I'll Tell You a Story After This, Which Shows You What I Learned

#145: The Interview Master: Cal Fussman and the Power of Listening

The Tim Ferriss Show

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I'll Tell You a Story After This, Which Shows You What I Learned

i'm walking down the aisle and i see an empty seat next to a beautiful woman, right? I look at her hands, no rings. She's looking at me. She could be a super model. I swear. I walked right on by. Why? Bcause there was no way. O's takin me home. There was no way to was taking me home that. Well, there was verys very little money in those days. So it was just savings based until it was extinguished. And im going to tell you a story after this, which shows you what i learned.

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Speaker 1

Wern going

Speaker 2

out late to mix nuts and olives, hot as deer, happy, marrising your cherries.

Speaker 1

But it was great, because youre sitting next to frank to ford, who was like the big sports writer of his day. A guy named garry smith came to work there. He was a national magazine a ward winner for many, many years. And it wasjt, a blast. It was the best time. Sounds incredible. And then, like a lot of artistic successes, it was not a commercial success. And like a lot of start ups, it went belly up.

Speaker 2

Sounds like the paris review and many, many others. There you go. And

Speaker 1

so here i am in new york, and basically, i've now achieved everything i'd set out to achieve when i was kid. And i'm looking around saying, what am i going to do now? Where am i going to go? I had no idea, because i knew if i took tha incise forts, was not a job. It was an experience. It wasaa an event every evening. Who was coming to night an? I didn't know what to do. So lled up my mam and dad and i said, you know, i think i'm going to take some time off. And traveland, my mam, who's always really supportive, said, oh, cal, that's wonderful. And little did she know when i said it, that i wasn't coming back for ten years. But i didn't know it either. I just bought a ticket, had to go over to europe. Left with guys, and that started a ten year odyssey of

Speaker 2

cow going around the word thet's k.

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