137 P.T. Barnum — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2020-07-26
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“He winds up building, uh, this is even before the Jenny Lind thing, but he winds up building this, this, one of…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: product.
Focus
“He's always focused on, like, the second-order effect.”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: focus.
People
“I d- I cannot get over the, the people, the historical people that Barnum interacted with, and they go buffalo hunting together…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: people.
Persistence
“And now he's gonna, he's gonna go through years, years of struggle after this.”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: persistence.
Capital
“Um, and so like I said before in the, in the Pulitzer, uh, podcast, um, newspapers in this time in history, like…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: capital.
A BIPU connection
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Source and attribution
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