink every morning. It’s a tie-in to a fictional world I created, but that’s another story for another time. I enlisted the help of world-class experts and tested dozens of variations over many months. As longtime listeners know, I have very high standards when it comes to coffee. After dialing in the sourcing, roasting, and more, this is the combo that finally made me say, “This is the one!”

100% of my COCKPUNCH-related proceeds to date—now $2.5M+—including those from COCKPUNCH Coffee, go to my non-profit foundation, the Saisei Foundation, which focuses on cutting-edge, scientific research and other uncrowded bets.

To learn more about the latest projects that I’m working on, check out SaiseiFoundation.org. And if you’d like some of the best coffee in the US, at least in my humble opinion, check out cockpunchcoffee.com. I think you’ll love it as much as I do. Grab a bag—or two or three—at cockpunchcoffee.com.

If you’d like to hear the last time we featured a Plants of the Gods conversation on this show, listen to Mark’s interview with Brian C. Muraresku, author of New York Times bestseller The Immortality Key here. In it, they discussed the Eleusinian mysteries, stoned apes vs. drunk monkeys, changing attitudes at the Vatican, the role of beer and wine in the foundation of civilization, doing good in the world based on the otherworldly, the strange places where ethnobotanists find friends, and much more.

#646: Brian C. Muraresku with Dr. Mark Plotkin — The Eleusinian Mysteries, Discovering the Divine, The Immortality Key, The Pagan Continuity Hypothesis, Lessons from Scholar Karen Armstrong, and Much More

What was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.

SCROLL BELOW FOR LINKS AND SHOW NOTES…

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Dr. Mark Plotkin:

Website | Plants of the Gods Podcast

Amazon Conservation Team | Twitter | Facebook

The Amazon: What Everyone Needs to Know by Mark J. Plotkin | Amazon Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest by Mark J. Plotkin | Amazon Dr. Mark Plotkin on Ethnobotany, Real vs. Fake Shamans, Hallucinogens, and the Dalai Lamas of South America | The Tim Ferriss Show #469 Plants of the Gods — Dr. Mark Plotkin on Ayahuasca, Shamanic Knowledge, the Curse and Blessing of Coca, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #508 The Hidden Knowledge of Animals — Mark Plotkin on Nature’s Medicine Cabinet | The Tim Ferriss Show #537 Hamilton Morris and Dr. Mark Plotkin — Exploring the History of Psychoactive Substances, Synthetic vs. Natural Options, Microdosing, 5-MeO-DMT, The “Drunken Monkey” Hypothesis, Timothy Leary’s Legacy, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #605 Brian C. Muraresku with Dr. Mark Plotkin — The Eleusinian Mysteries, Discovering the Divine, The Immortality Key, The Pagan Continuity Hypothesis, Lessons from Scholar Karen Armstrong, and Much More | The Tim Ferriss Show #646 The Life and Times of Richard Evans Schultes | Plants of the Gods S1E10 Magic Mushrooms and the Roots (Actually, the Mycelia) of the Psychedelic Renaissance | Plants of the Gods S2E4 Absinthe as Ideogen in Art and Literature | Plants of the Gods S3E3 Absinthe, New Orleans, and the Birth of Rock and Roll | Plants of the Gods S3E4 Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl | Prime Video Official Movie Site | Barbie How New Orleans Made Chicory Coffee Its Own | Epicurious The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse by Brian Cowan | Amazon In ‘Stoned Ape’ Theory, Consciousness Has Roots in Psilocybin | Inverse How the Drunken Monkey Hypothesis Explains Our Taste for Liquor | The Atlantic Coffee: A Dark History by Antony Wild | Amazon Java Man | Wikipedia How Humans Discovered Coffee But Were Unable to Control It | Forklore Caffeine | The Vaults of Erowid Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World by Mark Pendergrast | Amazon The World Before Starbucks | The New York Times What Is a Whirling Dervish and Why Is It Called That? | Istanbul Dervish Ceremony Mocha | Merriam-Webster Plants and Society by Estelle Levetin and Karen McMahon | Amazon Coffee and Qahwa: How a Drink for Arab Mystics Went Global | BBC News Coffee: A Global History by Jonathan Morris | Amazon Coffea Arabica | Wikipedia Bruce’s Abyssinian Plants in the Leith Walk Garden | Botanics Stories Coffee’s History Blooms at Amsterdam’s Hortus Botanical Garden | Sprudge Jardin des Plantes in Paris | Go Guides Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind by Henry Hobhouse | Amazon Beyond the Cup: Who Was Gabriel Mathieu De Clieu? | The Golden Lamb Old Time Farm Crime: The Coffee Spies of the 1700s | Modern Farmer Slavery in Brazil | Wilson Center Coffee Production in Haiti | Wikipedia Coffeeland: One Man’s Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug by Augustine Sedgewick | Amazon German Guatemalan | Wikipedia Coffee in Colombia: A Long Story | FARO Roasting Houses The Story of Costa Rican Coffee: From the Central Valley to Your Mug | Insight Guides Blog Johann Sebastian Bach: “Coffee Cantata” BWV 211 (English Subtitles) | Vesteel The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee by Honoré de Balzac | Urbigenous Library Voltaire’s Coffee Obsession in the 18th Century | Geri Walton The High, Oxford: Angel Inn | Oxford History Ode to Café Pamplona | Cambridge Local First Café Algiers: A Hidden Gem with a Long History | History Cambridge 150-Year-Old Cambridge Book Store Set to Close | NBC Boston Grolier Poetry Book Shop A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage | Amazon Coffee and Pope Clement VIII: The Devil’s Drink | Catholic Coffee How Coffee Forever Changed Britain | BBC Travel Coffee Houses | The Engines of Our Ingenuity Women’s Petition Against Coffee | Wikisource “Penny Universities”: How Coffeehouses Changed the World | Big Think Promoting Excellence in Science for the Benefit of Humanity | The Royal Society St. Paul’s Cathedral The Principia: The Authoritative Translation and Guide: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Sir Isaac Newton | Amazon The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith | Amazon Where J.K. Rowling Wrote Harry Potter in Edinburgh | Independent Travel Cats Harry Potter Complete Boxed Set by J.K. Rowling | Amazon Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land by Jacob Mikanowski | Amazon Nechezol | Wikipedia Coffee and Commerce 1652-1811 | Lloyd’s Jonathan’s Coffee-House | Wikipedia Forget Garages, Coffee Shops Are Where Businesses Get Started | The Guardian How Coffee Fueled Revolutions — And Revolutionary Ideas | History Fonde En 1686 | Procope Coffea | Wikipedia Peaberry | Wikipedia Kopi Luwak | Wikipedia Jacu Bird Coffee | Gastro Obscura The World’s Rarest Coffee. Naturally Refined By Elephants | Black Ivory Coffee Company Coffea Charrieriana | Wikipedia Coffee Consumption by Country 2023 | World Population Review McMurdo Station | National Science Foundation ISSpresso | Wikipedia The Mystery of the Green Dragon Tavern and the Boston Tea Party | Boston Tea Party Historical Society The Green Dragon Tavern All About Coffee by William H. Ukers | Amazon How Hot Coffee Helped William McKinley Become President | Tasting Table William McKinley Coffee Break Monument | Roadside America “Way Out” Coffeehouses | Restaurant-ing Through History World-Renowned San Francisco Saloon | Vesuvio Cafe Since 1927 | Caffè Reggio Listen. Experience. Engage. | Passim Third Wave Coffee & Specialty Coffee: What Are They? | Methodical Coffee The Original Craft Coffee | Peet’s Coffee Our Original Store | Starbucks Archive What the Death of Coffee Shops Tells Us about Silicon Valley | Financial TimesSHOW NOTES[04:35] Plants of the Gods: the story so far.[05:28] Coffee is the most widely consumed mind-altering plant in the world.[06:35] Why they drink coffee with chicory in New Orleans and Vietnam.[08:41] An acquired taste.[09:18] Is coffee responsible for human consciousness?[12:08] The origin story of coffee.[13:10] The motivational power of caffeine.[14:30] How coffee spread through the Arab world.[16:07] Why such a “troublemaking social brew” persisted despite resistance from authorities.[19:55] Intrigue brings coffee to Europe and the New World.[28:26] How coffee shaped Brazil’s society and economy.[31:19] Slave revolts, rainforest depletion, and income inequality in tropical America.[33:20] Guatemalan Nazis.[34:31] Colombia’s Jesuit java.[35:21] Costa Rican egalitarianism.[36:09] How coffee fueled European arts.[38:25] Why coffee’s impact was magnified in Europe.[42:34] “The combination between coffee drinking and coffee thinking is a real one.”[44:21] Why coffee houses made Kings and clergy nervous.[47:42] The Age of Reason’s internet.[50:53] Harry Potter’s debt to the modern coffee house.[52:07] The role of coffee in communist Romania.[54:02] How coffee houses seeded some of today’s most vaunted institutions in England.[55:27] French coffee house culture’s impact on the French and American revolutions.[57:28] Coffee talk for botany nerds.[59:01] Peaberry.[59:27] Civets, turkeys, and elephants (oh, my).[1:00:18] Robusta.[1:01:27] Caffeine-free abominations.[1:01:54] The global economic value of coffee.[1:03:02] Coffee’s role in US history.[1:07:45] A shift toward convenience as a priority and its inevitable backlash.[1:09:20] The Beatnik-boosted specialty coffee movement.[1:10:32] Why did this movement originate in the Western US?[1:12:04] Thank you, coffee.PEOPLE MENTIONEDRichard Evans Schultes Horatio Nelson Napoleon Bonaparte Brian Cowan Robert C. Bolles Terence McKenna Ian Tattersall Antony Wild Kaldi Waaqa Mark Pendergrast Muhammad Alexandre Dumas Estelle Levetin Jonathan Morris Carl Linnaeus James Bruce Rembrandt van Rijn Johannes Vermeer Frans Hals Nicolaes Witsen Pieter van den Broecke Louis XIV Henry Hobhouse Gabriel-Mathieu de Clieu Francisco de Melo Palheta Claude Guillouet d’Orvilliers Marie-Claude Vicq de Pontgibaud Jorge Amado Euclides da Cunha Toussaint L’Ouverture Johann Sebastian Bach Honoré de Balzac M. de Voltaire Pasqua Rosée Jacob the Jew Tom Standage Patrick Edward McGovern Pope Clement VIII Charles II of England Dr. Seuss Isaac Newton Adam Smith Jonathan Swift Christopher Wren Robert Hooke Edmond Halley J. K. Rowling Harry Potter Jacob Mikanowski Denis Diderot Jean Jacques Rousseau Benjamin Franklin Baron de Montesquieu Camille Desmoulins Georges Danton Jean-Paul Marat Maximilien Robespierre Samuel Adams John Hancock Paul Revere Daniel Webster William Ukers Alexander Hamilton William McKinley Jimmy Doolittle Osama bin Laden Allen Ginsberg Jack Kerouac

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Dr. Mark Plotkin on Coffee, The World’s Favorite Stimulant — Chemistry, History, and More (#698)

Welcome to The Tim Ferriss Show, where it is usually my job to deconstruct world-class performers to tease out their routines, habits, et cetera that you can apply to your own life.

This time around, we have a very special edition featuring Dr. Mark Plotkin.

Mark takes over my duties as host and shares an episode of the Plants of the Gods podcast. You, my dear listeners, are hearing the audio before anyone else, even before his podcast subscribers, so this is a Tim Ferriss Show exclusive.

So, who is Dr. Mark Plotkin? Mark (@DocMarkPlotkin) is an ethnobotanist who serves as president of the Amazon Conservation Team, which has partnered with ~80 tribes to map and improve management and protection of ~100 million acres of ancestral rainforests. He is best known to the general public as the author of the book Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice, one of the most popular books ever written about the rainforest. His most recent book is The Amazon: What Everyone Needs to Know. You can find my interview with Mark at tim.blog/markplotkin.

This tightly-packed episode explores all things coffee—the most widely consumed mind-altering plant product in the world.

Please enjoy!

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform.

This episode is brought to you by my very own COCKPUNCH Coffee !

Listen onApple Podcasts [image error]Listen onSpotify [image error]Listen onOvercast#698: Dr. Mark Plotkin on Coffee, The World’s Favorite Stimulant — Chemistry, History, and More

This episode is brought to you by my very own COCKPUNCH Coffee! This year, one way I’ve scratched my own itch is by creating COCKPUNCH Coffee—the first coffee I’ve ever produced myself, and which I now drink every morning. It’s a tie-in to a fictional world I created, but that’s another story for another time. I enlisted the help of world-class experts and tested dozens of variations over many months. As longtime listeners know, I have very high standards when it comes to coffee. After dialing in the sourcing, roasting, and more, this is the combo that finally made me say, “This is the one!”

100% of my COCKPUNCH-related proceeds to date—now $2.5M+—including those from COCKPUNCH Coffee, go to my non-profit foundation, the Saisei Foundation, which focuses on cutting-edge, scientific research and other uncrowded bets.

To learn more about the latest projects that I’m working on, check out SaiseiFoundation.org. And if you’d like some of the best coffee in the US, at least in my humble opinion, check out cockpunchcoffee.com. I think you’ll love it as much as I do. Grab a bag—or two or three—at cockpunchcoffee.com.

If you’d like to hear the last time we featured a Plants of the Gods conversation on this show, listen to Mark’s interview with Brian C. Muraresku, author of New York Times bestseller The Immortality Key here. In it, they discussed the Eleusinian mysteries, stoned apes vs. drunk monkeys, changing attitudes at the Vatican, the role of beer and wine in the foundation of civilization, doing good in the world based on the otherworldly, the strange places where ethnobotanists find friends, and much more.

#646: Brian C. Muraresku with Dr. Mark Plotkin — The Eleusinian Mysteries, Discovering the Divine, The Immortality Key, The Pagan Continuity Hypothesis, Lessons from Scholar Karen Armstrong, and Much More

What was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.

SCROLL BELOW FOR LINKS AND SHOW NOTES…

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Dr. Mark Plotkin:

