Cooper Turley | Layer Zero
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🗓️ 4 January 2022
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Cooper Turley is all in, all the time. He’s been that way since he was a kid. In the crypto space, it truly seems like he’s everywhere at once. He knows everyone and has his hands in nearly every relevant project.
However, none of this happened by chance. Cooper is a champion of the grinder mindset, and it echoes through everything he touches. His approach to his career, relationships, and self-improvement buzzes with a productive energy to build and bring value to all that he does. We all have something to learn from Cooper Turley.
As crypto continues to mature, it’s clear that big things are lined up for Cooper. We can’t wait to see what he comes up with next.
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
4:39 Cooper Turley & Runescpe
9:22 Grinding & Sports
13:18 Video Starts
15:19 College & Music
18:36 Mindfulness & Schedule
25:38 Crypto in 2017
33:26 Bear Market Building
40:59 Working on Everything
45:31 🔥_🔥
51:08 Hollywood Cooper IRL
57:48 Bull Market Behavior
1:00:49 Intersecting Crypto & Culture
1:05:14 A Horizontal Approach
1:12:01 On the Road
1:16:21 Closing & Disclaimers
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Resources:
Cooper on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/Cooopahtroopa?s=20
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| 0:00.0 | My skill set is knowing everyone and knowing everything about every project. |
| 0:03.6 | And if you try and put me into a box and say that I can only work on this parameter of work, |
| 0:07.0 | it's never going to work for me because my skill set is being everywhere. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to Layer 0. |
| 0:14.6 | Layer 0 is a podcast of unscripted conversations with the people that make up the Ethereum community. |
| 0:19.6 | Crypto is built by code, but it's composed by people. |
| 0:21.8 | And each individual member of the crypto community has their own story to tell. |
| 0:25.7 | CypherPunks understood that the code they write impacts the people that use it. |
| 0:29.0 | And Layer 0 focuses on the people behind the code because Ethereum is people all the way down and always has been. |
| 0:35.2 | Today I'm talking with Cooper Turley and Cooper. |
| 0:37.9 | And I have a pretty similar timeline for when we got into crypto. |
| 0:41.4 | We were both at the East Denver 2018 conference. |
| 0:45.0 | And that conference was pretty, I think, impactful for both of us. |
| 0:48.7 | It's funny that we didn't actually meet there. |
| 0:51.2 | And Cooper tells a story of learning how to grind through the bear market. |
| 0:57.0 | And overall, learning how to grind inside of the crypto industry and the fruits that can be born out of grinding. |
| 1:05.8 | And so I think there's a lot of lessons that can be learned here with just getting a grasp over one's mental functioning, mental abilities. |
| 1:15.0 | Cooper is a big fan of mindfulness and meditation. |
| 1:18.5 | And then using that to just funnel energy into building and just contributing value. |
| 1:23.8 | Cooper also tells a story of rather than building something in specific and doubling down on one specific project. |
| 1:31.1 | Cooper spreads himself horizontally over a large number of projects. |
| 1:35.1 | And that's enabled him to be a great connector of many, many people and just come to know a lot of people. |
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