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Founders: Jay Z's Autobiography

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What I learned from reading Decoded by Jay Z. ---- Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes ---- (1:39) I would practice from the time I woke in the morning until I went to sleep (2:10) Even back then I though I was the best. (2:57) Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography (Founders #219) (4:32) Belief becomes before ability. (5:06) Michael Jordan: The Life (Founders #212) (5:46) The public praises people for what they practice in private. (7:28) Lock yourself in a room doing five beats a day for three summers. (7:50) Sam Walton: Made In America (Founders #234) (9:50) He was disappointed in the world, so he built one of his own — from Steven Spielberg: A Biography (Founders #209) (12:47) The Pmarca Blog Archive Ebook by Marc Andreessen (Founders #50) (13:35) I'm not gonna say that I thought I could get rich from rap, but I could clearly see that it was gonna get bigger before it went away. Way bigger. (21:10) Over 20 years into his career and dude ain’t changed. He’s got his own vibe. You gotta love him for that. (Rick Rubin) (21:41) Against The Odds: An Autobiography by James Dyson (Founders #200) (25:27) I believe you can speak things into ex

[00:00:00] I made this episode about two years ago and I wanted to repost it in case you missed it the first time because it's one of my favorite episodes that I've ever made and because I'm currently working on another new episode that's going to be about Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant and there's actually a great Michael Jordan story in this episode about when Jay-Z had dinner with Michael. There's also a reference to my daily practice, something else I learned from both Jay-Z and Michael Jordan, but there's a reference in this episode about my daily practice, something else I learned from…

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