Website | Plants of the Gods Podcast

Amazon Conservation Team | Twitter | Facebook

The Amazon: What Everyone Needs to Know by Mark J. Plotkin | Amazon Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest by Mark J. Plotkin | Amazon Dr. Mark Plotkin on Ethnobotany, Real vs. Fake Shamans, Hallucinogens, and the Dalai Lamas of South America | The Tim Ferriss Show #469 Plants of the Gods — Dr. Mark Plotkin on Ayahuasca, Shamanic Knowledge, the Curse and Blessing of Coca, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #508 The Hidden Knowledge of Animals — Mark Plotkin on Nature’s Medicine Cabinet | The Tim Ferriss Show #537 Hamilton Morris and Dr. Mark Plotkin — Exploring the History of Psychoactive Substances, Synthetic vs. Natural Options, Microdosing, 5-MeO-DMT, The “Drunken Monkey” Hypothesis, Timothy Leary’s Legacy, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #605 Brian C. Muraresku with Dr. Mark Plotkin — The Eleusinian Mysteries, Discovering the Divine, The Immortality Key, The Pagan Continuity Hypothesis, Lessons from Scholar Karen Armstrong, and Much More | The Tim Ferriss Show #646 The Life and Times of Richard Evans Schultes | Plants of the Gods S1E10 Magic Mushrooms and the Roots (Actually, the Mycelia) of the Psychedelic Renaissance | Plants of the Gods S2E4 Absinthe as Ideogen in Art and Literature | Plants of the Gods S3E3 Absinthe, New Orleans, and the Birth of Rock and Roll | Plants of the Gods S3E4 Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl | Prime Video Official Movie Site | Barbie How New Orleans Made Chicory Coffee Its Own | Epicurious The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse by Brian Cowan | Amazon In ‘Stoned Ape’ Theory, Consciousness Has Roots in Psilocybin | Inverse How the Drunken Monkey Hypothesis Explains Our Taste for Liquor | The Atlantic Coffee: A Dark History by Antony Wild | Amazon Java Man | Wikipedia How Humans Discovered Coffee But Were Unable to Control It | Forklore Caffeine | The Vaults of Erowid Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World by Mark Pendergrast | Amazon The World Before Starbucks | The New York Times What Is a Whirling Dervish and Why Is It Called That? | Istanbul Dervish Ceremony Mocha | Merriam-Webster Plants and Society by Estelle Levetin and Karen McMahon | Amazon Coffee and Qahwa: How a Drink for Arab Mystics Went Global | BBC News Coffee: A Global History by Jonathan Morris | Amazon Coffea Arabica | Wikipedia Bruce’s Abyssinian Plants in the Leith Walk Garden | Botanics Stories Coffee’s History Blooms at Amsterdam’s Hortus Botanical Garden | Sprudge Jardin des Plantes in Paris | Go Guides Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind by Henry Hobhouse | Amazon Beyond the Cup: Who Was Gabriel Mathieu De Clieu? | The Golden Lamb Old Time Farm Crime: The Coffee Spies of the 1700s | Modern Farmer Slavery in Brazil | Wilson Center Coffee Production in Haiti | Wikipedia Coffeeland: One Man’s Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug by Augustine Sedgewick | Amazon German Guatemalan | Wikipedia Coffee in Colombia: A Long Story | FARO Roasting Houses The Story of Costa Rican Coffee: From the Central Valley to Your Mug | Insight Guides Blog Johann Sebastian Bach: “Coffee Cantata” BWV 211 (English Subtitles) | Vesteel The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee by Honoré de Balzac | Urbigenous Library Voltaire’s Coffee Obsession in the 18th Century | Geri Walton The High, Oxford: Angel Inn | Oxford History Ode to Café Pamplona | Cambridge Local First Café Algiers: A Hidden Gem with a Long History | History Cambridge 150-Year-Old Cambridge Book Store Set to Close | NBC Boston Grolier Poetry Book Shop A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage | Amazon Coffee and Pope Clement VIII: The Devil’s Drink | Catholic Coffee How Coffee Forever Changed Britain | BBC Travel Coffee Houses | The Engines of Our Ingenuity Women’s Petition Against Coffee | Wikisource “Penny Universities”: How Coffeehouses Changed the World | Big Think Promoting Excellence in Science for the Benefit of Humanity | The Royal Society St. Paul’s Cathedral The Principia: The Authoritative Translation and Guide: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Sir Isaac Newton | Amazon The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith | Amazon Where J.K. Rowling Wrote Harry Potter in Edinburgh | Independent Travel Cats Harry Potter Complete Boxed Set by J.K. Rowling | Amazon Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land by Jacob Mikanowski | Amazon Nechezol | Wikipedia Coffee and Commerce 1652-1811 | Lloyd’s Jonathan’s Coffee-House | Wikipedia Forget Garages, Coffee Shops Are Where Businesses Get Started | The Guardian How Coffee Fueled Revolutions — And Revolutionary Ideas | History Fonde En 1686 | Procope Coffea | Wikipedia Peaberry | Wikipedia Kopi Luwak | Wikipedia Jacu Bird Coffee | Gastro Obscura The World’s Rarest Coffee. Naturally Refined By Elephants | Black Ivory Coffee Company Coffea Charrieriana | Wikipedia Coffee Consumption by Country 2023 | World Population Review McMurdo Station | National Science Foundation ISSpresso | Wikipedia The Mystery of the Green Dragon Tavern and the Boston Tea Party | Boston Tea Party Historical Society The Green Dragon Tavern All About Coffee by William H. Ukers | Amazon How Hot Coffee Helped William McKinley Become President | Tasting Table William McKinley Coffee Break Monument | Roadside America “Way Out” Coffeehouses | Restaurant-ing Through History World-Renowned San Francisco Saloon | Vesuvio Cafe Since 1927 | Caffè Reggio Listen. Experience. Engage. | Passim Third Wave Coffee & Specialty Coffee: What Are They? | Methodical Coffee The Original Craft Coffee | Peet’s Coffee Our Original Store | Starbucks Archive What the Death of Coffee Shops Tells Us about Silicon Valley | Financial TimesSHOW NOTES[04:35] Plants of the Gods: the story so far.[05:28] Coffee is the most widely consumed mind-altering plant in the world.[06:35] Why they drink coffee with chicory in New Orleans and Vietnam.[08:41] An acquired taste.[09:18] Is coffee responsible for human consciousness?[12:08] The origin story of coffee.[13:10] The motivational power of caffeine.[14:30] How coffee spread through the Arab world.[16:07] Why such a “troublemaking social brew” persisted despite resistance from authorities.[19:55] Intrigue brings coffee to Europe and the New World.[28:26] How coffee shaped Brazil’s society and economy.[31:19] Slave revolts, rainforest depletion, and income inequality in tropical America.[33:20] Guatemalan Nazis.[34:31] Colombia’s Jesuit java.[35:21] Costa Rican egalitarianism.[36:09] How coffee fueled European arts.[38:25] Why coffee’s impact was magnified in Europe.[42:34] “The combination between coffee drinking and coffee thinking is a real one.”[44:21] Why coffee houses made Kings and clergy nervous.[47:42] The Age of Reason’s internet.[50:53] Harry Potter’s debt to the modern coffee house.[52:07] The role of coffee in communist Romania.[54:02] How coffee houses seeded some of today’s most vaunted institutions in England.[55:27] French coffee house culture’s impact on the French and American revolutions.[57:28] Coffee talk for botany nerds.[59:01] Peaberry.[59:27] Civets, turkeys, and elephants (oh, my).[1:00:18] Robusta.[1:01:27] Caffeine-free abominations.[1:01:54] The global economic value of coffee.[1:03:02] Coffee’s role in US history.[1:07:45] A shift toward convenience as a priority and its inevitable backlash.[1:09:20] The Beatnik-boosted specialty coffee movement.[1:10:32] Why did this movement originate in the Western US?[1:12:04] Thank you, coffee.PEOPLE MENTIONEDRichard Evans Schultes Horatio Nelson Napoleon Bonaparte Brian Cowan Robert C. Bolles Terence McKenna Ian Tattersall Antony Wild Kaldi Waaqa Mark Pendergrast Muhammad Alexandre Dumas Estelle Levetin Jonathan Morris Carl Linnaeus James Bruce Rembrandt van Rijn Johannes Vermeer Frans Hals Nicolaes Witsen Pieter van den Broecke Louis XIV Henry Hobhouse Gabriel-Mathieu de Clieu Francisco de Melo Palheta Claude Guillouet d’Orvilliers Marie-Claude Vicq de Pontgibaud Jorge Amado Euclides da Cunha Toussaint L’Ouverture Johann Sebastian Bach Honoré de Balzac M. de Voltaire Pasqua Rosée Jacob the Jew Tom Standage Patrick Edward McGovern Pope Clement VIII Charles II of England Dr. Seuss Isaac Newton Adam Smith Jonathan Swift Christopher Wren Robert Hooke Edmond Halley J. K. Rowling Harry Potter Jacob Mikanowski Denis Diderot Jean Jacques Rousseau Benjamin Franklin Baron de Montesquieu Camille Desmoulins Georges Danton Jean-Paul Marat Maximilien Robespierre Samuel Adams John Hancock Paul Revere Daniel Webster William Ukers Alexander Hamilton William McKinley Jimmy Doolittle Osama bin Laden Allen Ginsberg Jack Kerouac

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Rich Paul — The Power Broker and Superstar Agent Behind LeBron James, Draymond Green, and Others (#697)

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“Just stay at it. It’ll turn. In the dice game, we used to have to be able to say, “Can you stand the rain?” A guy is throwing point after point after point and you would have to stand in there and stand the rain and eventually they turn and things go the other way.”
— Rich Paul

Rich Paul (@RichPaul4) is the CEO and founder of KLUTCH Sports Group, the powerhouse agency representing some of the biggest athletes across major professional sports. Paul founded KLUTCH Sports in 2012 in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, where he forged a unique and personal approach to representing top NBA talent—putting athletes first and empowering them to build careers and brands on and off the court.

In 2019, KLUTCH Sports partnered with United Talent Agency (UTA). Paul serves as UTA’s Head of Sports and is an agency partner, and he was appointed to UTA’s board of directors in 2020. In 2019, Paul was named GQ’s “Power Broker of the Year” and dubbed “The King Maker” on the cover of Sports Illustrated. In 2021, TIME recognized KLUTCH Sports on its first-ever list of TIME100 Most Influential Companies, and Variety recently named Paul to their “Variety500” list of the most influential business leaders shaping the global media industry. Paul is also credited with driving the reversal of the so-called “Rich Paul Rule,” which would have banned agents without a college degree from representing NCAA student athletes.

In 2021, Paul and three former Nike executives formed a company called ADOPT, a creative agency focused on sport, wellness, nutrition, tech, and other consumer-facing products. In 2022, Paul joined the board of trustees of LACMA and the boards of directors of Funko and Designer Brands Inc. In 2023, he joined the board of directors of Live Nation. Paul is also a minority partner of the SpringHill Company.

His new book is Lucky Me: A Memoir of Changing the Odds.

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Want to hear an episode with LeBron James (and Mike Mancias, his top-secret trainer)? Listen to our conversation here in which we discussed injury prevention and recovery, self-care, career longevity, the power of sleep, environmental optimization, diet, self-talk, tattoos, and much more.

#349: LeBron James and His Top-Secret Trainer, Mike Mancias

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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Rich Paul:

Twitter | Instagram

Lucky Me: A Memoir of Changing the Odds by Rich Paul | Amazon Klutch Sports Group | United Talent Agency Rich Paul, NBA Power Broker, Growing Up and Finding Peace | The New York Times LeBron James’s Agent Is Transforming the Business of Basketball | The New Yorker Rich Paul: NBA Free Agency Belongs to LeBron’s Agent | Sports Illustrated LeBron James’s Representative Completes His Own Journey | The New York Times Glenville | Encyclopedia of Cleveland History | Case Western Reserve University Cleveland Muny Football League Rich Paul Circa 1993 | Instagram Free Agency Explained | NBA “Rich Paul the GOAT”: Having Negotiated $900+ Million After Jarred Vanderbilt Extension, LeBron James’ Agent Receives Massive Shoutout | EssentiallySports White Men Can’t Jump | Prime Video Report: Stephen Curry Made 77 Consecutive 3-Pointers in Practice, Hit 94 of 100 | Bleacher Report How an Oilers’ Warren Moon Throwback Jersey Linked Lebron James to His Agent Rich Paul | Chron James Baldwin | Wikiquote Video: Charlton Heston, Sidney Poitier, Marlon Brando, Harry Belafonte, James Baldwin in a Roundtable Discussion on Civil Rights | Slate Paul Speaks Out About Negative Consequences of ‘Rich Paul Rule’ | NBC Sports Warren Buffett Was ‘Terrified’ of Public Speaking and Took 3 Steps to Conquer His Fear | Inc.com Rich Paul: Power Broker of the Year | GQ Cooking for the Pros | Sports Illustrated Hourly Professional Athlete Salary | ZipRecruiter Magic Johnson, Wayne Gretzky, and 13 Great Players Who Couldn’t Coach | Bleacher Report Why We’re OK with LeBron James Being Mr. Nice Guy | Bleacher Report In My Lifetime, Vol.1 [Explicit] by Jay-Z | Amazon I Want You by Marvin Gaye | Amazon Good Times | Prime Video How the Record Sale of “The Sugar Shack” Made Ernie Barnes the Comeback Kid | Artsy Mortal Kombat | WikipediaSHOW NOTES

Editor’s Note: Timestamps will be added shortly.

