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The Tim Ferriss Show

#632: Jim Collins — A Rare Interview with a Reclusive Polymath (Repost)

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🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Jim Collins (jimcollins.com) is a student and teacher of what makes great companies tick and a Socratic advisor to leaders in the business and social sectors. Having invested more than a quarter-century in rigorous research, he has authored or co-authored six books that have sold in total more than 10 million copies worldwide. They include Good to Great, the #1 bestseller that examines why some companies make the leap to superior results, and its companion work Good to Great and the Social Sectors; the enduring classic Built to Last, which explores how some leaders build companies that remain visionary for generations; How the Mighty Fall, which delves into how once-great companies can self-destruct; and Great by Choice, which is about thriving in chaos—why some do and others don’t.

And now he’s updating his debut book, Beyond Entrepreneurship, for the twenty-first century. Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0: Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company is now available.

Please enjoy!

This interview was originally published in 2019. You can find the show notes here: https://tim.blog/2019/02/18/jim-collins/

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Good sleep is the ultimate game changer, more than 30% of American struggle sleep.

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And I'm a member of that sad group. Temperature is one of the main causes of poor sleep,

0:14.7

and heat has always been my nemesis. I've suffered for decades, tossing and turning,

0:19.5

throwing blankets off, putting them back on, and repeating ad nauseam. But now,

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temperature. It pairs dynamic cooling and heating with biometric tracking to offer the most advanced,

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but most user friendly solution on the market. I pulled all of you guys on social media about the

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I mean, people were just raving fans of this. So I used it and here we are. Add the Pod Pro Cover

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to your current mattress and start sleeping as cool as 55 degrees Fahrenheit or as hot as 110

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degrees Fahrenheit. It also splits your bed in half, so your partner can choose a totally different

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temperature. My girlfriend runs hot all the time. She doesn't need cooling. She loves the heat.

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better experience that delivers you the best sleep on earth. At least that has been true for me.

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