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Todd McFarlane

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“I would never have let an old man on that stage go, I hope you don't do it because you're not good enough. I would have gone and said, oh yeah, I've made it my personal mission. So even if I can just gin up a couple of people to just go, come on, man. Come on, man. You can do it. But if you keep coming up with reasons why you're not built for entrepreneurship, you have to think. A little bit delusional at times to the point where you think you're better than you are. That's okay. That's okay. Confidence is half the battle, and now we got to figure out whether you got the skill set, which is the other half. But some of the skill can come along the way because confidence and determination can take you pretty far until you learn those skills. So just go, go, go. That's all I've got.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To try to be an entrepreneur once in their life. And then I walked to the other stage and I go, now I'm going to talk to you as Todd, the CEO. I hope, and here's what I'm going to tell you as Todd, the CEO. I hope you don't do it. I hope you sow those doubts and you never do it. And you know why? Because that means I will never have to compete with you. And you may be smarter and better and more well equipped and I'll never have to play the game against you. So make my life easy and don't compete I'm telling you, the dad side of me take me down because the 25-year-old Todd. I'm telling you, I just know. But listen to me, the 60 year old man, and would have said, dude, I will gut you.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Little bit of perseverance to sort of get there. I believe that if I can do it, and I was dumb, I got nothing but D's, you know, in school and stuff like that, if I can do it, I just think there are so many people up there. And what I do at times, it's frustrating to me. I'm up on stage sometimes at comic conventions. I don't even talk about comic books, but I go, I'm going to talk to you as your dad, as your uncle, and I'm going to tell you why I think you should try this. And I think we've spoken about some of those on your show in these two parts. Just try it. And if it doesn't work, it's like cutting your hair to grow back. You can always go back to the system wherever you're at. You can always go back. There's no harm. There's no dishonesty in trying and failing. That's okay. The person who never tries, I think, sort of has more regret. So I talked to him, I stand on one side of the stage and I go, come on, man. Just try. Try. Try it once. I think everybody in all honesty, Tim, should be.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, the only thing I like to do is encourage people who have a little bit of doubt. If you got a lot of bit of doubt, it might not work. A little bit of doubt. I think we can get past that hurdle. I don't consider myself to be smarter, intelligent, or do better, anything better than anybody else. And I was able to just”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Did you pick the richest person you know, or did you pick the best person? Why don't you want to be the second one Why don't you want to be the best person instead of the richest? Because when it mattered, and we just proved it, you didn't pick the rich person. the second person. And you can still make money and be that second person. Don't worry about it, but don't make the money the driver. Don't do it. But I'm only talking to three of you in this class. The rest of you have already sold your soul.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Now, I'm going to assume that everybody listening to my voice right now has at least one person they care about, at least one person. So think about the person that you care about the most. That person, I assume if you care for them that much, they care about you that much. And in three weeks, that person is going to be left without you. It will be trauma to their life. So here's the question. If you could only pick one human being. To help that person you care about to transition after you're gone, to soft land them as much as possible, to be by their side, to do anything that will be helpful in their grieving period. Who is that individual? I want you to pick just one individual. I'll give you 15 seconds to think of it. And then I stand there, Tim, in silence. And then I go, my last question before I leave.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All of you just woke up tomorrow and you're not feeling very good, so you go to the doctors and doctors takes you in the back room and he does a bunch of blood tests and says, hey, I'm going to run the blood test and you go sit out in the lobby. I'll get back to you. So you go out in the lobby and you look on your cell phone for a while. And then 25 minutes later, the doctor comes back. He doesn't look very good. He's got a serious look. And he says, hey, I need you to come back to my office. Yeah, sure, Doc. And you go sit down and they go, we ran all the tests and we re-ran them. And you have inoperable cancer and there is nothing modern medicine can do. You will be dead in three weeks. You're dead. There's no hope”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Back, you and your brain and your intellect and your personal experiences might have figured out how to make a hundred million. Why would I try to tell you how to make a million? You might have made a hundred million. You may be a thousand times smarter than me. I don't want to limit you. But let me just leave once we talk all this sort of to see if we can't leave you with one thought here.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Then the VP of a bank can be divorced four times and estranged from your family and nobody wants to hang out with you. We somehow equate in North America money to success. And to me, my definition of success is different. I just think that there's a way to just not care. Even if you do have money and prestige and all of it, to me, it's all silly. It's all complicated. Our lives, my wife will tell you the same. It was easier when life was simpler. You guys are built, the guys that are doing their MBAs in these classes are just little baby sharks. And when I'm given that conversation, I know that they want to emulate the big sharks. So I'm only talking to four or five of them that are out there. And at the end of it, after we sort of go with it, I sometimes sort of do this last little question there. I go, how I'm just going to leave you with one thing because I know about making money. You got to make money. And the reason I don't want to tell you how to make money, because if I tell you how to make a million.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Money. 85% of them throw their pencil down in disgust because they thought I was going to give them the 10 lessons on how to make money. I go, here's what we're going to talk about for an hour, how to keep your humanity, how to actually be a reasonable human being. So here's what I'm going to tell you. I would rather you become a garbage collector and go become a good community person and go coach Low League for free.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I ever get aggravated. You know who I'm the most aggravated with? Me. Because at the end, no matter what's happening, I have to ask the same question. Who put me in this position? It's uncomfortable. I don't want to be here. Why am I arguing with lawyers today? Oh, that was Utah. You started that company. You kept it going. You kept doing it. I don't get to pass the buck. And so I have to sit there and say, the guy who basically caused all this is the guy I shave with every day. And here's the problem with that. I actually like that dude. And even if I don't, I got to live with him for the rest of my natural life. So you know what? I'm stuck with it. And so I just figure out ways that work for me. I don't want you or any listener to replicate it. I would say no. What I do do when I go to business classes, which is super awesome when I go talk to business classes at universities. First thing I say is I'm not going to tell you how to make.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it horrified my wife. Let me just tell you, it horrified her because she goes, I am married. A, she was happy that I'm not going to die of a heart attack because I literally can turn the switch off. Two, she was horrified she's married to a monster that he literally doesn't care about another human being and can just turn it off. I turn it off, Tim, not out of pride, not because I think that's the way to go, not because I think that's it. It's because we all, if you're in war, and I think I'm in war, If you're at war, you have to find out ways of surviving”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Up with the doctors. There's a couple of them. And then they go, okay, Todd, it's you. And I go, Yeah, oh, yeah, okay. And it's like, and fuck you, click. I end my conversation. I go, what are we doing? Oh, we got to do this examination. Oh, yeah, okay, cool. And this is my wife was waiting for. And they do the blood pressure. And they do all the testing and they go, oh, yours is the same as your wife's.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The guy who was in the gym the whole time bench pressing that weight or the guy who put it down and let his muscles sort of relax so I can go back to the gym a couple days later. I don't care. And here's how I know that's true. I know it's true. You can believe it or not. I proved it to my wife one day. She took out a life insurance policy or something and the doctors have to come to the house and they have to do an exam on you to make sure that you're not dying or whatever. So they come and they got to do an examination on me and my wife. And my wife is top fit. She's awesome. She is like a hiker runner. You know, she's like a model. She's awesome. Anyways, they came and I was in the middle of one of these Mussolini moments. And the doctors came and they go, Toddy, you got to examine you. And I go, tell them to do Wanda first. I'm on the phone. I'm on the phone. And so they go and do Wanda. And then they do my wife, whatever they had to do, and then they come upstairs. And she knows she can still hear me yelling. And she comes.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't even care about that guy. That lawyer I just yelled at click. He's like, dude, it's the weekend's coming. I worry about him on Monday. I worry about him on Monday. But because I can do that, here's what happens to the lawyer. He gets off the phone. He goes to all of his people in the office. He goes, I just got off the phone with this son of a bitch. And here's what he said. And he's going to chew on it. And he's going to chew on it. Then he's going to go home. And his wife's going to say, how was your day? Oh, fine, except for at the end, this guy. And he's going to chew on it. And then they're going to go out and they're going to have a barbecue with their friends. And they're going to go, how are you going? Oh, fine, but I got this one thing. And he's going to chew on it and chew on it. And he's going to sit there and think about me the whole weekend. And by Monday, he's exhausted. And you know how much time I gave him during that same amount of time? Not one second of my emotions. Why? Because on Monday click, I turn it back on. And guess between the two of us who are stronger to continue the conversation.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Terms for a guy like Todd, and I don't necessarily want anybody to do it. I'm just telling you who I am. I usually phone lawyers that I don't like and I'm in a fight with on Friday about 430. This is actually a very good time. And here's why it's a good time. Because I can get on the phone with them and they can argue. And then you start raising voices and you start sound like Mussolini on the balcony and you start going and you usually end those conversations like, oh yeah, well, fuck you. Yeah, we'll fuck you. Okay, I'll get on the phone with you Monday. We're going to sell this bullshit. And you go click. Now here's what I told my wife because she's heard me do this before. She goes, Todd, she's heard me before. Todd, you're going to have a heart attack. No, I'm not. Yes, you're going to have a heart attack. No, I'm not. And here's why my wife's name's Wanda. No, Wanda, I'm not going to have a heart attack. And she doesn't believe this until this one scary moment that I go, no. And she goes, why? I go, because I don't care. The moment I hang up that phone, click.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Let's say you put me out tomorrow and I could cut the heads of my enemies off. Let's go back to Braveheart and I could cut the heads of my enemies, right? So I got my mortal enemy in front of me and I cut his head off. Do you know how much time I'm going to give to feeling guilty that I did it? Zero seconds. You know why, Tim? Because I'm in the middle of a battle. Remember, I keep thinking I'm at war. And if you watch something like Braveheart, I'm not the only one and they're not the only one on the battlefield. And if I sit there and give time to feel sorry for what I did to that man and think about his family and his children, somebody's coming up behind me is going to cut my head off and I will be dead six seconds later. So I must learn to cut and turn and forget about that dead victim because somebody's out to kill me five seconds later and I either survive or at least attempt to survive or I lament and get my head cut off in a second. Here's how this works Tim. Here's how this works in practical model.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“literally don't care and it's not a trait that I want to encourage I don't want my kids to be like me but you have to have it because if you're going to make change if you're going to go up against competition they're going to every day try and tell you you can't and try and embarrass you somehow and you have to just push it and categorize it to a side and say I don't care This was my goal and I'm going to do it anyways.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In my life Here's what my goal is. My goal was to take my lovely wife out for an evening of dancing. There's a dance floor and there's music. I'm going to dance. If every other human being in that room doesn't want to dance, I don't care. If they all want to dance, I don't care. None of them are of importance to me. What's important is that I want to dance with my wife tonight and I'm doing it. I'm doing it. Do I care whether they think I'm a good dancer? No. Do I care if they think I look like a goof? Nope. Nope. Not one second of power do I give to that person. If you're the person that's going to wait till the dance floor is full so that then you can get on and nobody will see you so you can hide in the middle of the pack. I'm just telling you you're probably not built to be an entrepreneur, right? You have to just be at times.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Never, ever will happen. So if you're going to do something that's going to aggravate the system status quo, there's never been anybody in history that's ever changed anything on any level and was liked by everybody. Get over it. Get over people liking you, right? Just figure out what your goal is. I'll give you my personality. I take my wife. We're going to go to the bar and we're going to go dance. Okay. Nine o'clock comes around. The band starts playing. Nobody wants to be the first one on a dance tour. Let me also say, if you've never been the first one on a dance floor, you're probably not built to be an entrepreneur. Let me just sort of put that there. Because that means you give a shit about the rest of the people in that room. I don't. And here's why. First off, I don't even know them. Why would I give any weight? Why would I give any power to a stranger?”
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“I'm horrible, but every now and then I get lucky and all of a sudden I get on a par five, I get a six. I am dancing naked when I get a six on a par five. But it's interesting. I'm with another guy who must have had a different expectation. His bar was different than mine. He hits it. He hits it. He gets a six. And he is so mad. He actually breaks his club that costs more than my entire rental. And he breaks his club. And I'm sitting there going, wow, he got a six. I got a six. It's the same number. I'm dancing naked and he's cursing up a storm. He must have had a different expectation than me. So that's it. I just keep my expectations low. It gets you through there. Number two, they're always going to say no to you. Always going to say no to you. There has never been a story written in which the person who had”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Some days nobody cuts you off. Nobody cuts in line and nobody writes you a bad email and it's a pretty good day. It's a pretty good day because Sort of discomfort didn't come not that you won the lottery, not that your team won the championship. You just didn't have a lot of aggravation. You didn't get sued today. Cool. It's a good day. I don't know. I psyched myself out. I psyched myself out for little success. So when any of it comes, it's cool. We talked about it with selling the toys at 60,000. There's either way to get to 60,000 sales and it be a negative or it can be a positive. It depends on how you psych yourself out. I am a horrible golfer. Horrible golfer. I don't do it much. Also, I've had people say, Todd, you're the worst golfer who doesn't care. Here's why I don't care because I don't golf. I don't assume I'm going to get better by not golfing every three years, any more than my Mandarin and my Spanish is going to get better by me not practicing either one of those languages either. You don't get better by not doing it. So when I go golf the odd time I'm in Phoenix.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They broke my streak of 20 no's in a row. So I'm a little frustrated that my streak went away because I'm like, oh, damn it, they broke my streak. But by breaking my streak, I got the job. I got the job. It's a good day. Here's what most people do, Tim. And my family members do the same thing, and I can't help them. It's personality. They actually think they're going to get every job they go and apply for. And when they don't, they get crushed. It literally crushes their soul for two or three days. And they're just, they're a shell of a person. Why? Because they put the bar high. The bar was that we were going to get the job. No, put the bar where it says, I'm not getting the job and you will never be disappointed. Assume today is not going to be perfect and assume human beings are flawed and you will have a pretty damn good life because guess what happens?”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And before you walk in, give it your damnedest, but assume you're not getting the job. Give it your damnedest, but assume you're not getting it. So when they don't phone you back and when you don't get the job, you're okay with it because if anything, you actually take it as a pride that you actually called the shot. I knew it. I knew it. I went there. They didn't give it to me. Dumb shit. But I knew it. And pretty soon you don't get hired for 10 jobs in a row and you're on a hot streak now. You're actually feeling pretty good that you called it 20 times in a row. You're not getting the job. And then guess what happens? You go to the 21st interview and you give it your bath and you walk away and they go, Todd, where are you going? I'm out of here because I know you're not going to hire me. And they go, no, we actually want to offer you a job. And here's why that's an awesome day because what sort of kind of quasi-frustrate. First off.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Email this guy sent me that son of a bitch. Oh, you thought today was going to be perfect. Did you see that guy cut me off on the freeway, right? Oh, that guy cut me off here in line. I was waiting in line and they cut me off getting a ticket for the Black Panther movie and now I can't get in or whatever. Oh, somebody said something about my haircut. Somebody said something about it. So you thought that the world was going to be perfect and that everybody was going to wake up and that they were going to make your life better. You know who woke up in the planet today with 8 billion people and said I'm going to make Todd's life better today? There was only one human being. One. And that was me. No other human being, not even my wife. That was their mission today. That was me. So if you're expecting others to make you happy and make it accommodating for you, you're going to get crushed. So here's what I would say. Lower the bar. Go to your job interview.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Mom, if you're listening to me, because moms will be horrified by this. Here it is, lower the bar. Lower the bar. Don't raise the bar. Lower it. Here's why. Way easier to get over low bars than it is high bars. Try it. Put a bar six feet high. Try jump over it. Put a bar six inches off the ground. You can get over it 20 times in a minute. It's easy. Lower the bar, ladies and gentlemen. So that means that I get up every day and I don't have high expectations of anything, not even with humanity. I'm not a religious person, but I do have sort of a personal prayer and it's sort of this simple everyday. Today will not be perfect. And how many days in a row, Tim? I've nailed that every single day of my life. I'm on like even a longer streak than Cal Ripkins Jr. with that. What tortures people, and some of you are listening, are the people who have the bar higher than that. Did you see this?”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Would be good for your family. And only two things were going to happen. You were either going to cut his head off or he was going to cut yours. That simple. And I've always been the guy willing to go, I'll die for what I believe. Now, unfortunately, Tim, killing your enemy and cutting her head off is illegal, right? And it's really frustrating to me because, man, there's a lot of heads I'd like to see on the ground. And I'm sure they'd like to see mine. But we can't do that. We have to be a law-abiding citizen. So now what we have to do in modern times is sue people and take away market shares and tell them you will never work in this town. And it's just not nearly as satisfying as if I could just cut their heads off. So if I get ready for the war, which means that every day, I'm going to give you a piece of advice that don't tell you.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“If we get away from the businesses and talk about personalities, not mine, but other people, right? I think that what's of value to people who are thinking about doing ideas and or some entrepreneurship is to some extent recognizing your own personalities of whether you're actually built for war or not, right? And to me, all of this is a war. I know my wife has said, it's sort of sad that you sort of see war, that your life is a war every day. And so I'm ready. And if I've got one regret that I've got few of them, but one of them is I wish I was born 3,000 years ago, because back then, like in a movie like Braveheart, if you believed in something so strongly, you would go to the battlefield, you would face your enemy who basically was trying to deny you whatever it was that would give you personal happiness or what you thought.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Do I know what 337 is? I write a book called Gunsling Respond. Do I know what the next issue is? Nope. I know there's a guy I just introduced, a cliffhanger with a guy who runs fast. That's all I know. That I got to pick up with a guy who runs fast. So I'll figure it out when I've got to get the plot in two days. And 10 years from now, you and I may be talking about my speechster runner, who's the most popular guy. And I had no idea. Day before what I was doing with them so.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A lot of miles. And I'm like, so I just blow the whole premise of this book. And I'd go, well, I'm this deep. I got to keep going. And I sit down and I remember the executive at Warner Brothers looks at me for a couple seconds, dead silence, and then he goes, slaps his hand, and goes, that's what I'm talking about. He's not afraid. He's not afraid to take chances. He's not afraid. And the answer was, I just didn't do enough research, sadly. Otherwise, I would have put it on the moon. So sometimes you just have to, if you say it with enough confidence, they'll go along for the ride with it. And it's like, he's not afraid to basically follow everything in the book. This is what I've been talking about. We've got to bend some of the rules, blah, blah, blah. So anyways, the spawn, we're up to issue 336, went to the printers a couple days ago.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'll give you an example. I was doing a movie pitch for something and I think it was for Doom or something. And I was given this pet chain and they discover something underneath the Mojave Desert or whatever. I was on a rant. And my buddy next to me slide a piece of paper over to me. I'm right in the middle of it. I'm with the Warner Brothers people and the prior writers because they brought me in to see if they could help spark it. And he slides a piece of paper over to me as I'm standing up and on it it says Todd it takes place on the moon or something like that. I'm going and they discover it in the Mojave Desert. I'm actually off.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And that's now part of the mythology, and it was just because I screwed up. What are you talking about? You just make lemonade out of your lemons and you just keep moving on and hope they don't catch up to you. I've been in those rooms plenty of times where I said something I shouldn't have and they go,”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You just hit these moments real quickly. People will write in because I'm very lazy. I never did a lot of referencing. You know, there was no internet, but I still didn't go to the library and get referenced. I had deadlines. Don't have time for it. I just fake everything. So I was drawing my pages of issue number one. And I guess this is how bad I am. I don't pay attention to my own drawings. And so people were writing in going, Todd. Todd, do you know you had the pouch on his left leg and now it's on his right leg? Do you know that you had six spikes on his arm and now it's like got eight spikes? These are easy moments, Tim. You have two choices. You either admit you're a dumb shit or you go, that's because it's alive. The costume morphs and it can do anything at any time. It's a living being.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“One or two characters. I don't need a hundred. I'm not Disney. I'm not Walt Disney. I'm not Stan Lee. I'm not that good. But could I create one or two characters that when I die, people say I still want to see the characters? That was the goal in the back of my head. And so did I have a plan of where it was going? No, not really. Did I have a plan of how it was going to end? And of course, I do actually have the end. I just never have given it to anybody. And I hope it never gets written because the only time you write the end is if nobody wants it. So you go, ah, I guess you better write the last story and put it to bed or whatever else. No, to the point, Tim, I hate sort of saying this out loud, but Spawn's costume was alive. It's like a symbiote. It moves and the chains are like the tongue and the spikes are like the teeth and the cape is all alive. Was his costume alive an issue number one? No. No. How did it become alive?”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The guy who created Superman is dead. The guy who created Mickey Mouse dead. The guy who credit the fantastic four we talked about him earlier today, Stanley dead. Their characters live on, right? I consider creations to be creative children. And every parent has the same wish. You always want your children to outlive you. Why? No parent gets up saying, I hope my children go before I do. You always want to go. You will, we've seen movies. I'll sacrifice my life, right? Women and children first. You'll sacrifice your life for your family. But you go first. If these are creative children, then the goal is, because I read about these people who created these characters that I know about, but their creators have long since passed away, including my good friend Stan. Could I create?”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I said to myself when we started that image comic books will exist for my lifetime. And how do I know that? Because even if there is only one book called Spawn, I was never going to take that logo off. So I knew it was going to exist because I'm just that militant. I'm putting it on issue number one and it will never come off. So image comic books somehow maybe in a small tiny way will exist. Obviously, we're flourishing, so I don't have to worry about there only being one book because we do about 60 or 70 books a month. Number two, could I create a character that would outlive me, period.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I just finished what's going to be the biggest comic book in the country just last week, the Batman Spawn Crossover. We touched upon it, right? I was winging it till they pried it out of my hand on Tuesday. What are you talking about? It horrifies writers the way that I do it is horrifying. Do I have it in my head? Of course not. I just figure it out on the fly. And luckily I get it right more times I get it wrong. So here's what the goal was when I started spawn. There was two goals. One, we started the company Image Comics, the third largest company, as I mentioned.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I forced them to look at the word spawn, thinking that they were helping me on some polling survey. And it was just, I need to get the word spawn into their wormhole. And this was my trick.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This project. And here's what people did. And I saw it with my own eyes hundreds of times. They took their kid, or it was one person, and they went on the white side and went, yeah, that's kind of cool with the blood. I like it. And I like the fade. And they went over to the flame black side. I went, yeah, I like that. But, you know, man, let me see. Let me go back over there. No, maybe I like that one. And it went back and forth, back and forth. And then they marked the sheet. You know what I did with the sheet at the end of each show? I threw it in a garbage. I threw it in the garbage. I didn't give a shit. I was never going to repaint that car. What I needed them to do, Tim, was to spend five minutes looking at my logo. And if I had painted that car with one paint job, the same on both sides, they wouldn't have looked at it for five minutes.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No one. You know who's ever had a funny car combook conventions? No one. If you bring something to a show that nobody's ever brought before, you'll be surprised. Like if you bring a elephant to a comic book convention and paint it purple, people will actually look at it. They'll come and look at it because they'll be going, why you got a purple elephant here. So my purple elephant, my pink elephant literally was the funny car. Now here's what I did. One side, I did a two-tone paint job on it. One side was white with the word spawn on it, and it had like blood like you hit a deer at a thousand miles an hour and it splattered over the white. The other side was black with flames because it's super cool. And then what I used to do, Tim, is I used to have it sort of centered in my big giant booth. And then I had this piece of paper and it said vote. What side do you like better so I can finish?”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Spawn came out. And really, because I wanted a funny car, but I had to convince my wife and other people otherwise. So it was like, no, it's not that I need a funny car. It's just that if I take a funny car and I paint the word spawn on it and I take it to shows, you know who has a funny car at comic book conventions?”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Going, huh, you know what? I've been a DC and Marvel acolyte, now I'm going to sort of try this out. I don't care. All you want to do is collectively keep building so that when you go to your next move, you can maybe peel off a piece of that army off to the side. So to me, now it's just attrition of just going again, again, again. And so they it will just get into your brain. I'll give you a bad, bad, bad example early on. I mentioned it before when I was at my first toy fair. I gave them a hot wheel. I bought a funny car. I don't know if people know what a funny car is, but a funny car is like a cut down dragster and they put this really cool fiberglass body and they go down just Google what's a funny car look like they're super cool we used to when I grew up in orange county orange county international raceway we used to go down there funny cars was the coolest thing in my life way better than dragons and robots anyways i bought a funny car when”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And somehow as I'm looking for an article, I read the headline. And so I've got info. That's just attrition. And so did the spawn comic book have a law at times? Of course it did, where the sales were not very good. Of course it did. But I thought that the value of wasn't that was I making money in the way that I needed to at that point. It was just to keep the machinery going because the value at some point isn't now any single issue or any single year. It's now total of all of it so that all the people over 30 years who have passed through any of the characters I've created, let's use Spawn, he's my biggest guy. So maybe they came in for five years and then quit, but they're still there. They're still there. So if we ever do a movie, they're going to remember, oh, yeah, yeah, 20 years ago, I collect that. But maybe it was somebody who passed through it 15 years ago or 10 years ago or five years ago. Or just jumped on since we set the world record that came in.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Does have some value is using another word and it's called attrition. And attrition is that over time you're going to have both high points and low points, but you got to just keep going. You can't quit. You got to just keep going and going and going and going and find yourself and put yourself in as many corners as possible during both the good and the bad time so that maybe people don't know who you are or don't know what you do, but then they go, you know what? Yeah, no, I've heard the character spawn. They don't have to have bought anything. I'm going to use a big example. I know and have read nothing about the Kardashians. And yet I have information in my head about them. I've done nothing towards that. And still it's in my head. Why? Because I can't get away from them.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, that quote that you spoke is true, and I've had that conversation many, many times in Hollywood. It's weird that you're walking in presenting them the beginning of an idea. And one of their first questions is, how does the idea end for a company, a studio, a conglomerate who's built on trying to make money? It's like, why would you want to kill anything in the crib? It's a weird conversation I'm having with them because, again, what is the end of Batman? I don't know. Who cares? We hope it goes a thousand years. Like, why are we talking about this in the first meeting? I mean, I get it. Maybe in season three, and the ratings are lagging, we can maybe have this conversation, but not in the first one. So I think one of the ways to create a brand that”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You don't know how many years or hours or months they spent till they made that one shot. Business a little bit is like that. So again, it's a perceived skill because when you see the one shot on TikTok, you think they're super awesome because you didn't see the three days they didn't make it, right? So there's a little bit of that going on there. So back to your question, sorry.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Go back to the Dumlok just for a minute to just paint a metaphor. Again, I met half court and I got my back to the basket and I throw it backwards. And then I make the bucket. And they're like, oh, Todd, you're a genius. Some people will look at that and go, you're a genius. I'm going, eh, it's a little bit of dumb block. But to your point, the reason that I was able to get that genius shot that some people think of, I was there for four days in a row and I took 10,000 shots and I missed every other one. But I didn't leave until I made the shot. So if you take 10,000 shots. Sometimes one of them goes in, so there's the personality of going when they say no, which is basically a missed shot. Don't do it, Todd. Oh, yeah, I'm going to shoot again.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You don't get the job. You have to have a certain level of success to get the next job. That's why I need to keep the momentum. That's why I need to have success, not for the fame or the fortune. That's just a byproduct. I need it so I can do art again tomorrow and the next day and the next day. And hopefully if I do it right, I'll die and I'll have been doing art till the time I take my last breath. That's the success. So the art and the success has to be a component. You're not dealing with HBO and the NFL and Microsoft and all these companies we've dealt with if you're not. able to show that you can do the job at a level that makes sense for them. So I'm not going to apologize for us doing our jobs, right?”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So let's talk about that piece. What you just said is important. So sometimes I get people go, oh, Todd, you're just sort of getting rich and famous and, you know, you got an ego and whatever else. And it's like, and probably that's true. But let me tell you why I like success. Not because I want some more money. I've got it. Not because I need a bigger ego. I've got plenty of people who have said nice things about me for plenty of years. I'm over me, right? Nobody's more border-tod than me. So here's why success matters. Because you can't keep doing art, which is what I am an artist. If I walk into the room and say, oh, get this, the last thing I did failed.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right, so again, you do Marvel that begat image comics. Image begats, right? I'm going to use biblical terms, right? Begat spawn. Spawn begats HBO, HBO, because Eddie was watching it begats, hey, you want to do a music video. Music video comes out successful, gets nominated for Grammary. That begats people phoning, hey, you want to do more music video. So it all just becomes this weird accident that just starts tumbling. And these doors of opportunity open up where you never knew they were ever going to open up before. So none of it's planned. It's just happy accidents along the way.”
2022-12-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #643: Todd McFarlane, Iconic Comic Book Artist — Lessons from Stan Lee, How to Make Art that Outlives You, How to Compete with Corporate Giants and Win (While Having Fun), Dealmaking Strategies, War Stories from Wall Street and Lawyer Land, Taking Responsibility for Your Life, and Why Creators Need to Smash Limits · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT