Billy Oppenheimer is a researcher for Ryan Holiday. He is also known for his viral long-form tweets and Six at 6 on Sunday newsletter.
Billy is insatiably curious. He is a master at drawing lessons from anecdotes from the worlds of sports, music, comedy, business, and more.
He joins the show to discuss how to cultivate good taste, whether everything is a remix, why he learns through introjection, and a whole lot more.
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Show Notes:
- Focus on doing the thing
- SIX at 6's origin story
- Learning through introjection
- Developing taste & cultivating curiosity
- "People don't have ideas, ideas have people"
- How Billy practices his scales
- Fiction vs non-fiction
- Repetition, repetition, repetition
- Should we study more failures?
- Process compounds
- "Care, but don't care too much"
- Has anyone succeeded without persistence?
- Conceptual ancestors
- Everything's a remix
- Taste, tools, markets & feedback
- Finding your pain points
- MUCH more!
Books Mentioned:
- Trust Me, I'm Lying; by Ryan Holiday
- Psychology of Money; by Morgan Housel
- Atomic Habits; by James Clear
- The Immortality Key : The Secret History of the Religion with No Name; by Brian C. Muraresku
- Reality Hunger; by David Shields
- The Power of Myth; by Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyers
- Cloud Atlas; by David Mitchell
- The Great Gatsby; by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Da Vinci Code; by Dan Brown