068: Andrew Marantz | What Drives Us to Succeed?

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

According to writer Andrew Marantz, if you want to have a fulfilling life, take the largely accepted wisdom “live each day as if it were your last” with a large grain of salt. On the road to success, merely satisfying every desire as it appears will get you nowhere. In a philosophical conversation on the Spartan Cruise Joe and Andrew discuss the the crossover between perseverance and success in artists and athletes, the importance of future memory, the strong drive towards innovation and a variety of other topics. They also attempt to answer whether human achievement is driven by chemical releases in the brain or something more complex.

Lessons:

1. “Live each day as if it were your last” may be a misleading aphorism: There are clearly many things you must do to achieve long term fulfillment that don’t involve instant gratification.
2. The thing that often gives you the most satisfaction, your life’s passion, is paradoxically the thing you frequently don’t enjoy doing at all, but after all is said and done, love regardless.
3. On one extreme are virtuosos, those who strive for mastery, on the other are innovators, those who create change. We need both equally, and often we ARE both.

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to Spartan Up Podcast. We're going to interview somebody every week from all over the world and see what they did in their life to become successful, no matter how they define it.
0:12.0	Go!
0:13.0	Set for Launches, Listen.
0:14.0	Okay, welcome back to beautiful,
0:16.0	with no shoes.
0:17.0	Welcome back to Beautiful Pittsfield
0:18.0	where it's not raining and it's very beautiful out
0:21.0	and I'm with once again these fabulous gentlemen. Colonel Knight am I
0:24.0	right myself suffra Mr. Joe Desena or Desena depending on who would pronounce your name
0:28.4	and Johnny Wade with Miss Marion behind the videographer camera whatever that's called so today we we are
0:37.5	interviewing Andrew Marantz who is an awesome awesome person who got to hang out
0:42.0	with them on the Spartan crews and he writes for the New Yorker and for men's journal and
0:47.0	He's smart smart guy really smart guy super smart guy you wouldn't expect it, but I'm just joking.
0:53.0	It's going to be a dark interview because the lights were out, but it was well worth it, even though it was dark.
1:01.0	That'll come in handy for those of you who listen instead of watch.
1:03.2	All right, so let's go into the darkness here.
1:06.6	We are here for Spartan Up Podcast and I am tired,
1:09.6	but that doesn't mean it's not going to be a great cop podcast.
1:11.7	I'm what Andrew, Andrew, I don't know your last name.
1:13.4	Marantz.
1:14.4	And you were a writer for New Yorker magazine?
1:16.4	Yeah.
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