06-12-15 Sponging It Up

Meditate
(10mims)
- Outside under tree

The Roots of Buddhist Psychology -Jack Kornfield
(audio) (1hr 40mins)
- Part 7, Part 8, Part 9

The Tim Ferriss Show
(podcast) (1hr 40mins)
- Episode 4: Ryan Holiday
- This episode features Ryan Holiday, who became Director of Marketing at American Apparel at age 21 (!). Since dropping out of college at 19 to apprentice under the strategist Robert Greene, Ryan has advised many bestselling authors (including yours truly) and multi-platinum musicians. He is master of the media, and he knows how to both build massive buzz and respond to unexpected crises. I hired him to help with the launches of The 4-Hour Body and The 4-Hour Chef, and his unorthodox approaches always impress. He takes the paths less traveled. In this episode, we discuss dozens of topics, including the real-world strategies he uses to thrive (not just survive) when the world is exploding around him.

The Tim Ferriss Show
(podcast) (1hr)
- Ep 21: Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park -- On Music, Creativity, Selling 60+ Million Albums
- Mike Shinoda is best known as the rapper, principal songwriter, keyboardist, rhythm guitarist and one of the two vocalists of Linkin Park, which has sold more than 60 million albums worldwide and earned two Grammy Awards in the process. Mike has collaborated with everyone from Jay-Z to Depeche Mode, and he's also the lead rapper in his side project Fort Minor, which I'm a huge fan of. As if that's not enough, he's also provided artwork, production and mixing for all the projects that I just mentioned. The man is a beast... but did he start out that way? The answers might surprise you. This episode covers how he got started, advice for beginning musicians (or creatives/artists of any type), navigating "entertainment" and Hollywood, daily rituals, how he writes songs, how he and his band rehearse, and much more.