Jim Collins has published multiple
international bestsellers that have sold in total more than
eleven million copies worldwide, including the perennial
favorite Good to Great. His new book is What to
Make of a Life: Cliffs, Fog, Fire, and the Self-Knowledge
Imperative.
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Timestamps:
[00:00:00] Start.
[00:02:43] More energy at 68 than 37: Jim’s mysteriously
expanding battery.
[00:04:57] Two mornings a day.
[00:08:24] How Marcelo Garcia avoids the “simmering six.”
[00:10:24] The portable coffee ritual.
[00:12:44] Side passions of high performers: Disco dancing,
the occult, and Sunday school.
[00:18:20] Genesis of “What to Make of a Life” and the sage
down the hall: John W. Gardner.
[00:20:51] Joanne’s IRONMAN triumph: winning by 90 seconds on
a shattered hamstring — then the cliff.
[00:26:01] Cliff events, matched pairs, and the bigger
question that swallowed the smaller one.
[00:31:35] The fog-clarity inversion: clear on life, foggy on
projects.
[00:34:56] Fog happens to everyone — don’t freak out about
it.
[00:40:38] Jim’s wife’s one-word review of life with him.
[00:47:29] When the fire went from red molten rage to a
green-yellow warming glow.
[00:54:18] Encodings vs. strengths: The window frame metaphor
and John Glenn’s click moment.
[01:01:49] My encoding candidates.
[01:08:07] 70 points on trust: Discovering your
encodings matters, but trusting them matters more.
[01:12:43] Enneagram as an acceptable horoscope for tech
guys.
[01:15:21] The 1,000 creative hours rule and Warren Buffett’s
punch card: Life is the ultimate finite resource.
[01:23:37] “The most wonderful, disappointing answer”: How
Jim’s team says no with grace.
[01:27:14] Right people, right seats, encoded edition: When
management angst shrinks to almost nothing.
[01:38:23] Return on luck deep dive: What luck, who luck, and
zeit luck.
[01:46:24] Natalie moments: Not all time in life is equal.
[01:46:52] Maximizing surface area of luck, return on luck,
and Jim’s chain of who luck.
[02:04:47] Cardiss Collins and return on bad luck: Cliff
events that expose encodings you never knew you had.
[02:08:33] A warning for founders: Sell your company, lose a
decade — the cliff nobody plans for.
[02:11:23] “An option to come back has negative value”: Irv
Grousbeck’s counterintuitive wisdom.
[02:14:22] Signing the Declaration as a death warrant: When
there’s no option, the mind focuses.
[02:16:01] The hunt for Roger Sherman: Choosing matched pairs
and the man who saved the Constitution twice.
[02:20:48] The mythology of youthful creativity: Jim’s
rebuttal — Toni Morrison wrote Beloved at 56.
[02:34:35] Flipping the arrow of money: Is money fuel for
your work, or is your work fuel for money?
[02:38:42] Commonwealth Club event: Jim Collins live in San
Francisco, April 9th.
[02:39:44] The ultimate definition of success: “My spouse
likes and respects me evermore as the years go by.”
[02:43:08] A plus-two day and parting thoughts.
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