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🚀 How to Make 2021 Your Year: Chris Sparks – The Commonalities of Peak Performance
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Next week we're kicking off a brand new season of Outliers with a deep dive on family offices and investing with a firm that manages over $1.8 Billion in assets. We thought we'd share one of our favorite interviews from the archives with Chris Sparks on goal setting, reflection, peak performance, and productivity hacks. Wishing you all the best in …
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🏆 Best of Outliers 2020 – Carey Smith: Lessons Learned Building a $500M Business
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To close out the year, we're replaying the most popular episodes of Outliers in 2020. Coming in 2nd place is Carey Smith, the Founder and CEO of Big Ass Fans responsible for growing the company from $0 to $500 million. We cover the lessons he learned building a $500M business, including the importance of brand building and endless iteration. “I thi…
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🏆 Best of Outliers 2020 – Dylan Taylor: The Past, Present, and Future of Space Exploration
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To close out the year, we're replaying the most popular episodes of Outliers in 2020. Coming in third place is our interview with Dylan Taylor, who's widely regarded as the most active private space investor in the world. “I’m in the camp that is super passionate about space as a tool for transformation. So what energizes me is getting humans into …
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#14 Nicolas Cole: On Data-Driven Writing and Getting to 100 Million Views
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“You have to surround yourself with the people that are a version of who you ultimately want to become.” – Nicolas Cole To date, Nicolas Cole’s (@Nicolascole77) writing has racked up more than 100 million views. His work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, TIME, Forbes, Fortune, Business Insider, The Chicago Tribune, Apple News, Slate Magazine…
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🔥 #13 Erling Kagge: The Famed Norwegian Explorer on Silence, Philosophy, and Sumitting Everest
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TRENDING 🔥 “I strongly believe that we are all born explorers. In the sense that when you're one year old you learn how to walk, you walk out of the house, and you start to wonder what's hidden between yourself and the horizon. And soon you will start to wonder, what's even beyond your horizon? So this spirit of exploration, that's something we all…
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⭐️ #12 Kevin Kelly of WIRED Magazine and Recomendo: On What Technology Wants and The Future of Virtual Reality
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POPULAR ⭐️ “What is this thing we call technology? In the cosmological sense, like, where does it fit in? How does it relate to life? And my current summary would be that it is an extension of life and therefore is not contrary to life. It's an extended version of life—and that gives me hope, because it means that we can always make a greener versi…
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#11 Paula Faris: The Emmy-Nominated Journalist on Fear, Faith, and Finding Your Calling
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“I believe everything happens for a reason. I don't have any regrets, even though I've done some stupid stuff in my life—like, really dumb things. I wouldn't take it back, because I learned more from my flaws and failures than I have from the “successes” of life. Those have been the character builders.” – Paula Faris In this episode of Outliers, I’…
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⭐️ #10 Mark Sisson of Primal Blueprint: Ancestral Health and Building a $200-Million Health Brand
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POPULAR ⭐️ “I was really interested in achieving good health along with performance, and I sacrificed my health in the name of performance. So I wondered if there was a way in which we could kind of have both—that I could be strong and lean and fit and happy and healthy and productive and shiny and sparkly and all the things that people want, witho…
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#9 Casey Putschoegl of 33Vincent: How to Bring on an Incredible Executive Assistant
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“I do believe that if you want to level up your leadership skills, if you want to contribute at a higher level... everybody should have some form of assistance.” — Casey Putschoegl In this episode of Outliers, I’m talking with Casey about how she’s built a successful executive assistant agency with a focus on quality relationships, a rigorous selec…
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#8 Carey Smith of Big Ass Fans: Lessons Learned Building a $500M Business
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“I think humor is incredibly important, and I think it’s important even in industrial sales—and people don’t make enough use of it.” — Carey Smith In this episode of Outliers, I catch up with Carey Smith, a brilliant entrepreneur who founded Big Ass Fans and grew it from $0 to $500 million in the span of 20 years. We discuss: What Carey learned fro…
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⭐️ #7 Laurence Gonzales: The Incredible Neuroscience of Survival
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Popular Episode ⭐️ “All accidents are the same. You kind of have to put them together from pieces. They don’t just happen. You have to assemble them.” — Laurence Gonzales In this episode of Outliers (which is brought to you by Flow), I sit down with Laurence Gonzales — an award-winning author of numerous books about the psychology and neuroscience …
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⭐️ #6 Pete Richardson: Gaining Clarity on Your Life's Purpose
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Popular Episode ⭐️ “Talent must be identified and then it must be cultivated. And oftentimes this takes years to cultivate and invest in and grow and bring it to its full expression.” — Pete Richardson In this episode of Outliers, I sit down with Pete Richardson, Co-Founder and Master Guide at Paterson Center, to discuss: The history of the Paterso…
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#5 Dylan Taylor: Building the Berkshire Hathaway of Outer Space
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“I’m in the camp that is super passionate about space as a tool for transformation. So what energizes me is getting humans into space.” — Dylan Taylor Many of us let those dreams go when we started thinking about our careers, including Dylan Taylor (@SpaceAdvisor). In his late 30s, Dylan had some success in the business world, but after reading “Th…
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⭐️ #4 Jessica Hansen of NPR: Finding, Owning, and Loving Your Voice
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Popular Episode ⭐️ “It’s not just how you sound. It’s your voice. It’s who you are. It’s what you want to say. And if you have a tool that can help you express yourself, isn’t that better?” — Jessica Hansen On this episode of Outliers, I talk with Jessica about her experiences working with some of NPR’s most recognizable voices. She also walks us t…
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#3 Howard Berger: How to Lead Teams and Win Awards in Hollywood
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“Filmmaking is supposed to be fun. Yes, it is a challenge. It can be difficult. But at the end of the day, it's the director's vision. And you work as a team under one umbrella to facilitate that director's vision.” — Howard Berger Howard Berger traces the seeds of his special make-up effects career all the way back to a childhood obsession with mo…
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#2 Nathan Baschez: Understanding and Applying Business Strategy
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“If you have weak, scattered, or non-systematic observations about the market driving your decision making process, you can make some pretty bad decisions, even if you get all the strategy concepts right.” — Nathan Baschez On this episode of Outliers, I’m talking with Nathan about the importance of business strategy, what he describes as “the art o…
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⭐️ #1 Chris Sparks: The Commonalities of Peak Performance
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Popular Episode ⭐️ “If you can improve fast enough in the right areas, then the score will take care of itself.” — Chris Sparks On the premiere episode of Outliers, Daniel Scrivner talks with Chris about all things productivity. He shares favorite tools to help him stay focused — surprisingly, there aren’t any apps on this list. Instead, he favors …
In the first official episode, I sit down with Chris Sparks (@sparksremarks) — one of Top 20 poker players in the world, and now a high performance coach to many of the world's best entrepreneurs and investors — to discuss: • Why he focuses on holistic performance rather than just brute force productivity. • Why reflection is underrated and how it …
Premiering on August 27th, 2020. Outliers with Daniel Scrivner is a new weekly podcast that will feature in-depth conversations with the world's best entrepreneurs, investors, and thinkers from around the world. In each episode, we'll dig deep to uncover the tips, tricks, and tools you can put to use in your own life and work. Hosted by entrepreneu…
