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Aug 2024
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#765: Chris Sacca and Scott Glenn

Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig
About this episode

This episode is a two-for-one, and that’s because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I’ve curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade. I could not be more excited.

The episode features segments from episode #79 "Chris Sacca on Being Different and Making Billions" and #729 "Legendary Actor Scott Glenn — How to Be Super Fit at 85, Lessons from Marlon Brando, How to Pursue Your Purpose, The Art of Serendipity, Stories of Gunslingers, and More."

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Timestamps:

[00:00] Start 

[05:19] Notes about this supercombo format.

[06:23] Enter Chris Sacca.

[06:53] Traits of founders for whom success, at massive scale, seems predestined.

[08:00] Travis Kalanick and Nintendo Wii Tennis.

[09:55] Resources for cultivating investing chops, emotional intelligence, and general empathy.

[18:37] Chris' evolving concept of success.

[22:31] What Chris and his brother Brian's parents did right.

[26:47] What Chris looks for when hiring.

[29:23] The prophetic notebook.

[31:29] Advice to aimless college graduates.

[34:06] Two differentiators that shifted the nature of Chris' business

[38:16] Enter Scott Glenn.

[38:44] Idaho vs. Los Angeles.

[44:59] Apocalypse Now, self-confidence soon after.

[49:00] Burt Lancaster's movie star lessons.

[54:41] The birth and death of Wes Hightower.

[1:03:56] Catching the attention of James Bridges.

[1:06:12] Scarlet fever.

[1:07:57] From Marine to police reporter.

[1:12:42] Berghof Studios and parental advice.

[1:21:12] Converting to Judaism.

[1:24:04] Lao Tzu: the ultimate mystic?

[1:28:44] Letting go with Killer Joe.

[1:33:20] "Crazy Whitefella Thinking."

[1:38:53] Getting out of the way and Erwan Le Corre.

[1:42:19] Lessons from the "morally phenomenal" Marlon Brando.

[1:46:54] How Scott's childhood bout with scarlet fever informed his life's course.

[1:49:33] Daily routines and exercises of an in-shape 85-year-old.

[2:05:46] Securing a serendipitous skill set.

[2:12:41] Thailand talk.

[2:16:46] Increasing surface luck.

[2:17:32] How Scott met and fell in love with his wife.

[2:23:32] "Just dance."

[2:24:14] Mistakenly calling Rudolf Nureyev Russian.

[2:26:24] Poetry.

[2:30:31] What Laurence Olivier knew about the value of tenacity.

[2:32:09] Parting thoughts.

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