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Charles Goodyear

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  1. “And making it bigger than just himself, at least to my understanding from reading the book, was a very important part of how he could continue on and suffer poverty, ill health, the death of those around him, and not give up and not just collapse and quit. When I'm sitting here thinking about what are my final takeaways from this book, it's that. It's of having a larger mission in life that helps you get through the inevitable ups and downs that you're going to have. All right, and that's where I'll end it. If you want to read the full story and support the podcast at the same time, look at the link that's in the show notes. Oh, they just started doing construction right next to my apartment so that you might be hearing that. My apologies. If not, go to amazon.com forward slash shop forward slash founders podcast and you can see every single book.”

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  2. “He's sketching out his visions in this notebook. Rubber inflatable invalid cushions. Baby jumpers and swings. Fet lock fenders. I don't even know what that is. Oh, for horses and footbat tubs. Goodyear kept his journal and pencil at his bedside, and he rose frequently during the night to record his latest epiphany. His experience had put him in possession he believed of much information that would otherwise be lost in the event of his death. If he died any time soon, hospital patients and invalids might never lie down to rest in a rubber air or water bed. The heart of hearing could never benefit from a rubber ear trumpet, and hernia suffers would never be soothed by the abdominal supporters and tusses he had designed. He worked to record his vision, so that these benefits would outlive him. And I think the framing of his life's work.”

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  3. “A labor salary was below $500 per year at the time. He keeps getting at this time, he keeps getting put into prison. And so they're actually the invention of the passage of the bankruptcy law happens around this time. So he takes advantage of that. He claims bankruptcy for around that amount. He says he later wrote on that he never had cause to regret his decision to file for bankruptcy protection because soon his adventure began to be appreciated. Through all the heartache that he's going through He actually gets finally gets secures the patent that he's been working for for nearly all his life and he wasn't able to do that unless he claimed bankruptcy and kind of stopping put in jail and so that's it's one of the most famous patents of all time. It's patent number 363 and it says this is how he looked at patents. He says as with others of his time he understood that patents like ideas where a species”

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  4. “And a little bit about his personality. So it says Goodyear's perseverance in the face of disaster had a mesmerizing effect on those around him, while some laughed at him or pitied him, others clearly were drawn to his vision of riches from rubber, and his dead certainty that he would triumph. He demanded to be listened to, and in an age when face to face communication remained the most electrifying source of ideas and feelings, he won enough confidence to convince his neighbors to work for him for free or for very uncertain deferred wages. He also able to basically constantly in debt, but he constantly found new investors. And so that charisma, that persuasion that he had was one of his superpowers. I mean,”

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  5. “Now, does he ever reach that goal? No, but I think to reach that goal, you must have a belief first. So it's not like you might not be able to have one without the other. I mean, I guess you could, but there's just something about the one thing that sustained, I guess, let me rephrase that, the one thing that sustains Charles throughout his life is this rabid and unrelenting belief in himself. And maybe that in his case, he thought it was God-given. Maybe it was just his way of saying, hey, I want to live the life that I have. Pictured in my mind, and I'm willing to go about and put things in motion to capture and to make that vision an actual reality”

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  6. “This is something about his personality that I found interesting. It's kind of a manifestation of what the author calls his manic optimism. And from the moment he believed the breakthrough that had eluded him so long was now a real probability. He brought the whole power of his mind to bear on it. He talked of little, but heated rubber. This is the beginning of realizing, oh, I've actually made a breakthrough here. He was still penniless and barring from friends. But more than ever, he felt rich in prospect. I include that part because in the book, it talks about, he says over and over again, listen, I am meant to be a wealthy person. I'm just temporarily poor. So that's, again, one of the attributes I think is worth emulating, this belief in yourself that you'll figure it out. You know, that like I'm operating without a safety net that looks like it's dangerous to other people, but I know I'll do it.”

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  7. “Surprised that Goodyear's worn appearance in shabby clothing. On reaching the room where Goodyear lived and worked, DeForest found a space littered with kettles, gum shellac, and rubber. Goodyear chirped optimistically. William, here is something that will pay all my debts and make us comfortable. Says the India rubber business is below par, answered DeForest. And then this is a reply from Goodyear, and I am the man to bring it back again.”

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  8. “Segue into jumping into his life. Now he says, well, everyone, almost everyone knew his name in Miraculous Discovery. Few knew the rest of his Goodyear story. Include me into that latter group because I have to confess I made a rookie mistake here. I ordered this book. I was like, oh, this sounds interesting. Thinking that I was ordering the book for the person that started the Goodyear, you know, why do I know his name? I know his name because there's a massive American corporation called Goodyear Tires. So clearly the guy that invented rubber is the same founder of the company. Wrong. Wrong. I was completely wrong about that. The Goodyear tires was created like something like 40 years after Charles Goodyear died. And in very similar way to how Elon has named Tesla Motors like a dedication to his affinity for Nicola Tesla, the founder of Goodyear.”

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  9. “Compared himself to the first of he's extremely religious man. He basically just invented all day long and then in his any spare time, the only hobbies he had was basically spending time with his family and in spending time with his family they would read the Bible and pray and talk about God all the time. So he's very devout person. And he compared himself to there's a story in the Bible by, I think you call it, pronounce it job or Job, excuse me, Job rather. And, you know, it's the story of trials and tribulations and how to maintain your faith even when everything around your life is kind of going to shit. And that is, there's many times in the book where Charles is talking about, he's like, you know, he was, they called him, he had a manic optimism where he's like, he had setback after setback. He's like, this is okay. This is just God testing me. And I know in the future that everything will work out okay because he's already told me this. So that was essential.”

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  10. “In the 1830s and 40s, as he struggled to find the way to change rubber, Goodyear became obsessed with this miracle substance. This is hilarious to kind of give you an idea. He was very much an eccentric. He dressed in rubber and extolled its virtues to anyone who would listen. He had the mentality of the wildcatters who would soon populate the Pennsylvania oil fields. His spendthrift borrowing and spending, and this is something you don't want to emulate, and his unwillingness to return to safer means of earning a living exposed his family to terrible hardship and set events in motion that cost some of them their lives. To justify his family's suffering, he rationalized his economic plight, his embarrassments as people at the time called it, as a test of his Christian faith. Okay, so the author's picking up something very important there that throughout the book and throughout the life story, he”

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