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#632: Jim Collins — A Rare Interview with a Reclusive Polymath (Repost)

The Tim Ferriss Show

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What I Learned From McPhee

McPhee had just such a marvelous way of being able to use words to really exercise as curiosity and see things and then put them in these marvelous forms. I've carried my notes from that class with me everywhere meaning in every place I have lived since I took the class which would have been in probably 98 or 99 so I've been carrying these notes for 20 years now. He's the consummate version of that tween line about you know the difference between almost the right word and the right word is the difference between a lightning bug and a lightning bolt, he says.

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