Episodes

I’ve become absolutely convinced, when we look at how innovation happens inside organizations or how individuals come up with int…

In terms of of the new definition of success, at its most basic we have previously defined the American dream as one individual c…

At the core, any community around this world, if you do the simple things that require the human element of caring, loving and be…

What causes a lot of people to quit is the first time they fail, the first time they weren’t good enough. It doesn’t matter how g…

Focus is about the ability  to attend at will. And to do so in the presence of distractors. And focus ends up becoming then a bal…

If it looks good on paper and other people are impressed maybe that means it’s the right thing. And for me, one of the main lesso

Anybody who has achieved in sports or in music or has traveled globally, anyone who has broken out of their social circle has rea…

Rather than going into this and saying “this an iterative process, where every time I do something my primary metric is growth an…

The question “what do I want?”,we make it this big all encompassing question like one day you’ll wake up and you’ll know with abs…

“If you are sharing something to connect with people… usually the scarier something feels the better is that you share it, but if…

Productivity is not about doing things unthinkingly. Productivity is about pushing yourself to think more about things that matte…

In this interaction that takes place between a person and a robot, the person is a critical determining factor in how that intera…

Do you want to make your art your commodity? Answer that. Because that choice is the most difficult choice you’re going to have t…

When I was going through a rough patch I came to one of two conclusions: I’m either  destined to be unhappy forever because I kee…

Even outside of outside of whatever skills you develop, say you never become a great guitar player, or singer or artists. That di…

Anytime a minority of people in this country wants to change, and by minority I mean a minority of people who hold a specific bel…

“There’s a reduction belief around things like food and other kinds of sacred activities that make us human that we’ve managed bo…

I remember the first guy that I taught. He walked into the studio very shy and very nervous. I was also nervous thinking “did som…

” I think the word potential is one of the most bullshit words out there.  How I know someone isn’t very good at being a performa…

“When you want to have more energy and more ability to write, it comes down to one thing. And that’s electrons. At the end of the…

“There’s great power deference. And I had learned that in hostage negotiation. As soon  we ceded the illusion of control to the o…

I don’t care who you are. Even billionaires. We like to be surprised and delighted. Most people I would say walk around feeling u…

Beyond working in whatever your parents did type of working, the industrial revolution really sort of began that idea that you wo…

I truly do believe that this is both the very best time in the history of the universe, as far as we can tell, to make something …