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Cory Booker

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“Thank you for, and I'll say this one more time you are one of the sources of inspiration in my life and more than just inspiration, education. I've learned a lot from you as a guy. I see you as a peer, but in many ways you are one of the teachers of my life, and I appreciate you, Professor Ferris. Thank you”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Americans, and if it does, then really try to love, which is not a being verb, it's an active word, it necessitates us acting towards our neighbor with a certain level of commitment.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A surrendering of your position, not always, but for a moment, let me imagine what it's like to you. Love demands you learning about somebody else. Like, how can I really, I love my Irish-American colleagues or my Jewish-American colleagues? Have I taken the time to learn about the Irish experience in America, which is one of the great stories of America, the Japanese-American experience? What a great story of America. Have I learned about you? So, you know, this idea, people always say, the biblical sense of knowing each other. Love not Eros love, but love, agape love, necessitates knowledge knowing one another as well. And so I guess that's a long-winded way of saying my request for all of us, for people that you think you disagree with, take time to see them and to feel in your heart a love that Americans should feel to each other. They'll have to agree with each other, always like each other, but do you sincerely believe that patriotism obliges you to love?”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, if your kids become an entrepreneur or an artist or a teacher, my kids are going to benefit from that, that that is what makes a great society. And we cannot tolerate each other. We cannot tolerate divisions. We have to find ways to stitch this country together with love. And so my request to everybody listening is you can be fervently against a Republican. You could be fervently against a Democrat. You could be fervently against those people who are marching in the streets or what have you. My request is that we all try to, all of us, including me, starting with me, try to see each other, our humanity, our dignity, and try to love each other. I see you, I love you. And love demands a surrender of ego for a little while. It demands a courageous empathy, as we've talked about. It demands...”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I sat time with him, hugged him, and kissed him on the forehead right before I left. And I said to him, I love you, Frank. And his last words to me, where I love you. And I think about that, those, I see you, I love you. I see you. I love you. We have lost our way in a sense in America, or at least many of us. And maybe I'll gate myself, that we think the highest quality of this country is tolerance. We're a nation of tolerance, if that's a good thing. But tolerance says if you disappear off the face of the earth, if you're that person in the other party, you just disappear, we'd be better off, you know, or I wouldn't be worse off because I was just tolerating you. But this country, as our founder said in the Declaration of Independence, pledging to each other in a rational commitment, this country says we were not called for tolerance, we're called for love to move beyond tolerance to that because love always sees worth, sees dignity, sees value in the other person, and knows actually that if your kids do well,”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I walk into his room, he's in hospice, and my ego, which I need to check, is upset. I'm like, this guy, tens of thousands of human beings had hot heat and hot water or stayed in their homes. Why is he dying without crowds of people? I mean, this guy taught me that significance is more important than celebrity, that purpose is more important than popularity. He lived a life of great purpose and great significance. And I go into his hospice room after the nurses have told me that it's not going to be long. And he can barely talk. And he's got, I don't, I hope many people have not heard people towards end of their lives. I saw this with my father and others something that your breath gets really short, but yet he was aware enough to know that I came in the room and I announced myself and he forces out these words that used to be what he used to tease me. He goes, I say, hey, Frank, it's Corey. He's like, I see you.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This amazing tenant leader led the longest rent strike in our city's history back in the 70s against, he won against the government. It was public housing. He led people in this amazing rent strike, this crotchety. And he looked at him. Not dressed in fancy clothes. But I watched him at tenant meetings. You and I have both been in them, whether dorm meetings or whatever. Everybody wants their moment and they speak for too long. But I watch this guy just look at everybody with these eyes that he was listening to you. And while I'm getting nudging and tired, he's still looking at people. And the irony of his sight was that he went blind. And yet he would tease me every time I would see him. I'd say, hey, Frank, it's Corey. He's like, I see you. Anyway, I want to end with my request to everyone. And a foreshadowing of what I hope to share with some of the students who I'm going to speak to in a commencing speech in a couple months. His last words to me were...”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Done really good work together. Ran Paul, who's a guy people wouldn't imagine, but he and I have done really good work together. And I guess I'm saying that as a preamble to say this. It's a shame that in our society we're creating divisions that are so deep between us that we fail to see.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, the easiest way to find me is if you have social media platforms, is at Corey Booker CORY-B-O-O-K-E-R on any platform, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. And I try to do my best to live sort of my authenticity on those positions, on those platforms. And I guess my request from people, which is tough today because I think that I do worry about the divisions in our nation. And if I'm worrying about something, I'm trying to do something myself to heal those. And that's why when I went to the Senate, I told my state, I'm not going down as a Democratic senator, I'm going down as a senator for our state, and I'm going to listen to Bill Bradley, who was one of my mentors to try to do everything I can to create working relationships with my senators. So if Republican senators like Deb Fisher, who she and I have done such good work together, senators like Tim Scott, Republican from South Carolina,”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The head of AEI is a guy that talks about we as Americans don't believe capitalism and free markets are the end. We believe it's a pathway to reaching the free market. And so what I'm saying is if we remember why we have capital, and this is why I love people who get perverted in their corporate goals, where it's just about that quarterly report. Well, if you look at the first, some of the early entrepreneurs in America, they weren't looking at short-term views of their company. We've allowed a lot of things to erode our moral compass and make us smaller and greater because we don't reset. What are we really about as a society? Why did we form as a nation? What are our guiding principles and live in more accordance to those?”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, like a laser beam where you're supposed to be headed, if you've taken the time to do that work, when the craziness of life, you can easily fall back. Okay, why am I here as a senator? Why am I here as an entrepreneur? What values am I trying to do? And I think we've lost that. Capitalism is a great example as a guy who loves a free market. Capitalism got lost when we were allowing people in a very unfree market way to foist their costs off one society. Like most people don't realize that a person working at an iHop in Newark is you are subsidizing that iHop by giving that because I have friends that work at iHop that live in public housing. That's taxpayer subsidizing. It's outsourcing the costs of paying somebody a living wage to the rest of people in society. Most people don't understand that capitalism, if you really read Adam Smith, has his moral sentiments. He really talks about the larger vision. This is, again, he's a Democrat.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This idea that it dissipates or disappears. No, I'm sorry. I am basking in the warmth of those men on the beaches of Normandy, as my dad might say. I'm basking in the warmth of those people who help my family buy our first house. And you've got to see yourself as no good deed doesn't resonate. But the problem is we all shrink ourselves. Fear shrinks ourselves. bigotry, hatred shrinks ourselves, negativity. But what makes us bigger and bolder is courage and kindness. And we get radiant when we live when those values. So what are your moral values? And are you living by your highest, most luminescent self? And what makes you, and understand what your triggers are when do you get small, when do you get petty? And what have you? I think that kind of self-work really helps you be more effective in living out your mission. But people who get on, if I got in my car and didn't know where I was going, I would just waste energy, race fuel, and what have you.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And religion are really the frontiers of science really are very spiritual. And so in astrophysics, I wanted to confirm this with me because I was using it in like major speeches talking about, you know, stars are millions, if not hundreds of millions light years away. That's what I wanted to confirm with him. And I had always heard that we're looking at stars at night that have disappeared, but because your light goes on in perpetuity, we see those stars as if they're there, but they're really gone. And so he confirmed all of that. And I said, well, that's powerful that a being of energy could be gone millions of years ago, but we're still basking in its light, marveling in its glory, feeling its warmth. And I said, we are beings of energy too. And so this idea that the energy we give off while we're alive”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Should have one. Neil. Ne You should really come. People would really benefit from talk about a guy who's nonpartisan. I mean, he's a guy that would give you that lecture about go where the science leads you, whether it's left or right. Because I've heard him talk in ways that ticks off. If you're ticking off both sides of the aisle, you're probably doing pretty good. But we had this conversation because I love, again, I love talking about things from a spiritual perspective, but I'm now finding that science.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, it's productive for me to do a recentering a lot. And I think I even brought this up to Matt, who's, again, my chief advocate relating to about like in this context, we were discussing whether to do a grant an interview that is kind of a quirky request that we got. And it was so easy for me to fall back on, okay, well, wait, why am I here in the Senate? What is my mission? And so I do really think that's a really productive thing. If you have an hour just to sit with an open notebook and just say, what am I about or what do I stand for? Or what are my most important values? And if you actually can do that and then actually have an honest conversation about am I living in accordance to my highest values? What legacy do I want to leave? What energy do I want to leave on this universe? I sat down with, and now I feel like I'm doing more name dropping, but a guy I review your name, Neil DeGrasse Tyson.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, I think Gandhi's autobiography is profound read. I think that parting the waters is one of the best Taylor branches Polar Surprise winning book. If you're an American, it's just an unbelievable story of our country.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Living with a seal. That's what it is. And it's Jesse Itzler, who's just a if you are a workout guy. And it reminds you of things you already know that you can push your body and yourself far further than you think. And it really was a moment. It was actually right, I think I listened to that around the time I was starting to battle back into shape from being the heaviest I ever was. And it was a wonderful book. And he's going on to write. To write more books like that. I'm just going through some more of these that are not sort of, I listened to a lot of history and biography.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I'm not just again, maybe I shouldn't even waste my time saying because most of these people, probably most of the good folks who listen to you probably have already listened to that. So look, I thought just mercy, this book written by one of the greatest American heroes that I know, a guy named Brian Stevenson, who was a death penalty defender. And I try to consume as much as I can. So I do a lot of listening to books. And that was one of the biggest books that I handed out Just Mercy back in 2015. It is a beautiful listening. It's one of those books that is a really good story and it takes you out of where you probably are and lets you look into a window of aspects of our society that are really important. Trying to think of other books, I'm actually going to just open up my audible. Oh, you know what book I loved? A buddy of mine wrote this book. And just for a guy.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I have gifted your book a lot. And I shouldn't say it wasn't the four-hour work week. The book of yours, or I had to gift anyone, was a four-hour body. I just thought that there were so many great little hacks in there. Some of them rated R. Yes.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Once a week on social media, post the link to big brothers and big sisters, somebody, one of your circle of friends, if you have a more than 100 followers, is one day, and if you post the data, you and I love data about one mentor in a kid's life dramatically changes their life outcomes. If one person in the next month that you do that or two months that you do that once a week or whatever, one person is a mentor, you've just helped to change somebody's life. And so that's how much power you have. You don't even give the $10 to Big Brothers, big sisters. And so that's what I'm saying. If there's so much we could do that we just don't do because we don't understand. And with this power, I'm holding up my smartphone right now that we have to connect with people. I found this out as a political scientist that more powerful than one of my political ads trying to get somebody to do something is someone posting information to their friends. It affects behavior more than we know.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And that's what the gift you gave me back in 2009 when you told me about working out. And I think about you, and I don't mean, again, I feel like this is like I have a little fanboy moments with you, but there are days I can't work out and I say to myself, Tim told me, just raise your heart rate for 12 minutes. And so from my home where I live in the capital to the Senate office building is a little over a mile. And I don't have this printed. I'm telling everybody right now, it's embarrassing, but it's about 12 minute run for me. And I think about you and I'm saying like, look, I'm missing a workout because my chief of staff, closest friend Jerk over here doesn't schedule me time to work out. I'm like at least I think of Tim. I said at least I'm going to get 12 minutes in. And I'm telling you right now, when it comes to being an activist, if even it's as simple as this, I really believe that there should be more people being mentors in this world. And I can't be a mentor myself, but I'm going to.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Good fight is you know it and are you living an allegiance to that? That's why I always say that civic gospel and that's why I always say before you tell me about your religion show it to me and how you treat other people How are you living in accordance to those values that you hold that you intellectually have and be that kind of activist don't suddenly And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with suddenly waking up and saying I reject what's going on, but try to be consistent in what you do, even if it's a small way”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Nothing is going to change about this world unless we do first. And so if that might just be picking the smallest thing, like I just did spent this week reading about Yemen, I mean, it is awful, god-awful what's going on there. But I can't get mad at other people for not knowing what's happening in Yemen. But if I say, you know, I'm going to do one thing on my Facebook page. I'm going to post a little bit more about the near famine going on in Yemen. And I'm going to give people one instruction of an action they can take. If we were all doing that about issues we care about, we would be influencing each other. And so that's what I'm just saying is I've learned in my life, again, I got a little cut off, but if you're an activist or if you're a person, what is your life mission state? Why is that not clear? What do you stand for? I don't even telling people I don't care if your missions to go out and make a billion dollars. Are you getting up every single day and at least knowing what your mission is, what your values are, and how you're going to fight.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And look at people who are hacking our politics. Money is one of the most toxic influences on our politics, but yet you just watch Bernie Sanders run a campaign where he didn't ask for one corporate dollar. Not because somebody said, I only have $5 to give somebody. So, you know what? I believe in that candidate. I'm going to give five bucks to them. Well, all those small actions in the aggregate turned into a tidal wave of action. So you and I, I don't know if you're late, but I get appeals for money a lot. And if I can't help, at least let me give a dollar or $5 to show I care about this issue and it's something important. And that's my hope for anybody listening. Don't feel powerless ever. I mean, Alice Walker says the most common way people give up their power is believing they have none. We all are so much more powerful than we realize. And sometimes if we want to curse the world around us because it's not kind enough or there's too much cynicism.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You and I, and I know a little bit about your family history, and you just heard a bit about mine, what if that person in North Carolina, again, my father's home state, said, I can't do anything about segregation. I can't do anything about poverty. I can't do anything about the lack of education for black kids in this town. So it's terrible. Somebody should do something about it. Instead, they said, you know what? This is one black kid named Carrie Booker. I'm going to give him a dollar to go to school. That act of love had a literally had a time space jump that I”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, that's the point I guess I was trying to make some of my earlier comments to you, which is the same point over and over and over again. And it's this idea that Ms. Jones said, I was overwhelmed. I didn't know what to do. And she didn't prescribe things. She said, do something. And the problem is we often let things feel so big. We allow our inability to do everything to undermine our determination to do something. And what people don't get is that”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Recording might have different views on it, but for Newark, it was one of the best ways for people to get access to preventative care, prevent unplanned pregnancies. People are saying, why is Chris Christie doing this to us? And my response to them is Chris Christie's not doing this to you. What's happening is we didn't come out and vote. So, what people don't understand, King said this, and again, nobody's evil here, but he said the problem we'll have to repent for in our day and age is not the vitriolic words and violent actions of the bad people, but the appalling silence and inaction of the good people.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I'm like, yes, ma'am. And I wait in this long line. One year later, it's a governor's race in New Jersey. I go to vote. Nobody's there. I walk right in and vote, hug the woman behind the table because she looks lonely. Then the results come out. Chris Christie narrowly wins that election. I look at the data. If just the cities in New Jersey had turned out a fraction of what they did a year before, and I always tell people, then people are complaining to me. Again, I told you I'm mayor during the most difficult hand of cards. I got a Republican governor who is now cutting back on funding. Again, New Jersey as a state had terrible problems, and he just said, I'm not going to fund cities like I used to. So Trenton cuts off a third of their police department. I lay off 12%. Then we see the earned income tax credit, which is a way for working Americans, making $30,000, $40,000 a year to get tax breaks. He ends that system. He pulls that cuts funding to Planned Parenthood, which, again, different people on this phone on this.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes. And so Governor Christie, I use him as an example, and I apologize if he's a big listener to this because I went to go vote in 2008 for Barack Obama in Newark, New Jersey, a majority black city, let's just say he was a little popular in Newark, lines around the polling places. I go vote there. The woman at the end of the line, I'm rolling deep. I'm the mayor of the city. I got officers next to me. I'm getting out of a fancy SUV. And the woman looks at me as Newarkers do, love my city. We keep it real. It's not like, hey, Mayor, nice day. She just looks at me. The first thing she says, don't you think you're cutting in this line now?”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Who, just because somebody says they're a liberal, you call them a libtard. And I see this is the stuff I read on just because somebody says they're a Republican, you call them a racist, whatever, whatever, whatever, then you are not honoring the vision that this country was founded upon about that irrational commitment.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“went right or left sat with these people and see what they're enduring and their children are enduring and not been outraged by it. So why all of a sudden now that we have a new president, and I don't care if it was Bama or whatever, why have we lost our sense of urgency and our sense of outrage? And the last example I'll give you is a Chris Christie example. And I'm glad I said already, I talked to him a few weeks ago. If you can't find a way to be a friend with another American, I always say patriotism is love of country. You can't love your country unless you love your fellow countrymen and women. And you are founders even understood this. Bunch of very different people. At the end of the Declaration of Independence, they call to future generations and say, in order to make this country work, we have to have an irrational commitment to one another that makes even irrational. It doesn't even make sense. We've got a mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and I love this last one, our sacred honor. So if you're one of those people,”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A lagoon. Now, just weeks ago, I went down to stand with these people and try to figure out how I can help them. In these lagoons, and then they take the excrement and they spray it in the air over what are empty fields. But the problem is I watched, I stood there and watched as the mist from that stuff floats off the property of the pig farmers. And by the way, the pig farmers in many ways don't even own the pigs. They get these pigs delivered by the larger corporations. They have to raise them for six months and they get picked up. But long story short, this community has horrific cases of cancers and respiratory diseases. They can't open their windows. They can't run their air conditioning. And every time they try to elect somebody that will represent them, the industry, one of the most powerful lobbies in Washington is Big Ag, these corporate farms, corporate folks will just put a lot of money behind people. They'll fight them. And I bring this example up because no human being could have gone where I...”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it's been going on. Why aren't people more activated about that? I'll give you one more example. And this is a controversial example because we all like our bacon. But North Carolina has 9 million pigs. Why is that an important number? Pigs create 10 times the excrement that a human being does. So they've got the same population of pigs as New Jersey has people, but 10 times the excrement. What do you do with that excrement when you have that kind of factory farming? Well, New Jersey's waste. We put it in human waste. We put it in waste treatment plants. It doesn't poison us. We don't get poisoned by our own crap. North Carolina, what they do is unfortunately a lot of these pig farms are located in very poor areas, low-lying areas. And these people who live in those areas didn't invite this stuff in. I talked to a Vietnam War veteran, leaves his home to serve in the Vietnam, comes back and there's one of these places. What they do is they put all the crap in.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Super F-U-N-D because we created as Congress bipartisan a fund to clean them up. We said these are so toxic and dangerous that we are going to take special legislation to clean these up. God bless Reagan for reauthorizing it. God bless Mitch McConnell and others for voting for it. Now it's not it's lapsed. I got into Congress. This was a mission for me because New Jersey is the number one state in America for superfund sites north to south and they're overwhelmingly concentrated in poor areas. And now we have longitudinal data that we know that unfortunately children who are born around super fun sites have significantly higher levels of birth defects and autism. So this is a threat to American children.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Let's just take it from people on my side of the aisle who are so upset about Trump right now. And one of the things that bothers me right now is because what we don't understand is before Trump, right or left, why weren't we so disturbed before this about the injustices in our country? That super fun site in Newark, by the way, there's super funds in every single state in the nation. Ronald Reagan was one of the last presidents to reauthorize a cleanup mechanism for this. Mitch McConnell, the current leader of the Senate, voted for it. It was to take polluting industries into a teeny tiny tax. No difference, teeny tiny tax to fund superfights, fund sites. Well, we're now in a different era where God bless Ronald Reagan, but a lot of things he did, we currently don't necessarily want to do. So that has lapsed and nobody's willing to reauthorize it. So what's happened to super funds in America? They've gone up. We have more superfund sites now.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so for anything you want to do in life, except for maybe being in politics, which I can talk to you about, it was harder for me then, I always look for a model. What are they doing right? What can I innovate upon that they're doing so that I can find a way to do it even better? And then by the way, share with other people your results. Tell them about your story and so on and so forth. So let's get back to activism right now. One thing I have to get off the shoulder, and I don't want to be a complainer, but I know, and I know your audience wonderfully is you have Republicans that listen to you and Democrats. This is a wonderful, one of the greatest podcasts in America, and I'm not just trying to blow your head up because one of the few spaces in America where people from different political parties come to listen to the same guy. And that's great that right now, and there might even be some Republicans listening right now that like, God, who's he got this week, a Democrat? I usually don't listen to him, but it's Tim. I'll give this guy a shot. So this is a wonderful space that right and left are listening to.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Of drugs from Canada, but if I didn't know my moral core before that, I would have veered way off course. And so what I'm saying, what college did for me, it said if you can focus in on what's important and cut everything else out and then find people who can teach you, and what I did there, and the joke I always say is like on the football field, there was a guy named Jeff James, like this great wide receiver, and I studied him. He didn't know it, but I watched what he did. I mean, I literally would begin copying the way he dressed for to go out on the field, like his towel was a certain way. I watched at the end, I used to go back and sulk that I was so low on the depth chart, but I started seeing that the superstars on our team, they were going to the gym when everybody else was going to the training table, transformed my body, made the California All Strength team by going in and doing all the extra work. In the classroom, what I did is I just looked at who are the smart people. And I saw smart people have better habits than me. They sit different places than I used to sit when I was in class.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'll still go to the party at 11 o'clock or 12 o'clock, but I'm going to do things that other people aren't doing study. I'm going to learn little hacks. If the papers do on the 7th, I'm going to find out who's grading my paper and give them a rough quote-unquote rough draft at the first. But really, the first, I gave my best effort. Like this is the best thing I could put together here. And I found out that the TAs would say, I'd say, here's some of my ideas. Could you read this over? Tell me if I'm on the right track. And they would then tell me the pathway I needed to take to take that B paper to an A paper. I could go through all the things I did to come out of a Stanford and be qualified to get a Rhode Scholarship. But what I'm saying to you more importantly, going to this idea of activism, and I do this all the time. And especially because in politics, there were so many forces trying to erode your moral core. I looked pointing at my chief of staff because we just went through one of them on drug imports where we got castigated publicly. We ended up getting to where we were in a place accordance with our values for the importation, for the rightful importation.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, this is the quote If you want to fly, you've got to give up the shit that holds you down. Now, the power of that is that most of us want things, but we're not willing to give up something to get it. What I learned in college, it still serves me now, is what am I willing to sacrifice? Am I willing to sacrifice? And in college, for me, that wasn't a complicated life, there wasn't anything that I was willing to give up for the two things I wanted to excel in, academics and athletics. And so once I realized that and really got it clear, then I could do it. So what happened to me? So why did I become an A student when in high school I was a B student? Well, it's simple because when everybody else on Friday and Saturday, Friday, Saturday night was going to parties, I realized if I do everything, what everybody else is doing, I'm going to get the same results. If you want things that other people don't have, you've got to be willing to do the things other people don't do. And so I said, I'm going to go to the library for three or four hours.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, because I just realized, you know this, everything's a hack, right? Everything is the strategy that you have and how much like forgive me, Maya Angelou, forgive me, Alice Walker. I can't remember who said it. And there's a curse in it, but I'm pretty sure it's Alice Walker.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, no, no. The code would be like I was really, I wanted to transform my body. And so some of the goals were very specific. Like I'm going to weigh this much. I'm going to run this 40 times. I'm going to bench this much. And I'm going to do everything I can to get to these numbers. So and academically, it's the same thing. I'm taking this course load. I'm going to decide beforehand what grade I want to get and what I'm willing to do to get to that grade. And I found in college, it was this liberating experience because I realized if I was willing, and I have a good book in me, if you ever want to co-write this book, How to Get Straight A's in College, How to Get Straight A's in College if you're a dumb person.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I'll never forget the moment I really was contemplating leaving Stanford before the school even began and running, tucking tail and running. And I pulled out of my notebook, a piece of paper, and just clarified. And basically put values down, statements of who I am, what I stand for, and what am I trying to achieve? And the goal is then became, and you can talk to my college roommate is still a dear friend, I'd have a whiteboard up entire college career.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh my God, yeah, I went at it. And because often, most people, I always say this to kids what I'm saying. If you bump into somebody in a hallway and you're in a great mood, that's just a bump in the hallway. But sometimes when you have a lot of anger and you bump into somebody, you take all the anger from all other areas of your life and you focus on that person. And so I was just feeling like a failure, like on the football field and anxious and nervous and fearful because you get there in Stanford for football, you get there like around, you know, God, August and school doesn't start in Stanford till like September, October. And so I'm fearing this reality that the truth is I was not the greatest student, not as great as the kids with these brainiacs in I come to. And I thought to myself, I'm not competing on the football field. And I'm about to go into the classroom and get just kick my butt kick by these smart kids from around the globe who should be Stanford students. I'm an imposter. I got here as an overhyped football player who's not good enough to compete in school.