The store where Rich’s story began.The cover choice for Rich’s memoir, Lucky Me.How Rich negotiated a lucrative free agency period.Street gambling as a youth.Good advice for avoiding bad deals.Meeting and creating an enduring relationship with LeBron James.The influence of James Baldwin.Rich’s experience with higher education and thoughts on the so-called “Rich Paul rule.”Best investments of time, energy, or money.How Rich beat out bigger competition to land clients.Helping aspiring pros establish the infrastructure they need to succeed.Key ingredients for emotional support and stability.Driving home the importance of preparing for a career’s rainy days.LeBron James’ ego.Why is Rich’s book titled Lucky Me?When the entrepreneurial impulse leads to darkness.The Ernie Barnes piece in Rich’s collection.Player empowerment.Rich’s most influential confidence builders.What prompted Rich to write Lucky Me?Rich’s billboard.Parting thoughts.MORE RICH PAUL QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“Some people define the business card and some people are defined by their business card.”
— Rich Paul

“Just stay at it. It’ll turn. In the dice game, we used to have to be able to say, “Can you stand the rain?” A guy is throwing point after point after point and you would have to stand in there and stand the rain and eventually they turn and things go the other way.”
— Rich Paul

“I don’t really have a lot of gray in me. It’s pretty black and white.”
— Rich Paul

“Now, we all have ego. Don’t get me wrong, you have to have an ego to have confidence, but you’re not invested in your ego. You’re not leading with the ego. You know when the ego is supposed to come out the room and when it’s not.”
— Rich Paul

“I know it may seem dark and gray and bleak and challenging, but you tend to think that everyone’s paying attention to you and what you’ve got going on. And so you get discouraged, but in reality, they’re not. Everyone has their own problems. Just get through yours. Get through them, continue to push, continue to persevere, and you can end up in a different spot.”
— Rich Paul

“I was extremely lucky to go through some of the things that I went through to help shape me and mold me to understand life’s challenges and to be able to survive those thunderstorms emotionally … to get out on the other side.”
— Rich Paul

PEOPLE MENTIONEDRich Paul, Sr.Draymond Green Jerami Grant Stephen Curry LeBron James James Baldwin John Singleton Hughes Brothers Warren Buffett Dale Carnegie Tyronn Lue Adrian Griffin Quin Snyder John Stockton Darvin Ham Jamahl Mosley Maverick Carter Randy Mims Jay-Z Ernie Barnes Marvin Gaye Eddie Murphy Reggie Miller Dirk Nowitzki Kobe Bryant Kevin Durant Bill Belichick

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Published on October 09, 2023 12:04

My Mental Health Routines and Tools (Includes Extensive Resources)

This upcoming Tuesday, October 10th, is World Mental Health Day.

Highlighting mental health is important to me for deeply personal reasons. Treatment-resistant depression, bipolar disorder, and addiction run in my family. I’ve lost multiple friends to suicide and almost committed suicide in college. Opioids and alcohol have claimed the lives of family members and some of my closest childhood friends.

But despair need not lead to deaths of despair.

This blog post compiles resources that have helped me and millions of readers. They include books, documentaries, podcast episodes, videos, and much more.

Below are the three resources that have received the most positive feedback. Each is intended to be highly practical and tactical:

Blog post: Some Practical Thoughts on Suicide . Podcast episode: My Healing Journey After Childhood Abuse .Blog post: “Productivity” Tricks for the Neurotic, Manic-Depressive, and Crazy (Like Me) .

If pressed for time, the below short video describes some of my daily practices for warding off and managing depression:

And if you remember only one thing, remember this: there is light on the other side.

I wouldn’t have believed this even 15 years ago, but I now consider myself living proof that deep, lasting change is possible. You are never alone, and it is never hopeless. The resources below the P.S. and P.P.S. are intended to light the fire of hope.

Don’t give up. I’m right there alongside you, as are millions of others.

Much love to you and yours,

Tim

P.S.

In 2018, I created the Saisei Foundation to focus on ambitious scientific research and cutting-edge clinical treatments of intractable conditions, including treatment-resistant depression, opioid addiction, anorexia nervosa, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Projects have been published in leading journals (e.g., The Lancet, NEJM) and featured in media coverage (The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, GQ, and dozens more) around the world. Click here to learn more about the foundation and its mission.

P.P.S.

Crisis
If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 or chat 988lifeline.org. Crisis Text Line: text “HOME” to 741741 to connect with a crisis counselor for free, 24/7 support.

Suicide
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. Beginning July 16, 2022, dialing 988 will also route calls to the lifeline. If you’re outside of the US, please click here for a list of international hotlines.

The below list of resources includes podcast episodes, books, documentaries, and more.

VIDEOS ON MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL

My Daily Practices and Habits to Fight Depression How to Cope with Feeling Unfocused or Overwhelmed Breathing Techniques to Reduce Stress and Anxiety | Dr. Andrew Huberman How to Meditate Brené Brown on How to Navigate the Emotions You’re Unwilling to Feel How to Use Your Phone… So That It Doesn’t Use You

THE TIM FERRISS SHOW PODCAST EPISODES

DOCUMENTARIES

Trip of Compassion. This documentary affected me so deeply (and immediately) when I first saw it that I flew to Tel Aviv, met the filmmakers, and offered to help launch the film digitally worldwide. Everything I’ve done for this film is 100% pro bono, and all proceeds go to the filmmakers.

