Jim O'Shaughnessy: Sometimes we get caught up in what feel like infinite loops when trying to figure things out. The goal of this podcast is to learn how we can reset our thinking on issues that hopefully leaves us with a better understanding. Billy Oppenheimer was gracious enough to agree to come on and chat with me. He is the research assistant to Ryan Holiday.
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. Important Links:
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