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Tribe of Mentors

Tim Ferriss

Business

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Tribe of Mentors is a new short-form podcast from bestselling author and early-stage investor, Tim Ferriss. This episode features Adam Robinson, who has made a lifelong study of outflanking and outsmarting the competition. He is a rated chess master who was awarded a Life Title by the United States Chess Federation. As a teenager, he was personally mentored by Bobby Fischer in the 18 months leading up to his winning the world championship. Then, in his first career, he developed a revolutionary approach to taking standardized tests as one of the two original co-founders of The Princeton Review. His paradigm-breaking — or “category killing,” as they say in publishing — test-prep book, The SAT: Cracking the System, is the only test-prep book ever to have become a New York Times bestseller. After selling his interest in The Princeton Review, Adam turned his attention in the early ’90s to the then-emerging field of artificial intelligence, developing a program that could analyze text and provide human-like commentary. He was later invited to join a well-known quant fund to develop statistical trading models, and since, he has established himself as an independent global macro advisor to the chief investment officers of a select group of the world’s most successful hedge funds and family offices.

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0:00.0	And the Hello ladies and germs this is Tim Ferris and welcome to the brand new tribe of
0:22.0	mentors podcast for those who have no Ferris and welcome to the brand new Tribe of Mentors Podcast.
0:24.0	For those who have no background on me, I'm an author, early stage investor, and 50 plus companies
0:29.2	like Facebook, Twitter, Uber, Alibaba, and many others, and the host of the Tim Ferris show, which is a long-form
0:35.0	podcast with more than 200 million downloads.
0:38.3	Tribe of Mentors, this new gig, is an experimental podcast similar in flavor to the Tim Ferris show but much shorter,
0:46.9	much more distilled. This is season one planned for 10 to 15 episodes and instead of my usual two to four hour interviews tribe of mentors
0:55.2	packs a punch or so it's intended in say 10 to 30 minutes on average and
1:01.3	delivers tools habits and lessons learned from world-class performers in every
1:06.5	field you can imagine.
1:08.7	So you can think of this as a caffeine jolt of not just inspiration but also tactical advice that you can use.
1:16.0	The Tribe of Mentors Podcast is largely adapted from my new book of the same name,
1:22.0	tribe of mentors, subtitle Short Life Advice from the Best in the World,
1:25.7	which details the routines, habits, tools of more than 130 people who are the best of what
1:30.0	they do, including elite athletes like Kelly Slater and Darra Torres,
1:34.1	legendary coaches like Dan Gable, at least a dozen billionaires and iconic investors,
1:38.2	co-founders of companies like Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, Craigslist, and others,
1:42.0	poker and cryptocurrency pheny. Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, Craigslist, and others.
1:42.6	Poker and cryptocurrency phenoms, and many geniuses
1:46.8	you've never, ever heard of.
1:48.8	In some cases, those are my favorites.
1:52.0	And you can learn all about tribe of mentors at tribe of
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