Danny Pollack

CEO/Head of Content @dojohouseco 🎬 president of @nobodygetsit_co 💿

[Ethan Klein, host of the H3 Podcast (parody) @h3h3producitons]

RIP Oliver Tree. Heartbroken 💔

[Kiko Suarez @imkikosuarez]

Trump is hilarious dude😂

Reece James looked at him and said “You staying?🤨”

[Hibernian Football Club @HibernianFC]

Friday at HTC in eight iconic shots 🍿

[SMX 🇺🇸 @iam_smx]

"I am an Alien, I keep telling people I'm an Alien, but nobody believes me." 😂

-Elon Musk

[Mr.Karlous @KarlousM]

So we all agree that 500 bottles of baby oil is plenty enough. Nobody needs a thousand.

[William Angus @WillAngus_]

Nickelodeon should do a stream for the presidential debates like they do for the NFL. If I’m gonna follow along, I need SpongeBob & Patrick to explain to me what a Two-State solution is

[John Rich @JohnRichTV]

This is the first time I’ve looked at a draft class and thought “I bet I could beat some of these guys up”

[Danny Pollack @dpfromdc]

Yo @TheRoaringKitty thanks for using our video in your own way 😎😎😎

[Danny Pollack @dpfromdc]

You just gotta do some main character shit

[Blake @FrostedBlakes34]

Cowboys fans to Eagles fans https://t.co/CHx8Hz33tF

[Beatrice Peterson (@MissBeaE on all platforms) @MissBeaE]

Spotted: The Grinch riding an ATV on U Street in DC.

[JDM @Joshua__DM]

This is still a top 5 tik tok of all time.

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

In early 1992, an aspiring director asked James Cameron,

How do you become a successful director?

Cameron's movie "Terminator 2" was the top-grossing movie of 1991, so Cameron, who had no formal film education, was arguably the best person in the world to ask.

Cameron replied,

“If you have to ask somebody how to be a film director, you’ll probably never do it."

Cameron added that this is his reply to everyone who asks him that question. For 2 reasons:

Number 1...

In his books on screenwriting, Syd Field writes that the core trait of all great characters is the character's “dramatic need.”

With a “dramatic need” (to get something, to go somewhere, to beat someone, etc.), the character persists through the story’s relentless series of obstacles, problems, and conflicts.

To become a successful film director, Cameron says, you need to have a dramatic need.

Like a good story, the filmmaking process, Cameron explains, is a relentless series of obstacles, problems, and conflicts.

Someone who gets discouraged by his reply, Cameron says, clearly does not have the “dramatic need” needed to persist.

But “if [my reply] pisses you off, and then you go out and say, ‘I’m going to show that Jim Cameron; I am going to be a director’—that gives you the kind of true grit you need to have in order to go through with it.”

Number 2...

Of all the successful filmmakers Cameron knows, he said, “No two people ever did it the same way.”

Their career trajectories were each uniquely shaped by their unique strengths and weaknesses.

“Whatever your strengths and weaknesses,” Cameron says, “you have to find the path that’s going to work for you.”

This made me think of a line from the comparative mythologist Joseph Campbell:

“Where there’s a way or path, it is someone else’s path; each human being is a unique phenomenon. The idea is to find your own path."

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“I’ve always felt that people seek out the information and knowledge they need. They seek it out and find it...Nobody will give you the pathway. It’s something you have to find yourself.” — James Cameron

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[Huey Mack @HueyMack]

This Titanic Submarine has to be the most gripping story of the year. From the controller, the creepy step son going to Blink 182 concerts and beefing with Cardi B, and a documentary coming out before we even know if they’re safe. The world is so ridiculous

[FunnyPicsDepot @FunnyPicsDepot]

Sir Isaac Newton was only 23 when he discovered the law of gravity.

T-Pain was only 22 when he rhymed mansion with winscansin.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

Go to the fucking gym.

Go on a fucking walk.

Build a fucking business.

Learn to calm the fuck down.

Maximize every fucking area of your life.

Mind, body, spirit, business.

Your quality of life will be high as fuck.

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

At one point, Matthew McConaughey had his acting career, his family, a foundation, a film production company, and a record company.

In 2008, he shut down the production company and the record label.

"I was making B’s in 5 things," he said. "I want to make A's in three things."

By shutting down the production company and the music label, McConaughey said, "I did start making much better grades, so to speak, in those 3 things."

“Alright, alright, alright.”

Takeaway 1:

“If you seek tranquillity,” the philosopher King Marcus Aurelius wrote, “do less.”

And then he points out that doing less "brings a double satisfaction."

You get the satisfaction of having fewer things on your to-do list. And you get the satisfaction of doing those fewer things at a higher level.

You get "to do less, better."

Takeaway 2:

Shutting down the production company and the music label, McConaughey said, was hard to do. He liked having a production company and a music label.

It reminds me of the legendary Apple designer Jony Ive's definition of focus:

“What focus means is saying no to something that you—with every bone in your body—think is a phenomenal idea, and you wake up thinking about it, but you say no to it because you’re focusing on something else.”

Focus requires sacrifice. Making A's, so to speak, requires saying no to things you like and want to do because you’re saying yes to things you love and have to do.

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"You gain more by finding a rich mine and mining it deeper, than by flitting from one shallow mine to another—intensity defeats extensity every time...As Schopenhauer wrote, 'Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.'" — Robert Greene

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[Danny Pollack @dpfromdc]

@jimmyeatworld reunion tour 2024 callin it out now 🎟️

[Danny Pollack @dpfromdc]

Just overheard a guy at the dog park tell his dog "NO!" and then more quietly, "We talked about this!"

[Danny Pollack @dpfromdc]

Guy on jeopardy was just introduced as a “stay at home uncle”