How to Practice Scales

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The note cards are big, especially doing it by hand, I think. The practice of identifying which ones are worth transcribing onto a note card over time your ability to pinpoint those things gets better and better. "I'm mostly just because of what I'm doing now," he says about his mix of fiction and nonfiction reading.

Billy Oppenheimer is a researcher for Ryan Holiday. He is also known for his viral long-form tweets and Six at 6 on Sunday newsletter. Billy is insatiably curious. He is a master at drawing lessons from anecdotes from the worlds of sports, music, comedy, business, and more. He joins the show to discuss how to cultivate good taste, whether everything is a remix, why he learns through introjection, and a whole lot more. Important Links:

Six at 6 on Sunday
Billy’s Twitter
Billy’s website
Our episodes with David Senra (1, 2)
'A Bicycle of the Mind' - Steve Jobs on the Computer
Our episode with Edward Rooster
To His Coy Mistress; by Andrew Marvell
Kubla Khan; by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Show Notes:

Focus on doing the thing
SIX at 6’s origin story
Learning through introjection
Developing taste & cultivating curiosity
“People don’t have ideas, ideas have people”
How Billy practices his scales
Fiction vs non-fiction
Repetition, repetition, repetition
Should we study more failures?
Process compounds
“Care, but don’t care too much”
Has anyone succeeded without persistence?
Conceptual ancestors
Everything’s a remix
Taste, tools, markets & feedback
Finding your pain points
MUCH more!

Books Mentioned:

Trust Me, I'm Lying; by Ryan Holiday
Psychology of Money; by Morgan Housel
Atomic Habits; by James Clear
The Immortality Key : The Secret History of the Religion with No Name; by Brian C. Muraresku
Reality Hunger; by David Shields
The Power of Myth; by Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyers
Cloud Atlas; by David Mitchell
The Great Gatsby; by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Da Vinci Code; by Dan Brown