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Brandon Stanton

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  1. “Right, so I mean, the whole reason I became, I mean, to give you, to catch you up a little bit, you know, when I first went to the University of Georgia, I was majoring in business. That's when I wasn't going to class. I flunked out. And then when I decided to go back to college, you know, I thought to myself, well, I'm just going to study something that I enjoy anyway. So it's not this kind of major force of effort to go to class and to do my work. At that time, I had developed a reading habit that was really when my life kind of turned around. Because remember, you know, I stopped thinking about these kind of big problems I wanted to solve. And I started focusing on, you know, establishing a routine and some discipline in my life. And one of the first big ones and still probably the most monumental routine that I ever established and decision.”

    2018-06-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #321: Brandon Stanton — The Story of Humans of New York and 25M+ Fans · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “When they get to Paris, oh, you know, the West is so, you know, it's so materialistic. I need to go to India. You know what I mean? And so I find a lot of times the place that kind of, the people who kind of externalize their environment as being the reason for their dissatisfaction tend to be unsatisfied everywhere. I kind of the opposite. I've loved every place that I've lived. I've loved the people that I've met in every place I lived. Marietta was Starbucks and Barnes& Noble, but I had a great, great group of friends. And, you know, I enjoyed growing up there.”

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  3. “Place, then you know if they live in Atlanta and the answer is New York, then when they get to New York, you know what? New York's dead. The answer's LA. When they get to LA, oh, the American values suck. Need to get to Paris.”

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  4. “Yeah, I was born in Georgia, I mean I am somebody who has liked everywhere I've ever been. I liked my school. I liked my college. I liked the community college I went to after I flunked out of my college. I liked Atlanta. I liked Chicago. I loved New York. You know, I'm generally somebody who appreciates the place that I'm in. I tend to find that people complaining about where they live. Not always. I mean, it's not, you can, there's always some place that you can be that might be better for you. But if you hate the place that you live, if you kind of just despise it, I find that a lot of times a new environment is not the key to your happiness because I find that a lot of times that people that are complaining about one place when they move to another place.”

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  5. “Psychedelic mushrooms might have had a little something to do with it. I can see that. It's just like I spent so much time at a very intelligent group of friends and so much of my 16, 17, 18, 19, 20.”

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  6. “Playing piano every single day, doing my homework. And it's funny because when I stop trying to think about this big thing that I was going to accomplish in life and started just focusing on putting one foot in front of the other every single day, it began to propel me on the journey that ultimately led to humans of New York, which was something bigger than I could have ever imagined when I was hitting the bong in the Creswell Dorm at the University of Georgia.”

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  7. “Instead of going to class, I was doing that, you know, instead of really kind of working to improve myself, you know, I was doing that, just pontificating and then just like thinking all the time about, you know, what my contribution to the world was going to be. And that was the time that I flunked out. And things really started moving forward for me was when I threw in the towel, you know, I waved the white flag. I said, you know, I'm going to stop trying to figure out, you know, what the big thing I'm supposed to accomplish is, and I'm just going to start doing what I was supposed to do. And I started writing the bus and started going to community college, Georgia Perimeter College. I got my grades back up. I went back to the University of Georgia where I flunked out of. And, you know, I focused on becoming a disciplined person and having a routine in my life of working out every day.”

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  8. “Right, well, I mean, I always say that a lot of my early trouble was coming from this thought that I had to do something really big in the world. And, you know, I'm sitting in class all day and I'm learning these kind of, you know, very minute details about things like the Magna Carta and the compromise of 18, whatever. And none of this really seemed important at all. Because, you know, I felt that I was, you know, my purpose had to be much greater than this. And then how am I going to use any of this in life? And so I spent all of my time back then. I was smoking a lot of weed and just trying to think about what my big idea and what my contribution to the world was going to be.”

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  9. “A notable time, I remember I was sitting in, my mom used to take us to the grocery store a lot of times after school. And, you know, she was just going to run in for a few minutes and grab something. And so we were just supposed to sit in the car. And I think I was like, you know, nine or ten. And I wasn't supposed to touch anything, but there were all these buttons on the dashboard and things like that. I remember she came back out and I think the alarms going off and then the keys, the steering wheels locked. And you can't move the car. And I remember that one very vaguely because I wasn't allowed to go to the fall festival at the school that year, which was my favorite thing to do because they had like carnival, you know, games and things like that. So going”

    2018-06-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #321: Brandon Stanton — The Story of Humans of New York and 25M+ Fans · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT