#199 - The Secret to Being Great

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i had the thought oh this is what it would have been like to talk to bill gates at twenty one yeah i feel like i could rule world i know i could be what i want to put at all in it like a days off on a road less travel never look in bag lines so this episode is gonna be it might be shorter than normal right yeah i think so okay i wanna i just drove like thirty hours and i listened to a ton of content i wanna tell you sean about some of the stuff that i listen to and why it's interesting is that what you wanna do for this entire episode yeah let's do it and i'm sure you'll have some stuff that you've consumed okay the first one i found this podcast that has like actually let's see how many reviews i i think like no reviews i think it's i emailed the guy he's amazing but it's called how to take over the world is that we should just have this guy we should just absorb this guy's podcast we need to acquire this guy's podcast this should just be on our feed wait did you did you listen to it no i'm just looking at the description of it and then the gems that you just told me and i'm like this should be part of m this is great it's amazing this guy he he it's like his his hobby and he really he they're so in so it's called how to take over the world what i think he's doing is you know a lot of biographies of great people like napoleon julius caesar the raw child they're like eight hundred to a thousand pages so it's like a real commitment to read it so he just reads it and he takes notes in one episode he did one on napoleon and he goes i have sixty pay or thomas edison he goes i have sixty pages of notes and he just reads the book and takes notes and then just explains and tell stories from the book and doesn't it in chronological chronological order and it's basically turns if you listen to a thousand page book on audi on audible it's something like forty or fifty hours but with him i just listened to this two hour podcast and i feel like i've just read most of the book it's pretty amazing but he also gives his analysis about it and so i listen to a few of them i listen to one on edison one on napoleon and one of the roth child roth child and there's three commonalities that i wanna tell you about these guys so do you know who roth child is roth child am i say it right yeah so basically it was started about this guy named roth in the seventeen hundreds he basically built like the amazon of of this his little ghetto in in in germany where he would sell like he would mail you at an item and if you wanted it you would send him money and it wasn't like that big but eventually he started he grew that over fifty years and started investing in stuff and then his kid started the goldman sachs of of europe so it like a long slow build up to building this family business so i'm gonna tell you three things that i've noticed that these folks had in common the first all of them enjoyed their work so there's a story where nathan ro this this one woman was talking to me who's like you know i hope you better hope that your kids aren't addicted to work like you are he goes oh no i hope they are because i love what i'm doing and i don't ever wanna stop same at napoleon and then someone said napoleon what what's your heritage what race are you he goes i'm of the race of men who found empires like they're addicted to it like they love it they they can't they can't not do it same with edison edison he was like nice to his kids and nice to his wife but he was really never around and they called he called his his studio which was in men park i believe it's called men park in new jersey and they said that it it it looked like a homeless en camp because there's these men in suits but they were just like laying around on the floor and sleeping there because they would do their best work from midnight to six am and they would just sleep below under their desk and they're like well why you do this he's like because there's so much to do and we love it like we can't not do this so they all enjoyed their work the second thing crazy crazy high energy so super high energy so napoleon he went to egypt to go conquer something and on his way he stopped in like some island where you like reorganize the government in three weeks and he and he changed their currency just they all have crazy high energy and that's something that i didn't actually think was a big deal but they all had crazy high energy now here's the third thing that i found to be kind of interesting a lot of the successful people that i'm learning about in this podcast they eat very very very little so like edison would only drink milk sometimes for months steve jobs for months for months what's the milk steve dude you remember steve jobs how we had a fruit of i i was gonna say it's fruit vegetarian or whatever it was the same thing he used to only eat like lunch and it was just fruit you know or something like that for a period of time rockefeller or rockefeller and van were this way too like in their first in like the it was it's all when they're all described like look ate very little typically to knee breakfast ate very little they're all like physically hungry and that physical hungry hunger some it does actually seem like at leads to some type of like success have does that so yeah okay so let me give you my take on all three of these so you said they really enjoy their worked like their work feels like plays the way would describe it where they didn't feel like they were forcing themselves to do something they wait ago keep doing it i would also say there's an obsession there now like is like i'm obsessed with stuff like is that do i enjoy it i don't know if i enjoy but like i the ocd forces you there's an obsession so there's a conor mcgregor fight this saturday and he has a great kinda like monologue from back when he was an nobody but he was talking about it he goes he goes i've lost my mind to this game hey he goes i think he must do that i think he must become obsessed you wanna lose your mind to your craft and i've seen that as like a common thing for a lot of people and and that actually relates to the eight very little a lot of time you get so en engaged in what you're doing that you just forget to eat you forget to go to the rest restaurant you you forget what time it is you forget you know you should sleep or you forget to pay that bill because you become completely obsessed and and en gross in what you're doing and you get in in a flow state really and in a flow state you you sort of block out a lot of the other stuff that's going on and so i think that's that's those two sort of go hand in hand and then the high energy i'm curious what that means to you so that's like doesn't mean like you're bouncing off the walls right yeah that's why i imagine what did you mean no it doesn't mean that you're bouncing off the walls but for example when i go and when i'm at a conference like let's say it's my conference or let's say it's at our at our talk that we did the other day how did you feel at the end of that the live shows yeah i felt kinda drained i felt drained i felt exhausted yeah but what i think of like what i think high energy means is i felt just so worn out then but i think that some people they would feel good and they'd be like alright let's go like it's more deals done let's go invest like like like i invest a little bit of money but if i was a full time investor you're doing deals all day and for me by like four or five o'clock i'm like i can't talk to another person i'm in exhausted i can't think about this anymore but i've seen some people that can do it all day and they just aren't worn out they just keep going and go and going and going right that's what i mean yeah i i'm with you on that yeah okay i think this is cool and i like the the study of of the sort of study of greatness and what i've also found is that like we've talked about this before it's like would you wanna be elon musk would you wanna be like basically this stuff comes at a at a pretty big sacrifice for other things in life family often you know relationships you know it's hard to relate to people or spend time with friends or anything like that if you're doing this so when you so i'm like you i like digesting these i like knowing it but then over time i've learned that like the goal is not to be steve jobs or i steve jobs or anything i just kind of fascinated by it in the same way that like i'm fascinated about how you know a a rhino moves and eats and i don't necessarily wanna be a rhino os i just right find it interesting that it's extreme creature i love freaks i like the freak show and these guys are free shows i also love bold people admire anyone who's bold so for example i was reading a book about steve mcqueen he was just an actor like he didn't change the world he probably didn't work that hard but he was like known for like saying his opinion and he like lived a very like free life that and it's like in the same field i like these people i like man who who who do what they say and they say like things that are different than other people but then also i love these freak shows like napoleon now let's actually talk about each of these thomas edison like elon a bunch of divorce one of his wives died from a morphine overdose his kids didn't really like him or get to know him that well even though he was like a kind guy but he was never around napoleon died on an island because they kicked him out and he died basically with nothing alone in an island off the coast of africa roth the child the the the i mean they were okay that they actually had good ideals but what with a lot of successful people like this yeah you don't actually wanna be them necessarily yeah okay so what else what else you got so you consume that what else you consume okay have you read neville alma act yeah shout out to jack click here no no eric eric right eric george i think jorge his last name yeah he was the main guy in jack animated whatever yeah oh there it is so neville nevada has so it's a two part i actually don't know how it came to be did naval just do a bunch of podcast podcasts and interviews and he summarized neville feelings yeah basically so neville had been putting out his content for years different podcast podcasts and stuff like that and lot of people like me and eric and others were big fans of it and what he did was he said alright you i don't know if you've ever bought the book or have a book poor poor charlie alma i think that's what this is ripped off which is charlie mu who's warren buffett business partner it was like about charlie mu and so he tried to make you know if naval is one of the good great thinkers of our time then he tried to make the compilation of all the shit and naval vidal said he took it for all the times naval all talked about wealth and they pulled it all together and put it all in one place and dis distilled it down and this book is broken into two parts the first is wealth the second is happiness i found the wealth stuff to be a little bit boring i don't even remember i i actually skipped over a lot of it i i don't even remember what he said about wealth do you yeah i mean i think it's it's the same thing that that we've talked about on here but he has this tweet storm that went ultra ultra viral like maybe i don't know fifty to a hundred million people have seen it by now and it's called how to get rich without getting lucky and he talks about these four thing i i i go it or i can skip it if you wanna to talk could talk about it a little bit yeah basically his summary is like you know here's some of the principles that over you know neville become very wealthy and over time he sort of learn for himself he wanted to be wealthy as a kid because you grew pretty poor and he wanted to be wealthy and he wanted to be wealthy not in a way that required outlier luck and he says this great thing which is like you know i wanna if i lived life a hundred times i wanna end up wealthy you know ninety eight a ninety nine times or like if you took away all my wealth now and you drop me you know butt naked in in the streets of of bangalore i wanna be able to again in five ten years end up rich again and so that means i actually understand the principles of how this is done and i'm not relying on on luck and so he talks about those principles and he basically says you know you wanna have these like three or four things so well first stop renting out your time you'll never get rich renting out your time which is you know ninety something percent of people are employees somewhere you are basically renting your time to an employer and you'll never become wealthy or you rarely would become wealthy with that path you you become wealthy by owning a piece of a business either as an investor or as a business owner or as an employee who has shares like employees at google or facebook who have seen you know gotten a lot of wealth by the appreciation of those shares and so then he talks about you know how do you how do you get to that point well you need a few things you want you know you what call specific knowledge which is basically like like sam you know how to grow a newsletter you know how to write content you know copywriting right you know certain things and so you need specific knowledge then you pair that with accountability so you wanna do it in the name of the hustle or sam or some brand that accrue that reputation so you wanna put your name on the line and say i'm gonna do this thing and so that when you do it you get paid for it you know the people at the hustle who writes your daily newsletter but are less well known they actually have certain skills they have certain unique knowledge specific knowledge but they don't have the account they're not putting up the accountability they're not living and dying by the sword of this news that are working or not maybe inside the company there are but not externally and then you have leverage so you know back in the day if you wrote something you would maybe distribute it locally on your newspaper or on a flyer or something like that but with the internet you have leverage where you can put this in an email and you could send it you could put the same amount of work in to write the email once you could send it to a hundred thousand people a million people or ten million people it's the same amount of work because you have tremendous leverage through technology and so basically he talks about like use these three things get specific knowledge be accountable put your name on the line that way you get the risk and the reward and lastly apply leverage to maximize the the value that you get out of the thing that's kind of the the basic formula and the whole book basically it's broken down to this idea of life is about health wealth and happiness or sorry wealth health happiness and he says we actually pursue it we go we pursue wealth then we do health then we do happiness and he's like that's actually a fine way to pursue it it's that's a very practical and fine way to pursue it the reality is is that the it's the reverse is true like the in terms of important so it's not most yeah happiness health and wealth but it's whatever it's fine they pursue that way and he has this beautiful line in the book where he said something like of course once you get the wealth you're gonna see that it's actually not nearly as important as you thought but you're not gonna listen to me and you have to pretty much discover on your own yeah you're not gonna listen to me i wouldn't have listened to me you know the type of person who's attracted this content you know they're they're gonna go through the same thing you have to learn that the hard way and so that was pretty interesting so i liked that but the second half is all about happiness and there was a few things that kinda stuck stuck out to me the first is that he basically acknowledged he he was like look don't worry it well then let me preface by saying naval interests me because he's like i mean he's probably a billionaire i have to imagine he started angel which is a multi billion dollar company he's an investor like he's in the game and he acknowledges that like i'm in the game and so like this is a little bit hip critical but basically he was like what i found is that a happiness must be a choice like i've been unhappy for decades and then i decided you know i'm going to be happy and he steals a lot of philosophy from stoic and he steals a lot of it from buddha buddhism and the idea here is that like your pass is unimportant and the future is unimportant and to say that you wanna do x y and z for legacy that's bullshit because what's gonna happen is when you die it's gonna be as if you are you know if it's the same feeling that you had before you are born which is like nothing so like who cares about some bullshit legacy which is like hard to fight against right but and he he's like it only matters about the about the present where you are now and that gets a little bit fluffy but i still thought it was really useful and oddly did you if you read the book he talks about not working hard he was like you actually should only do work that feels like play yeah and i thought that was kinda cool and he's like life's too short by the way just to grind and work your ass off which again i'm like but neville you're like a billionaire like there is this like what you know how do you i have to like kinda come to grasp with with us a little bit but i thought it was cool he also talks about on very oddly gives diet advice he's like just don't eat sugar stay away from sugar do high intensity interval training and stretch a lot yeah and he even says he goes i try not to he's like you know i don't talk too much about health because i'm pretty good at health i'm okay but i'm not self actual in that meaning like in wealth he's done better than ninety nine point nine percent of people so you know for him to talk about it well he's self actual it he has actually done it for himself and seen it done by many other people and so he feels comfortable putting out his whole philosophy on he's like in terms of health like i'll say some general things that you you you know hard argue against but i try not to talk too much about it even though it's very important because i'm myself of you know for many years didn't have an exercise routine or wasn't you know the best eater and now i'm better but i'm still not the best i'm not world class at that i'm not ninety nine point nine percent at at that one i'll i could tell one store so i called the friend and and this is almost like stuff i've read or listened to in the last like four days which is a lot but i want i i i had a friend and this is all related to what we this is relate to what we talking about earlier about crazy people i love freaks and i had a friend call and tell me about their best friend and let me tell you the story so there's this guy i'm gonna change some details because i don't wanna reveal it he was an accountant and on some large deals that he was working on at the age of like thirty he was able to save up one to two million dollars i think it was two million dollars at the age of thirty he was single he lived relatively frugal but he worked on some he worked had a big company who an employee but he worked on such a deal that he was able to capture like some of the commissions and he made like two million bucks with that two million dollars he angel invested a little bit and one of his angel investments made like half a million dollars and so here he is sitting with like two and a half to three million dollars at the age of mid thirties okay so about last twenty months ago when was bitcoin six thousand dollars yeah about about year and a half two years ago no sorry when it was three thousand whatever it was he put three million dollars into bitcoin everything he had everything one hundred percent of everything he had to the point of like i think he like saved like ten thousand or twenty thousand dollars for living census he put most everything he had and also he borrowed money i don't i'm he was able to borrow money somehow like through like like as simple as like robinhood gives you a little bit of margin but he was able to borrow money to the point of like he was in debt a significant amount of money and he bought a ton of bitcoin well last december when it hit sixty five or sixty three thousand dollars his three million dollars turned into around a hundred million dollars and he sold about half of it so he's got like this cushion and then he up and left and moved to another country and he lives there because he's like you know i'm just i believe that like this country is the future and the point of the story is i'm not like this crazy person i don't think you are either you have a family you're not gonna up and move them although you will take interesting debts but and i recognize i'm not the human being i am so thankful that crazy people like this exist and a amusement we're not for our amusement necessarily but like the world need like his bold was like rooted in some type of selfish see wants to get risk yeah rick get rich but that type of bold this even though this may may not be the best example but that personality type is what pushes society forward and actually does weird crazy stuff that ends up becoming normal and common for us right dude i don't know if i i don't think this is uncommon but i feel special the way i feel special that i'm this way but i know this is actually most people i think but i fucking love greatness in any field like you could just be like hey you play billiard something somebody like no check this out this person's is the best in the world of billiard tell me more i saw watching and i'll watch them for eight hour straight i'll then go watch the documentary about them and then i'll go find the like you know the book about them and i'll just keep going deep because there's something about greatness that is just so like attractive to me and so recently do you watch the tv show dave of course i like a what's the guy's name the race vicky yeah little tricky so dave is a show that i started watching and i love dave dave is like a hilarious show to me and it's like very unique show right and and it's not like most tv shows it's not made like most tv shows it uses like everybody's real names it's like kinda set in hollywood it's this guy's story of trying to be a big rapper which is his real story and then it's kinda like he's not like it's not entourage where he's just a cool and cool shit keeps happening models keep throwing themselves to him it's like the opposite he's kind of like a nerdy jewish guy who happens to be a aspiring rapper and you know things happen to him that are not so great all the time and so i just love this dude this dude is like he's so talented he's very talented as a rapper if you haven't listened to the lil dick sway freestyle we should put that whole freestyle at the end of this episode dan do that just grab the whole audio for that freestyle and put it at the end of this he gives the girl flowers but he gives her flowers exactly yeah he's that freestyle is amazing although i mean obviously it's not an actual so and then you know to be to then go into like how he marketed himself so he's a former ad agency guy who got his job at an agency but and was like writing a rap song for like doritos to like win the client when the get win the account then leaves to go become an actual rapper he his story is kinda like he he works for a long time on his album doesn't show anyone has no results to show for it kinda like runs out of time and money doing this and then like launches his first music video and it like goes viral and because he had put so much work into his craft of like making this work and he's completely authentic right so like back to naval escape competition through authenticity most of the things you want occur in very competitive spaces and the answer is not to try to out compete everybody like