What Is a Milieu a Person Social Environment?

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A milieu is an environment that is like all encompassing. That just surrounds you and The reason that I think when you're in a place is like every place has this energy. It's entropy right like when ends up happening is we Go to match our social environment. As humans we are deeply social creatures. This is actually the lie of all enlightenment thinking that humans are individuals were actually my favorite metaphor is that humans are like violin strings. raising a family is definitely on the bucket list what else? I'd like to test myself physically just because I think The physical actions are window into our soul. And if you can like push yourself to a limit or push yourself past the limit that you

David Perell is a writer and the creator of Write of Passage - an online writing school focused on building the next generation of internet citizens. In March 2020, I stumbled across David’s account and was blown away by his tweets. They were thoughtful and insightful. So when he suggested interviewing me at his brand new studio, I was honored.

In this conversation we spoke about some of my podcasting secrets, how I do my research, why I admire people like Joe Rogan, Tim Ferriss, Chris Williamson, and Taylor Rooks, the biggest area I believe I need to improve as a podcaster, and what I’m usually doing on Sunday at noon. Some of what we talked about I’ve never shared publicly, and it’s only because of David’s ability as an interviewer to get it out of me.

(0:00) Intro

(2:24) My Research Process

(5:03) Gary Vaynerchuk Calls My Mom

(7:05) Coming Back To Writing

(9:01) Moving To Austin

(11:30) Long Island

(13:03) Ambition

(14:01) What Makes For A Great Podcaster?

(17:30) Who Do I Admire?

(20:02) Aesthetics

(21:22) How Am I Misunderstood?

(22:11) Grandparents