The Tim Ferriss Show

#183: Cal Fussman: The Master Storyteller Returns

Aug 31, 2016

02:11:42

Episode guests

Cal Fussman

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

The Importance of Asking the Right Questions in an Interview

01:15

Interviewing - How to Get to the Heart of the Interviewer

02:00

The Hero With Clay Feet

02:48

How to Add the Amo to Your Brain

03:24

Introduction

2min

Five Bullet Friday - Tim Dop Blog, Forward Slash Friday

2min

Cal Fusman - A Master Story Teller

3min

I'll Walk the Tight Rope With You

2min

Mohammed Ali Embodied the Spirit of Asking Questions

6min

Mohammed Ali - A Hero

2min

The Hero With Clay Feet

3min

Why Is He Your Hero?

4min

Mohammed Ali and Joe Fraser - The Trilogy

5min

10.

The World Needs Your Champ, Go to the Well Once More

3min

11.

Puliar Cesar Cavas - I'm Going to Fiht Cua Cesar Jave

5min

12.

The Story of a Man Who Was Not With Us Anymore

4min

13.

Millennials Are the Worst

2min

14.

Is There a Difference in Stakes?

4min

15.

Is Elon Musk the Hero?

3min

16.

The Best Way to Make Your Dreams Come True

4min

17.

The Hero From Afarin

2min

18.

The Samma School in Carnibal, Brazil

3min

19.

Oftentimes, They Cobble Together Electricity

3min

20.

I'm Like, Come Onm Give Me a Brush

4min

21.

Toko and the Other Guys, I'm Just Like, Back Off, Let Us Get to the Other Side

2min

22.

The James Beardeward Speech

6min

23.

You Take Back the Crowd?

2min

24.

The Balone Rejects the Grinder

3min

25.

I Wanted My Sensations to Be Lazer Focused When I Walked in There

3min

26.

What Happened When William Buckley's Piece Was Republished?

3min

27.

Interviews - Are You Scarred?

3min

28.

Larry King - Is He a Friend?

4min

29.

I Don't Believe You, I Have No Idea Who You Are

2min

30.

I Guaranteed You 300 Is One of the 75 Movies That Every Man Must See

4min

31.

Interviews

2min

32.

Interviews - Who Are Some Interviewers That You Highly Admire?

3min

33.

Interviewing Celebrities - What Are the Top Three Questions Asked Most Often?

5min

34.

The Mask Tells You More Than a Te Mask

4min

35.

Frank Is the Biggest of the Big Ahs

3min

36.

Is There Anything You Really Don't Want to Talk About?

3min

37.

How to Add the Amo to Your Brain

3min

38.

You Go, You Gotfrose Me a Song

2min

39.

Interviewing - How to Get to the Heart of the Interviewer

3min

40.

Interviews and Interviews

4min

41.

Yerramate, Man, Thatowas

2min

42.

Aicali Wants of Tea, Is Lik, Sure?

2min

43.

Five Bullet Friday - A Few More Things Before You Take Off

2min

Cal (@calfussman) is a New York Times bestselling author and a writer-at-large for Esquire magazine, where he is best known for being a primary writer of the "What I Learned" feature. The Austin Chronicle has described Cal's interviewing skills as "peerless." He has transformed oral history into an art form, conducting probing interviews with the icons who've shaped the last 50 years of world history: Mikhail Gorbachev, Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Jack Welch, Robert DeNiro, Clint Eastwood, Al Pacino, George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Bruce Springsteen, Dr. Dre, Quincy Jones, Woody Allen, Barbara Walters, Pelé, Yao Ming, Serena Williams, John Wooden, Muhammad Ali, and countless others. When I asked listeners for questions to present to Cal during this return appearance, about 70 percent of you replied with some version of: "He is my favorite storyteller of all time. Please just let him talk for another four hours!" I hope you enjoy this as much as I did. I never get tired of talking to Cal. He's so good at what he does. He's such a nice guy. And he's such an incredible storyteller. Here you have it -- enjoy! This podcast is brought to you by Four Sigmatic. I reached out to these Finnish entrepreneurs after a very talented acrobat introduced me to one of their products, which blew my mind (in the best way possible). It is mushroom coffee featuring chaga. It tastes like coffee, but there are only 40 milligrams of caffeine, so it has less than half of what you would find in a regular cup of coffee. I do not get any jitters, acid reflux, or any type of stomach burn. It put me on fire for an entire day, and I only had half of the packet. People are always asking me what I use for cognitive enhancement -- right now, this is the answer. You can try it right now by going to foursigmatic.com/tim and using the code "Tim" to get 20 percent off your first order. If you are in the experimental mindset, I do not think you'll be disappointed. This podcast is also brought to you by Wealthfront. Wealthfront is a massively disruptive (in a good way) set-it-and-forget-it investing service led by technologists from places like Apple. It has exploded in popularity in the last two years and now has more than $2.5B under management. Why? Because you can get services previously limited to the ultra-wealthy and only pay pennies on the dollar for them, and it's all through smarter software instead of retail locations and bloated sales teams. Check out wealthfront.com/tim, take their risk assessment quiz, which only takes 2-5 minutes, and they'll show you -- for free -- exactly the portfolio they'd put you in. If you want to just take their advice and do it yourself, you can. Well worth a few minutes to explore: wealthfront.com/tim.

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