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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Resistance, Creative Courage, Stallone's Gamble, and the Price of Fame
- One host uses the Lehman Brothers play to illustrate how a business drifts from selling goods to purely financial dealings, and ties it to his own habit of taking opportunistic pit stops instead of the fulfilling path.
- Drawing on Steven Pressfield's The War of Art and Jerry Seinfeld's habits, the hosts argue that showing up and doing the work daily, like a pro, matters more than waiting for inspiration or worrying about outcomes.
- Sam Parr describes how Brett Adcock's mission-driven ventures, Figure and Cover, made him rethink whether a company needs a world-changing purpose, while the other host reframes the question as 'What would I do if I wasn't afraid?'
- The other host recounts Sylvester Stallone's interviews about Rocky, in which Stallone turned down offers of up to $265,000 for the script because he needed to find out whether he was truly a creative person.
- In a lighter second half, Sam profiles low-key founder Michael Pryor, and the hosts play a hypothetical about what each would need to be paid to stop creating content, followed by a tangent on stage names.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasSmall opportunistic detours can add up to an unlived life.
The other host admits he keeps taking 'quick pit stops' toward money, and the quote from The War of Art warns of becoming the great author who never wrote the book.
Pros show up whether they feel like it or not.
The book, as described by the other host, separates amateurs from pros by consistency, and Sam notes Seinfeld writes about an hour a day even when most of it is garbage.
Ask 'What would I do if I weren't afraid?' instead of 'What should I do?'
The other host says fear of failure is usually what blocks the work people want to do, whether that is a robot company or a book.
Separate the choice of what you do from the result.
The other host says you control the effort, not the outcome, and cites Rick Rubin's view that you don't make popular, you make a lot of stuff and put out your best.
A big mission can make building a company easier.
Sam relays Brett Adcock's view that crazy, ambitious missions make it easier to attract employees, investors and customers, which made Sam question his own claim that a company doesn't need to save the world.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesAnd those pit stops add up. You add one pit stop after another, where you choose the opportunistic thing.
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The thing you can control is did you spend the time doing the thing you really wanted and did you give it your all? You cannot control the outcome.
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the true artist, the people who are gonna make, make the great shit, the people who are gonna live their sort of their, their most fulfilled life, they're the ones marching through the snow in the discomfort, but they're doing exactly the thing that they want to be doing.
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Usually you're afraid of failure. Usually you're afraid of it not working out.
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Lenny Williams sounds like a 50-year-old guy who watches softball on TV, you know what I mean?
— Sam Parr
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Sam Parr
hostEntrepreneur and co-host of My First Million; founder of Hampton (and previously The Hustle).
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