Dr. Peter Diamandis has been named one of “The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders” by Fortune Magazine.
You asked for an entire episode with him, so here it is! The subject is simple: How to think big, and how to use the key strategies of Peter’s friends and investors, including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Larry Page. How do they create maximum leverage? How do they think differently? We explore all of this.
In the field of innovation, Diamandis is Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation. Among many other things, Diamandis is also the Co-Founder (along with Craig Venter and Bob Hariri) of Human Longevity Inc. (HLI); and Co-Founder of Planetary Resources, a company designing spacecraft to mine asteroids for precious materials (seriously).
If I could ask one person to write one book, it would Peter and his new tome, Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World. In fact, I have been asking him for years, and now it has arrived. The back cover alone gives me serious envy. Check out these testimonials from Bill Clinton, Eric Schmidt, and Ray Kurzweil. Ray says simply: “If you read one business book in the twenty-first century, this should be the one.”
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what did peter said about long live? u need flossing and what else?
Tim, I thought the most interesting thing about the keys to life longevity was Flossing. You did not pause when he mentioned this. Something so simple, almost too simple…..We seem to want to know what the complicated answers are. Flossing fits into the 80/20
This was a terrific episode. Here is my big idea on big ideas: We need one of these big idea superstars to step up and help us solve the Great California Water Crisis. Clearly the politicians ain’t going to do it. We can solve this problem, or at least, do a much better job at managing water in California such that we have a better shot of getting through these droughts. It is a huge economic, political, environmental issue — but with the right folks working on it we try and solve it. Can we create a new agriculture economy based on less thirsty crops? Create more efficient de-sal plants? Create better water storage and management during the regular years? Prevent our aquifers / ground water from permanetnt ruin? Yes, this is tied to global warming, but I think we can and should attack this specific water issue head on. Much more important than the next version of Facebook, GoPro cameras, and the next photo-sharing-social-media app, and likely more important than the next iWatch. I’m going to think on it and work on it, and hope others will too.
Hi Tim and thanks for one of the greatest episodes ever. [Moderator: personal blog removed]
Hi Tim–
loved the book, first time commenter. I am an engineering student pursuing my master’s and I have applied many of your techniques to my own personal life. The best book I have read is “The 33 Strategies of War” by Robert Greene. Simply an amazing book for personal and business reasons. I highly suggest a read!
Hey Tim,
I have been reading your 4 hour work week book over the last couple of weeks and also started listening to your Podcasts and have been getting great value from them. So much so that I have been going back through the older once prior to me coming on as a listener and after hearing this one today I am so ampted and grateful that I heard this over any of the other great pods I have listened to. The true mind of unlimited imagination in full swing was displayed here and to say it’s inspiring is far short of what it is.
Thank you so much I appreciate you doing these!
Much Respect!
Peace Juzz
This inspired me to write a Medium article on commonalities of world class people https://medium.com/@asandalis/one-commonality-of-world-class-people-ec002c2fcff6?source=reading-list-published_user
The book the Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Dr Joseph Murphy was influential and I have gifted it dozens of times. Tim you would love it. Thanks for all you do
Wow What a lot to think about
Thanks Tim! This podcast reminds us to keep pushing beyond what we think is possible. I enjoyed the last part regarding finding your purpose.
I just listened to this today, and then listened to “The Strangest Secret” by Earl Nightingale. The similarities are very interesting. Earl suggests the secret to success is setting goals, and Peter’s philosophy is to set exponentially larger goals than you think you can. I’ve always set goals with my family, and in my professional life have set goals larger than those around me, but I think I’ve been in the 10% range and not the exponential range. Now in order to be true to myself, I have to expand my vision and range exponentially. Thanks Tim, now I’ve got a lot more work to do!
Very inspirational podcast! I’ve been listening to all of your podcasts for the past few months, and always end up finding something interesting in them. Although, I have to say that this kind of worldview represented in here is just one half of the story – the other half being the limited and diminishing natural resources, political and economical instability, climate flight etc which is not likely to become easier as the population and the said amount of internet users increase (which is also exponential, not linear.) Living in Europe which is now being flooded by immigrants, I can’t helpt but to say that I’m a bit worried that perhaps the megalomaniac thinking of these technocrats might be a bit out of sync with the rest of the world. This is also why I have decided to take more ethnographic, meaning grassroots perspective in my economic research.
Thank you still, this is very interesting and multidimensional topic and I do believe that many perspectives should be heard!
I agree, Oral hygiene is key to longevity. Eg. Flossing.
Look into coconut oil pulling, it’s pretty great.
The major resource for me to work on my operating system is “Quantology” – a system of human evolution created in India by an evolution coach named Quanto Shivo
Tim,
I’m trying to learn how to think on the large scale of things and I came across this podcast. It was great!
As for the question of the day, even though it’s late & I haven’t read it yet, I plan on ordering Bold. It has a lot of reviews now and I’m sure it’ll fantastic.
Thanks!
Buy my book…here is a podcast
The guys dreaming big these days are also really doing irrelevant things in the long run. A battery powered car is no better or worse for a human being who has 80 years and is going to die. Love and relationship are what matters. You can look down on people thousands of year ago not doing “exponential things” but they had real faith in things bigger then this life. Musk is going to take his billions to the grave and he will be remembered like the pharaohs are remembered, aka not at all. I am not saying this to be rude, but the people claiming to have 300 year perspectives and the ability to 10x things, are really the ones who have a warped perspective on life.
Hey, Tim Thank You for the great podcasts. Thank You Thank You Thank You TRILLION TRILLION TIMES.
Please Do Your Next Podcast With ELON MUSK !!!
This sees like a duplicate of the other interview with Diamandis, but all good. One of the best podcasts Tim has done.
Very curious what the guy who wrote the 4-hour Work Week thinks about Elon’s statement that changing the world requires an 80-hour work week. Please do tell!
Walter Isacson’s Steve Jobs and The Innovators
Exponential Organizations by Salim Ismail
This content is great, and everything is explained is very well.