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#041 Devouring Founder’s Biographies, Self-Belief, and the Power of Podcasting with David Senra of Founders Podcast

Jun 28, 2022

02:09:18

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Believe in Yourself: Overcoming the Epidemic of Self-Doubt

02:41

The Importance of Reading for Investing, According to a Mathematician Gambler

02:49

Recognizing Passion in Career: How Money Becomes Insignificant

02:49

The Vision for Founders in a Focused and Research-Driven Format

02:29

Introduction

4min

Myr Charley Munger - Who Are Your Heroes?

2min

The Defining Ideas of Each Chapter of Amazon

2min

How Do You Know if You Have a Book Review?

2min

I Don't Have Mentors Around Me, but I Read Biographies

4min

How to Do What You Love

4min

The Best Podcast Player Is Overcast

2min

How Did You Decide to Go With the Subscription Model?

5min

Is Your Format Addictable?

3min

10.

Do You Ever Get Burned Out With Your Books?

5min

11.

The Greatest Thinker, Steve Job's Hand Down

6min

12.

Do You Want to Be a Bad Dad?

3min

13.

Podcast Cassing Is a Miracle

2min

14.

Pod Cassing Podcast

3min

15.

Podcasting Is a Medium We're in the Early Days

3min

16.

I'm Not a Formulati. Business Is Not Formulatic at All.

3min

17.

The Number of Books People Are Buying for the First Time in a Long Time

4min

18.

I'm the Author of the Story, Mind Your Own Business, and I Don't Care What Other People Do

4min

19.

I Don't Pay Attention to Any Private Companies, Right?

5min

20.

What Do You Think About Pessimists?

2min

21.

How Do You Read?

5min

22.

I'm Not Just the Writer, I'M the First Listener

6min

23.

Are You Doing Self Education to Be a Millionaire?

3min

24.

What Are You Training For?

3min

25.

The Online Great Books Programme of Franchburner Ship of Founders

3min

26.

The Value of Reading a Book Versus Taking Notes

4min

27.

I'm Not Adding Any Features

3min

28.

I'm Rereading Titans

2min

29.

The Mature Version of Founders?

6min

30.

The Business Model of Podcast

5min

31.

Podcasts

4min

32.

The Atmoneryol Hero's Journey

4min

33.

The Most Influential Retailer Ever Lived

2min

34.

Books Are the Original Links

2min

35.

What Are Your Heroes?

2min

36.

Is There No Such Thing as Originality?

2min

37.

The Biggest Idea in the World

4min

Topics:

(3:48) - David Hijacks the podcast: Eric’s Heroes, Munger as a copywriter and “Jeffisms”

(8:31) - How did you start Founders Pod and build it into a business?

(27:39) - How did you engrain this level of discipline in your craft?

(34:41) - Emulating Ed Thorpe

(43:59) - The power of podcasting

(50:43) - Eric and David discuss career goals

(57:46) - Thoughts on the ‘serial entrepreneur’

(1:08:18) - Deep dive into David’s approach to reading

(1:19:17) - Is this just a chapter of your life, or is this the business to dedicate your life to?

(1:25:24) - Do you think more people should do what you’re doing?

(1:28:20) - How to get the most value from what David is doing

(1:36:06) - How have you changed pre-Founders vs. today?

(1:38:29) - What does the best version of this podcast look like?

(1:53:48) - Compounding & Leverage

(1:59:38) - Books are the original links

(2:04:45) - Final thoughts

Links:

FoundersPodcast.com

Kevin Rose interviewing Elon Musk on the Tesla Factory Floor

Jocko Podcast

Paul Graham’s “How to Do what You Love”

Masters of Doom by David Kushner

Chapo Trap House

Edwin Land

Founders Podcast: Founder of Hyundai

Neckar’s Minds of the Market

Readwise

The Kanye West Genius documentary

The Great Books Program

Biographics on YouTube

Graphtreon.com

To support this costs of producing this podcast:

>> Buy a copy of the Navalmanak: www.navalmanack.com/

>> Sign up for my online course and community about building your Personal Leverage: https://www.ejorgenson.com/leverage

>> Invest in early-stage companies alongside Eric and his partners at Rolling Fun: https://angel.co/v/back/rolling-fun

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>> Text the podcast to a friend

>> Give the podcast a positive review to help us reach new listeners

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>> Follow me on Twitter: @ericjorgenson

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Smart Friends

#041 Devouring Founder’s Biographies, Self-Belief, and the Power of Podcasting with David Senra of Founders Podcast

Believe in Yourself: Overcoming the Epidemic of Self-Doubt

The Importance of Reading for Investing, According to a Mathematician Gambler

Recognizing Passion in Career: How Money Becomes Insignificant

The Vision for Founders in a Focused and Research-Driven Format

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