07-15-15 Sponging It Up

Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis
(book) (23mins)
- Chpt 7

Meditate
(35mins)
- Holosync: The Dive
- Invocations
- outside under tree

The Tim Ferriss Show
(podcast)
- Stanley McChrystal on Anti-War Americans, Pushing Your Limits, and The Three Military Tests You Should Take
- "Push yourself harder than you think you're capable of. You'll find new depth inside yourself." - Stanley McChrystal Stanley McChrystal (@StanleyMcChrystal) retired from the U.S. Army as a four-star general after more than 34 years of service. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates described McChrystal as “perhaps the finest warrior and leader of men in combat I ever met.” From 2003 to 2008, McChrystal served as Commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), where he was credited with the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. The follow-up questions are really fun. In this particular episode, he answers questions such as: If he could put a billboard anywhere and write anything on it, where would it be and what would it say?What are three tests/practices from the military that civilians could use to help develop mental toughness?What are his favorite documentaries or movies? Why?What $100 or less purchase has most positively impacted his life in the last twelve months and why?

Work
(8hrs 40mins)

The Partially Examined Life
(podcast) (55mins)
- Episode 119: Nietzsche on Tragedy and the Psychology of Art (Part One)
- On Friedrich Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy (1872). Nietzsche thought that you could tell how vital or decadent a civilization was by its art, and said that ancient Greek tragedy was so great because it was a perfect synthesis of something highly formal/orderly/beautiful with the intuitive/unconscious/chaotic. But then Socrates ruined everything!

The Time Ferriss Show
(podcast) (24mins)
- Ep 28: Peter Thiel, Billionaire Investor and Company Creator on Investing, Business, and Life
- Peter Thiel has been involved with some of the most dynamic companies to emerge from Silicon Valley in the past decade, both as a founder and investor. He is well known as the first outside investor in Facebook, but there's much more to the story... Peter's first start-up was PayPal, which he co-founded in 1998 and led to a $1.5 billion acquisition by eBay in 2002. After the eBay acquisition, Peter founded Clarium Capital Management, a global macro hedge fund. Peter also helped launch Palantir Technologies, an analytical software company which now books $1B in revenue/year, and he serves as the chairman of that company’s board. He has invested in more than 100 startups.

The Tim Ferriss Show
(podcast)
- Ep 35: Tony Robbins and Peter Diamandis (XPRIZE) on the Magic of Thinking BIG
- This conversation talks about doing HUGE things -- how do you even get started? How did Tony and Peter get started? Be sure to also check out the Global Learning XPRIZE at http://www.xprize.org TONY ROBBINS Tony Robbins has consulted or advised international leaders including Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher, Francois Mitterrand, Princess Diana, and Mother Teresa. He has consulted members of two royal families, members of the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Marines and three U.S. Presidents, including Bill Clinton. Other celebrity clients include Serena Williams, Andre Agassi, golf legend Greg Norman, and Leonardo DiCaprio. Robbins also has developed and produced five award-winning television infomercials that have continuously aired on average every 30 minutes, 24 hours a day somewhere in North America since their initial introduction in April 1989. PETER DIAMANDIS Dr. Peter Diamandis has been named one of “The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders" by Fortune Magazine. In the field of Innovation, Diamandis is Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, best known for its $10 million Ansari X PRIZE for private spaceflight. Today the X PRIZE leads the world in designing and operating large-scale global competitions to solve market failures. Diamandis is also the Co-Founder and Vice-Chairman of Human Longevity Inc. (HLI), a genomics and cell therapy-based diagnostic and therapeutic company focused on extending the healthy human lifespan. He is also the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Singularity University, a graduate-level Silicon Valley institution that studies exponentially growing technologies, their ability to transform industries and solve humanity’s grand challenges. In the field of commercial space, Diamandis is Co-Founder/Co-Chairman of Planetary Resources, a company designing spacecraft to enable the detection and mining of asteroid for precious materials.

Tangentially Speaking
(podcast)
- TOMA - 9 (Kodiak)
- My second summer in Alaska. This time, I got a job on a tender, and found myself engaged in an epic struggle for the soul of a young man.

* Entrepreneur on Fire
(podcast) (37mins)
- 995: How to listen to your heart and serve with purpose with P.J. Dixon
- Despite his disability, which was expected to take P.J.'s life by 7, he chose to live, and live well! P.J.’s a life-long motivational speaker and relationship coach, 10th degree blackbelt, women's self-defense instructor, former wheelchair athlete, adventure-seeker, water colorist, author, and in the National Hall of Fame for People with Disabilities!