Podcast Notes: Tim Ferriss and Todd McFarlane

Smash the walls

December 20, 2022

Hi All,

Following are my personal favorite insights from Tim Ferriss’s conversation with Todd McFarlane:

  1. Being present: “Enjoy it while you can. You don’t know if it’s going to be here tomorrow.” Like your health. - Stan Lee

  2. Being grateful: Who would’ve thought, guys like you and I — we’re nobodies, and look at this

  3. Surface area: You put as many doors on your house as possible, and you make sure they’re all unlocked all the time. I don’t care how they get into the house. I don’t care how they come to the party

  4. Being genius: I’ve never invented anything original. I’ve never done anything new. What I’ve done is taken everything that I’ve seen with my eyes and just made it sexier and cooler, period. That’s it

  5. Quality precedes pricing: I go make the product as good as you can, price it afterwards. And if it’s of value, people will pay you the money

  6. Smash the walls: The bark being way better than the bite. Why are we figuring out how to self edit ourself, self censor ourself, when nobody else is? This is a crime. Why are we putting guardrails on ourselves? We should be smashing up against the walls

  7. Success and momentum: You have to have a certain level of success to get the next job. That’s why I need to keep the momentum. That’s why I need to have success. Not for the fame or the fortune. That’s just a byproduct. I need it so I can do art again tomorrow and the next day and the next day. Hopefully, if I do it right, I’ll die and I’ll have been doing art until the time I take my last breath. That’s the success.

  8. Get ready for war every day: lower the bar. Lower the bar. Don’t raise the bar. Lower it.

  9. Seek goals: they’re always going to say no to you, always going to say no to you. Get over it. Get over people liking you. Just figure out what your goal is.

  10. Confidence: Confidence is half the battle, and now we’ve got to figure out whether you got the skill set, which is the other half. But some of the skill can come along the way, because confidence and determination can take you pretty far until you learn those skills. Just go, go, go. That’s all I’ve got.

Link to the episode: https://tim.blog/2022/12/16/todd-mcfarlane-2/

Note: Content above is taken from transcript of the show