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In my post 18 year old life, was getting to Stanford as this big hyped football player and failing and just like sinking on the depth chart.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, great question. And I'm just trying to figure out how to approach this, which is I guess there's two things that are coming bubbling up in me. And the first is, again, life lessons that you and I have talked about in our past, but more, you've talked about what I just find that every day if I get up and I can focus on and keep clarity on what the mission is. What is my purpose today? And even back to the time I credit my success in college from failure. Okay, so I got, and life does this to me a lot, beats me down to like the basic elements of my being. Like you and I both probably been through that where you just, I mean, Newark did that to me a lot, just broke, I think from our brokenness, it's also necessary to be broken because that's often when the light gets in. It's like when we're shining armor and stuff like that, nothing's penetrating, but sometimes it takes us getting broken down. And so I first broken.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Together in unusual coalition, unions pledging to me to do apprenticeship programs for my kids. Goldman Sachs, God forbid, because they were one of the few people I can get to get capital for the project. It was an amazing coalition to benefit my city, to create jobs and the like. And he's critical to getting it done. So I'm going to meet with him. And I come out for the press that's like putting the microphones in my face. Did you give it to him on this? And I'm like, I could have sat there for my entire one hour I had with the governor of the state of New Jersey and fought with him and we would have changed neither of each other's minds. But by focusing on something, and I'm not saying there's not a time and place, Chris Chrissy has not been soft on me on things he disagrees with publicly criticized, even when I'm senator, he still publicly criticized me on things, and I haven't been soft on him. But in that precious time I had with him, I wanted to get this dagnab project done so I could get jobs for people who tomorrow or the day before they needed to go to work. And that was what was important.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And my funniest Chris Chrissy story is not funniest, but most instructive to me was when Prescott mad at me was marriage equality, gay marriage was being voted on, something I'm striding about equal justice under the law. Chris Christie is stridently against. And it's being voted on in the United States Senate, in the state Senate in New Jersey. And I had a meeting, I didn't plan it this way, schedule with Chris Christie in Trenton in his office on the same day that all this is happening. So imagine this. Protesters outside, media outside. I'm going in to meet with Chris Christie. And everybody's thinking the guy who raised the first person ever raised the pride flag in front of City Hall in Newark, the guy that refused to perform marriages when I was mayor because I'm not going to marry anybody unless I can marry everybody. I'm marching in to meet with Chris Christ and everybody's like, he's going in there to give Chris Christie hell. Really, I'm marching in there with him because I'm working on a $300 million project in downtown Newark that had places for schools, that had affordable housing that I brought to.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Can actually make tremendous things happen very quickly. And so I became mayor at the worst time to be a mayor of an American city during the Great Recession, which is a great depression. I had a guy who was my friend, and I know I say that in some of my Democrats friends get mad at me, but Chris Christie is my friend. I can write a dissertation on our disagreements, but I said, I'm the mayor of the largest city. You're the governor of the biggest state. Let's not focus on where we disagree. Let's see if we can find some things we can work together on because if I don't, I'm just going to be screaming at you from the outside as opposed to sitting at the table with you and finding things that at least two Americans can find six or seven things we could work together on.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The conclusion of all this is that that sort of what got me into fighting against a lot of this stuff and finding like the concrete of garden spires where I did the hunger strike, learning that if I try to fight these battles without creating unusual coalitions, basically if I could create unusual coalitions, I can get unusual results. And if I can awaken people to the facts of what's going on, if I can appeal to people's moral imagination, I can tap into a tremendous amount of energy. And it was for Newark, I had to hack the system. In many ways, what I did with being the hunger strike taught me that if I could think of ways to sort of hack the system and get people to pay attention that weren't paying attention before, I can, I can.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was 18 years ago, and I was just caught with a little bit of drugs. You can't get a job at Burger King in New York. So I say all this.”
2017-04-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #233: Cory Booker -- Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT