A conversation on focus and finding your life's work

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David Senra

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🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

My friend Patrick O’Shaughnessy asked me to come to New York and record a conversation. Patrick had just finished listening to episode "#383 Todd Graves and his $10 Billion Chicken Finger Dream" and he believed there was an important conversation to have on focus and finding your life's work. This conversation was off-the-cuff and from the soul. I hope you find it useful.

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0:00.0	I want to post this conversation that I just had with my friend Patrick on his podcast,
0:04.3	The Best Like the Best, and I want to tell you why. So a few weeks ago, he called me after listening
0:08.7	to the episode, it was episode 383, the one I did on Todd Graves. It's called Todd Graves and his
0:14.2	$10 billion chicken figure dream. And Patrick asked me to come to New York and record an episode
0:19.3	with him on the topic of focus.
0:22.4	And if I had to simplify and distill what I've learned from this entire project,
0:25.8	you know, eight years, maybe nine years, close to nine years,
0:28.3	almost 400 biographies of history's greatest entrepreneurs read,
0:31.9	to one word.
0:33.4	That is definitely the word that I would choose, which is focus.
0:37.2	It is, I believe, it is the single most prominent attribute that the people that I've studied
0:42.6	on the podcast have that I think the rest of the world lacks.
0:47.2	In fact, I just flew to San Francisco to meet and have a conversation with my friend Daniel
0:52.6	Eck, who is the founder of Spotify.
0:54.4	We've probably talked close to four hours.
0:56.9	And there's probably not another living entrepreneur that I've learned more from than Daniel.
1:01.7	And he actually gave me really great advice.
1:03.8	And I think he did this inadvertently.
1:05.8	I don't even think he meant to.
1:07.8	And the advice was related to focus.
1:10.1	He had told me how, how more and more people ask for
1:14.5	your time, and this happens to all of us. Like if you don't guard your time, he had a great line that
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