The Tim Ferriss Show

#183: Cal Fussman: The Master Storyteller Returns

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Aug 31, 2016
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INSIGHT

Let Master Storytellers Speak

  • Cal's storytelling often works best when interviewers simply let subjects talk and tell stories.
  • Tim Ferriss emphasizes that sometimes the best policy is to let a master storyteller 'just go.'
ANECDOTE

Ali As The Voice Of The 1960s

  • Cal describes how Muhammad Ali embodied 1960s courage and cultural questioning, from refusing the draft to changing his name.
  • He explains Ali became the voice of a turbulent era and a hero for standing up with humor and poetry.
ANECDOTE

Meeting Ali: Power And Vulnerability

  • Cal recounts meeting Ali in Dublin at the Special Olympics and witnessing his vulnerability and charisma up close.
  • He describes the surreal contrast between Ali's public power and private physical decline from Parkinson's disease.
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