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The Jordan Harbinger Show

219: Adam Savage | Every Tool's a Hammer

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Business, Education, Science

4.812.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Adam Savage (@donttrythis) is a special effects designer, educator, actor, former cohost of MythBusters, current host of Savage Builds (both on Discovery Channel), and author of Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It.

What We Discuss with Adam Savage:
  • What you have to gain by paying heed to your obsessions.
  • The sublime benefits of real expertise.
  • How deadlines spur action past the bottleneck of intended perfection.
  • The universality of imposter syndrome.
  • How an expanded vocabulary leads to unexplored solutions.
  • And much more…

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger.

0:05.4

As always I'm here with my producer, Jason DeFilippo.

0:08.3

When I was a kid I had three hobbies, building stuff, breaking stuff, and blowing stuff up.

0:13.0

Today we're talking to a guy who, in a stroke of genius, managed to turn these things into

0:17.4

a very successful career.

0:19.4

Today on the show, Adam Savage of Mythbusters fame joins us.

0:23.0

We'll discuss how following our thrills can lead us to interesting jobs and niches that

0:26.9

previously didn't even exist systems for accomplishing amazing projects and staying humble

0:31.8

while doing it.

0:33.0

This episode really helped me wrap my head around mastery of a craft, which is something

0:36.6

I've been working on and thinking about a lot lately.

0:39.0

And I think you'll get a lot out of this conversation.

0:41.6

If you want to know how we managed to get all these great guests, well, we've got a huge

0:44.5

network and it's very deliberate, my creation of that network.

0:47.6

I'm going to teach you how to do it for free in our course, Six Minute Networking, which

0:51.6

is at JordanHarbinger.com slash course.

0:54.5

By the way, most of the guests here on the show, they actually subscribe to the course

0:57.6

and the newsletter.

0:58.6

So come join us.

0:59.6

All right, here's Adam Savage.

1:03.2

I know you originally wanted to be an actor and then you found, okay, my drive is not

1:07.6

acting.

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