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Founders: #357 Haruki Murakami

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What I learned from reading What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir by Haruki Murakami. ---- Founders Notes gives you the superpower to learn from history's greatest entrepreneurs on demand. You can search all my notes and highlights from every book I've ever read for the podcast. Get access to Founders Notes here. ---- Build relationships with other founders, investors, and executives at a Founders Event ---- (3:01) No matter how mundane some action might appear, keep at it long enough and it becomes a contemplative, even meditative act. (4:00) Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. (4:00) The hurt part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself. (10:00) You can't fake passion — someone else, that really loves the job, will out run you. Somebody else sitting in some other MBA program has a deep passion for whatever career path you're going down, and they are going to smoke you if you don't have it yourself. — Runnin' Down a Dream: How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love (12:00) What’s crucial is whether your writing attains the standards you’ve set for yourself. Failure to reach that bar is not something

[00:00] A: The episode you're about to hear is about obsession. It takes Hiruki Murakami over 30 years to find his two obsessions, which is writing, novels and running. But once he finds them and dedicates his life to them, he discovers a lot of useful ideas that you and I can use in our work. And that is what his autobiography, that is what this book is about. One of my obsessions has been making this podcast so I can collect and distill the knowledge of history's greatest entrepreneurs. And I made a tool to make sure that I never forget these lessons and I can pull them up on demand when I…

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