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

The Tim Ferriss Show

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Building to Last With Gerry Back at Stanford

i was worried that what would happen is if i went from being invisible to being visible. I might wake up in five or six or seven years and have not gone back to the wellspring of the deep quiet solitude of work. So i asked some faculty members who i'd greatly respect how they spend their time. 50 percent of your time in new intellectual creative work 30 percent ofyour time in teaching and 20 percent on other things. That's a consistent answer for me. And so i thought well you know what's interesting is a professor a university is a place that really encourages that because it's sort of designed to allow you to spend your life in that tranquility.

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