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The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

#21 Ed Latimore: The Warrior Poet

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Farnam Street

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Ed Latimore might be the most interesting person you'll ever meet.

Ed is a professional heavyweight boxer, physics major, and philosopher. He's also the author of the cult-hit Not Caring What Other People Think Is a Superpower. If there's anything Ed feels like doing, he simply does it.

This interview explores the physics of boxing, the value of a coach, and much of Ed’s hard-fought wisdom. You’ll discover:

  • How the painful end to a relationship lit a fire under Ed that hasn’t stopped burning
  • How Ed knows when he’s bitten off more than he can chew and needs to ease up on the accelerator
  • Why motivation is a terrible way to achieve great things (and what to do instead)
  • The unlikely way that Ed’s runaway best selling book came about
  • Why Ed thinks every person should step into the boxing ring at least once in their life
  • How people get stuck on the “dopamine treadmill” which feels productive but actually gets you nowhere (this is the kiss of death if you want to accomplish any important goal)
  • Ed’s brilliant philosophy on pain and suffering that will change the way you view hardships in your life
  • Ed’s somewhat controversial approach to coaching children and getting the very best out of them
  • The most important element of creating a positive habit (most people get this wrong)

And more.

After listening to this warrior poet, you won’t look at life the same again.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Knowledge Project, the most irregular podcast in the history of the world

0:13.4

with seemingly one episode every three or four months.

0:17.5

I'm your host, Shane Parish, curator behind the Furnham Street blog, which helps people

0:21.5

make better decisions, learn new things, and discover how to live a meaningful life.

0:27.2

The Knowledge Project allows me to meet and talk to world-class people.

0:31.2

We pull back the curtain a little to see what makes them so incredible.

0:35.3

On this episode, I have Ed Latimore, a professional boxer, philosopher, and physics major from the

0:41.7

Steel City.

0:43.0

I traveled to Pittsburgh to record this interview, after which he gave me a private boxing

0:47.1

lesson.

0:48.1

Let's just say his hands are about as big as my head.

0:51.1

Luckily for me, his heart was pretty big too.

0:53.8

This is unlike any interview I've ever done, listen in, and you'll see what.

1:00.8

Ed, I'm so happy to be here with you today.

1:12.3

Thank you for coming all the way from Canada, man.

1:14.8

You know when you said you were coming down originally, I thought you were driving and

1:17.6

then driving right back.

1:18.6

I'm like, man, this dude is crazy.

1:21.6

I think I tried to get you, just wanted to do a Skype podcast or something, man.

1:26.2

You're like, no, you got to come here, got to meet you and got to do something.

1:29.4

I'm really honored and humbled that you traveled some distance to do this.

1:34.9

We're going to step in the ring after.

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