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Episode 13

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00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:13 - What Brought Krishna to San Diego
00:01:57 - Creativity
00:03:48 - Valuing What You Make
00:04:29 - Following Your Creativity & Curiosity
00:04:46 - Sampling vs. Remixing
00:06:15 - How Krishna Discovered Hip Hop/Rap Through Sampling
00:08:18 - Biotech Being Interesting, but Later in Life, Maybe 30s
00:08:45 - Success and Innovation from Interdisciplinary Mastery and Cross-over
00:09:17 - Finding One's Calling
00:09:38 - Time being Precious & Living Without Regrets
00:09:51 - Krishna's First Time Playing Music and Regret
00:10:40 - Pursuing One's Genuine Passions/Curiosity/Intrinsic Joy
00:11:42 - Krishna's Music Tastes
00:11:53 - Letting Other People Decide What his Music is
00:12:26 - Krishna's Process for Unique Music & Open to his Creativity
00:13:34 - Suppressing Self-Creativity = Done Learning
00:14:07 - How Music Evolves & How Musicians Must Evolve
00:14:31 - How Krishna discovered Sampling and Hip Hop
00:15:26 - Others Could Relate to Your Creative Work in the Future
00:15:50 - Innovation Being Spurred by a Lack of Resources
00:17:00 - How to Retain Self-Discover Over Time?
00:17:23 - How Krishna Learnt to Value Rest to be More Creative
00:18:13 - The Downsides of the Rat Race Mentality
00:18:30 - How to Relate to Other People and Learn About Oneself To Create Better Art
00:19:24 - His Eventual Plan to Spend a Few Years in India for Creativity
00:20:35 - How Much of Your Wanderlust Comes from your Older Sister's Love for Travel?
00:20:52 - How His Sister Made it Easier for him to Travel
00:21:26 - How His Older Sister's Experience Doing an Exchange Program Inspired Him
00:21:46 - His Plan to Switch Career Paths Went Perfectly
00:23:12 - Krishna Values Independence and Can't Imagine Going Back to Co-Dependence
00:24:11 - Preferring Living with Others Rather Than Alone
00:24:35 - Being the Master of Your Own Day
00:25:18 - Redefining Happiness and Success
00:26:27 - Chasing Security is a Trap
00:28:00 - Find What You Can Do For the Rest of Your Life
00:28:20 - You Don't Need Anyone's Permission to Succeed
00:29:48 - The Challenge of Handling Social Pressure
00:30:34 - Krishna Doesn't Want to Live His Life Pandering to a Resume
00:31:13 - You Don't Need a Resume
00:33:18 - The Value of Obsession & Reframing Certainty of Success
00:35:12 - Intrinsic Joy + Impact = Lifetime Success Inevitability
00:35:56 - Creativity Surprising Yourself
00:36:47 - Ayn Rand Quote about Independence
00:37:04 - Krishna's Battle with his Parents for Independence
00:37:22 - Krishna Wants to be Able to Make His Own Mistakes
00:38:27 - Living Without Regrets - Holliander's Story
00:39:33 - Being more Worried About Missing Opportunities Than Of Making Mistakes
00:39:52 - Inspiring Others by Pursuing One's Passions
00:40:40 - Stepping Through the Looking Glass of Discovering One's Passion
00:41:13 - Redefining Responsibility and Sustainability
00:41:29 - Do you Take Breaks to Exert more Effort, or Do you Exert Effort to Take More Breaks?
Elliot Temple's Original Blog Post: https://fallibleideas.com/persistence
00:42:19 - Live to Do & Create
00:42:29 - Krishna's Story of Loving Working Late For 2 Weeks
00:45:17 - Intuitively Knowing When You've Earned Rest
00:45:37 - Rest Inspires Creativity
00:46:57 - Shaping Obsession
00:47:43 - Krishna Discovering his Passion
00:48:06 - Why Krishna Hates the Word Hobby
00:49:30 - Story of Krishna Discovering Music 2 Years Ago
00:51:20 - Find Something Intrinsically Enjoyable to You
00:52:27 - On Not Suppressing Obsession
00:54:51 - Value of Consistency and Routine
00:56:45 - Self-Discovery Through Creative Exploration
00:58:15 - A Creative Trick Krishna Found with Naps
01:02:04 - Krishna's Advice for Younger People to Pursue What They Want in Life
01:08:52 - Outro Music