#856: Jim Collins — What to Make of a Life and How to Maximize Your Return on Luck
3/5/20262 hr 49 min
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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First 90 secondsTim Ferriss· Host0:00
Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs. Welcome back to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show. I'm Tim Ferriss. My first interview with Jim Collins is one of the most popular episodes of the podcast of all time. It is episode 361, titled Jim Collins: A Rare Interview With a Reclusive Polymath, and I believe it was his first ever podcast. First ever long-form podcast, for sure. I'm very excited to bring him back. But first, who is Jim? Jim is the author of multiple mega bestsellers, including Good to Great, with more than eleven million copies sold worldwide, all exploring the big questions of leadership and life. He also practices what he preaches. His own personal protocols and routines and tracking are second to none. It's pretty remarkable. His brand-new book is What to Make of a Life, subtitle Cliffs, Fog, Fire, and the Self-Knowledge Imperative. You can also catch Jim live, which is incredibly, incredibly rare, on April ninth at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, so just hop on Google or somewhere else to find the details for that. You can find the links to everything we discuss in the show notes for this episode at tim.blog/podcast. Without further ado, please enjoy the one and only Jim Collins.
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