being better because everybody's trying to be better the way to do it is to be different the way to be different the easiest way to be different is to be completely you because nobody can be better at you than you been new your whole life you have a lifetime of experience at it and so similarly for dave he his niche in wrapping is like being you know an awkward white guy rapper just kinda growing through life trying to get with women and failing sometimes and sometimes succeeding and etcetera etcetera and so i think this guy is so impressive to me and so i love finding these like you know whether it's in and do you see that's why i love conor mcgregor and his rise because early on i was like this guy seems like he's full of greatness and then you see it play out and you're like wow that was amazing dave and the rap scene so this and you're talking about this with edison in some of the books that you're neville like some of the the content you're consuming i don't know like what do you think are we kind of like are we unique in this or is this just i feel like everybody loves greatness right or but is there something you i i i think that i i think it's because we have a pre we have been privileged in that you and i have seen people who have a cup we have seen like dozens of people accomplish things that a most people like like hear rumors about or movies about like like no i know this person they and a lot of them it's financial but yeah you know they sold their company they made five hundred million dollars like we know many people have done that and so we like we firsthand no like man greatness is real and you could self actual we know it's real the second thing is we know people that have it created or invented or worked on things that everyone else takes for granted and you're like dude do you have no idea what it takes to like to have like made that a reality it just it's so impressive and i think that because of that yeah we like appreciate bold people who are also capable right and so i i think a lot of people are like that but not that many people for example when i go to a convenience store and there's like a sign tape to the door i'm like do you have any fucking pride fix that shit like put a proper frame like do this the right way it'd like be the best that's why test you to test lack of regular test i i can't stand that but like but you know there's a reason why like we're not the only a reason why ji what's that gi loves sushi or jira sushi yeah yeah like we're like nike nike old marketing is not about the rubber and their shoes it's about like great athletes because everybody loves great athletes it's that's the easy one that everybody loves no i i i but i like it like i like like i'm i don't care about weight lifting but i'm weight i'm like dude the get look at this guy's like weighing his food every single day and getting up at five thirty like just for the like i just i i i love that so we'll let me move on to one more thing but yeah i do i love greatness and i'll tell you these last two things that i've read i leave one point on that i would say definitely a lot of good has come has come from being a fan of greatness but i would say try to be a fan of greatness not a fan of the people and the reason i say that is because what often happens is when people get really into greatness they go study these people and then they they're in their net conclusion is wow they're great and they're different than me and they sort of like separate it's almost like oh that's a different species and there's a there's a way to do this that's better which is basically you take you get entertainment and inspiration from them and education from them of the things that they do but like don't count yourself as something different treat yourself like that's that's you you're them you're you're no different than them they are just like you they're just you know made of the same things as you had the same doubts as you had the same insecurities as you had the same struggles as you and and so like don't like create this divide of the great people and then you because then it's counterproductive then every time you you learn about their greatness it reinforces this kinda like negative perception of yourself instead you think about yourself just like them and then every time you learn about them it creates a positive reinforcement about what you can also do and i'll tell you just the last few things that i consume this week that made a difference the first is not or the the last couple non nonviolent communication it's real touchy feely you know what non nonviolent communication is i've never read it but i've heard about it yeah yeah a way to speak in a way i guess i don't how would you explain it basically i have a problem like i suck at dealing with people like my emotions get the best of me i get angry at people and i communicate stuff and i'm like why am i getting angry like this is so counterproductive i do this with sarah i've done it with you before i've done it with all my coworkers i just communicate horribly so i'm actually trying to learn a better way to communicate a more effective way to communicate and this is like giving you a toolkit kit so it's basically like it just gives you like a better way to talk to people so you give us a one nugget from it so what's what's one tweak dude it's really hard it's like like it's so opposite of how i do things so it for example like like there's like a like okay so the end there's a lot someone who's an expert on this is gonna like criticize me on how i explaining it but it's quite complicated for me because it's so not normal but basically the idea here is like look i'm not gonna judge you for you telling me this not gonna get angry i'm not gonna judge you but i actually just wanna clarify like so you feel like this correct okay well what i need from you is x y and z are you able to like are we able to can i get that from you or no and then it's like that type of like very like crystal clear and then like you'll say things like look can you repeat back what you thought i said so for example i'll tell you to do something and i'll say and you'll say okay fine i'll be like can you repeat back well you said if you you don't do this you're gonna yell it or you let me find a better example okay my wife and we got into like an argument over i forget what we got into an argument over but i said can you repeat back to me what you thought i said well you said it's it's gonna piss you off if you if i do this again and i was like no i actually didn't mean to express the idea of i'm gonna be angry at you it was just like it hurts my feelings when this happens right do know what i mean so it's a different it's a different way to communicate i'm not good at it this is why i'm reading this fucking book clearly like it really describe the the damn of thing the last thing or the second last thing the courage to be disliked great i started getting into it because after neville and it's just like there's a few takeaways here i'll read the the my four takeaways the first is it's dangerous to believe that your passage term is your future i know it's fluffy if you focus on what's wrong with you you might be looking for reasons to hate yourself on purpose again fluffy third most of what we think is competition is just made up and is hurting your happiness and four this is like crazy voodoo woo basically life is just a bunch of like sounds and lights and like the emotion we assign a emotion to it and so you don't actually like you can assign a happy motors or not so that's the last one and then the last article i read that made a big difference there's this new yorker article written in two thousand and fourteen about sam alt have you ever read this maybe i i like to study these sam alt but i haven't i don't remember this one is written in two thousand sixteen a new yorker it's called sam alt manifest destiny and i was re reread this and i don't wanna tell you a few reasons first in two thousand and sixteen he talks about this they ask him what his hobbies are and what he does when he's not working and he goes i like racing cars i like renting planes and flying them oh and i've got one odd thing that i like i like to prep prep for survival seeing there be be builder he explained my problem sorry i'm butchering this the problem is when my friends get drunk they talk about ways the world will end after a dutch lab modified h five n one bird flu viruses five years ago making it super contagious the chance of lethal virus being released in the next twenty years will become well non zero so i have a plot of land in big that i can fly to i have antibiotics batteries water gas masks made by israel defense force all ready to go this was in two thousand sixteen and that's kinda cool right he also he also talks about basically he sold his company and he he goes a profit five million and he invested all of it in startups which i thought was pretty crazy because we're talking about like crazy freaks it's just a really good article i think people should read this because sam alt is like a a freak weirdo and that's like a compliment because we're talking about extreme personalities and i think it's like a really cool insight and it's one of the only article long form articles i've ever seen written about them so i've i've been reread that this week that's cool and i'm gonna check that out i i remember paul graham had once said something and paul obviously a fam fan of sam au because he program star y comb and then he put sam alt in charge of it and sam alt was by no means the most successful yc alumni at the time i think his company sold for thirty million but it was kind of like many ways of failure it didn't succeed it it raised forty and it full for thirty yeah exactly and so i think he got some out of it but you know whatever but paul once said like he's like when i was talking to sam alt i think maybe for the first time or second time he's like i had this thought oh this is what it would have been like to talk to bill gates at twenty one and like that's like pretty high praise for somebody so i i thought that was like pretty cool i don't a pretty cool description pretty cool yeah and there the there's a lot of weird things about alt that i love should come up with the better word than weird but peculiar thing so for example listen to the sentence and a class that alt taught at stanford in two thousand fourteen so which by the way it tells of fourteen he must have been like twenty eight he remarked that the formula for estimating a startup chance of success is something like idea times product times execution times team times luck where luck is a random number between zero and ten thousand and like like little lines like that i just think it's crazy that someone thinks like that and it just it's peculiar it's exciting it's really neat there's another story where he he's working with the with brian c the ceo of airbnb and they're about to pitch in front of everyone at yc and there's this great line where he says brian jesse goes i attribute a lot of our success to sam alt and yc and they're like well why he was like well right before our deck they we had a limited we had our deck it was all built out we had limited to our projected revenue on the deck of thirty million dollars jesse said sam stopped us and looked at us and goes do me a favor take all those m's you know the thirty million and change them to b's often the recall telling them either you don't believe everything you said in the rest of the deck about how how big this is gonna be or you're ashamed or i just can't do math yeah and he just said change all the ends to b's and i think like that weird type of thinking is actually pretty interesting yeah people who can cut through the noise and just i get straight to the heart of it alright this is cool this is kind of like stuff that sam been reading and listening to stuff we've been consuming i don't know is this interesting is this gonna be good or is it true i enjoy the conversation