The Work. This documentary tore my heart apart but simultaneously gave me tremendous hope. It strikes me as particularly important for men (or those who want to better understand men) to watch, but the intensity isn’t for everyone. It’s exhausting to watch.

How to Change Your Mind (Netflix mini-series). “Author Michael Pollan leads the way in this docuseries exploring the history and uses of psychedelics, including LSD, psilocybin, MDMA and mescaline.”

DOSED. It’s one of the best and most beautifully shot docs I’ve ever seen about psychedelic medicine. It showcases the struggles, misfires, and successes in the concrete jungles near Vancouver instead of in an Amazonian jungle. For me, it was quite emotional, as it shows opioid/opiate addiction firsthand, and my aunt died of a Percocet and alcohol overdose close to when I first watched this documentary.

From Shock to Awe. If you like Trip of Compassion, or if you have an interest in psychedelics, ayahuasca, veteran affairs, or healing, take a look at this documentary. I’ve watched it 3x already and highly recommend it. Even if you don’t watch the film, the two-minute trailer is worth checking out.

RESOURCES, ORGANIZATIONS, AND TOOLS

Dialectical behavior therapy | Wikipedia
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises | Amazon
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) | Peter Attia, MD
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) | Mayo Clinic
How Somatic Experiencing Can Help You Process Trauma | Healthline
What is Internal Family Systems? | IFS Institute
Parts Work Therapy for Complex PTSD | Dr. Arielle Schwartz
Hakomi Method | Hakomi Institute
Imago Relationships
The Waking Up app
Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders | Mental Health America
Dissociation FAQs | The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation
The Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research | Johns Hopkins
Centre for Psychedelic Research | Imperial College London
The Conscious Leadership Group
The Enneagram Institute
The Center for Nonviolent Communication
Paradigms of Ketamine Treatment | MAPS
Psychedelic Science: Magic Mushrooms | MAPS
MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy | MAPS
Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (Resources) | tim.blog
About Holotropic Breathwork | Grof Transpersonal Training
What is the Hoffman Process? | Hoffman Institute Foundation

SUPPORT LINES:

Crisis
If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 or chat 988lifeline.org
Crisis Text Line text “HOME” to 741741 to connect with a crisis counselor for free, 24/7 support.

Suicide
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. Beginning July 16, 2022, dialing 988 will also route calls to the lifeline.

Violence, Abuse, and Sexual Abuse
National Domestic Violence Hotline 1-800-799-7233 or text LOVEIS to 22522
National Sexual Assault Hotline 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or Online Chat
National Sexual Violence Resource Center

Children
National Child Abuse Hotline 1-800-4AChild (1-800-422-4453) or text 1-800-422-4453
Child Welfare Information Gateway

If you have tips, advice, or resources that have helped you, please share them in the comments below.

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Published on October 06, 2023 12:32

Be Useful — Arnold Schwarzenegger on 7 Tools for Life, Thinking Big, Building Resilience, Processing Grief, and More (#696)

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“Don’t just worry about climbing a ladder that someone else has built. No, build your own ladder. Just don’t wait for anyone else. That’s what I did.”
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger (@schwarzenegger) is an Austrian-born bodybuilder, actor, businessman, philanthropist, bestselling author, and politician. He served as the thirty-eighth governor of California. His new book, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life, is out October 10th, and his daily email newsletter Pump Club recently hit more than 500,000 subscribers and continues to grow as a positive corner of the Internet.

Schwarzenegger has made it his mission to give back. Since his time in the Governor’s house, he’s been working diligently to combat climate change, anti-semitism, ensure fair voting practices, help youth, work with Veterans, and inspire healthy living.

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Want to hear the first time Arnold Schwarzenegger was on this show? Check out our conversation here in which we discussed how Arnold uses psychological warfare to win, how Twins became his most lucrative movie, mailing bull balls to politicians, how Arnold made millions before his acting career took off, and much more.

#60: Tim Ferriss Interviews Arnold Schwarzenegger on Psychological Warfare (And Much More)

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Website | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube

Editor’s Note: Timestamps will be added shortly.

Recovering from heart surgery.Age 10 entrepreneurship.Arnold’s dad and the importance of being useful.Arnold and his brother: same upbringing, different outcomes.Building ladders and never thinking small.When Arnold’s self-bet to be a comedic lead paid off.We’re all in sales.The significance of shifting gears.Grieving Franco Columbu.Aging.Arnold’s current state of self-identity.What Arnold hopes readers take away from Be Useful.Parting thoughts.MORE ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“No country ever was built by people sleeping in. Austria was not built by people sleeping in. America was not built by people sleeping in. People struggled, people suffered, people worked their asses off to build this country.”
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Through comfort, no one ever grows.”
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Don’t just worry about climbing a ladder that someone else has built. No, build your own ladder. Just don’t wait for anyone else. That’s what I did.”
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I realized then the importance of selling. That no matter what you have — if you have a podcast, if you have a movie, if you have a painting, if you have a car, a technology, a medicine, whatever it is — if people don’t know about it, you have nothing. The more people that know about your product or about your talent, the more you can go and be successful.”
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“You can be the biggest celebrity in the world, but you still get your back pain. You still get your hip pain. You still get your shoulder pain. You still get your elbow pain. You still get numb fingers. You still have to watch your heart. You still have to watch the diet. … This is all so that we stay alive longer. The time you’re born, your time is set. It’s set. The only thing that changes it is you.”
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I’m the guy that climbs up Mount Everest and sees another bunch of peaks. ‘Oh, my God, I didn’t even know they were there.’ And I climb them. That’s what I do, just a continuous climb. Nothing changes.”
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“In lifting, you can only know how much you lift if you’re willing to fail.”
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I’m not a self-made man. I have to recognize that my training, my money, everything comes from a lot of different people. … When you recognize that, you now have the responsibility of going out and helping others.”
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

PEOPLE MENTIONEDGustav Schwarzenegger László Papp Meinhard Schwarzenegger Joe Weider Maria Shriver Steve Reeves Reg Park Clint Eastwood Charles Bronson Warren Beatty Kirk Douglas Ann-Margret Lucille Ball John Milius James Cameron Danny DeVito Ivan Reitman Kelly Preston Tom Pollock Annie Leibovitz Andy Warhol Jamie Wyeth Franco Columbu Dave Draper Sergio Oliva Bill Pearl Muhammad Ali Michael Jordan Sargent Shriver

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Published on October 02, 2023 15:37

Shane Parrish on Wisdom from Warren Buffett, Rules for Better Thinking, How to Reduce Blind Spots, The Dangers of Mental Models, and More (#695)

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“Outcome over ego.”
— Shane Parrish

Shane Parrish (@ShaneAParrish) is the entrepreneur and wisdom seeker behind Farnam Street and the host of The Knowledge Project podcast, where he focuses on mastering the best of what other people have already figured out. Shane’s popular online course, Decision by Design, has helped thousands of executives, leaders, and managers around the world learn the repeatable behaviors that improve results. His work has been featured in nearly every major publication, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Forbes.

Shane is the author of Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results.

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Want to hear another episode with someone who spends his life learning how to solve problems and optimize time? Listen in on my conversation with Atomic Habits author James Clear, in which we discuss habitual accountability, systemic scaffolding, capturing good ideas, leveraging maximal results from minimal scale, defying algorithms, how success generates opportunities and distractions, building good habits while breaking bad ones, optimizing environment for habit adherence, and much more.

#648: James Clear, Atomic Habits — Simple Strategies for Building (and Breaking) Habits, Questions for Personal Mastery and Growth, Tactics for Writing and Launching a Mega-Bestseller, Finding Leverage, and More

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“Outcome over ego.”
— Shane Parrish

“Automatic rules turn your desired behavior into your default behavior, and they do it when you’re at your best.”
— Shane Parrish

“Why risk what you have and don’t need for what you don’t have and don’t want to begin with?”
— Shane Parrish

“Are you thinking independently of the circumstances, or are the circumstances thinking for you?”
— Shane Parrish

“Writing is the process by which we realize we don’t understand what we’re talking about. And it’s only when you sit down and put pen to paper or even type out an idea that you have, a decision you’re making, an idea you’re wrestling with, that you sort of see where you don’t understand it. And the process of writing is not only refining that idea and helping you reflect on it, but you actually generate new ideas in the process of writing.”
— Shane Parrish

“You tell yourself a story about why sunk cost doesn’t apply in this situation or why you’re not overconfident in this situation. And the smarter you are, the better those stories get and the more believable they get.”
— Shane Parrish

“If you put Warren Buffett in a bad position where all of his options are bad—it doesn’t matter how smart he is, it doesn’t matter how Warren Buffett he is—everybody looks like an idiot when they’re in a bad position, and everybody looks like a genius when they’re in a good position.”
— Shane Parrish

PEOPLE MENTIONEDJoe Abercrombie Charlie Munger Warren Buffett Daniel Kahneman Peter S. Kaufman Andrew Carnegie John D. Rockefeller Naval Ravikant Patrick Collison Kat Cole Edward de Bono James Clear Bill Ackman Nassim Nicholas Taleb Peter Thiel

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Published on September 28, 2023 06:29

Sam Corcos, Co-Founder of Levels — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes) (#694)

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“A lack of communication is a lack of performance.”
— Sam Corcos

Sam Corcos (@samcorcos) is the CEO and Co-founder of Levels, an a16z-backed startup that shows you how food affects your health using continuous glucose monitors and other biosensors.

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Want to hear an episode with another founder who finds novel ways to manage time? Listen to my conversation with Asana’s Dustin Moskovitz in which we discussed making quicker decisions, avoiding the paradox of choice, difficult but desirable delegation, No Meeting Wednesdays, effective altruism, the future of AI, and much more.

#686: Dustin Moskovitz, Co-Founder of Asana and Facebook — Energy Management, Coaching for Endurance, No Meeting Wednesdays, Understanding the Real Risks of AI, Embracing Frictionless Work with AI, The Value of Holding Stories Loosely, and More

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“A lack of communication is a lack of performance.”
— Sam Corcos

“One of my new rules over the last couple of years is, I will only purchase a book if it is the next book that I’m going to read. I just found that stacks of books that I have committed to reading, that I have not read, felt like a betrayal of my own commitment to myself.”
— Sam Corcos

“You spend a handful of minutes, 15 minutes, maybe 10 minutes, one time, learning what hotkeys to use. And most people will see a 10 to 40 percent increase in productivity immediately for the rest of their lives. And yet most people don’t take the time to learn them. It is a free productivity boost.”
— Sam Corcos

“If you cannot write out your ideas, you do not have coherent thoughts.”
— Sam Corcos

“Every new surface that you add is an obligation to maintain — maybe forever.”
— Sam Corcos

PEOPLE MENTIONEDZachary Henderson Ray Dalio Tony Milio Josh Clemente Nick Huber Jonathan Swanson Ryan Holiday Kim Kardashian Cosima Travis Sam Harris Eric Ries Casey Means Ben Horowitz Murillo Nicácio De Marães Dustin Moskovitz Todd Opalski Mike Haney David Perell Richard Dawkins JP Sears William James John Gager Bill Gates Mark Granovetter Marco Canora

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