Building Systems for Creativity and Magic with Sebastian Marshall
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2017
⏱️ 60 minutes
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I think the eventual target you want to hit is at least 2 hours of most important maker work. Everybody I know who does 4 hours of whatever’s most important every single day is very successful. Sometimes your wrong, you go down a rabbit hole, and it doesn’t work. That’s fine. It’s part of the game. As long you as do 10 minutes, you’ve got a placeholder in your life, and things keep moving forward. It’s when you take 2 weeks off, suddenly things get dusty, you don’t remember what you’re going to do. People get busy, forget what’s important and then don’t get what they want. – Sebastian Marshall
Sebastian Marshall is an avid student of history and strategy, and digs into historical eras from Sengoku Japan to the Renaissance, the Napoleonic Wars and the Pax Brittanica, the Rise of House Rothschild and John Rockefeller, Bismarck and Moltke’s Unification of Germany, the Roman Republic and its various conflicts and shifting alliances, the Great Dynasties and Inventions of China, through to modern-day information economies, publishers, and pioneers.
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| 0:00.0 | I think the eventual target you want to hit is at least two hours in the morning of like most important maker important work and then another two hours in the afternoon, that's only four hours. |
| 0:14.0 | Everybody I know that does four hours on whatever's most important every single day is very |
| 0:17.9 | successful. |
| 0:18.9 | And you replay on weekly and sometimes you're wrong and you go down a rabbit hole and doesn't work |
| 0:21.7 | or whatever and that's that's fine |
| 0:23.0 | it's part of the game but you know if as long as you do 10 minutes you've got a |
| 0:26.7 | placeholder in your life and things keep moving forward and you keep looking |
| 0:30.0 | at it's when you take two weeks off suddenly things are getting dusty, you're going to |
| 0:34.0 | to reorg, you're going to do. |
| 0:36.8 | If you reached out to some people, hey, you kind of sort of interested in this and you take |
| 0:39.2 | two weeks to reply to them, they're not interested anymore. |
| 0:41.8 | You know, you do 10 do 10 minutes okay what's most |
| 0:44.3 | important man I really should reply to that guy in the space I wrote to him he's very |
| 0:47.4 | gracious to write back I should reply it's been two days right you put in your |
| 0:51.8 | ten minutes I really think I actually don't think it's possible for a person |
| 0:57.8 | You know in a modern you know Western country that's like doing reasonably okay, right? |
| 1:03.0 | Like, to put in 10 minutes a day |
| 1:04.5 | and what's most important and repick what's most important, |
| 1:06.7 | then stick with that. |
| 1:07.7 | Not like working hard, but like most important. |
| 1:10.7 | That will grow. |
| 1:11.6 | Like if you just reliably do 10 minutes, you'll do more than 10 minutes really quickly. |
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