Episode Details

Finding Your Peak of Productivity: Ultraworking with Sebastian Marshall

Published 3 years, 11 months ago

Topics:

(1:46) - Who are your heroes?

(7:25) - Sebastian’s affinity for studying history, sports, art & professional gamers

(11:30) - How do you take lessons learned from these studies and apply them to entrepreneurship?

(13:01) - Why do you approach life and work with a lens of ruthless optimization?

(18:12) - Breaking down the concept of ‘productivity’

(26:56) - Non-value producing work

(28:11) - Do you find that you have a higher sense of baseline after experimenting with

optimizing your entire life?

(34:25) - Maximum sustainable pace vs. Maximum possible pace

(39:44) - Optimizing for fun

(44:34) - Can you expand on the growth of Ultraworking?

(50:04) - Improving scope-to-quality of work

(55:36) - Sebastian’s period of life attempting to visit every country in the world

(1:00:59) - Sebastian’s writing eras and how they changed him

(1:14:40) - Agree or disagree: Self-measurement is self-punishment

(1:19:51) - Monthly themes for life

(1:22:45) - What is the mental model you find yourself implementing in your life the most?

Links:

Ultraworking

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