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Safi Bahcall

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first: 2019-03-15
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“I actually think it reminds me you mentioned we were talking a little bit about Donnie Kahneman and how he transformed economics. It's very similar because what he said for economists for 200 years had said, oh, there's one way to think about incentives and how they influence behavior. Everybody calculates net present expected value of my financial return doing X and doing Y and if X is greater than Y, I do X. The rational action.”
2019-03-15 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #364: Safi Bahcall — On Thinking Big, Curing Cancer, and Transforming Industries · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Don't kick. That's it. That's basically the magic. Put your head down and don't kick. And that's it. And then so many different areas of life, it turns out there are these bad habits, these things that you think you should be doing or you're programmed to do or everybody tells you to do. And they create drag in going through life. And then someday, somebody, maybe it's Tim Ferris, says, you know, here's this really counterintuitive, weird trick. Don't do that. Do this. And all of a sudden the drag goes away and you can swim a mile.”
2019-03-15 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #364: Safi Bahcall — On Thinking Big, Curing Cancer, and Transforming Industries · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I feel like 10 years ago we're like having the same conversation 10 years ago and you know the really cool thing about it the way it applies to so many areas of life that I found is It starts by a counterintuitive take on something that everybody does or believes is true. And that is, well, if you're swimming forward, you want to see where you're going. So you raise your head. And so that's exactly what's wrong with swimming, with most casual swimming, because then you're kicking your feet to maintain horizontal balance. And by kicking your feet, you're using 80 or 90% of your energy is just going to correct bad position. That's why you're tired. And so in so many areas of life, when you learn this kind of bad habit that's this very natural that every human does, once you become self-aware of that, it's really not hard to just put your head down.”
2019-03-15 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #364: Safi Bahcall — On Thinking Big, Curing Cancer, and Transforming Industries · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You're swimming, and how it's a metaphor for life. And I started using that as a metaphor for learning, breaking down everything you know about life, about like a swim stroke and all the bad habits that you learn, and replacing them and how interesting it is that just small little tweaks can take you so rapidly from a two out of ten to a six out of 10 or a seven or an eight. And what kind of a joy that is and how that can imply in so many areas of life. And this other guy sitting next to me was like,”
2019-03-15 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #364: Safi Bahcall — On Thinking Big, Curing Cancer, and Transforming Industries · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Dancing, Utah A conference organized every year by Peter Thiel and Orren Hoffman. And Orin's a good friend of mine I was sitting at a lunch table and I had just taken up as sort of a hobby triathlon, long distance triathlon, and I had just learned for the first time real swimming, not just sort of splashing around in a pool, but how can you, because splashing around a pool, you can swim a couple laps and you get tired, but that's not going to help you if you want to swim 1.2 miles in the ocean. So I had found this course called Total Immersion and I was just having such a blast because it takes you from a two out of ten to like a five to seven really, really quickly. So you go, you can like knock out 1.2 miles. No problem. So I was sitting at lunch and somehow there was this guy kind of quiet but happy guy next to me. And he had also just taken up total immersion swimming. And then we just totally connected on how amazing it was and like how it can transform.”
2019-03-15 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #364: Safi Bahcall — On Thinking Big, Curing Cancer, and Transforming Industries · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT