Understanding Viruses and Finding Geniuses with Richard Jacobs
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
"At first, it was like trying to drink from a firehose of knowledge…but I kept doing it, and getting better at it…" says Richard Jacobs, as he explains his experience in creating what's now known as the Finding Genius Podcast.
Tune in for all of Jacobs' insights, and discover:
- What it took to co-author a book on viruses alongside 30 virologists and researchers
- How and why an auto accident compelled Jacobs to investigate medicine, health, and bioscience
- How to identify a real 'genius' in their area of expertise
- The topic of the next book in the Finding Genius pipeline
- The difference between people who are "splitters" vs. "clumpers"
Since 2016, Jacobs has interviewed nearly 3,000 genius-level researchers, practitioners, scientists, and entrepreneurs on various topics, ranging from cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence to sleep science and chronic diseases.
Through this process emerged Finding Genius: Understanding Viruses, a compilation of 100 unique insights about viruses from researchers and virologists who answer some of the toughest questions that can be asked.
One of Jacobs' biggest takeaways from his work thus far is this:
"If you want to solve the big, incredibly difficult problems, at the very least you've got to get together a consortium of people in the field and really go interdisciplinary…science and knowledge in general…needs to utilize the great minds that are working on a given problem to really solve it."
Learn more about Richard Jacobs and the Finding Genius Foundation here: https://www.findinggeniusfoundation.org/.
Episode also available on Apple Podcast: http://apple.co/30PvU9C
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Evolution 2.0 Podcast where we explore the intersection of art, technology, |
| 0:09.4 | business, biology, and spirituality. |
| 0:12.6 | Here you'll discover new trends in evolution that are changing the way we think about everything. |
| 0:18.1 | This is your host, Perry Marshall, author of Evolution 2.0, 8020 Sales in Marketing, and |
| 0:23.2 | guides to Ethernet, Google, and Facebook. |
| 0:25.9 | I'm founder of the Evolution 2.0 prize, a quest for the missing link between earth science, |
| 0:31.0 | the information age, and life itself. |
| 0:34.3 | Let's join the conversation now. |
| 0:38.5 | This is Perry Marshall. |
| 0:39.5 | I am here with a very interesting special guest, Rich Jacobs, and he wrote a book called |
| 0:46.2 | Finding Genius, Understanding Viruses, 30 questions, 25 geniuses, 100 amazing insights, |
| 0:55.0 | and I've known Rich for a very long time because our relationship started out as him being |
| 1:01.9 | a client, and then he went down the rabbit hole of science and started a, well, I don't |
| 1:11.4 | even know if it was science at first, but he started a podcast where he was interviewing |
| 1:18.8 | early on. |
| 1:19.8 | He had a lot of cryptocurrency guys, and then one thing led to another, and he was going |
| 1:25.4 | down science rabbit holes, I think, in part inspired by Evolution 2.0. |
| 1:32.1 | He started getting into this group. |
| 1:33.9 | Now, I know a few rare people who like read a book every day will Rich almost like interviews |
| 1:40.9 | a podcast person every day. |
| 1:43.5 | Not too many people who do that, and he's got this podcast called Finding Genius, and he's |
| 1:48.2 | interviewed a lot, like a lot, a lot of geniuses. |
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