#59 Following Intellectual Curiosity with Thomas Tull
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
Farnam Street
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Thomas Tull, founder of Tulco and former CEO of Legendary Entertainment shares valuable lessons on learning from our own mistakes, asking difficult questions, and protecting our intellectual curiosity.
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| 0:00.0 | It's just one of those things when you look at it and kind of unpack what happened, |
| 0:05.8 | you just have to try to stare at the facts as they are and see what you could do better. |
| 0:18.9 | Hello and welcome. I'm Shane Parish and this is The Knowledge Project, |
| 0:23.2 | a podcast exploring the ideas, methods and mental models that help you learn from the best |
| 0:28.4 | of what other people have already figured out. You can learn more and stay up to date with |
| 0:32.7 | the podcast at fs.blog slash podcast. We have a newsletter that comes out every Sunday called |
| 0:39.2 | BrainFood. It's free and packed with all the best content that we've come across this week that's |
| 0:43.3 | worth reading and thinking about. It contains quotes, book recommendations, articles and so much more. |
| 0:48.8 | You can learn more at fs.blog slash newsletter. On the show today is the normally reclusive |
| 0:55.7 | businessman Thomas Tall. Thomas was the chairman and CEO of legendary entertainment. He produced |
| 1:01.3 | more than 30 films that together have grown more than $13 billion worldwide with the box office. |
| 1:07.5 | Movies like Straight Out A Compton, Godzilla, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception and so much more. |
| 1:13.1 | Today he's living his dream as part owner of his favorite childhood sports team, The Pittsburgh |
| 1:17.6 | Steelers. He's running Tullco and Buying Companies and Investing. He was early money in magically |
| 1:22.8 | Pinterest, Oculus, which sold to Facebook. But we're not going to talk too much investing. |
| 1:28.1 | We're going to talk about intellectual honesty, learning from mistakes, how the entertainment |
| 1:32.6 | industry is changing, professional football and so much more. It's time to listen and learn. |
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