A conversation on focus and finding your life's work

关于专注与寻找人生使命的对话

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2025-05-09

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My friend Patrick O’Shaughnessy asked me to come to New York and record a conversation. Patrick had just finished listening to episode #383 "Todd Graves and his $10 Billion Chicken Finger Dream" and he believed there was an important conversation to have on focus and finding your life's work. This conversation was off-the-cuff and from the soul. I hope you find it useful.  If you'd prefer to watch the episode you can do that on Spotify and YouTube.  Patrick and I are doing a live show on May 27th in New York. Event details and registration here! ---- Ramp gives you everything you need to control spend, watch your costs, and optimize your financial operations —all on a single platform. Make history's greatest entrepreneurs proud by going to Ramp and learning how they can help your business control your costs and save more.  ---- ---- Founders Notes gives you the ability to tap into the collective knowledge of history's greatest entrepreneurs on demand. Use it to supplement the decisions you make in your work.  Get access to Founders Notes here.  ---- “I have listened to every episode released and look forward to every episode that comes out. The only criticism I would have is that after each podcast I usually want to buy the book because I am interested so my poor wallet suffers. ” — Gareth Be like Gareth. Buy a book: All the books featured on Founders Podcast
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  • I want to post this conversation that I just had with my friend Patrick on his podcast,

  • The Best Like The Best, and I want to tell you why.

  • So a few weeks ago, he called me after listening to the episode,

  • it was episode 383, the one I did on Todd Graves.

  • It's called Todd Graves and his $10 billion chicken figure dream.

  • And Patrick asked me to come to New York and record an episode with him on the topic of focus.

  • And if I had to simplify and distill what I've learned from this entire project,

  • you know, eight years, maybe nine years, close to nine years.

  • almost 400 biographies of history's greatest entrepreneurs read to one word.

  • That is definitely the word that I would choose, which is focus.

  • It is, I believe,

  • it is the single most prominent attribute that the people that I've studied on the podcast have that I think the rest of the world lacks.

  • In fact, I just flew to San Francisco to meet and have a conversation with my friend Daniel Eck,

  • who is the founder of Spotify.

  • We probably talked close to four hours and there's Probably not another living entrepreneur that I've learned more from than Daniel.

  • And he actually gave me really great advice.

  • And I think he did this inadvertently.

  • I don't even think he meant to.

  • And the advice was related to focus.

  • He had told me how more and more people ask for your time.