Robert Greene
20 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 16, 2016 by Ryan Holiday · said 24 times in 1 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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brought up most by Shane Parrish (18), Ryan Holiday (6)
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2016 24 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Robert Greene, oldest first
May 16, 2016 neutral
May 16, 2016 positive
Jun 27, 2018
Jun 27, 2018 positive
Greene: Handwriting notes fosters deeper thinking than typing on a computer
“Writing things out by hand has a logic to it. So when I'm going through a book, and I'm taking notes, and I'm scrawling with my fountain pen on a card, I'm actually thinking more deeply than when I'm sitting there typing stuff on the computer. I don't know how…”
Jun 27, 2018
Jun 27, 2018 neutral
Greene actively avoids reading Malcolm Gladwell to preserve his own originality.
“He's a great writer, but I try not to read his books because I don't want to be covering or overlapping or being inspired by what's already out there. I want to hit something new. I want to be original. I want to say something that comes from my brain.”
Jun 27, 2018
Greene: Approaching unfulfilling work with a learning mindset transforms "dead time."
“When you're working for someone else and you're flipping burgers at Burger King, it's dead time. They own you. And, but if you're working at Burger King, And you've just read Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, and you're thinking about it, or you're working at …”
Jun 27, 2018
Greene: Constant distraction deprives the brain of space for unconscious idea processing.
“The way the human brain works is your best ideas come to you when you're not thinking about them. You know if you're sitting there always doing other things and chatting with people and texting them, The brain won't have the mental space to unconsciously proce…”
Jun 27, 2018
Jun 27, 2018
Greene: Speaking Less Forces Others to Reveal Weaknesses and Desires
“The less you say, the more other people talk. The more other people talk, the more you learn about their weaknesses, and you learn about their
Hidden desires, and what makes them tick, and the less they know about you, and the less they know about you, the bet…”
Jun 27, 2018 positive
Greene: Zen meditation creates spectator-like distance, reducing your immediate emotional reactivity.
“The meditation has helped me an awful lot in controlling my emotional responses. 90% of the meditating, I do a practice, a form of Zen meditation, and what you're doing is, it's hard to concept to relate, but the idea is, You're thinking of your thinking as if…”
Jun 27, 2018 negative
Greene was fired from a television research job for outshining his superiors.
“Law number one of the book is never outshine the master, and I probably violated that law maybe three or four times prior to writing the book where I'd be the researcher on a television show and I was so good at it that everybody hated me. I was like, you know…”
Jun 27, 2018
Jun 27, 2018
Greene: Projects should remain open-ended early on to maintain creative discovery
“In any project, you need to keep things a little bit, you have to keep things open-ended, so that you're just constantly discovering, and that keeps you excited and energized and creative, so I never kind of close the book.”
Jun 27, 2018
Greene: True power requires assuming formlessness and willingly discarding prescribed rules.
“Law 48 is assume formlessness, and that means all 47 laws are, can be kind of nonsense, and you should just ignore them, and you should just be in the moment and not go into situations thinking of, oh, I better do law 41
You be, you must be alive to the circum…”
Jun 27, 2018 negative
Jun 27, 2018 neutral
Jun 27, 2018 negative
Greene: Much contemporary nonfiction is thin and poorly thought through
“Some of it, quite honestly, is really bad. I just say it outright. You know, I read books About envy, or I have them on my shelf. I have dozens of them, and they're so thin, and they're so unthought through and they're so irritating that I much prefer the way …”
Jun 27, 2018 negative
Greene: Most Books on Power Ignore How Manipulative People Truly Are
“A lot of the books out there that talk about power in this world, I feel like really unrealistic. They're very wary of the truth. And the truth is, as I discovered in all my different jobs, is that people are, can be very manipulative. They don't show it. It's…”