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  1. “Yeah, I mean, my co-workers laugh at me because they'll take me someplace and I can sit still for an abnormal amount of time. And I think that's when you process all of the inputs that are being thrown at us, how you can synthesize the information that's been handed to you or even countered is by those moments of stillness. And so even if it's 10 minutes a day, it's something.”

    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

  2. “And it was a huge unlock. Huge. But again, your mileage may vary. Like, try different things and see, I think the biggest mistake I made with meditation was trying to treat it like a sport or it was something that I had to judge myself. I mean, you're approaching it all wrong if you're entering meditation, I think, that way. There are different kinds of meditations, some that even allow and permit thoughts to flow freely and you're supposed to look at them and pay attention to them. And then there's types of meditations where you're supposed to clear your mind. I think people get really scared of meditation because they think of a blank canvas, a blank mind, and that really scares them and frightens them. And once I got over that and I started realizing that's not the point of it, at least it wasn't for me, I can now meditate for six hours at a time.”

    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

  3. “Embracing random. Sometimes the universe gives you paying attention exactly what you need. So a friend of mine went to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and they had some Tibetan throat singers there and he brought me back a necklace. He said, Look at this necklace, and it was one of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen. And I was like, Well, I'm going to go check these guys out.”

    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

  4. “Both. I do both. So I chant along with the chants I moan along with the moaning to the best of my ability. I listen and I don't do the bead counting.”

    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

  5. “So I tried all sorts of different types of meditation apps, and none of them really stuck with me. I would get hung up on people's voices. And there's a critic inside of us and I would criticize everything. So somebody turned me on to Tibetan throat singing. And that's what did 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

  6. “And they were super helpful. You know, IFS, I started looking into integrated family systems, and that helped a lot. But really, it was meditation and philosophy that got me over the line. Whatever works, man, just go out and really study yourself and know yourself. Like know thyself is an important mantra for a reason because I do honestly believe we're in school. And when you start realizing, oh, I'm in a school and all of these hard knocks in life are just lessons. Think about them very differently”

    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

  7. “Yeah, I put myself in this position through. Avoiding all my suffering, avoiding my trauma, working through it, working as hard as I could, avoidance, avoidance, avoidance, avoidance. Then it came clear that I had to have some kind of therapy. I had to do something because I couldn't keep running away from this ghost of a mother. And I had to find something that worked. And talking to therapists never worked. Psilocybin worked. Psilocybin helped a lot. I did a couple of hero doses.”

    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

  8. “So I had a deep appreciation for life, but as soon as I was walking again and I was somewhat normal again, I started living the same way again. And I knew that if I kept living that way, I would die”

    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

  9. “That definitely helped kick me off on this quest because when you're in a hospital for a couple of weeks, which I was, and you come outside, the very first thing that hits you is air. That first breath of air. I mean, there's air in a hospital, but there's really no fresh air. And suddenly you realize that the most important thing in the world is not what you thought it was. It puts everything in perspective. It's like, okay, first it's air, then it was the sun on my face, which brought me to my knees. Like I started bawling. Because what have I never ever got to experience the sun again? Get really grateful and filled with gratitude for everything. But we're human beings. We love novelty. You go back to sleep.”

    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

  10. “There's falling and you have resistance, and then there's falling with no resistance. And falling with no resistance is really spooky. And so you're standing and then you're down. It's just like there's nothing to keep you up. And so that started happening to me. And I went to a second ER. I had to wait in the ER for six hours. But eventually, again, magical woman came over and rubbed my leg and she said, I think you're having a stroke because at this point, nobody knew what was wrong with me. And she raised the alarm bell and then suddenly I was put in a CT scanner and they discovered that I had what's called a DVST, which is a deep venous sinus thrombosis, which is clotting throughout the entire center of my brain and down my jugular, my right jugular. And I was moments away from death by the time they found 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

  11. “So, yeah, I was at Founders Fun when it happened, and I experienced it as the worst headache of my life. It was a migraine on a scale of one to 10. It was like a 15. It was like the worst headache you could possibly have. And it progressively got worse every day. And the doctors just treated it as a migraine because I was young. When you're young and you're experiencing a stroke, it doesn't make a lot of sense to people. And so they start going down this decision tree and they're like, it obviously has to be either a cluster headache or a migraine or something like that. So I was treated for a migraine. I went to the ER again. They treated me for a migraine, didn't give me a CT scan. And eventually I started seeing double, I started falling. I always like to say you don't want to actually feel what gravity feels like.”

    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

  12. “Accept how the cookie crumbles, but you could introduce a little more random, you could go to work dressed as SpongeBob SquarePants, as I like to say, but people don't. There's a lot of things you could be doing that you're not doing. Another movie that actually really helped me in my life was the movie American Beauty with Kevin Spacey. And I was probably in my early 20s when that came out. And I came out of the theater and I sat on the floor and I said, My life is a broken record. I'm stuck in a groove that I can't seem to get out of. I'm going to break up with my boyfriend and switch my job. And the movie inspired that. Art has a way of being at the right place at the right time for you. And sometimes you really do need to switch things up and you need to get out of your groove because you're your own worst nightmare.”

    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

  13. “That ties back into dice rolling, right? Like dice rolling is a way to stay awake. Staying awake and staying conscious and staying present is a practice you must practice every day. And if you don't, then you just have to accept the cookie follows how it crumbles or how are some cliches.”

    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

  14. “I mean, it's the same concept that was explored in the Matrix and in lots of different fiction. It's just a wake up, wake up. If you see it enough times, maybe you'll understand what it means. If you wake up out of bed and you're awake, you think you're awake, but you're actually not. You're in a form of sleep. And that sleep is what's called your mechanical, automaton sort of actions that you take that are in response to what's being thrown at you in the world, what nature gave to you, and what nurture handed to you. And you just accept it. And so you're just sleepwalking through life. Moment you take the reins and you become the narrator of your own story, and sometimes the captain That's when it's a transformational change.”

    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

  15. “What we fucked up on, or how we could be better. When in reality, we'd be better served if we just let it go. So If you want to experience something like this, and I do warn you that a lot of stuff leads to things that can be jarring and very scary if you're not ready for them yet. Their psychological events that can happen that are sometimes indistinguishable from mania and everything else. So you just have to be careful. But I found my path to this by looking inward and trying to know myself and then taking accountability for all my ugliness And once you get through that and you forgive yourself and you love yourself, there's nothing but light on the other side. But really it's about love. At the end of the day, it's about love.”

    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

  16. “Now when you look at that baby, would you hurt that baby? Would you do anything to hurt that baby or harm that baby? Would you kill the baby? You're just a ball of light I think when you start looking at yourself that way and you start talking yourself and I'm cradling right now and trying to show Tim like my ball of light and Start to realize that all of the things that we experience are often, well, actually they all are a simulation in our mind that we start to talk about ourselves a certain way. And you would never hurt a ball of light until it's an awful piece of crap. Like, why do we tell ourselves we're an awful piece of crap? So the other thing is that we're the only species or animal on this planet that punishes itself more than once Know we ruminate and think constantly about”

    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

  17. “Have to face something very ugly, which is yourself. You have to look inside and see who and what you really are. And then you have to love yourself. Even when you don't like what you see, when people used to say practice self love, I thought it meant go eat bond bonds and go see a good movie and smoke a joint. That was self-love. But it wasn't getting me anywhere. And I was like, this whole self-love thing is Jive. It's just not. Working out. But I didn't realize that self love is learning how to give yourself unconditional love. Best way I've learned how to give yourself unconditional love is imagine yourself as a ball of light and then take that ball of light and visualize it outside of your body and cradle it like it's a baby”

    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

  18. “Lift other people up around me and to do my best in my own way to end poverty. Now I'm not responsible for ending poverty. I think we're all responsible. But it informs a lot of my investment decisions now. It informs I realized I was already doing a lot of these things anyway. But I became a more service-oriented person. I started becoming more a part of a bigger whole. Whereas before I was more of an individual. And now I realize that I'm part of something much bigger. Much more beautiful than I ever could have possibly imagined.”

    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

  19. “When I was introspective in thinking about the bigger question, which is what is the meaning of life and what is my purpose in it, which it answered for me, I know what my purpose is now. Before that, I was adrift. You know, as an atheist, I thought there was no point. We just have to be good people. We have to get by, we have to love one another. I knew that love was a universal thing that we should all strive for. But I didn't have a purpose. And after this experience, I suddenly had one. And my purpose is very simple. which is to spread joy.”

    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

  20. “Yes, it happened right afterwards. And it was very sudden, and it was frankly scary. And so I started getting visions of places to go, started having dreams that were predicting people calling me, talking to me. I started knowing what people were going to say before they said it. And all sorts of strange things that I can't explain. And like I said, maybe science someday will discover that we have a form of communication as human beings, as animals that we're unaware of. You know, humans can only see a certain amount of perceptible light and sound, so it's not completely out of the question that we can't see or hear certain things that are happening around us. But the veil, for lack of a better term, was lifted. And when I turned away from my practice of meditation and mindfulness, that veil would come back down.”

    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

  21. “I had a lot of sympathy for people who have mental health issues and end up in hospitals on 5150s because I realized we're just a hair away from being crazy every one of us. And because it wasn't just that energy that shot through me, I mean, that itself was just powerful. And then the realization, the epiphany that I was carrying around this fiction, and that I was responsible for that fiction. I was spinning it up and my ego was spinning it up. Experienced ego dissolution for the first time.”

    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

  22. “When I explain people what happened to me, they go, Oh, you had kundalini. And I'm like, huh? I had no idea what happened 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

  23. “To get really magical, and you can't explain it, but it's beautiful, and you're just like, I'm along for the ride, I'm on some weird earth school is what I've determined. We're all in Earth school and we inhabit human bodies. We're nothing but an energy life force inside of them. And that life force does not dissipate, you know, it doesn't go nowhere. It goes somewhere. It doesn't disappear. Life force does not disappear. You want to hear about a really strange spiritual experience that I had because I think you'd like 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

  24. “And I was like, what was what? Because I thought maybe they got chills too, you know, maybe that line hit them hard like it hit me hard. But no, it was a singular event only for me in that moment that impacted the whole room energetically where everyone's hair was standing on end at what just happened to me. And from that day forward, nothing has been the same. It's like a veil got lifted on the universe around me. And now I see things that I never was able to see before. I am able to see art and poetry and all sorts of things. It's almost as if some sort of PTSD veil that was in my body got lifted because I started believing, or believing is the weird word. I don't like to use that word too much, but I started suspecting that there's something bigger out there than all of us, that we're in a simulation or we're in some kind of something, the randomness in the dice actually taught me a lot of that because things start.”

    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

  25. “And in that moment, when I watched that movie, I had this energy at the bottom of my spine, basically shoot out the top of my head. And there was a bunch of people in the room when we were watching the movie, and they all paused, you know, they paused the movie and they looked at me and everybody said, what was 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

  26. “Razor's Edge, yeah, and it's a very low budget film because they didn't give him a ton of money to do it and it involves many locations and period stuff and that's all very expensive. And as acting is, you know, he's built. He did a great job. But at the same time, it's not going to be the best produced film he's ever made. But it explores all of these ideas around Gurgief's philosophy, around suffering and what suffering is. And there's a line that he says in the movie when Someone he loves died and he is trying to comprehend it and he looks at this woman who was previously his fianc ⁇ e. And she explains this whole story, but the woman It just doesn't matter”

    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

  27. “Mother that left me that left the $20, that gave me up to the court system. Haven't given her a chance to know who she is today. I don't even know who she is today. But I carried around this grief, this suffering, this loss, this story. And I was harming myself every day by carrying that story inside of me. And so I started watching this movie called The Razor's Edge, which is based off of a novel by Somerset Mom, I think is how you say his name. And there was a 1930s version of the movie. And then there's a version that Bill Murray did. And Bill Murray's was very interesting to me because I believe that he agreed to make Ghostbusters 2 in exchange for them making this movie that he wrote.”

    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

  28. “What about Bob? The man who knew too little broken flowers. Like I watched them all. And I realized that this is an artist who's on a mission to teach us something. He wants us to learn something. What is that thing? And I notice he kept repeating a phrase over and over again in a lot of his movies, which is it just doesn't matter. Now, if you look that up, that's a nihilistic sounding statement. It just doesn't matter. Taken on the surface, you would just assume that it was a nihilist thing and that's what it means. But if you go under that and you actually look at the root of the philosophy of which that statement is coming from, Goes back to what we were talking about in a previous conversation about the fictions that we make in our mind. And I realized that my mother's a fiction.”

    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

  29. “And his understudy was named Al Spinsky. And Al Spinski wrote a book called, I think it's called The Curious Case of Ivan Osikin, which is what Groundhog Day is based off of. And I was studying at the time kind of what made Bill Murray make the art that he makes. And without asking him, I like to form my own opinions, you know, just like, what did I think it was? It was really clear that, you know, I didn't watch any of his movies until the pandemic. I did a lot of stuff in the pandemic I've never done. But I hadn't seen Groundhog Day. I hadn't seen Caddy Shack. I hadn't seen any of these movies. And I 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

  30. “So that period of time was a whackadoodle time where people were publishing all these crazy books and practicing these occult practices and running around in weird robes and looking like Harry Potter and doing some psychedelics too. So some of them did psychedelics and some of them did use THC or Hashish as part of their ceremonies or things that they did. But a lot of it was sober. What they were trying to figure out is is there a veil? Is there something beyond what we can see and what we know? And is it supernatural or can it be explained by science later? And a lot of them believe that it could be explained by science later. That actually is just undiscovered science. And I became really interested in those people in particular. And I really went down a rabbit hole with this author and philosopher named Gurgiev. And Gurgiev, I believe, was Greek.”

    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

  31. “I got my hands on every book, every movie, every everything I could find from that time. And I realized that people in the early 1900s were onto something. They were onto something about What life is really all about? All of these great works that people wrote back then.”

    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

  32. “Of people thought he was a Satanist and he was not. As a matter of fact, a lot of what he studied was the teachings of Christ and he talked about Christ a lot. And I think a lot of people don't realize that New Age stuff in occultism and all of this early stuff actually is deeply rooted in monotheism and has nothing to do with Satan anyway that I could discover other than they theorize that there are dark energy forces or dark spirits out there and people who know how to harness dark energy. And Alistair actually worked in what we call the light. And so he wanted to repel people because what he was teaching wasn't for everybody. He actually didn't want you to read his stuff. He did not want you to follow him. But there's a lot of war.”

    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

  33. “She's an occultist leader who practiced what you might consider witchcraft or Magic, and by said magic in quotes because, you know, obviously there's going to be atheists and people that don't believe that what Alex De Crowley did was real. He had a very big following and then a lot of fractures that came out of those followings of people who...”

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  34. “And if you're a little woo-woo, whatever, you're like, I'd rather be around a good person who's woo-woo than an unkind person who's atheist. And he also has seen, if you look at pictures of me before. My spiritual change in after night and day. I am healthier. I look younger. I have more energy. I'm happier Everything has been better since I became a spiritual person. When I was an atheist, everything was worse and I had a stroke.”

    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

  35. “Try more things like this because I think people think that the way that they are is unchangeable. They are static, that they have no ability to break their habits or form new ones. And introducing something simple like this that allows you to make decisions quickly, move through life fast, and then puts more joy in it. It just seems like a win-win-w”

    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

  36. “This is where dice rolling really comes into play. Now, I have a very hard rule, which is I never, ever say, oh, I don't want to do that, and then I don't do it. I'm a little, if you will, religious about the dice and whatever it lands on, I do no matter what. So I even do house cleaning chores that I don't want to do and I use the dice. So I'll put like six things on a list and maybe there's one really fun thing that I really want to do. And then five things I really don't want to do. And the dice almost always land on the things you don't want to do. And that's actually great because I don't betray it. It gets through the thing and then I roll again and then eventually at some point I might land on that sweet treat thing I wanted to do and then I'm excited. I'm like, yay, I get to watch a movie finally after doing my taxes and everything else. But yeah, I mean, I really wish people would.”

    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

  37. “Picking what movies to watch. You get movie paralysis. And the one thing I haven't done yet is make business decisions with dice. But at some point, I might. I might do it probably with my own personal money, wouldn't do it with my LP's money. Full disclaimer. But interestingly, when I started down this dice experiment, my friend Pinjolette, who's a magician, wrote a book called Random at the Exact Same Time. And that book is a bit graphic, but it involves a guy who basically has to come up with a million dollars in a very short period of time. And he uses dice that make all that money for him and then some. But it's exploring the same thought experiment, which is, I guess the question is, do you believe in free will or not?”

    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

  38. “And I introduced so many people to it, and they've started adopting it. I use it for giving public talks. I've done it for public talks, which is I'll have the audience scream out 12 topics. And then whatever the dice rolls on is what I start with. And then we just go through the dice.”

    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

  39. “Yeah. And so they're teeny, tiny dice, and they're in this little cage, and then the cage locks, and it just little lock it.”

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  40. “In a harmonica, I got a harmonica there. I still have my harmonica. But I went in and the experience was spiritual for me. Like when I roll the dice, it puts me in places and it puts me in a frame of mind where anything's possible and anything at any moment can happen. And you just have to be ready for it. You have to not be thinking about what you're doing tomorrow or what you did yesterday. You're just there. And you're going to trust that whatever the dice is going to throw at you is going to be amazing.”

    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

  41. “Yeah, but in California, I had time to kill and I was driving from. Nevada through the palm desert, and then to Southern California. And so I had time. And so I put that in and I rolled, I don't know, like a 13 or whatever or 12. And it landed on this thrift store in a place called Pioneer Town, which is a ghost town, old western town. And the only thing that's there is this thrift store and some weird little store that sells water. It's it.”

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  42. “Road trips are great for road trips. So I went on a road trip one time where I rolled and landed on something called Pioneer City, I think, in California, Pioneer Town.”

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  43. “If you cared about the reviews, then you could have constrained it by reviews. You set the parameters, right? But the thing is, every one of these choices shouldn't take you longer than a minute. So you can move on with your life. And every time I've gone to these places, it's been better food than I could ever imagine. I meet random people that are so incredible. I've gone on strange road trips where I've just had the most magical experiences. And the list goes on and on and on and on. My life has only been improved by taking myself out of the decision-making process because I am the hindrance.”

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  44. “So we basically put Italian into Open Table, we roll the dice, whatever it lands on, we are committed. We are going to go It doesn't matter what the reviews are.”

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  45. “Yeah I can help fix this for you, Tim. I'm so excited to introduce you to dice rolling. So I wear dice around my neck and I take them everywhere I go. And this gives me one through 12. Obviously, you can get multi-sided dice and you can come up with all sorts of different options. You can use dice to even just do coin flip type stuff because you can do odds or evens. But you and I want to go to dinner. We can't decide even on a genre. But maybe we hone in on Italian. Like we're making some progress here.”

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  46. “Well, I have not been led astray by the dice a single time. So, how it works is let's say you and I want to go to dinner, Tim. Like, what do you want to eat? And you're like, I don't know. And we go around and we do this thing that everybody does for five minutes trying to decide.”

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  47. “After I ran this experiment for a year and a half and I learned a lot about what I like and don't like and what kind of fashion suits me and doesn't suit me and which friends to allow to pick my wardrobe and which not to, I started looking at my dining choices and I started looking at my holiday choices and my driving choices and I started asking myself the question do I even make good choices? Now you would think that because I'm successful the answer is yes I make great choices but I make choices just like any other person that are ingrained choices formed out of habit. So I wanted to see what would happen if I became more random. What happens if you introduce random to your life and you start to eliminate choice? Are you as successful? Are you as joyous? How much of what we do is really because we're brilliant or is because that's just how the cards fall.”

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  48. “Plaid was one of my favorites, actually, because learning how to wear mismatch plaids. But the thing that was really interesting was when I would go into a store, how people would be delighted and just light up when they saw what I was wearing. They would just start laughing and giggling. And I realized that clothing could be a source of joy, not just for yourself, but for other people.”

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  49. “Constrains the volume, and it got to the point where, I mean, I can't wear a polka dot again, probably for the rest of my life. Have you ever seen me wearing polka dots? Like I've gotten over the trauma, but.”

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  50. “It was brutal. Was brutal, so that wasn't enough. I had to learn all about plaids. Like, what is plaid is a check of plaid? You know, is gingham a plaid? What makes a plaid a plaid? It's really fascinating. So the second season I hated the most, which was polka. That was awful. And I'll tell you why polka dot's awful because most prints and fabrics, the polka dots are either printed and layered on top of the fabric, but they're never woven into the fabric. And so polka dots are usually made out of really cheap fibers. So polyesters and things are really hot and sticky and gross.”

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