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The Mindset Behind Building a Great Little Business | Brad Jacobs Aug 4, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:49 Brad Jacobs I did recently meet him, and it was like meeting Albert Einstein, or meeting someone, um, Michelangelo, because when you look at his context, his wide context, he's looking at the history of the universe going back 13 point something…

The Mindset That Unlocks Your Full Potential | Dr. Gio Valiante Jul 7, 2026 · 4 mentions

Ai Goes Parabolic | OpenAI Co-Founder Greg Brockman Apr 22, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:19 Greg Brockman On the one hand, just predicting what comes next sounds like a pedestrian task, but if you really can predict the next word out of Einstein's mouth, you are at least as smart as Einstein.

The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking | Peter D. Kaufman [Outliers] Jan 13, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 12:44 Shane Parrish In the inorganic universe, he cites Einstein calling compound interest the most powerful force in the universe. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:53 Shane Parrish Most people assume complexity is a signal for sophistication, and Peter argues that Albert Einstein disagreed. 2 times in the scene

Charlie Munger: The Psychology of Human Misjudgment [Outliers] Nov 18, 2025 · 4 mentions

Katharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers] Jul 29, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:31 Shane Parrish A pioneering journalist who collected friendships with Einstein and Thomas Mann, like others collected stamps.

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders Apr 29, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:57:19 Garry Tan 10,200 IQ Einsteins working on, uh, bringing us, you know, basically unlimited clean energy.

Josh Wolfe: Human Advantage in the World of AI Mar 4, 2025 · 1 mention

Brad Jacobs: How To Build a Billion Dollar Company Mar 19, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:30 Brad Jacobs Well, I did recently meet him, and it was like meeting Albert Einstein, or meeting someone, um, Michelangelo, because when you look at his context, his wide context, he's looking at the history of the universe, going back 13 point…

Dr. Gio Valiante (Part 1): Discipline and Resilience Oct 31, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:17 Dr. Gio Valiante You know, try to, try to tell John Nash or Albert Einstein or Isaac Newton that they are not what they do.

Adam Robinson: Positioning Yourself For Success Jun 13, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:48 Adam Robinson And even Einstein wrote about having a, he said his, uh, talked about a kinesthetic awareness.

Dr. Gina Poe: The Science of Better Sleep May 30, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 56:09 Gina Poe I did not think I wanted to be a scientist because I thought that, you know, what I saw on TV was, um, either the nutty professor where it's someone who's completely socially inept or it was Einstein.

Barbara Tversky: Action Shapes Thought Sep 6, 2022 · 2 mentions

#121 Walter Isaacson: Curiosity Fuels Creativity Oct 5, 2021 · 14 mentions

  • ▶ 0:20 Walter Isaacson And what amazed me when I saw that in Leonardo's notebooks was, boom, it's in Einstein's notebooks. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:33 Shane Parrish He's also the author of several acclaimed biographies on Einstein, Ben Franklin, Steve Jobs, and Da Vinci.
  • ▶ 2:22 Shane Parrish You started writing about Ben Franklin and then Einstein and then Steve Jobs and then Da Vinci.
  • ▶ 28:56 Walter Isaacson It's a good point, because I wrote about Albert Einstein, and none of us can really truly aspire to be Einstein. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 47:10 Walter Isaacson After learning the mathematical equations of general relativity from my Einstein bio,
  • ▶ 49:43 Walter Isaacson Einstein's papers, in the end, I read most of them in bound volumes, which you can actually see behind my shoulder that are on my bookshelf. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:03:25 Walter Isaacson And, you know, there are people like Einstein and Da Vinci and Steve Jobs and now, uh, Jennifer Doudna.

#96 Randall Stutman: The Essence of Leadership Nov 10, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:11 Randall Stutman Now you will see that, um, I think it was the, I think it was Einstein that wrote the quote, you know, uh, can't wait for us to get over this praise

#79 Esther Wojcicki: The “TRICK” to Raising Successful People Mar 17, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:19:16 Esther Wojcicki I mean, Einstein says we cannot, we can't fix mistakes with the same thinking that we use to create those mistakes.

#73 Steven Strogatz: Exploring Curiosities Jan 7, 2020 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 41:21 Steven Strogatz I would say it ranks right up there with relativity theory from Einstein, with quantum theory of the atom, you know, with evolution from Darwin, and, and, I mean, it's just had an enormous impact on the history of the world.
  • ▶ 50:32 Steven Strogatz But more than that, when the, when the satellites are moving so fast overhead, they're actually going fast enough that Einstein's theory of relativity applies to them in a significant way, and they, uh, the clocks onboard those moving… 4 times in the scene

#56 Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success Apr 16, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:03 Daniel Gross Giving them positive feedback and catalyzing this loop that ends up creating everyone from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Elon Musk to, you know, Ramanujan or Albert Einstein.

#47 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 1) Dec 11, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:39 Adam Robinson Einstein said that to change the world, which is the result of our thinking, we have to change the thinking behind the world, which is great, Albert, thanks so much, but he didn't offer any guidance for doing that.

#27 Chris Voss: The Art of Letting Other People Have Your Way Jan 3, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:02 Chris Voss And so you don't have to be Albert Einstein of emotional intelligence to know that that baggage is there.

#18 Naval Ravikant: The Angel Philosopher Apr 11, 2017 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:39:08 Naval Ravikant It's a very advanced concept, but in a way, it's very simple, because, uh, Einstein came up with it with what are called Gedanken, fancy word for thought experiments. 3 times in the scene
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