#361: Jim Collins — A Rare Interview with a Reclusive Polymath - The Tim Ferriss Show
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#361: Jim Collins — A Rare Interview with a Reclusive Polymath - The Tim Ferriss Show
I’m fascinated with history’s thinker-doers: Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, Benjamin Franklin. There’s no greater achievement than calling your shots: laying out a theoretical worldview, then executing ruthlessly to bend reality.
There exist people like this today, who write a manifesto and go build a $100B company on top.... See more
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Discusses how to intentionally engineer creative breakthroughs through specific habits and by studying the mindsets of successful people.
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I don't think a lot of people realize that you can help engineer breakthroughs. I think that there's things in your life that you could do to, yeah, engineer breakthroughs. And I've been thinking about what that is. For me, it's been slow mornings. So I try my hardest to get up earlier than I actually have to because I like just to like walk
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The innovative mindset of questioning everything, as exemplified by Steve Jobs, and how companies lose this vision.
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Steve gives some great advice on how to think about building great products. He says, your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them. It's a rare person who etches grooves that are other than a specific way of looking at
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