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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Robert Caro comes up
How To Run Down A Dream
- ▶ 8:09 David Senra The name comes from a key moment in Robert Caro's Means of Ascent. 2 times in the scene
Excellent Advice For Living: 79 Maxims from a Wise Old Man
- ▶ 7:00 David Senra And all he did to change my mind, and really to get me to change my behavior on this, was he quoted Napoleon and Lyndon Johnson from Robert Caro's biographies on them.
Napoleon's Maxims and Strategy
- ▶ 11:21 David Senra Uh, if you read Robert Caro's books on Lyndon Johnson, I think Lyndon Johnson's maxim that is excellent, my favorite maxim that he has, one of my favorite maxims of all time, is that if you do everything, you will win.
How To Lose A Few Billion Dollars: The Life Story of Samuel Insull
- ▶ 18:24 David Senra The book has just started, and there's a great line that Lyndon Johnson has said over and over again that are in the biographies of Robert Caro. 2 times in the scene
The Making of Winston Churchill Part 2
- ▶ 19:27 David Senra If you've ever read Robert Caro's books on LBJ, there's this thing that, uh, Lyndon Johnson
The Making of Winston Churchill Part 1
- ▶ 12:53 David Senra This reminds me a lot when I got to the section of, if you've read any of Robert Caro's books,
Walt Disney and Picasso
- ▶ 13:39 David Senra There's this line on the book that he did on episode three Oh five, uh, the book working by Robert Caro.
The Biography of The Founder of Glock
- ▶ 24:38 David Senra Uh, when I did the book on Robert Caro, it's episode three Oh five. 4 times in the scene
Robert Caro on Power, Poverty, Ruthlessness, Obsession & Running.
- ▶ 3:13 David Senra Caro is about to describe why and how Lyndon's father's faults gave birth to Lyndon's greatest talent. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:28 David Senra That was an excerpt that gave me chills the first time I read it, and it's from the book I'm going to talk to you about today, which is Working by Robert A. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:34 David Senra At that final meeting with Professor Blackmer, and after first saying something generous about my writing, he added, but you're never going to achieve what you want to, Mr. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:21 David Senra It hits you in the face that the same applies to Robert Caro. 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:06 David Senra So Robert Caro is up there. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:58 David Senra Oh, no, Bob. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:24 David Senra So I want to go back to this idea that Robert Caro actually shares some traits with the people that he is researching, the people that he is writing about, and so one trait I actually think Robert Caro shares with Lyndon Johnson and Robert… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:53 David Senra And I want you to remember what Paul writes for the section we're about to go to, because it comes at a time of, uh, Robert, uh, I keep saying Caro. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:58 David Senra That's a quote from the new Kevin Kelly book that my friend, uh, Patrick O'Shaughnessy sent me, and I really feel it applies to, to the, to the, uh, the life and career of Bob. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:53 David Senra Allowed Caro to understand Johnson and the relationship with his father at a more fundamental level, and one of this was the fact that he kept trying to interview and successfully, first unsuccessfully, and then eventually successfully got… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:24 David Senra And so just like Caro had to turn every page, Lyndon had to count every vote. 3 times in the scene
Napoleon (The Mind of Napoleon)
- ▶ 19:26 David Senra I'm on the second book of this four part biography that Robert Caro is writing on LBJ in the, the first LBJ biography.
- ▶ 35:01 David Senra But Sam Hinckley is the one that turned me on to, like, really push me to read Caro. 4 times in the scene
The Biography of Tiger Woods
- ▶ 51:18 David Senra I've been going deep on Robert Caro, and I've been, well, I watched his documentary, I've been reading, uh, his biographies. 4 times in the scene
I had dinner with Charlie Munger
- ▶ 44:45 David Senra And Sam is, uh, an authority on, um, the writing of Robert Caro. 3 times in the scene
The Biography of Kobe Bryant
- ▶ 42:09 David Senra And he brought this up because something that, uh, he really enjoyed was Robert Caro's multiple part biography of Lyndon Johnson.