What was your great-great grandfather called?
…?
In 4 generations, no one will know your name.
Not even the people who share your genes.
Stop taking everything so seriously and just enjoy the ride.
Rick Rubin describes how the same creative aesthetic is present in everything he does:
“You're at Shangri-La and you walk through the space and you see it doesn't feel like other places you've been. It has the same aesthetic as the records I make, or the things that I work on, or things that I buy.”
“It’s the same aesthetic. It’s all fitting into a [creative] worldview.”
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And then Rick and I tied this to the same creative personality type you see in every field:
David: “I've had my first podcast for a decade. And it started out just me reading biographies of people that build businesses.
But over time I realized it’s the same personality type:
The artist, the entrepreneur, the filmmaker, the musician.
I've done podcasts on all of these kind of people and I don't see any distinction between them.”
Rick: “It's the same. It’s the same. It's all the creative spirit.”
“Most of what I do is not really about music. I happen to work in music but it's not about the music. Does that make sense?”
One of the most surprising ideas from my conversation with Rick Rubin is how he thinks about himself:
“I think of myself as a researcher.”
“I have a fanatical devotion to finding the best version of everything I’m interested in.”
“Anything I'm interested in I want to know everything about it.”
“I'll go on forever going deeper and deeper and deeper into a topic.”
“What I do most of the time is research. I’m curious.”
Jeff bezos tiene razon. Aumento de impuestos no soluciona nada. Solo la abolición de la propiedad privada de los medios de producción puede cambiar las condiciones materiales de los trabajadores.
The investment: ~5 hours a week. Lifting heavy objects 3x a week, 2 work sets per exercise, 2-3 exercises (at least one compound movement) to failure and hiking or jog for an hour or so 1X a week, sprint intervals one day (usually 4 days after leg day…)
… for 35 years
Emotional intelligence and communication ability is at least 75% autonomic regulation - which also unlocks control over your own time perception and thus what does and doesn’t need to be said in a moment, the rest becomes easy.