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Aubrey Marcus

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“You know, I had a friend who grew up in a cannibal tribe, and was the traditional, he's a famous author, by the way. And that was the traditional greeting. They would grab each other's genitals. And they would tell them, you know what they would tell them? I would eat your feces. The green grab someone's genitals and say, I would eat your feces.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I think Instagram is probably my most active. I post to all the social platforms, but it's just at Aubrey Marcus on Instagram and I curate all those posts myself. And it's a good wide variety of me doing weird stuff in the gym and me posting spiritual quotes and different ideas. I actually look forward to those times where I get sideswiped by the universe because I always have some pearl I can come and I generally put that out on Instagram or a podcast. And of course my podcast too, the Aubrey Marcus podcast. That's a great place to listen to me, have some cool conversations with people.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This next thing is going to be, oh, that's going to be the one that knocks me out. Oh, that next illness is going to be the one that kills me. Oh, that next failure. That's going to be devastating. But always in hindsight, we're grateful. So what if we switched our hindsight into foresight and was like, oh, whatever happens, I'll just be grateful for it later anyways. And then all of a sudden, we're really enjoying ourselves. And I was terrible at that. The first few years I started on it, I was petrified that it was going to fail because I was so attached to its success. I'm finally doing it. I'm finally doing it. It's going to fail. I didn't know it's going to fail. It's going to fail. I'm going to ruin it. And I didn't enjoy it. And I didn't really enjoy those initial formative years like I could have. And, you know, so in almost every age and almost every era, it would be relax, man, trust, like trust whatever happens, you'll figure out a way. You'll be better, stronger, faster, wiser for it. So be grateful for it in advance.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, advice to my younger self is going to be, you know, relax, man. It's going to be all right. It's going to fucking be all right. You know, it's this crazy thing where in hindsight, we can always look backwards and say, man, I'm grateful for all that shit. Like I'm grateful for all my failures. But with foresight, we look at everything that's coming ahead with terror”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Books called Own the Day, Own Your Life. And the idea is, you know, fuck all these long-winded transformational programs where you focus on one thing for 30 days, 40 days, 90 days. Let's just focus on doing one day awesomely, you know, from top to bottom, schedule it out, get all the practices in line. I have very clear prescriptions. Let's just focus on one day and see how you feel living one day like that. And that's all you got to do. Just commit to one day, not only one day, just commit to one hour at a time. Just commit to like, all right, what are the three things I got to do when I wake up? All right, 12 ounces of water with some sea salt and some lemon. Okay, I got that. All right, 10 minutes of sunlight. Okay, I got that, a little bit of movement. Okay, I got that. On to the next thing. You know, that's all you got to do step by step, relax into the process, do it for one day, and see what changes in your life.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like addressing all of those things, how to have great sex, and then how to transition from that into the time before bed where you're taking care of yourself and journaling. And then from there the sleep practices. Like what triple the triple crown what what was that you know but I was there I did that stuff the double western bacon cheeseburgers and how what the new double western bacon cheeseburger looks like with grass fed beef and raw cheese and sprouted or sourdough bread and and how you can just live this robust life you know not engaging with capital F fear, which is I think the virus that underpins a lot of our malaise and try to have a real healthy, joyful expression and recognize this life as I said on that billboard, welcome to heaven.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, really, this book is the embodiment of that idea of total human optimization, which is not just one thing. You know, I really admire the people, you know, yourself is one of those people who you'll track something down to the very nth degree and like really bring home the bones of that truth from your journey. And I've been surrounded by a lot of people who've done that. But what I felt like was missing was someone to bring it all together, like bring all the practices who've tried all of the different things. And how does that look? How does it look to go through a day? Like, what's the morning things you do? Okay, hydration, light, movement. Okay, then how do you bring in Wim Hof breathing and cold exposure, heat exposure? What are the nutrition principles you want? Like, how do you optimize your commute to work? What are some workplace practices that you learned? Then how when you go home, how do you relax and connect with yourself and connect with your family and your friends? And how do you drink a glass of wine? What's too much wine? What happens when you drink too much? Because that's all part of life.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Comfortable discomfort. It's comfortable discomfort. This is uncomfortable discomfort. Getting your arms way out there and moving those around and shaking your hips. Woo! That's uncomfortable.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Especially for men who are tough, like men are tough and like a tough man can get in a cold bath and a tough man can get in a sauna for a long time. And it's like, it's in our sweet spot. We're like, yeah, I got that.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So breathing in it's that kind of stoic training, like breathe into those areas where you feel restricted, where you feel judgmental, where you feel like the eyes are on you and try to unify that altogether.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“brings me very you don't need anything you just need a little bit of privacy or someone you feel comfortable now at this point i'm actually comfortable doing it with other people like watching because i've talked about it and i've you know and it's a little external pressure but then you just breathe into that pressure like the the goal here is to go where you're uncomfortable so like when you're comfortable alone then invite somebody who might be a little judgmental and see all right can you still dance Can you steal that? Because I guarantee you by the time you're done and you've just expressed yourself, their judgment's going to be gone and they'll probably be dancing with you. Yeah.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I should do it more like prophylactically, like preventatively. But I tend to do it when I feel funky. Like when I feel funky, I'm either changing my temperature drastically, going in the sauna or Go in the cold or doing something like this. But this is probably the best tool because everything, it really just unifies everything for me. It brings.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and this is just something that I came up with. I've been obviously, you know, my father worked with Stan Groff, so he's used that metaphor and it just kind of stuck with me. Like, oh, yeah, these are all things we feel. Everything's cool. Oh, shit. Everything's not cool. Everything's fucked up. And then like, all right, everything's fucked up and I'm going to fight and I don't care. And there's a way out. And I'm going to fucking make it. And it's just kind of pounding your chest like I got this. And then it's like through the other side, I got this because I got all this help. And I'm grateful. And here I am. And that's, you know, the tears really flow. Like at the end, you're like, man, life is good.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Positive message like EDM and just kind of dance it out and really enjoy and express like the happiness of taking that breath, rebirthing, becoming anew, you know, embracing your new self. And that's the BPM4, which is the ecstasy of breath. And so that's the pathway for the full kind of shamanic road. Sometimes I'll just go straight to the tribe called Red you've met him too, Porangi, who came out with this ayahuasca remixed album. He's got a couple great tribal drum tracks, which are good. There's a remix from Drum Spider and Mosa in there. I think it's tracks three and tracks eight on that. You can get it on Spotify. But I can share a Spotify playlist too. I'm an ecstatic dance.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And there's some great tracks for that, like electric powwow, like some awesome tracks for that. And then, so from there, that's where you really start to express that kind of warrior archetype and allow any of those emotions to come. And then finally, at the end is the more kind of ecstatic, you know, blissful, but still a beat. So some like really upbeat EDM or some really positive uplifting music. And I usually will take a break with something that's kind of quiet and serene, like welcome to Africa. Everything is beautiful kind of vibe and then into some more, you know.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No shit. Side note, I see that. I see that. Then from there, I go to like there is the fight. And that's where you actually see the birth canal and you know you have a goal, tunnel vision. You got to get out. You got to breathe. You're going to fight with everything you have to breathe. And that's that warrior archetype. So for that, it's almost always tribe called red. Like, that's my go to. And that's like EDM mix with tribal Native American cries.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, like six, seven minutes. And it's just kind of sweating. And I usually stretch a lot of times. It's kind of stretched. Sometimes I lie on the ground a little bit joint mobility, a little bit stretching getting into it. And then, you know, if I'm doing the practice, I'll go into that more chaotic mode, which is a little still hard to dance to. And it forces me to do weird patterns. I like violin, like Lindsay Sterling. Is a great one. And then so it's like some weird kind of staccato violin, some beats antique music is sometimes good in there.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah. It just feels good and happy. And then I go into, then the next thing that happens is like the water bricks. It's chaos, right? So chaos around you, you know, you're imagining in this in the birth process, the water breaks. You don't know what's happening.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, so that starts like you're in the womb, right? It's something very comfortable, some kind of music that's, you know, smooth. It's like everything's taken care of. The universe is good. Some very kind of happy.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, you can do it shorter, but I think minimum you need probably 20, 30 minutes because the first 10, 15 minutes, you're still going to be getting into it. Like the real magic happens in the middle. And then fatigue starts to set in depending on your fitness level around 30 to 40 minutes. So I try to take an arch from actually when I do it, I follow Stan Groff's basic prenatal matrices kind of model.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“By myself in the dark, what the hell, you know, and so that's been a really cool tool for me that I don't think a lot of people are engaging in, but it's something that ancestrally, man, everybody was dancing as part of like sundance rituals, trance dance rituals, all these dance rituals, that was part of a major part of ceremony for people. And I think it's great to make you feel more human again and take that performance aspect off of dancing. Like when you dance in public, it's like a mating dance. It's like a performance show. It's all about how you look. In this case, it doesn't matter how you look. It doesn't matter if it even approximates dancing. It's about getting your body to move in so many times just the tears will flow and emotions will come up, sometimes rage and anger, sometimes will all come out in that too. If I've been bottling that up. So it just allows the instrument to release and expel anything that's been holding. And typically by the end, you know, you just.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yourself in a dark room, put on some music, put on something with a tribal beat, and force yourself to move in those uncomfortable patterns and see what boundaries and restrictions you have for yourself. And then realize like, where is that coming from? I can't allow myself to move in space.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was pushing it all together in a really powerful way. And I've started leading those practices and doing those frequently. Like I will, if I'm feeling funky, I will just put on music, put on a hoodie, and I can be anywhere. I was just in Venice doing it in my little rental house in the middle of the day. I feel feeling kind of funky from recording the book and whatever. I just start moving. And I contentionally find those patterns that sends off the alarm signal. It's like, don't move your hips like that because you'll be gay if you move like that. Like if you move your arms too far out, like if they extend beyond one foot, totally gay. You can't do that, you know, and just force yourself to move into these other patterns that you're uncomfortable with and let it let your body let your body loose, like let your body free. We bind that up just like we bind up our psyche. And when you unbind the body and allow it to express freely in this safe container, not saying go to the club and do it. You know, that's a lot of external pressure. But in this case, do it by.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then when I first did the ecstatic dance practice, I had no idea. I was like, oh my gosh, this is really uncomfortable. Because the idea is you listen to music and then you just move, not trying, you have a blindfold a lot of times or in really dark room, and you just move in expressive ways that push the boundaries of what your body is comfortable with, not physically, but comfortable in moving and just collapse the mind, get to a state of superfluidity, a kind of flow state where it's just music and body. And I was shocked at how I responded. I mean, tons of emotions came up, tons of like clarity came up. I had visions that were coming through in that experience. And it was this massive, massive transformation for me because I felt it all the way through to my cells. You know, instead of getting the body out of the way, it was using the body as a tool to enhance my consciousness. And so it unified everything else. Instead of siloing it and kind of pulling it apart, right.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, one of the best ones that I've found is came to me really unusually. And it's the practice of ecstatic dance. And because a lot of even psychedelics, you know, psychedelics, they kind of project your consciousness out of body. From my very first experience, it's like my body was gone. Like I didn't have that body somatic awareness. So I was creating and patterning this separation between consciousness, mind, and body.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And that's really what I feel. Like we have this choice right now to engage with life all of life and all the opportunity to smell and eat and travel and converse and meet people and have sex and enjoy and create and build. Like this can be heaven, but we got to get out of our own mental hell first. And so reminding people like, hey, all right, extenuating circumstances, maybe, you know, Sarajevo in certain places, yeah, it's fucking tough. I get it. Externally, it might be hell. But for most of us, especially listening to this podcast, we're in heaven. in heaven like and it's just our choice whether we want to engage in it that way or whether we want to get stuck in our own patterns that keep us in hell”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That was like the best answer to that. So I think about, and you know, I think other podcasters have kind of co-opted that question and asked it. And I was thinking about that question. And I was thinking I wasn't happy with my answer. And then I realized like. What I feel now, what best express the state I'm in, is what I would put on that billboard that was shown everywhere. I would say welcome to heaven, population everyone.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, yeah. And I fucking hammered a few emails Paddle into it a little bit, but just my ability to recognize that and then trust the process that I'll be grateful that I didn't paddle into that wave, even if it would have felt good at the moment. It's just been a gradual slow experience.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then I was like, oh yeah, there's that thing. Like, I remember how I did deal with this thing. All right, I'm going to go for a walk outside. And I would go for a walk outside. And then I read this Japanese study and I talk about this in my book where six breaths, six deep breaths actually lowers blood pressure. So they say take a breath. It's not a breath. It's six. Like six is the amount that it requires to get that physiological response. So I took my six breaths. I walked outside and it wasn't gone. Like I carried it for a while. I talked to people, but at least eliminated it enough that that initial wave of the big wave of the swell. So, the big wave of the swell past. And I paddled into a few other little ones. I body surfed on some white water of that rage for a little while.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like it's going to feel good in certain ways, but the ramifications like never feel good. You know, the burning bodies, the house is on fire when you're breathing that dragonfire, that never feels good. So it's really a hard choice. I call it mental override to interrupt that pattern when I feel that shump or whatever Duncan called it, that moment of takeoff where I start to bristle and the dragon fucking tentacles come out and it starts to come like I can identify actually oddly enough. I haven't felt this in a long time. I felt it yesterday, like yesterday. And I looked, I was leaving my office, and literally I haven't been this angry in a long time. And someone, you know, someone on my team screwed something up super bad. And it was the second time on the same thing. I was like, oh my God. And I found out about at 7 o'clock. And I looked at a table and I wanted to smash it. I wanted to take the table and throw it on the ground and like smash it.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It coincided with me talking because I started talking about that experience. Yeah, of course. I was talking to my friend Duncan Trussell, who's pretty steeped in kind of Buddhist philosophy. And he had a name for it. And I think it was Shumpa. And it's that feeling you get. It's that welling of energy. And it actually feels good. And I think it was acknowledging there's some part of you when that anger is coming, it feels good. It's a sense of power that's rising. And it's identifying that in the Toltec philosophy also helps us. Don Miguel helped me with that. But you feel it rising. And it's like the swell of a wave. And there's a choice right there where you either paddle or you don't paddle. But to really identify the swell and identify like, oh, yeah, this is going to feel good. Like that power putting on that mantle and like breathing fire.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I think your name was Samantha, and she's crying. And I go, oh my God, like, what did I just do? Like, she didn't know. You know, like, and that was like a hard lesson, I am not going to lose my temper no matter what is going on with my life. I will not allow my anger to come out on my employees ever. And it was like this deep, like I intern it like that was deeply painful for me. Times I've done that in relationships too, you know, where I've projected my own shit and put that on somebody else and watched them suffer from the pain that I've caused and then having to deal with that businesses, every business, like I said, every business I did failed. And then me questioning my own self-worth, like I'm grateful for all of that. And I'm sorry for the people who had to suffer along the way, the people who bet on me and invested in me and I failed in their shit and the people who I hurt with my anger and the people who I hurt with my projections, but I'm grateful for the experience because without all of that and without the grace of that happening, I wouldn't be a fraction of who I am.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, I failed at so many things and every single failure was helpful. Like every single fucking failure was helpful. And there's not one that stands out, but there's some that I remember. I remember early in the days of On and I was allowed myself to get really stressed and I was trying to record a video and someone was knocking on my door and I didn't respond. I was trying to stay in line with the video and they kept knocking and they kept knocking. This was when we had about 12 employees, 14 employees and I blew up. I lost it, you know, a little bit of my dad coming out. What? What the fuck do you want if I don't answer the door when you knock then I'm fucking busy? You know, I blew up, right? And then I was like, oh man, I go out and I open the door and it was like the sweetest employee we had, you know.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So it forces you, again, external pain is that force, it'll put you in pain and then it's up to you whether you can fix it or not.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Any You have to be super committed. Like do not, you know, like know that it's going to be hell. Like you can have it all sorted.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh man, like I had this wrong. It's not just me that's supposed to want other lovers. It's everybody that's, you know, from an instinctive, primitive concept really is open to having a more expanded view of sexuality. And that's led me down, that was the initial domino that led me down the path of exploring open relationship, which has been a huge advancement in my own personal happiness and fulfillment, challenging as hell. I mean, challenging as hell. But that book, if it wasn't for that book, I don't think I ever would have given it a try because I was operating under a false premise.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was probably the third most influential single book, because at that point, I was frustrated in conventional monogamous relationship. And I thought that humans were like lions and we were supposed to fight to the death to protect all our mates and that women should be happy if they found the right lion. And sex at Dawn's like, no, no, humans like having sex, both sides. We're always going to like having sex. And that's just the nature of things. And I go.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Aldous Huxley's Island, I think, was another crucial book for me. And that was utopian fiction. But the beauty of that is it was seeing how a system could work in mass, you know, and it was the first exposure to rewriting the rules of how everything could be and understanding like, oh, we could just change everything. Like everything could be malleable. And then what are the downstream effects? And it's that classic clash of utopia versus dystopia and how it all merges. And that's been something I've consistently fallen back on with a lot of like help and principles. So I think that one was huge. And then honestly, personally, this has nothing to do with on it. But personally, the book Sex at Dawn by Chris Ryan.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Who uses your intention to actually create the world around him and paint that masterpiece? And the laughter as the kind of guide, you know, knowing that you've made it. And I always say that like you can tell a spiritual master by the sound of their laughter. Like if they aren't laughing, I'm not going to drink your cup ayahuasca. Like if you don't have a good belly laugh, like you're missing the point, you know, and that's been a really solid guidebook and a place that if anybody's searching, you know, I would definitely check out Toltec Philosophy.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then he wrote Mastery of Love, which is an incredible exploration of love and relationship. And then his true masterwork is the Toltec art of life and death. And then the thing I liked about it is it was the first complete system, a complete spiritual, physical, emotional system that was self-contained. It was like its own religion to a certain extent, but except it was something that I could believe and I could buy into and was practical and I could utilize those principles of the warrior ethos and the principles of the Nagua, the artist who paints his masterpiece, you know, versus the person who allows the mitote they called it, which is the dream of the world to shape their experience. And so that transition from just allowing everything, expectations and pressures from this person and that person to shape who I was to becoming the Nagua, the artist who”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Which is totally fair game. And, you know, there's been some really significant books that I've read that have kind of shaped who I am. And I think the first was kind of following that line of the Toltec philosophy from Crazy Carlos Castaneda through Don Miguel Ruiz. And I think actually his most powerful book, although it's a little bit hard to get into, is The Toltec Art of Life and Death, which is a lot of people know Don Miguel Ruiz from the four agreements.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There is a direct correlation between my inner work and the outer success of Onit. Like that correlation is as clean an association as anything I have. So I haven't been one that's read a lot of business books. A lot of the books that I've read have been.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And plus the severance, and just kind of rode that to the very brink of nothing. And then again, it just came through like right in the nick of time.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No So, yeah, I started on it after I actually got myself in a position where I was able to transition out of that company with some severance, never got any other incentives, but got a pretty generous severance and took that and just wrote it into starting on it and just running. And then I had that $110,000 and I tried to dip into that as little as possible with my own utilization. That was the set.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“On it does not exist. So I have a marketing company, and that boutique marketing company has a few people that are working with me. And I have, again, a bunch of clients, most of which failed. But I couldn't fail at selling sex toys because people just want things to fuck. It was a very easy, easy thing to learn and not suck at. I was able to help make that thing work. And yeah, so I had that one going. And he liked just the ridiculousness of it. And he liked the idea of not taking this show too seriously to do something like that. And so he just went for it. And so if you go back to the old, there'll be old fleshlights. I remember. On there.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was that the client that I was working with? And I was like, oh man, maybe Joe will do something with this. And Joe brought that to his people. People are like, no way you can't do that”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Genetic bottleneck theory and aliens and all the philosophical things that we talked about. And after that, he's like, hey, man, I'd love to have you come on the show and we can talk more about this. So I went on the show and just as friends just started having a relationship with him. And it was a couple years after that I asked him the question like, hey man, like what supplement would you like the best yourself? He's like, oh yeah, I'm into neutropics. And I was like, Into nootropics. And I was like, man, I'm going to make the best one that's ever been made. I'll let you know about it”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so I took that meeting in a 30 minute meeting to talk about advertising, quickly turned into all those things, psychedelics, supervolcanoes.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I did. And actually, it was interesting. It was like the universe gave me a test. So Bodie Miller, who I mentioned before, Olympic Skier, you know, still in his Playboy mode at the time, he invited me for my first Kentucky Derby experience. And it was like, oh man, I got a cancellation, got full VIP access, craziest parties you've ever seen, sweet at the Kentucky Derby. And I was like, and I had that one meeting with Rogan that was right in the middle of that. I was like, man, I can't go. I got to take this meeting with Joe.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think it's inspired. No doubt. And I had an idea at that point, like, oh, well, he doesn't have advertising on his show. Maybe I'll hit him up for, you know, to do some advertising and use that as a chance to like meet him and maybe elevate out of the fan zone so we can have a conversation. So I remember I set up a lunch meeting to just 30 minutes to just meet somewhere, talk to him about advertising on a show.”
2018-03-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #302: Own the Day, Own Your Life - Aubrey Marcus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT