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Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

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“Well, what I was going to say before you gave me this hint was the ones on kelp are actually really interesting because they have this like sort of like health and wellness and food angle and like super creative entrepreneurship piece so I thought you might have been and they're kind of fun too. So I thought you might have shared that. But it's a two parter and so that's like a little less shareable.”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I guess if you think only about the problem, then of course it's a bummer and I sort of fell into that trap when you asked me the question in its previous framing. But when you think about the solutions, there's no limit to the sources of inspiration and places to look and things to you to be like, ooh, I want that. I want to help with that. I want to support that. I want to like fund that. I want to innovate the 2.0 version of that.”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And some people get really excited about the technology, figuring out how we're going to go from these clunky solar panels to solar panels that are just like regular rooftiles or how we're going to sort of shift our food systems to accommodate for these things. What is the role of technology? What is the role of culture? What is the role of politics? Some people just like love getting out of bed in the morning and harassing politicians into doing better on climate policy. And like, I'm glad that that flips your boat. And so I think it can be very exciting to consider how to put your interests, passions, superpowers to work towards specific climate solutions. And we don't have to do all of them. Like everyone just has to do something. And the solutions are really cool, like offshore wind turbines powering the 40% of Americans who live in coastal counties. That would be great. Let's get it going.”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because we can, like, because it is a possibility, because we have this wide range of possible futures still available to us. And I want to be part of making sure we get the best one. And so the things that I get excited about that I think many people could and will get more excited about as media starts to shift from problem to solutions is that coastal ecosystems like wetlands and mangroves can absorb five times more carbon than a forest on land. Let's protect and restore those. Let's think about farming oysters and seaweed in the ocean. It absorbs a lot of carbon and is like a super low footprint source of food. I don't know. You probably have a take on whether those are good things deep, but they're super sustainable. I'll tell you that part. Many Americans are iodine deficient. We're going to come back to that.”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Ways and be able to forsake the self-interest, whether that's money or power, and just get this shit done. And to me, that is the thing that gets me out of bed in the morning. I'm like, how are we going to get this shit done?”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm with you. I think fear and anxiety and really unpleasant news is not terribly motivating for most people. It is for some. For me, I actually don't that often think about the details of how The scientific projections are and exactly what's happening to ecosystems. I focus almost entirely on solutions. My perspective is like it's as bad as we thought and actually worse and it's all happening fast. And then I immediately pivot to what are we going to do about it? Like what can I do to help? And I think the thing that's really interesting to me and actually super inspiring is that we basically have all the solutions we need. We know how to transition to 100% renewable energy. We know how to farm in regenerative ways that restore carbon to the soil instead of emitting it, right? We know how to transform public transit in cities. We know how to compost food. We already know how to do all this stuff. We know how to make buildings more efficient. We know how to improve manufacturing processes. It's just a matter of how fast we're going to do this and whether people will get out of their own”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We have a whole pottery studio and a kiln and a wheel in the basement of our house. Yeah, and a dark room, the whole shebang.”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's amazing. It was very cool. So we had, you know, they were playing tennis while wearing white bell bottoms. I mean, like the whole thing was impeccable. And here I am just trying to, you know, not let him down.”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Find the right, I totally fail to tell you why my parents are the coolest. I mean, my parents were like the proto hipsters. So my dad was living in Fort Green, Brooklyn when it was like super rough and he was a student at Pratt, this like art architecture school. And my mom was living in Harlem and they would ride their bicycles and like meet in Central Park and like hang out and they would like play the flute together and like make homemade pickles and they had like a whole vegetable garden in the back of the brownstone they Got in Fort Green back when Brownstones were like 30 something thousand dollars. And like they had the whole scenario sorted. And then I came along and was just like sort of, I ruined everything. I ruined all their activities.”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Dramatic and happening right before our eyes in our lifetimes. This is not seen as playing out over generations. This is something that's playing out over years is really shocking. And so for people who have Specific love of nature over time, whether it's as a bird watcher and noticing what birds are missing or that the birds are coming at very different times or if you're a gardener and realize that the first frost comes much later and springtime is changing to change when you plant things. For people who have a more day-to-day intimate relationship with any sort of Species or ecosystem, I think there's sort of a persistent low level heartache. Going through the world and seeing the things that you care about be so threatened and these things start to crumble.”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Marine life is the understanding that species are going extinct because of this too, like these magnificent things that have been on the planet for millennia have no place to live anymore, right? If you think about temperature range and a mountain and you think, okay, well, they can't sustain temperatures over a certain amount. So species are moving up and up and up the mountain. But when you get to the top of the mountain, there's no foliage. There's no, you're above the tree line. The trees haven't grown there yet. There's no soil there and there's nowhere else to go. There's no further up to go to get away from the heat. And the same with coral reefs. Corals can't get up and move, and there's nowhere to go. And so we have fish who are literally migrating towards the poles to try to stay cool. And all of these changes are so...”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so Americans were, if you read the news, sort of insulated from thinking that this would ever really come home to roost for us. And in the last few years, I think it's become clear that we're not safe. And wealthier people are actively working on ways to protect themselves and their families from the impacts of the climate crisis. But even they will not be able to hide from that because they still need to get their food from somewhere and their medical treatment from somewhere and we are all connected. So I don't know. I wish I had a more front answer. But I think the only equivalent that I can think of is that's more similar to experiencing”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Slow moving disaster, in a sense. I mean, it's moving much more quickly than people had ever thought that it would every time we read a new report. It's like, oh, it's actually worse and faster. You know, it's never like, no big deal, just kidding. And so the thing that I've seen flip the switch is natural disasters, which is a term I don't use anymore. I call them like disasters or extreme weather events or something like that because they're not natural anymore. This is not nature as it was intended to be. And so people who experience wildfires or hurricanes and other sorts of disasters, I think, often have this kind of like, oh fuck, I'm not safe from this. You're not safe from this. For so long it felt like the media was portraying. Something that would affect poor, probably brown people in some far away island.”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Not in a positive way like that. What you've described is this like awe and delight. that you can experience when you're immersed in this underwater world. The perspective that you gain when you realize that there's a whole bunch of stuff that is not about humans and we're not even supposed to be there. And the way that those marine ecosystems, you can see the food web in front of you. You can see who's eating who and like how it's all connected in this really dynamic and immediate way. And the thing with climate is it's this sort of”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I think for me it was just I really looked up to them and I was just so impressed with what they could pull out of thin air and how they could turn something that seemed so mundane into the most delightful and fascinating tale.”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Is and it's that two of my cousins on my mom's side started an improv comedy group when they were like maybe in college or so in LA and they were like my idols Stephen Connell who's now professional poet actor writer and Joseph Pazani and they would just put on these like incredible shows in the driveway at our family's annual clan bake and call up volunteers and stuff and just watching the way their minds worked in connecting the dots and making everyone laugh and making it participatory and no one ever got made fun of in a cruel way ever. It was just we're all in this sort of absurdity creation together and that was all our dinner table conversations were like telling crazy listening to them tell crazy stories so I never aspired to be an actor and as you Know, I'm not really interested in being on video even at all.”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“As a way to teach about morality and justice. And so she's just, you know, a lifelong, consummate teacher. And I think there's a superpower in the curiosity that she still every day wakes up and wants to understand more in more nuanced how the world works. I don't think I have it as strongly as she does. I'm like, oh my God, the deluge of information. Like, it's too much. I would like to know less sometimes, but I think I would say her sort of endurance, intellectual endurance and her real desire to have other people understand the important things that she learns. No idea what I was going to say. I'm not sure if I had more time to think about it if I would say the same thing.”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“unappealing crunchy mess. You weren't like, oh, that's where all the cool kids are. And so I do think about aesthetics in my work in a very deep way because of my dad, which is not a superpower in other fields, but might be more so here. And my mom is just a super deep researcher. So she ended up developing all these new curriculums for her classes to include writers, authors of color, black writers, Asian writers, Native American writers, until she was reading all these books. She was buying them all with her own money, literally taking them in shopping carts to school at the beginning and end of every semester, handing them out to the kids, and just finding ways to help people have a greater understanding of the world using literature as a way to teach history, as a way to teach cultural competencies.”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Incredibly proud about everything from his building plans to his handwriting to his fashion sense and really trained my eye as far as design and style and my appreciation for art, but that Sense that The thing that he instilled in me was that I had to give back This was the Montreal to whom much is given, much is expected kind of thing, and also just the like you're gonna have to work twice as hard to get half as much because you're not white. And I was like Damn it. Those are more like the lessons than the superpowers perhaps, but I guess, you know, on the superpower side, it's just. Think within the climate and environmental movement, people don't put enough, often energy into design, right? For so many years, it was just like this sort of like”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I know this will be hard, but like, this is the thing, and I'm just gonna figure it out, so him with his partners sort of made that work, and I'm sort of embarrassed to say for many years I thought he was a failure. I didn't understand because he wasn't doing a bunch of cool buildings he could show me, he wasn't making any money really at all. And so I didn't think it worked. And then I ended up hanging out with a bunch of architects a few years ago. And I mentioned, oh, my dad was an architect. And they asked me about him. And they're like, oh, we know of that firm. He opened doors for so many other black architects. He was the first. Him and his partners were the first. And to be the first is not always glamorous and people don't usually remember you in most contexts, right? And so now I just, I was always proud of the meticulous nature of the way that he approached things.”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So my mom actually, after I finished college, she was like, when did you learn to tell a story and make jokes? Because we definitely didn't teach you that. We had the sort of quiet and not so lengthy dinners. I grew up as an only child. So from my dad who passed away a few years ago, super artistic was an architect and a potter. And he started what may have been the first black owned architecture firm in New York City and dealt with just like the insane racism of that very insular field. And so there's sort of like a, I'm just going to do this.”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I definitely think I like more sassy than my parents. Definitely more chatty. They're both sort of sparse with conversation.”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so I have this like very interesting sort of like Irish Jamaican mashup going and those two cultures are actually quite similar as I learn more about Irish history in the last few years just like you know the way that the British screwed over the Irish and the way that that shapes your culture and the way that that influences the music and the dance and the way you find joy amidst it all right That sort of like gets passed down in via reverence and sarcasm. And so”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“She became a high school English teacher, she taught starting in the sixties in the South Bronx in Bedsty in like super rough neighborhoods, just really wanted to make sure those kids got a good education and like didn't manage to get through high school without really learning to read and reading a bunch of books and processing that. And she and my dad met because their best friends were dating. This is sort of like the long version of the story. My dad had just moved to New York from Jamaica. He grew up in Kingston.”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, I should preface this by saying my parents are incredibly cool. Like, I will never be as cool as my parents. And I think because I sort of acknowledged that very early on, I was like, okay, this is just great. My mom grew up on Long Island in a big Irish Catholic family. Both of my grandparents on that side are from Newfoundland.”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like, why choose? And it's weird. People ask me, what do you do? And I'm like, I don't know. I like write things and I read things and I talk about stuff and try to get laws changed and whatever the thing is. So to me, it's about projects and collaborations as opposed to research per se, which is a bummer because hanging out underwater is pretty cool too.”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But we were studying not just the ecology, but also the economics of fisheries management and the policy piece. And I realized that it was this really cool puzzle that ocean conservation is actually not just science, it's also economics and policy and culture and communications and protection. It is the park ranger and the lawyer and all that in one. I basically figured out how to have all my dream jobs at once. So I didn't say that I necessarily had a moment when I realized that I could be a marine biologist. I had a moment when I realized I could get a PhD in marine biology and then never do any research again. But know enough to be able to understand the papers, to be able to translate that science into policymaking. To be able to be hopefully useful as a communicator on these topics as well.”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was a super tough job. I mean, I had to memorize the Latin name of every coral reef species, right? We had tests underwater with like a slate where we had to write down everything they point at. And actually one of the things they pointed at, I was like, I'm sorry, what are you pointing at? And they were like, over there. And I was like, I don't see it. It's like just in the water. I surface. Like a reef shark on my quiz that day.”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I was like, that's the thing I can do, right? I can defend the good guys. And then I went backpacking for the first time and was like, oh, Park Ranger is a job. Like you could get paid to hang out in the forest. Sign me up, obviously, best job. And then in college, I was majoring in environmental science and public policy. And I thought, oh, maybe I will do environmental policy or environmental law. And I took environmental law as an undergrad in the law school and I studied abroad in the Caribbean. I sort of nailed this. I studied abroad in Turks and Caios.”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Maybe not enough Like so many people, I had a lot of dream jobs. That was just the first one. After that, I was learning about the civil rights movement when I was, you know, around 10 years old, and I decided I wanted to be very specific dream job. The lawyer that got the next Martin Luther King out of jail. You don't die, but you're super helpful.”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Around and I learned to swim that summer and I went on a glassbond and boat ride and I saw Croal Reef for the first time in all these like crazy colorful fish and just this whole other thing going on. And then we went to the aquarium and you know they have these like touch tanks and they had starfish and sea urchins and I got to hold a sea urchin in the palm of my hand and they have tube feet on the bottom. They have like hundreds of tubes coming out of the bottom of this like hard shelled spiny thing and that's how they crawl across the palm of your hand or a reef. And I was just completely blown away by this like purple spine waving foot suction scenario that was happening, these like aliens that actually live on our planet. And then looking in a tank and seeing an electric eel do its thing. What is this called? This is my job now.”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think a lot of kids who have a positive experience with the ocean at a young age totally fall for it head over heels. It's amazing. Whatever you like, it's in there, doing something weird, whether it's sharks or for me, it was just the coral reef ecosystem existing to see through the bottom of a glass bottom boat this whole other thing happening just blew my mind. And I had follow-up questions. And so it all started for me when I was five on this, I guess that's the magic age when you're supposed to choose what you want to be when you grow up. And it's a really common dream job marine biologist. And I guess I'm just like super, super stubborn. And I'm like, no, really. But my parents took me to Key West, Florida. It was, I think, one of two family vacations we ever went on. We were, you know, a working class family. We weren't dead.”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I just turned around to see if I have it on my bookshelf. I do not. I have the diversity of fishes and coral reef fishes textbooks, but not fishes of the world, sorry.”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We've got like a finance executive, a journalist, and a Hollywood executive, and me in the group tech. So whatever you need, we've got like the answer.”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because I have a group text, the consensus opinion of which is always correct, and I asked the group text and they said, I should do this.”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And as an introvert, I'm just done with the world. How long can this pandemic last? I would like to go out for a drink at a bar alone and watch other people and like bring a book. I've been like weirdly fine being isolated. So yeah, so that's the other piece of that, just wanting to re-gather my energy and have time to read and think some new thoughts. You know, you get into this rut of like saying the same things. Over again if you don't have time to really process new information and figure out what you think About it”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Short answers I'm writing a book, which means you need, as you know, long stretches of uninterrupted time ideally to actually think about really interesting ways to frame things, and there's a lot of research involved in that project. And I'm trying to adhere more and more to this, the philosophy of essentialism, which I'm sure you're familiar with, which is a process. So that's sort of like the The professional reason I'm focused on this one big project this year. But the personal reason is, you know that sort of cultural perspective that when you have your photograph taken You know, sort of traditional understanding in a bunch of different cultures. And that's how I've felt after the last two years, having like my name and my face and my voice everywhere. I just feel like I need to gather the pieces back up.”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm sort of stepping back from doing public stuff for the year. As you know, I sort of like pushed this off for quite some time. So it's going to be, this will be one of the few things that I do this year, so no pressure, but just fucking nail it on the questions.”
2022-02-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #570: Marine Biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on How to Catalyze Change with Awe and Wonder, How to Save the Planet, Finding Your Unique Venn Diagram of Strength, and Seeking the Minimum Effective Dose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT