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#80: Thomas Edison's Formula for Greatness

The Tim Ferriss Show

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The Great Boxer, a Man Who Smiles

The great boxer jack johnson in his famous 15 round brawl with jim jeffreys. Jeffreys called out of retirement like some deranged cincinnatus to defeat the ascendant black champion. And johnson, genuinely hated by his opponent in the crowd, still enjoying every minute of it,. smiling, joking, playing whole fight. Why not? There's no value in any other reaction. Should he hate them for hating him? Bitterness was their burden, and johnson refused to pick it up. Every round he got happier, friendlier. As his opponent grew enraged, tired, eventually losing the will to fight. If ever a man won by nothing more fatiguing than a

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