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Guy Raz

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  1. “And you say that, and they'll say, Really? And because, you know, we want the show to, it is a single person's narrative and a single narrative oral history is always going to be problematic. We don't have multiple voice, not a documentary. There aren't multiple voices who can weigh in. So we try to play the role. Me and my team, we try to play the role of making sure that it is factually correct and fair to all the people whose voices are not represented in the episode.”

    2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “On the show, Tim, which is I say, you know, when I interview you, there's a good chance I will know more about your life than you even know at that moment because it's so fresh in my mind, you know, because people will talk about their stories and in the process of being interviewed, they'll sometimes say, well, it was 1996 and it was a first time I made a sale and I know that it happened in 1995 and I will stop them and I'll say, hey, just to interrupt you, it actually happened in 95. Can you”

    2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “For security fraud, and was really open to talk about it. And what he learned about it and how that changed his life and shaped who he is. Because as he told me on the show, you know, he was greedy. He got really greedy at a certain point in his life. He was in a bad place. He was high on Coke. And he committed fraud, went to jail for two years, but really kind of turned his life around and actually become a prison reform activist. I think that I'm not looking for angels or Mother Teresa. No one is like that. I'm not like that, but I'm looking for people to put their life stories in context. So that's when we that happens sometimes because we really do spend a lot of time diving into the stories of the people who come on the show. And by the way, I sometimes joke with people who”

    2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “So we called this person back up, and I'm being obviously deliberately vague. We called this person back up, and I said, look, we came across this story that clearly when you were a younger person, you committed securities fraud or were convicted of it and spent some time in jail. We're going to have to talk about this. And hopefully you can kind of address it and say, you know, I was stupid and young and greedy or whatever it might be. But in context, I think it'll be really interesting for people to hear about it and about your life and about the decisions you made and what you learned from that. And this person said, I will not talk about that. I refuse to discuss that. And that's fine. I said, I completely respect that. When you're ready to talk about it, let me know and we'll do the episode with you. So we did not in the end have that person on the show. But then, you know, you've got people like Steve Madden, who went to jail, the shoemaker who went to jail for two years.”

    2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “Can you give an example of non public? So there was an entrepreneur who I really wanted to interview. It was a wonderful story and had phone call with this entrepreneur. A really interesting category brand. And it was, you know, we had this call and it was a good conversation. And then once we started to do some research, we discovered that this entrepreneur actually had spent some time in jail for securities fraud in the 1980s. This was not in any of the public profiles or articles that we read about this person.”

    2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “We do a really extensive background search and check on the person for both public information and even non-public information. And it's really designed to make sure that we can contextualize someone's story. We want to know everything about them and everything about their business and their lives because lives are complex. So sometimes we come across things that are not public, that maybe might be a little bit embarrassing. And we'll talk about it on the phone first and kind of talk through how we're going to tackle that thing.”

    2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “I mean, I have been in journalism my whole life. I started out as a reporter when I was 22. Basically, the job, you know, the job of a reporter is to become an instant expert. Reporters really are dilettants, right? We don't have a PhD in a very narrow subject. But good reporters learn a lot about a subject very quickly. You have to be able to do that. You know, when I was a reporter, I would be sent to Macedonia because there was a flare up and a conflict. And I would have 24 hours to get there and I would rush to a bookstore and buy everything I could about Macedonia and the Balkans and start to read. It's similar with interviewing the people who come on the show. Obviously I have a team that helps me gather all that information. But depending on who the person is, if they've written a book, I will have read the book. If they have been around a long time, there's usually a lot of material.”

    2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “Degree story. And if we're just talking about the Facebook highlight reel of your life, it's not going to be an honest conversation. And our audience is not going to connect to you. And you will be doing yourself a disservice. And that's really kind of how I start the process. And then when we have the conversation several weeks later, we've already had that kind of interaction and encounter. So that's kind of the first thing that I do before I sit down with somebody.”

    2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  9. “Don't have to come on the show, it's voluntary. We don't want anybody to feel forced that they're coming on the show, but I want everybody to understand how we operate. And so the first thing I do when we reach out to somebody is we set up a time for us to talk. And I basically say to them, look, this is going to be really different from most of the interviews you do because A, it's going to be long. And B, there's no preconditions. I'm going to know as much about you as I can possibly know because we will have done a really deep dive research profile on you. And you have to be willing to talk about everything. And unless it's, you know, something that was very personal, like a divorce or something like that, that's not really relevant. But in general, what I say is that everything's on the table because a human story is a 360.”

    2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  10. “Think the first thing I do, Tim, is I have a conversation with everybody before they come on the show, months before they come on the show. And the reason why I do that is because Know, my show is not Meet the Press. We're not interrogating politicians about public policy. It's a show about someone's journey. And”

    2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT