#046 Finding Your Peak of Productivity: Ultraworking with Sebastian Marshall

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 Sebastian Marshall on Medium   The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt   Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon by B. H. Lidell Hart   On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle   You and Your Research by Richard Hamming   Stedi Annual Letter - Operational excellence   Gateless by Sebastian Marshall   Extreme Productivity by Robert Pozen   Product Hunt   Clockwork Nutrition   To support the costs of producing this podcast:  >> Buy a copy of the Navalmanak: www.navalmanack.com/  >> Sign up for my online course and community about building your Personal Leverage: https://www.ejorgenson.com/leverage  >> Invest in early-stage companies alongside Eric and his partners at Rolling Fun: https://angel.co/v/back/rolling-fun >> Join the free weekly email list at ejorgenson.com/newsletter >> Text the podcast to a friend >> Give the podcast a positive review to help us reach new listeners  >> Name-your-price subscription monthly, annual, or one-time: https://app.omella.com/o/9Bufa  >> Follow me on Twitter: @ericjorgenson >> Get in touch about sponsoring this podcast by replying to an email or DMing me on Twitter.

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