i don't dan what do you think is this gonna be a good pod yeah i think it's cool i think it'd be a fun to check in every couple weeks or a month alright well let's see but that's the episode little vicky don't turn the rock wonder drop a beat on him wait in the morning shane turn beat up your headphones get that headphones i'm gonna turn it cue not hit series go lil dick and back in his bitch i know y'all know when i wrap what it is all facts on feb got a gang of hits in touch with the kids like a beat ugh i'm a jam like shaq i'm a bang when i wish in this bitch like feeder us saying no timelines man you time list hold up mj ninety six meeting i'm back on my bullshit you know i'm hard like a full here so bourbon and white this stay with the relic some cool windows look how it spreads cool with flow i can make him right with a ig live and my girl got bombs and a bog hot and between her legs is looking right hypo pot and noose bring it all down hold up sway let me bring it all down being out here citizenship look at how i got everybody tuned in right now they everybody watch this for an hour tracy i brush you flower canceled out the ass like flat i was like don mattresses got my hair right aspirin i'm cashing it i'm cashing in i'm not about to hold a paper and display like a dumb tag no touch they about to run his back and if you ever met me a roof for sharp shit coming i'm a dome i'm a unicorn part of my breath only perk said i fuck with his breasts elevator kiss h it to wrist freaky friday i get in i'm like chris wait wait pass me to ride get it post jab feet jumping in them two shots at the line i got them like a mine oh out back of my cut on a dime blow the darts seems any anytime used to put the xbox can control on my taking let it vibrate how about jerk off a child came long way now like hey girl you me fuck and it shit work hey but brother looking at me like hey fuck bro sway her brother looking at me like hey fuck bro i'm like at abdul abdul ball these hooks got me score and see me coming from a far wrapping france i never need in advance i'm switching it up like i'm trans or don't throw man i'm meeting the pussy like cervical camps i know where i'm going but shit at my gps honestly been my sedan i can't do the sc dance i get caught up have work for you sometimes i'll catch it for a minute oh jay what it y'all what i did it mama mom me once she lug it in but i stomp y'all loud like a endemic soup all the shoe brands wanted me to sign i remember they thought i was only island never would not be another light me i could go viral off or put out of snippet i'm sick like a coating you really could get it always be planned just like i'm indebted i got a leg of my ottomans door on my television vision show is coming but that is a irrelevant right now i'm wrapping my presence get how did i get here i got big robin like did i'm prevalent hold let me find melody all my fans are getting mad at me data one they hear me spas now but i just had to put a couple smash out how is this shit a pop star that name is a d joke how did he make it that far to pussy at the credit like a house catch they're waiting on my bus like the out outback in and out with the bag like i make teens when i do shopping screens i've on like ad girls get wet light navy because the like i'm steph is ukraine claims an the nba text me if i wanna diet coke someone brings me diet coke all my life shows nuts like i expo tested coach so to wait let me add live my shit yeah look at my pen shit my right i'm a carl's junior your model for real just on a side like soccer moms i could have sold you stock combine have a so fast like rama down the auto bond to shaman running down the bottom from parcels arm i'm off the farm i'm on the court the is on the board plan on la lebron is not and my james worthy look at my bars on men like bernie oh we having fun girls see me and start brushing just because i'm around i used to always get a bow or wrap my physical way if this is cultural roll appropriation what can i say what was you have do you know i gotta rap but the times now we're scary put wait take a step back think about the shit internet is a permanent place gonna lift forever read analyze think about everything i'm such an idiot i used to cover art kelly songs at my shows without even knowing was problematic i feel the pressure on a more scrutiny what i do at more jewish come on way write my eu am i living like i need to get a job or living like i need a bodyguard guard i play tennis with leonardo how y'all trying on track like cargo i go dumb don't dumb it up don't fuck on planes when i'm coming up add up my views to sum it up i was the transport sports center done i think this is good done enough my hair looking mad like son now let me go and finish on my album jesse sm let you know i'm a fuck it up oh and that's it i'm gone and catch flight thank you ladies gentlemen one joining and now kill you see how that man did they that last line he on the line that gets to me man oh my god hell justin the one and only little dick ladies and gentlemen you'll manage your word i feel like i could rule to word i know i could be what i want to i'll put my all in it like a day's off on a travel never looking back

Episode Notes

In this special episode Sam (@TheSamParr) and Shaan (@ShaanVP) talk about recent content they've consumed. They break down Naval's tweetstorm on How to Get Rich Without Getting Lucky and discuss their appreciation for greatness. There is a unique example at the end of the episode.

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Show notes:

* (1:07) 1. How to Take Over the World (Podcast)

* (9:17) 2. The Almanac of Naval Ravikant (book)

* (17:59) Sam's friend and their big bet on Bitcoin

* (20:32) On greatness

* (27:19) 3. Nonviolent Communication (book)

* (29:26) 4. The Courage to be Disliked (book)

* (30:05) 5. Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny (article)

* (34:23) An example of greatness (NSFW)

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