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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 1316 How to Be Better at (Almost) Everything

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Pat Flynn -- fitness expert, libertarian, and entrepreneur -- joins me to discuss one of the vanishingly small number of books in personal development that gives you specific action items to improve yourself, as opposed to a ceaseless stream of fortune-cookie maxims. Chances are, your efforts at self-improvement are misdirected; Pat is truly where it's at.

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Show Notes for Ep. 1316

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 13116.

0:03.1

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0:07.9

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0:34.7

Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. Very glad to be talking to Pat Flynn today. I've been a guest on his

0:38.8

podcast, The Pat Flynn Show. That's how I really got to know him. And this is an impressive guy. He is a

0:45.2

hardcore Rothbardian libertarian. He's also a business and fitness coach. He actually, well,

0:51.9

we'll talk about his connection to Michael Malice, our favorite guest here on the Tom Wood Show.

0:57.5

A lot to say about Pat, but he's just everything he does he's good at, and it makes me crazy.

1:03.1

And in fact, that's exactly what we're going to be talking about today.

1:05.5

How can you be in that kind of a situation?

1:07.9

Because we're going to be talking about his brand new book, How to Be Better at Almost Everything. Fantastic book, linking to it on the show notes page,

1:16.3

tomwoods.com slash 1316. And I want to talk about it just because here we are at the beginning of

1:21.4

2019. A lot of people still making and thinking about and pursuing New Year's resolutions,

1:26.6

but sometimes fecklessly and haphazardly.

1:30.2

And this is one of the few – and I'm going to tell Pat, this is one of the few books in this genre that actually gives you specific, actionable things to do.

1:38.3

It's not just a series of fortune cookie fortunes or aphorisms from Benjamin Franklin's Almanac or anything like that.

1:45.6

It's actual, do this and you'll be more effective. Do that. Don't do this. Don't approach things like

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