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Elon Musk and The Early Days of SpaceX
- ▶ 13:46 David Senra I was reading a biography of Mark Twain one time, and he talks about this point, the pony, this one Pony Express ad, which is, you know, such a running mail by horseback across the country.
Estée Lauder
- ▶ 1:49 David Senra Mark Twain once said, keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
How Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple
- ▶ 28:27 David Senra And so that's been attributed to people like Mark Twain, Cicero and Pascal.
The Robber Baron's Art Dealer: Joseph Duveen
- ▶ 57:10 David Senra Then you have, uh, Mark Twain, uh, James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Walt Disney, uh, the dynasty book, The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Greatest Families I did a few months ago.
The Autobiography of Christian Dior
- ▶ 6:55 David Senra It is like a 15, I think it has 15 chapters on some of history's greatest creators, so people like Picasso, Walt Disney, Balenciaga, Christian Dior, Shakespeare, Mark Twain.
The Biography of Jimmy Buffett
- ▶ 8:10 David Senra In fact, one of his heroes is Mark Twain. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:58 David Senra Is Mark Twain. 8 times in the scene
The Biography of Balenciaga
- ▶ 3:49 David Senra Shakespeare, Twain, whoever it is, Dior, Disney, Picasso, and just go straight to those chapters.
- ▶ 20:00 David Senra Boussac runs towards it, and to an astonishing degree, which I'll get to in a minute, but I couldn't help but think, I've seen this before, where it's like, okay, a few weeks ago, I did the episode on Mark Twain. 2 times in the scene
Paul Graham (How To Do Great Work)
- ▶ 12:32 David Senra Maybe even the best, the best example recently, you got to go back and listen to the Mark Twain episode. 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:12 David Senra If you listen to the Mark Twain episode I referenced earlier, the best advice Mark Twain ever got, uh, that he followed for the remaining 44 years of his life was this American diplomat in Hawaii. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Christopher Nolan
- ▶ 24:31 David Senra We talked about this, uh, last week with Mark Twain.
- ▶ 38:58 David Senra Michael Jordan, Sidney Harmon, Rick Rubin, Andy Beal, Harry Snyder, James Cameron, Felix Dennis, Claude Shannon, and Mark Twain.
Mark Twain's Biography
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra In the very last paragraph of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck reckons that it's time to light out for the territory ahead of the rest. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:39 David Senra And in Mark Twain's case, he's growing up in Missouri on the western bank of the Mississippi River. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:55 David Senra If things are not going well in your life, like in Twain's life, he essentially just stumbles from one failure to the next until he does find his life's work. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:05 David Senra Another surprising thing I learned is that in another life, Mark Twain would be a cocaine dealer. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:50 David Senra And so Twain goes with him to get away from the civil war. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:11 David Senra But what was fascinating is I want to pull out some of the people that Mark Twain actually interacted with. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:10 David Senra So Twain is going to have a series of jobs. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:01 David Senra And so it says by sheer good luck, Twain had landed at a spot at the best newspaper between St. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:57 David Senra So this odyssey that Mark Twain's on in the West lasts for five and a half, six years, three of those years he's in Nevada, either in Carson city or Virginia city. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:08 David Senra Being complete, almost completely broke down to his last dime or his last penny to having the opportunity that creates Mark Twain. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:31 David Senra So because that went viral, everybody knows who Mark Twain is now. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:17 David Senra And you see right from the get-go that, that Twain is a phenomenal marketer. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:47 David Senra Then something completely out of, out of his control, the Civil War comes, causes him to flee, go out west, and he has all these series of adventures, turns from Samuel Clemens into Mark Twain, meets a bunch of people. 18 times in the scene
Walt Disney and Picasso
- ▶ 2:36 David Senra Okay, so what this book is, is a collection of essays on some of history's greatest creators, people like Mark Twain, Shakespeare, Christian Dior, Balenciaga, Victor Hugo, T.S.
How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune
- ▶ 5:21 David Senra He was at once praised for his brilliance by Rockefeller and Vanderbilt and condemned for forever destroying the American business values by Mark Twain.
Peter Thiel's Ideas
- ▶ 51:57 David Senra And he goes into this idea that the best sales is hidden, that the grandmasters of sales, uh, and he references a few in the book, but we're going to use an example from the writing of Mark Twain. 2 times in the scene