The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Mark Zuckerberg on Long-Term Strategy, Business and Parenting Principles, Personal Energy Management, Building the Metaverse, Seeking Awe, the Role of Religion, Solving Deep Technical Challenges (e.g., AR), and More (#582)

“There’s a physical world and a digital world. The real world is actually both.” – Mark Zuckerberg

The Bible begins with creation, Mark thinks this is a very intentional message. We were made to create. Mark h as made religion more of a priority in his life since having children.

4.  Build Awesome Things. And the idea here is that— I actually think  that there’s a pretty big difference between things that are valuable and things that are awe inspiring and amazing.

Even simple strides in establishing a presence in VR will be impressive, there is an incredible innovation runway.  Think about eye contact, VR hopes to solve the lack of eye contact we lose over zoom calls (you can’t look at the screen and the camera at the same time).  Motion sickness in VR derives from the digital rendering not accurat... See more

On leadership:People are psychologically much more  interested and capable of focusing on a long-term outcome when they feel secure in the near term. So when there’s a lot  of near-term thrash or prospects don’t look good or the market is down overall, even if that’s not specific to your  company, even if it’s a kind of broader thing... See more

Being constantly misunderstood is mentally challenging, but it’s where the most growth happens.  Train yourself to be uncomfortable – “If I’m doing something that feels well understood for too long, then I feel like I’m being complacent…At this point, if people fully understand what we are as a company, we’re not pushing it hard enough.” – Mar... See more

5.  Be Direct and  Respect Your Colleagues, which I find as the company grows— one of my colleagues, Boz, has this saying that we’re in  danger of nicing ourselves to death.  And Sheryl always says  that the amount of progress that we make is directly proportional to the number of hard conversations that we’re  willing... See more

“Let’s constantly be doing something that can be doubted. Because if we’re not, then what are we doing?”

People at some level have this intrinsic desire to be understood and belong and feel  like they belong with the people around them.

I’ve always basically believed that values  are only useful if you can legitimately disagree with them. I’ve always thought values like “be honest,” are not that  helpful, because of course you have to be honest.