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Cyan Banister

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“Thank you, Tim. Thank you for all that you do and for opening people up and for sharing stories and you're clearly on a mission and you have a purpose, a really great purpose. And I want to hear about after you do dice rolling for a while because I know you take things to the next level. You don't half-assed do anything. I want to see what comes of your dice experiments”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I didn't know what it meant. She kept telling me this. And so really it's about. Overcoming the fear of that narrative and looking for my swans. I am turning into a swan. I mean, the person you're talking to right now is becoming a swan. Finally. In shedding that narrative and shedding that story. And so that's why it's called Ugly Knuck”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My mother was very devastatingly beautiful, at least I thought so. And I think that that beauty gave her It opened a lot of doors for her and also allowed her to manipulate people with her beauty. She tried a weird, tough love approach with my sister and I, and she basically told us we're ugly. And she said, You're very ugly, so you better be smart because you're not going to find a good man if you're not smart. And if you don't find a man, at least you can provide for yourself. And when you hear that as a little girl, I took it to heart and it definitely gave me a sense of dysphoria. It detached me from my body. And I just thought I was just the ugliest creature that ever lived. But she told me that someday I'd find my swans because I was just an ugly duck among ducks searching for my swans.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Isn't about business, but it is about philosophy and it is about some of the lessons that I've learned, but I found that in order for philosophy to really hit home, you can't be obvious. So you have to tell a tale. And so it's a tale of my life, but hopefully at the end of it, it unlocks something inside of you, the reader, that helps you in some way in the way that the Razor's Edge helped me. If I could have one razor's edge moment with a human being, I will feel like I have really achieved something in life.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know how I could be a better person and how I can show up in this world in a better way. And so I recommend a lot of people get a lot out of it. There's a lot of stories that you might resonate with. I love hearing from people. And when I get the feedback that a story resonates, I incorporate it into the actual physical book. So I am working on a book and I'm about halfway done with it. And so my call to the audience is to keep encouraging me to finish it and keep encouraging me to write on Substack because I get disheartened. I get sad sometimes writing these stories. I'm human, but I think that I want to write a story that”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I'm writing a book. You mentioned my sub stack in the beginning and my sub stack, if you go and read it, it's free. You don't have to pay. The only reason why I charge anything is if anyone wants to leave a comment, they have to pay to leave a comment. So if you're going to be unkind, you got to pay me. I learned that from Zivity. But what it is is it's source material from my book, and it's me remembering things like a child, the story about, you know, my mother and the $20 bill is in there. There's all these stories in there. And it's me doing this search internally for...”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I just wanted to share that story because it's one of many stories that has happened to me since I watched that movie. That's just one of many. And the miraculous thing about Tango Tango texted me, and he's now traveling the world. He had amnesia. And the encounter with me brought back all his memories.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Until that point, I did not exist. And I was in this weird time warp of weird events that kept happening, like the person dressed in all white, you know, and things were just being given to me. Things being given to me happened for a few weeks after that. Like people were giving me sandwiches and giving me necklaces and giving me really weird stuff. And the only thing that I can think of is that when you have a spiritual experience like this, you just show up in the world differently. You're more inviting. You're more open. You know, I'm trying to think of the science. At the end of the day, I like to think about science and how this all could work. And I think there's probably an explanation for it. But ultimately, I think we're connected on some sort of a level that we don't quite understand because we just don't understand it.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And the voice said, His tears are not for you. You need to leave now. So I said, Your tears are not for me, sorry. I got to go. I got to leave this place. And that's when he said, you're beautiful. He said, you are really beautiful. And the voice says, I'm just a mirror. You're the beautiful one. And when I got back to my hotel, they suddenly knew who I was and I was able to leave”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Ask him why he's a duckboat narrator. So I did. I said, Why are you a duckboat narrator? And he said, well, I have ADHD and I'm a comedian and I can't hold down a job. And I started doing this job because a friend of mine was a duckboat narrator. And I got hooked because I started telling stories that I Would improve a family's life one tour at a time. If I could reach one person a day, I feel like I've done the work. I feel like I've done great work. Then I have a purpose in this world And then the voice says, Tell him he's doing God's work. So I'm like, I don't know what I'm supposed to tell you this, but you're doing God's work. And then tell him that someday his wife will understand. And when I did that, this man welled up and cried.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I said, okay. And then I watched him for 45 minutes go to each individual person that worked at this duckboat company and hold their hand and thank them for showing up that day. Thank you for driving the boat and giving it 100%. Thank you for taking the tickets and giving it 100%. He goes on and on and on and on. And then he eventually gets back to me and I said, are you a manager? And he's like, no. And he looks at me and he says, why are you here? And I'm like, well, a spiritual guide of mine told me I needed to go on a duckboat ride and clearly I did. And then the voice, the knowing happened, and it said to tell him something, which is...”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because we become calcified to it. And when we got back to the duckboat, he asked me to stay. My first instinct as a woman is I'm being hit on. So I'm like, oh crap. So I'm the last person off because I was the first person on. So I'm like, I have no way. I always do like threat assessments. I'm like, shit, how do I get out of here? I'm stuck. And so I'm like, what is the worst that could happen with this guy? Like, I'll just stick around and talk to him. He could be interesting. So I get off the boat. He asked me to wait. He says, wait on this bench.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A frog, and I was looking at this building and not seeing a frog. And I was like, okay, I'm looking for the frog. I'm looking for the frog. And all of a sudden, a frog emerges from the building. And once you see it, you can't unsee it. So if you go to Boston, look for the frog building. There's a frog that shoots out of the building. And then you're like, wow, there was a frog there the whole time. And he explains to me, he said, you know, when were children, we see all this magic. We're plugged into it. We're part of the source. And as we get older, we start cosplaying, obviously, and start putting on these costumes and we start telling ourselves these lies. And we lose touch of this magic that's just right there in plain sight.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Boat pulls up to this mental health institution and he says to us, You know, sometimes you're just having a conversation with God or with the universe or whatever. You're on a spiritual path, but people think you've lost your mind and you're crazy and they lock you up in that place. And he goes, I don't know how you're going to get better if that happens. And he said, but there's beauty everywhere and it's hidden in plain sight. And if you look at that building long enough, something really pretty will emerge from it. And then he started using kind of like a kid like voice, which triggered all the children on the boat to go.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was like, I surrender. And we go into the water and the sun. Remember, I told you that the sun was the second thing after air. The sun hits my face and I just start sobbing. And it felt like being baptized. It felt like... Was being touched again by something. Profoundly beautiful. Profoundly reaffirming of life profound about my purpose and my place in this world. And then he pulls up to a mental health institution in Boston. I don't know if you've seen this building, but it's like this horrible, brutalist building.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, well, I don't think they were going back to sleeping. I think they were asleep and they really weren't paying attention to anything he was saying. They were just like, he was moaning droning on to them But for me, he was dropping like truth bombs. So we're about to go in the water and he looks at me and he goes, Are you ready to be baptized And I said, I think so. Yeah, sure. Let's do this. And he's like, okay, great, because there's a decision in life where sometimes you have to relinquish control. You have to surrender to someone else or to something higher. And right now is that moment where you can get off this boat and be on dry land. But once we're in the water, I'm in charge. You are no longer in charge. Can you surrender?”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And he's like right in front of me. Sit right in front of me. I said, okay. So then the captain gets on and the captain drives the car until it becomes a boat. And all these families file on. And suddenly he's got a microphone and this guy starts talking to only me. Only me. It's like everyone on the boat disappears. And he looks at me and he says, You think that you're so important or so big. Your ego starts getting the best of you, go to the planetarium. You know, realize that you're part of a galaxy among galaxies and you're just a little piece of dust clinging to a rock. And he starts telling me story after story. And what was really interesting was that he started breaking down Gurgiev's philosophy on a book Yeah. And I was like, this is getting really strange.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And he says to me, Are you the new narrator? And I looked at him and I said, no. And he goes, well, unless you want to narrate, you got to get out of my seat because that's where I sit. And I was like, okay, where did I sit?”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right. And so I get angry. I'm like, I'm not going on a duckboat in this condition with my mind doing all this weird stuff. Are you crazy? And my assistant says, well, you never have not listened to him before. Why are you not listening to him now? So I was like, fuck it, get me a ticket to a duckboat. So she gets me a ticket. And if you go to these duckboats in Boston, it's first come first serve. You don't get to choose your duckboat. You just get on a duckboat, you know, but it's the next duckboat is yours. So I get on this duckboat and there's nobody on it. And so I take a seat that looks like it's made for a single person and it's facing sideways. So it's not facing front or back. And it's definitely not the captain. It's not the wheel. So I take that seat and this guy gets on the boat.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“She tries to give me a flight out, and every flight she books me on gets canceled. So I message a spiritual friend of mine, and I say, I'm in Boston. What do I do? And he says, you might enjoy a duckboat ride”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Are you alive now? Do you exist? And he's like, I'm not really sure if I exist or not. He goes, I always ponder this question. So anyway, I take my two shirts. I go back to my hotel room. I get, we exchange phone numbers, by the way, and I run the experiment again. And there's another person at the desk, and I still don't exist. And so I call my assistant, and I'm like, get me out of here. I think I can't handle any more of this. I think I need to be around loved ones because I'm losing my mind.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He's like, but it's okay. I died five years ago. And I was like, what do you mean you died five years ago? And he said, Well, I have a very strange heart condition. It's a very rare heart condition that Einstein also had. And the only person who could operate on me is here in Boston. And so he told me, the surgeon, that he couldn't leave Boston. And he tells me, I'm stuck in Groundhog Day. I can't go anywhere because I can't be more than 10 minutes away from the sturgeon, otherwise I might die. And I was like, well, tell me more about this death that you had. He said, well, they had to lower my heart rate. They had to stop my heart and kill me in order to do this operation. So I wasn't even sure if this guy was alive. Okay, I'm having a really weird time mentally. And so I'm touching him and I'm like, are you real now?”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Escape the crowd. Yeah, so I'm down there with Linnis Torbald and all the people who don't want to be around crowds. And this guy walked in. All of a sudden, the movie of meeting him played in my mind, and it must have played in his at the same time because we were answering each other's sentences. And I said, I was leaving because the party was still too big and there was too many people coming into the introvert space. And as I was leaving, you were coming in. And I said, hi, my name's Cyan Bannister. I like your outfit. And he said, hi, my name's Tango. I like your outfit too. Is this where the introverts hang out? I said yes, have fun, I'm leaving. That was the end of our interaction. So I said, have you ever met again after that? And he said, no, we'd never hung out a single time after that.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Several years ago, like 10 years ago, or eight years ago. And there was a big party going on and there was a bunch of people who, not even a bunch of people, a handful of people. I want to say like a dozen people that went into the basement to hide. And I was one of those dozens of people. I was down there with like Linis.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I deduced by looking at it that the hex code was probably a color, and the Latin root name was some kind of condition. So that's why I told him I said, gleaning from what appears to me as a condition and a color. And he goes, yes, each one of these shirts represents a type of color blindness. And then he looks at me and he goes, you know, we all live in different realities. And I was like, what? And that's when the guy in white says, Cyanne Bannister. And I look at him and I go, oh. We do know each other. And he said, yes, I met you in the basement at Ted.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Do I know? I said, Do I know What's very cyan? And he's like, I don't know. You have never met you. You don't know me. And I was like, well, are you a VC? And he goes, no. And I'm like, are you in the tech industry? No. Did you ever live in the Bay Area? No. And I for asking all these questions. And finally, I'm like, I'm sorry. I'm being rude. What are you guys up to? And he says, well, I'm talking to my friend here because he has a startup and he's got a company that he's building and I'm trying to help him with it. And I was like, oh, who you are in the tech? And he's like, no, no, I'm not in technology. And I was like, well, what do you do? And the guy's like, I'm a t-shirt entrepreneur. I go, no way. You're a t-shirt entrepreneur. Okay, what kind of shirts do you make? And he says, well, you can have as many as you like if you can guess what they mean. And so he lanes them all out on this table. And each one of them is a different color. And in the middle of each shirt is a square with another color in it. And then there's this weird hex code and then some weird Latin root name.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I was like, okay, so I wander over to this guy, and he's talking to a young man. And I said, I'm sorry. Do you mind if I bother you? Do you know me? And he looks at me and he's like, no, I do not know you. And he looks at me like I'm crazy because I kind of am.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right? And so I start recording it, but all of a sudden I look over to the right of me, and there's a guy dressed in all white. He's got a white hat on, white glasses, white shirt, white shoes. And I think he was wearing blue jeans. And I have this feeling that I know him. I'm like, how is it possible that I know that guy? It's not possible. I'm like sign stand target. Find your shirt. But there was this pulling, this magnetism, this knowing, this feeling, this voice. I don't know what you want to call it once you have one of these awakenings, but it is unmistakable. that if I didn't go over and talk to him, the whole point of coming to Boston was for nothing.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I start walking around the neighborhood and I'm looking for another shirt because I've got a Celtic shirt that the guy, the Warriors guy, threw at me, but I need another shirt for the next day because I'm there for three days. So I got to find another shirt. And I wanted one that wasn't made in China. So I went around from store to store store looking at labels, finally gave up, and I end up at this food court, and I hear Phil Collins play. And it stops me in my tracks. I'm like, again, you don't normally hear Phil Collins two days in a row. That's weird.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was like, okay, that's really strange. So I went to sleep, and the next day I woke up. And like any good science experiment, I went back down to the front desk and there was a different person there and I grabbed a Kit Kat bar. And I went up to them and I said, can you put this on room 340? And they said, sure. And they said the same thing again. You don't exist. Well, that really put me on tilt because I was like, this is getting weird. What do you mean I don't exist? I was like, what do you want me to do with the candy bar? Keep Remember, I said I went there and I had this criminal that everything would be given to me.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I said, Excuse me? And they said, Yeah, you don't exist. And they pulled their monitor around and tap on it. And they're like, see, there's nobody in that room. There's nobody in room 340. I said, I guarantee you I'm in this room. I guarantee you I have a key to this room. I guarantee you if I go up there, my stuff is still there unless you got rid of it. And they were like, nobody's been in this room for a week. I'm like, that's not possible. It's just not possible. So I called my assistant and I put on speakerphone. I'm like, tell me the number for our reservation. She rattles it off. The guy puts it in. Sorry, you don't exist. And I'm like. Okay, this is getting weird. Well, I'm just going to go to my room where I don't exist, and what do you want me to do with this water? And he said, keep it.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And all of a sudden, because he's losing, I got the sense that he probably scraped together money to come see his team win finally on his home turf. And it was like a dream come true for him. And it wasn't happening. And so I took a moment to give him love. And then that was it. And then I thought, this can't be the reason why I came to Boston is to start a fight between two sports guys. This cannot be why I got a weird vision of an Irish guy. This cannot be it. So I went back to my hotel room and I got a bottle of water and I go up to the front desk and I say, can you build this to my room? Room 340. And the person behind the desk looks at me and says, you don't exist.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I told him, I said, Well, maybe I am. And so I started playing the metagame with him. And the guy to the right. I got a knowing again a weird intuition, a voice, if you will, that said to turn around to him and tell him that Main player, the Celtics, and I don't know his name, but when he comes to the Warriors and he comes to the barrier, he brings his three year old son, and to tell him that his favorite player is a good father. And so I told him this, and all of a sudden you could see all the angst and the anger in his body just disappear. It just softened. And he wasn't fighting anymore.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, he's like, are you with him? And I said, No, I'm not with him. And he goes, well, who are you with they? And I was like, well. Basketball. And he goes, What? And I said, Yeah, I'm here for basketball. And he looks at me like you are absolutely freaking out of your mind, woman. Like you bought a ticket to the finals game, the last game, you flew across the country because he asked me where I was from, and you don't even have a team? I was like, nope, I don't have a team just here for basketball. The guy on the left hears this and he goes, Oh, the Mawiers guide and goes, You're about the metagame. I get it. And I go, what is the metagame? And he starts teaching me all about the metagame. And then I get a note.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Behavior, so the guy on the right at some point about when the Celtics start losing the warriors start winning, he starts getting angry and I can tell you can just tell the tension that a fist fight's about to happen. So he looks at me and he says, are you with him?”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He stands up for gun control. The guy on the right sits down for gun control. And I realized I'm in the middle of America. I'm in the middle of the great divide of what divides our country. And it's like representing and playing out right in front of me with these two guys. So they started fighting over me because it started with the game with the Celtics winning. And so the guy from the Celtics was talking shit to the guy from the Warriors. The guy from the Warriors team was just as insufferable, entitled person, like when he showed up, he took all the green shirts and threw them, and I ended up with a green shirt finally. And he's like, I don't need these. I'm a champion. I got plenty. I mean, he was just.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When stuff got weird. So, this guy to the right of me came in and he's wearing a Celtic shirt and he sits down next to me and a guide to the left of me comes in wearing a warrior shirt. The guy to the left of me stands up, taught in like a military person when they do the national anthem. You can tell a little bit about him because of this. You can be like, okay, well, he might be a veteran or he's at the very least patriotic. The guy to the left of me from the Bay Area didn't stand up for the national anthem. He sat it out. When Kathy Gifford got up and started talking about gun control, this is the woman who was shot in Arizona. The guy on the right sat down. The guy on the left stood up and started cheering.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Superstition as a little girl that when that song came on, it was going to be a good night. It was a weird superstition. It's just everything's going to be all right because Phil Collins is here. And he sings that song and it comes on the airwaves and it's just everything's going to be okay. And it was in that moment, because I'm keep in mind, I'm having this kundalini, whatever going on with me, that I realized that I wasn't completely without superstition. I wasn't completely without belief because I still believed in Phil Collins. Then I said, okay, well, what if I just start to be hyper present and I start paying attention to what happens around me? What if I am in a simulation and this is a video game? What will the video game reveal to me?”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like, ah, so I see down this aisle that there's one chair that doesn't have a shirt on it. So I said, I'm going to go down to that chair and I'm going to use that number as my reference point. And then I'm going to work out from there where my seat is. I get to the chair and it's mine. I look around the whole arena, and there's not a single other chair that doesn't have a shirt. And I was like, okay, that's a weird start to this trip. By itself means nothing. And all of a sudden this song comes on over the loudspeakers. And usually at a basketball game, they play a song for 20 seconds. But this time they played this whole song and it was Phil Collins. I can feel it in the air tonight. Have this weird”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I go and find my sheet and the whole arena is covered in chairs, covered with green shirts. And I'm disoriented. I call my husband. I'm freaking out. He's like, look, you chose this adventure. You're in it. Good luck. And he hung up on me.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I had a knowing, I'm going to call it a voice, which makes people worried sometimes. They're like, oh, you're hearing voices. I don't want to get locked up. But I have a knowing. I'm just going to call it a knowing that basically told me that I didn't need to bring anything with me to Boston, that everything would be given to me. All I had to do was bring my wallet and my ID and just show up. So my husband brought me the ticket to the game and I show up and I go into the arena early because I have a little bit of agoraphobia. I'm a introvert. And so now they don't call them hallways at sporting arenas. They call them portals. So I had to find my portal. Go through my portal, which is already weird in sci-fi anyway.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like this guy going like this, you know His fists in the air, and he's like a fighting Irishman. He's a caricature of an Irishman. And I was like, I do not know what this means, but I'm going to go do something about it. And so I went to my husband and I said, I noticed that the Celtics were playing the Warriors and it was the finals in Boston. And so I made the excuse because it was the only Irish thing I could think of at the time. And I went to my husband and I said, I want to go to the Celtics game. And he was like, what is wrong with you? You hate basketball. That makes no sense. And I said, I know. It makes no sense. But I'm getting this weird sign that I need to go to the Celtics game. So he bought me the ticket. I didn't even choose the ticket.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“After I had this awakening, I started getting this really weird vision of an Irish man. And it was like a cartoonish Irishman and it was hijacking me every moment. I couldn't think about anything else.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He's like, what? She's not married? And he's like, No, she's really not married. And he's like, Well, I want to run off and be with her now. And he goes, ah, that'll end badly. And he's like, why? And he said, because you haven't done the work, right? You've realized that you need to change, but you haven't done anything to actually change. So he says, come with me and spend a few years with me. And then maybe you might have a chance of being with her. But otherwise, all paths lead to you not being with this woman. So the movie is Groundhog Day. I believe it's what Groundhog Day for my research is based off of is that book. But it's just a beautiful tale. And I think that, you know, you can't take these things literally like philosophy.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Gets back to finally to the magician who says, Wow, you're lucky that you made it here because you could have lost me. You could have made a wrong decision along the way and then I would have disappeared too. He goes, what if I told you that the wedding was fake? And she got married to upset you.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then Al Spinsky's the curious case of Ivan Osakin is about a guy who falls in love with a girl, but he has to pursue his career because he wants to be able to provide for her. So he decides to put off being with her so he can pursue his career, but he misses his moment and she marries another man. And he's so distraught that he goes to a magician and the magician is Gurgiev in the book and says, can you please send me back to age 11 so I can do this all over again? And I will not make the same mistakes again. And Gurgi after magician says, actually, you will. You'll do everything the exact same again because you can't help yourself. You may deviate slightly, but you're going to end up in the same place without her. And so the guy is insistent and he sends him back to 11 years old. And sure enough, he makes every mistake exactly the same.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Nietzsche, yeah, he had a concept called the eternal recurrence, which is That we're stuck in a constant loop until we learn how to be good people. And that's the premise of Groundhog Day. And it might explain deja vu. It might explain why you've done something and you're like, I feel like I've done this before. I've met that person before because maybe you have. And that's what they talk about in their philosophy, and it's pretty interesting.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then there's the horse, obviously, there's the carriage, but there's also the narration of what's happening. And it's even taken control of that inner narration. Like, where does that even come from? Are you in charge of that? Are you letting it run amok? Is it determining which is your ego? Is it determining where you go, what you do, what's next, or are you doing that? So Gurgief delves deeply into those concepts and more. Auspinsky, which is his underling, which is a Russian philosopher, and I really, really recommend reading him, love to think about, and again, I'm self-educated, so I say things wrong sometimes, but Nietzsche.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And one of the things he talked about is, there's a lot of things he talked about, but the thing that resonated with me the most is who is the captain of your ship? Are you the captain of your ship, or some rogue process? I have a Unix background, so I like to think of things as cron jobs or automated processes, but there's some rogue process running you, or are you running yourself? And I think you'll discover if you do a lot of introspective work that you are not in charge. So one of the concepts that he talks about is sort of like a horse carriage. There's a person who's driving the horse.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm a big fan of Gurgief. He's not for everybody. And he's very confusing, a lot like Alistair Crowley or Crowley, was a whackadoodle person who liked to drive people away when they came up to talk to him. If he didn't like you, he would say obscene things just so you would go away.”
2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT