Life Lessons from Taylor Swift, Conquering Anxiety, Coaching Teens, Career Reinvention, Supposedly Gay Bulls, Your Shadow Side, and More — Soman Chainani (#720)

Interview with Soman Chainani on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.

Morgan Housel — Contrarian Money and Writing Advice, Three Simple Goals to Guide Your Life, Journaling Prompts, Choosing the Right Game to Play, Must-Read Books, and More (#702)

Interview with Morgan Housel on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast

Morgan Housel — The Psychology of Money, Picking the Right Game, and the $6 Million Janitor (#576)

Interview with Morgan Housel on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast

Anne Lamott on Taming Your Inner Critic, Finding Grace, and Prayer (#522)

Interview with Anne Lamott on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast

Joyce Carol Oates — A Writing Icon on Creative Process and Creative Living (#497)

Interview with Joyce Carol Oates on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.

Jerry Seinfeld — A Comedy Legend’s Systems, Routines, and Methods for Success (#485)

Interview with Jerry Seinfeld on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast

Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify — Habits, Systems and Mental Models for Top Performance (#484)

Interview with Daniel Ek on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast

Jim Collins on The Value of Small Gestures, Unseen Sources of Power, and More (#483)

Interview with Jim Collins on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast

Mary Karr — The Master of Memoir on Creative Process and Finding Gifts in the Suffering (#479)

Interview with Mary Karr on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast

Make Before You Manage

Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don’t drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor’s yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper. ―Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life Not long ago, …