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ᴅᴀᴠɪᴅ ᴘᴇʀᴇʟʟ ✌ @david_perell
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New North Star Podcast!

"Dreams and Determination" with the brilliant @danielgross.

We talked about:

📱 Daniel's prophetic run-in with Steve Jobs

🎮 Why life is like a video game

🇮🇱 Why is Israel such an innovative country?

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"Life is like a video game." - @danielgross

If you're doing something difficult and you get dismayed, the video game has become too hard.

Have no fear.

You're just trying to do too much at once.

Like a video game, challenges can't be too easy or too hard.

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Your environment is the ultimate CHEAT CODE.

Surround yourself with the right people, and you'll progress faster. You'll want to learn and build stuff because you'll want the approval of your peers.

Cultivate an environment that'll help you.

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Find the FAST FLOW.

Lucky people move with life, not against it.

Lucky people bathe in the reverie of adventure.

Lucky people surround themselves with people who motivate and inspire them.

🙌

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Love Daniel's definition of fitness:

"Fitness is something you do so you can really play in the real world. It's a kind of base... Invest in yourself so you can invest in others."

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Woah! This podcast was extremely popular.

Due to popular demand, a full transcript is now available.

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How to find new, undiscovered ideas… A thread!

If you remember one thing, remember this… The best ideas are ALWAYS at the edge.

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Here's how information travels on the internet:

1. Reddit, obscure forums, and private group chats
2. Medium posts and podcasts
3. Major newspapers, such as the New York Times

As ideas trickle from forums to mainstream media, informational edge disappears.
New York culture follows the L-TRAIN.

1. Creativity begins in Bushwick, where rents are cheap.

2. Ideas trickle to Williamsburg, which is corporate, but artistic.

3. Major institutions (like Google and the Whitney Museum) at the end of the L-Train pick up ideas and share them.
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Just saw the Andy Warhol exhibit at the Whitney Museum in New York.

Warhol's work was a window into another era. An era defined by three things:

1. Mass media
2. Mass production
3. Mass consumption

Some reflections on the exhibit...
/ Warhol’s famous Campbell’s Soup painting reminded me of Henry Ford’s famous line: "You can have any color as long as it's black.”

In pursuit of mass production, we let go of personalization. Millions of Americans paid the same prices for the same products and the same stores.
/ Instead of making art for advertisements, Warhol made advertisements as art.

He studied our obsession of fame, questioned the rise of commercialism, and highlighted the uniformity of most areas of American life.
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One of my top career strategies is taking ideas from YouTubers and bringing them to the intellectual sphere.

Influencers are years ahead of the rest of us. They live at the frontier.

Study influencers and you’ll see the future.
Examples:

- Power of collaboration
- Build relationships w/ daily content
- Casual language
- Brands that feel like friends
- Build trust w/ photos
- Shift from industries to audiences
- Content as a resume
- Be informative + entertaining
- Be short term catchy, long-term sticky
More examples:

- Convergence of people and brands
- Organic content as a marketing channel
- Celebrities that feel like friends
- Using audience data to launch products at scale

Key insight: On social media people want to follow PEOPLE - not companies.

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I do recommend @60Minutes and @frontlinepbs.
@Amy_Siskind @60Minutes @frontlinepbs Oh, but do watch @PartsUnknownCNN!

IMO, it was the best show for understanding different cultures, both here and abroad. Watch the ones on Puerto Rico, West Virginia, or @BarackObama in Vietnam.

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