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Ep94 - Tim Ferriss | How to Cage the Monkey Mind

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The Mary Prankster

The Mary Prankster himself just such a colorful character and multi-vastard, really incredible amateur who was able to best a lot of the professionals because of that beginner mind and lack of fear. The Walter Isaacson biography of Franklin is so good. Second, Richard Feynman probably. It's like another polymath slash Prankster who you student. In addition to being a world class physicist at Los Alamos, he became a safe breaker just to annoy his superiors. I wouldn't suggest this in today's climate but he used to take out these top secret documents and put them on his boss's desk and then close the safe and just leave.

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