Diving into the life and greatness of Neil Armstrong from James Hansen's book: First Man

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1:40 - What reading did for Neil

4:20 - Napoleon: are you lucky?

10:15 - The low point of Neil's life + Theodore Roosevelt and how to honor lost loved ones

13:15 - Pursue excitement

15:00 - Early days at NASA

20:30- The lifestyle and sacrifices

When the men are preparing for a flight they are really home hardly at all . They come home on weekends and even they have work to do. We’re lucky if they have a chance to come in and sit down and say hello before they go off again a day later.

23:00- What's your capacity to move on?

26:45 - The purpose of Apollo 11

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of human beings to face challenges. It is by the nature of his deep inner soul. We’re required to do these things just as salmon swim up river.

27:40 - How the moon landing almost didn't happen

32:45 - The need for a team

34:15 - Lessons and takeaways

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Diving into the life and greatness of Matthew McConaughey from his book, Greenlights

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0:00 - A roof is a man made thing

3:30 - The forbidden word

5:30- Don't half-ass it/How to make the right decisions

14:30 - Preparation = Freedom

We have to prepare to have freedom. We have to do the work to then do the job. We have to prepare for the job so we can be free to do the work.

20:10 - Reverse engineer the person you want to become/things you want to accomplish

22:30- The power of less

I had five things on my proverbial desk to tend to daily: family, foundation, acting, a production company, and a music label. I felt like I was making Bs in all five. By shutting down the production company and the music label, I eliminated two of my five commitments with plans to make As in the other three.

25:10:- Turning down $15 million

31:25 - Takeaways

Any success takes one in a row. Do one thing well, then another. Once, then once more. Over and ove until the end, then it’s oneinarow again

I’ve never care much for destinations. The idea of landing is too finite for my imagination and sense of song. Give me a direction and a sixteen lane highway with room to swerve and explore along the way. Like jazz, I prefer to see life as a river.

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Diving into the life and greatness of the greatest Olympian, Michael Phelps, from his book, Beneath The Surface


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4:30 - To find what you love, you have to suck at first

7:40 - How Bob Bowman, Michael Phelps' coach, helped him prepare for competitions

“Champions produce normal and predictable results in abnormal and unpredictable circumstances

9:30 - First efforts aren't meant to work

12:20 - Michael's goal at 15, "“I want to change the sport of swimming… I want to change the sport of swimming. I want people to talk about it, think about it, and look forward to seeing it. I want them to want to jump in and do it. That’s my goal.”

14:00 - Volume wins. Michael trained every single day. Christmas. Holidays. Birthdays. Every single day.

16:45 - “When we practice long hours, we’re depositing money into the bank. We need to deposit enough so that when we make a large withdrawal, we have enough funds to withdraw.”

17:30 - Find different sources of motivation. "I use whatever I can to motivate myself."

22:30 - Bet on yourself . "If i were to win seven gold at either of the next two olympics, Speedo would pay me a $1 millions bonus for equaling Mark Spitz’ record for gold medals at one Olympic set in 1972. And unlike most contractual provisions, which remain confidential, we decided to talk about his one publicly."

25:50 - Daily routine."I’d wake up at 7a.m. and swim until 8:30 or 9. After that, it was a nap and at 3:45, we’d start up again. I’d get there at 3:15 to stretch. After swimming, we’d do between half an hour of dryland training. "

29:45 - Motivation leading up to 2008 Olympics,

"Leave it to Bob to grab the article that would set me off like a rocket. The article quotes Ian Thorpe, who was asked about my prospects for winning seven or eight gold medals in Beijing. 'I don’t think he’ll do it, but I’d love to see it. There’s a thing called competition. There won’t be one athlete competing and in a lot of events he has strong competition.'"

I then took the article and taped it to my locker. Whenever I look inside the locker each morning after arriving at the pool, the underlined story is the very first thing I see. If I'm dragging trying to accomplish what I need to do, I think about Ian’s words. Then I train a little harder.

33:00 - How/why he set records at Beijing

39:50 - Key takeaways

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