Comedian, actor and writer
Recorded · NPR · 2020
I ignored my stand-up career for 25 years, but now, having finished this memoir, I view this time with surprising warmth. One can have, it turns out, an affection for the war years.
Since 2020
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What became visible only after your working life slowed down or ended?
Marine biologist and oceanographer; first woman to serve as Chief Scientist of NOAA
Recorded · TIME · 2025
I wish that I could be around 15 years from now, 100 years ... .
Novelist and editor; Nobel laureate in Literature, 1993
Recorded · PBS · 2020
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, 1970–2025
Recorded · CNBC · 2026
I go in every day to the office. I don't accomplish hardly anything. I mean, in terms of – it just takes me way longer to do things. And Greg is so good.
Author and retired educator
Recorded · NPR · 2022
What I discovered was that there are four distinct phases that most of us move through in retirement, and as you'll see, it's not always a smooth ride.
Composer and lyricist for the musical theatre
Recorded · N/A · N/A
All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.
Which book do you recommend most often to others, and what makes you pass it on?
NASA astronaut; commander of the International Space Station
Recorded · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2020
I'm looking at my bookshelf in my office here, certainly The Right Stuff. I've given that to people.
Strength and conditioning coach; co-founder of Cressey Sports Performance
Recorded · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2023
All right, I'm going to give you two, because they're kind of categories to it.
American tech entrepreneur, investor
Recorded · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2021
I really like history and I particularly like the era of the Victorian industrial age of like 1850 to 1920 or something. It’s an amazing period where you, I think of it as a period.
Leadership coach; co-author of The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
Recorded · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2021
The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks is probably the book I've gifted the most, and the one I've recommended the most of any other book.
Novelist, screenwriter, and producer
Recorded · A Thin Slice of Anxiety · May
Other than the Oh the Places You'll Go which seems to be a you-must-give-it-to-all-college grads, and How to Cook Everything, which I love giving to people moving out on their own the first…
American mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter
Recorded · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2021
A [inaudible 00:42:55] is an article that I know that you’ve recommended a bunch that I’ve gifted to all my entrepreneur friends is 1,000 True Fans .
How has a setback or failure set you up for later success?
Radio astronomer; discoverer of pulsars
Recorded · University of Cambridge · 2020
My contemporaries were more upset about the Nobel than I was not to be recognised. One of them labelled it the 'No-Bell' prize! But it was fine by me.
British swimmer; Olympic champion 2016 and 2021
Recorded · BBC Sport · 2024
When I lost that 100m final I spiralled. I went quite aggressive. It is an Adam I don't really recognise.
Co-founder, president and chief executive of NVIDIA
Recorded · NVIDIA Blog · 2024
One setback after another, we shook it off and skated to the next opportunity. Each time, we gain skills and strengthen our character.
Baseball player; holder of the record for consecutive games played
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 2020
No. I mean if you fail 70 percent of the time, you had a great year. You're dealing with failure seven out of ten times as a hitter.
Co-founder of Andela and of Flutterwave; founding partner of Future Africa
Recorded · Iyinoluwa Aboyeji on LinkedIn · 2024
Failure is the most likely outcome of entrepreneurship. Hence there is absolutely nothing wrong with failure. It is the default outcome. Success on the other hand is rare and unpredictable.
Scottish organic chemist
Recorded · Nobel Prize Outreach · 2022
I don’t know. That’s a terrible answer I realise, and everyone wants a nice straight forward answer.
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