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Anthony Scaramucci

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It's the June Q&A on Open Book, and you came at me with everything this month: aliens, whether there's a reckoning coming when Trump's term ends, and the honest reason it took me so long to break from him. I'm dodging none of it, plus I'm handing you a summer's worth of book recommendations. Keep the questions coming in the comments. Thank you to Joana and Big Chorux 2.0 🥷 from X for asking questions. Timestamps 0:00 June 2026 Open Book Q&A Introduction 0:45 Is there going to be a reckoning in US politics when the Trump term ends? 2:07 If you were going to grad school again today, would you still go to law school? If not, why not? 3:52 Any recommendations for resources (books, podcasts, blogs, whatever) appropriate for an early high school level (like 9th grade) on how markets really work? 5:11 X Joana Which books would you recommend a 12-year-old boy who’s an advanced reader with an interest in history and fantasy/adventure? 6:00 What’s the honest reason it took you that long to see what you now say so confidently, and what do you think current Trump-aligned officials are rationalizing right now that you used to? 8:23 What are your thoughts on the NY Democratic primary results? 9:08 I want to read more, but struggle with time. What’s a short, punchy book you would recommend? 10:04 Do you believe (as I do) that those three goals are compatible with the Democratic Socialist wave we just witnessed in the NYC primaries? 11:13 My question to you is: how can we encourage others on both sides to drop the dogma and the pitchforks, put our heads together, and think critically about these issues? 12:42 Do you have any advice for a young person looking to make a positive contribution to our democracy? 13:34 What are some practical ways for American citizens to reclaim it in a constructive way? 14:30 Who is a famous entrepreneur who you would like to see run for President? 15:32 Many leading members of the financial community have a genuine and deeply-held engagement with art. Do you collect, and do you have a favorite artist or art movement? 16:51 X Big Chorux 2.0 🥷 What's one thing you wish you knew at 20? 17:40 Which books provide the best overview of U.S. financial history, especially the role of bank bailouts and private equity in shaping the modern economy? 18:20 What is the best advice you give your kids about politics? 19:05 Has a book ever changed your opinion on an issue? If so, what was it? 20:03 Do you believe aliens are among us? 21:14 What is your best takeaway and your greatest regret from your early career days? 22:08 What are some book recommendations you can offer?

Anthony Scaramucci

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"You can either produce excellence or you can avoid criticism. But you cannot do both of those. The reason that you don't have certain excellence that you want is because you are afraid of getting criticized. You are afraid of the judgment that comes with it. You are afraid of standing out. You are afraid of being alone. You are afraid of people looking at you. You are worried about what people think of you. There are 2 categories of things in this world: 1) Things that are up to you 2) Things that are not up to you Which category does your reputation sit in? Your reputation is not up to you. I'm the one who associates your reputation with something, not you. You just do things. What's up to you? How you act. Your decisions. Your actions. That is up to you. Your reputation is not up to you. Here's how I know that: You all have a reputation about me and it's not in my control. I get to say and do whatever I say and do up here. I am in control of saying it. I am in control of doing it. The moment words leave my lips, who has control over what is done with those words? You! You are in control of what you think of me. And there's no way everybody in this room is going to think the exact same thing about me. No way. When it comes to exceptional, what we've got to understand is you can spend your whole life trying to avoid criticism and earn reputation, and it still won't be in your control. We can waste a lot of time missing out on excellence we could have been producing if we were just simply LESS trying to engineer what we wanted other people to think about us."

Brian Kight

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Jordan Peterson: "If you can't fix your room, you can't fix your life" "Why should you even bother improving yourself? The answer is something like: so you don't suffer anymore stupidly than you have to. And maybe so others don't have to either. It's not some casual self-help doctrine. If you don't organize yourself properly, you'll pay for it. In a big way. And so will the people around you." Peterson continues: "You can say, 'Well, I don't care about that.' But that's actually not true, you do care about it. Because if you're in pain, you will care about it. It's very rare that you can find someone in excruciating pain who would say, 'Well, it would be no better if I was out of this.' Pain brings the idea that it would be better if it didn't exist along with it. It's incontrovertible." On how to start: "Look around for something that bothers you and see if you can fix it. You can do this in a room. Sit in your bedroom and think: 'If I wanted to spend ten minutes making this room better, what would I have to do?' You have to ask yourself that, it's a genuine question. And things will pop out. There's a stack of papers bugging you. Some rubbish behind your computer monitor you haven't attended to for six months. Cables tangled up." He explains why this matters: "If you were coming to see me for psychotherapy, the easiest thing would be to get you to organize your room. You think, is that psychotherapy? It depends on how you conceive the limits of your being. Start where you can start. If something announces itself as in need of repair that you could repair, fix it. Fix a hundred things like that, your life will be a lot different." On fixing what you repeat every day: "People tend to think of their daily routines as trivial. You get up, brush your teeth, have breakfast. Those probably constitute 50% of your life. People think, they're mundane, I don't need to pay attention to them. No, that's exactly wrong. The things you do every day are the most important things you do. Hands down. Just do the arithmetic." On staying within your competence: "Sometimes you don't know how to fix something. Imagine you're walking down the street and there's a guy who's alcoholic and schizophrenic and has been homeless for ten years. That's a problem. It would be good if you could fix it, but you haven't got a clue. You walk around that and go find something you could fix. Just because something announces itself as in need of repair doesn't mean it's you, right then and there, who should repair it. You have to have some humility. You don't walk up to a helicopter that isn't working and just start tinkering away." Peterson shares the key insight: "As soon as you give your mind a genuine aim, it'll reconfigure the world in keeping with that aim. That's actually how you see to begin with. You've all seen the video where you watch basketballs being tossed back and forth, and while you're doing that, a gorilla walks into the middle of the video and you don't see it. If you thought about that experiment for five years, that would be about the right amount of time to spend thinking about it." He explains what it reveals: "What it shows you is that you see what you aim at. If you can get one thing through your head, that would be a good one. You see what you aim at. One inference you might draw from that is: be careful what you aim at. What you aim at determines the way the world manifests itself to you. So if the world is manifesting itself in a very negative way, one thing to ask is: are you aiming at the right thing?"

Jaynit

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Conor Neill: "18 years of school trained you to ruin conversations" "You finish your pitch and the customer says, 'Your product is too expensive!' You arrive home a few minutes late, your partner says, 'You are always late.' There's a dirty plate left on the table 'You never wash the dishes.' What do you say in this moment?" Neill explains the problem: "Most of you, me included, went through 14 years of school where we were taught one way to respond to questions. Teacher asks, 'How do you spell cats?' Student: 'C-A-T.' Teacher asks, 'What is osmosis?' Student explains in detail. For 14 years, you've been taught to give answers to questions. If you went to university, you probably had another 3 or 4 years of giving answers to questions." Here's what that does to you: "In real life in persuasion, in getting to what the other person is really about, what their needs really are, the worst thing you can do is give an answer to a question." He gives examples: "If someone says, 'Your product is too expensive,' and you say, 'No it's not! It's only €1,000'; you've lost every chance to understand what else is behind their reasoning. If you get home and your partner says, 'You're always late!' and you say, 'No, no, no, Tuesday I was definitely here on time', you're gonna have a crap weekend." Neill explains why this happens: "When your partner says, 'You're always late,' emotion goes up. And what happens? The thinking part disconnects. The way to make someone stupider is to insult them, object to them, tell them they are wrong. When you're asked a question, there's an emotional reaction, and the higher emotion goes, the lower thinking goes." He continues: "If you don't practice this response, you're not going to be able to do it in the moment. If you don't practice repeatedly how you'll respond to 'You're always late,' 'You never wash the dishes,' 'Your product is too expensive,' 'Your competitor is better,' 'You failed us 3 years ago,' 'I don't trust your company', you're not going to be able to do it in the heat of the moment." Here's what to do instead: "When you are asked a question or given an objection, I want you to say: 'I understand.' And repeat in your words what they're saying. Then give an open question back." He demonstrates: "'Your product is too expensive!' → 'I understand that money is an important factor for you. What other criteria will be used in making this decision?'" Neill calls this "Conversation Aikido": "Martial arts are about using the energy and force of the opponent against them. In Judo, if someone punches you, you pull their arm and allow the energy to keep flowing. In Aikido, the concept is you go toward the punch. You go toward the energy. If someone punches you, if someone asks you a question, if someone objects, the Aikido method is to go toward them and see the world from their view." He explains how to practice: "'You're always late!' → 'I understand you feel frustrated.' 'I understand you feel let down.' You'll have to work on this quite a few times over the next 10 years to find the set of words that captures what the other person feels, what's behind it. Then ask: 'What can we do now?' 'What happened during the day?' 'What would you like to talk about?'" Neill shares what happens when you don't do this: "When a client says 'You're too expensive' and you say 'No, we're not!' you learn nothing about who else they're considering, what other criteria are important, what process they've gone through, who else is involved in the decision." He closes with a guarantee: "By giving the answer, we shut down the possibility of hearing what's really going on in the other person's mind. But if you say 'I understand,' accept the energy coming from the other person, and give back an open question, I guarantee that if you do it 4 times, the answer to your 4th open question begins to be the real underlying need, issue, or interest of the person you're listening to."

Peak Thinkers

194,589 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад

This is Zambia’s current president, Hakainde Hichilema, when he was an opposition leader up against former president Edgar Lungu. He was being chased from a radio station by members of former President Lungu’s party, PF. He had to use the roof to escape. Now I have some questions for Zimbabwe’s opposition politicians. What is your role in society? What do you think you should be doing? What do you believe your role is when the media exposes corruption? What do you think your responsibility is when you find out that billions have been stolen? Do you think your role is to fight in all available spaces, as Hichilema did, or is it to post selfies and remind us how good you will be once in power? Should your timelines read like those of motivational speakers or of opposition politicians? Do you think it is normal that people are building on top of railway lines while key opposition players remain silent? What are you there for, then? Do you think your role is simply to appear during election time, ask for votes, and then disappear into hibernation until the next election? Do you think you have a role to play in mobilising resources in the constituencies where you were voted into power, or do you believe your role is to say one or two things over a five-year period in Parliament while collecting your cars and other trinkets on offer? I want every opposition politician to ask themselves this question; are you there because you should be there and have the competence, or, like Mnangagwa, are you merely a product of unfortunate historical circumstances? Do you have leadership qualities? Do you ever ask yourselves this central question: “Am I a real leader, or am I just there?” To the Zimbabwean populace, my question is very simple: do you understand the role of the opposition in politics? Is it true, as Dr Solomon Guramatunhu once said, that our leaders are a reflection of the communities they come from? If a journalist can mobilise money to bury opposition victims of state brutality, fundraise for your election campaign, bring goods worth millions into hospitals, and expose corruption and more, what stops you, as a leader, from doing that and even more? Should we just vote for you simply because we do not like ZANUPF? It seems there is nothing else on offer beyond that. How can leaders who claim to have millions of supporters fail to address those millions on meaningful issues, like Hakainde Hichilema did? With that level of opposition support, what stops you from declaring that you will ensure every child has books, and using your star power to fundraise so that the suffering who support you can see you are indeed a leader? I hope this is a small way of starting a big conversation that leads somewhere. We are now in a situation where citizens are looking for salvation from Blessing Geza, a ZANUPF factional leader, who is doing what real opposition leaders should be doing. Does that not embarrass opposition politicians? Until when will you keep using lame excuses to justify failed leadership? To the youths, I say; in the absence of real leadership to turn around your fortunes, get a passport and go. You will not be the first to do it, and you will not be the last either. Donald Trump’s grandfather, Friedrich Trump, left Germany for America. His mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, left Scotland in 1930 for America, they were all looking for better opportunities in life. That is how nations evolve, go to places that offer you better opportunities in order to be able to fight another day. I left Zimbabwe when I was 23 years old. Today, I can live in any country I want because moving to Britain gave me the necessary foundation and economic strength to live as I do now. If we are in times where there is zero capable leadership, both in the opposition and in ZANUPF, do not sacrifice your future by sitting and rotting away doing nothing. You can’t spend your life defending politicians who have failed you dismally! It is madness!

Hopewell Chin’ono

77,416 просмотров • 1 год назад

School spent 18 years teaching you a reflex that destroys real conversations. Conor Neill puts it plainly: "You finish your pitch and the customer says, 'Your product is too expensive!' You arrive home a few minutes late, your partner says, 'You are always late.' There's a dirty plate left on the table 'You never wash the dishes.' What do you say in this moment?" Here's the trap Neill identifies: "Most of you, me included, went through 14 years of school where we were taught one way to respond to questions. Teacher asks, 'How do you spell cats?' Student: 'C-A-T.' Teacher asks, 'What is osmosis?' Student explains in detail. For 14 years, you've been taught to give answers to questions. If you went to university, you probably had another 3 or 4 years of giving answers to questions." And that conditioning costs you: "In real life in persuasion, in getting to what the other person is really about, what their needs really are, the worst thing you can do is give an answer to a question." Watch what happens when you answer: "If someone says, 'Your product is too expensive,' and you say, 'No it's not! It's only €1,000'; you've lost every chance to understand what else is behind their reasoning. If you get home and your partner says, 'You're always late!' and you say, 'No, no, no, Tuesday I was definitely here on time', you're gonna have a crap weekend." Why does the brain default to this? "When your partner says, 'You're always late,' emotion goes up. And what happens? The thinking part disconnects. The way to make someone stupider is to insult them, object to them, tell them they are wrong. When you're asked a question, there's an emotional reaction, and the higher emotion goes, the lower thinking goes." And it won't fix itself without work: "If you don't practice this response, you're not going to be able to do it in the moment. If you don't practice repeatedly how you'll respond to 'You're always late,' 'You never wash the dishes,' 'Your product is too expensive,' 'Your competitor is better,' 'You failed us 3 years ago,' 'I don't trust your company', you're not going to be able to do it in the heat of the moment." The alternative Neill teaches: "When you are asked a question or given an objection, I want you to say: 'I understand.' And repeat in your words what they're saying. Then give an open question back." In practice: "'Your product is too expensive!' → 'I understand that money is an important factor for you. What other criteria will be used in making this decision?'" He calls this Conversation Aikido: "Martial arts are about using the energy and force of the opponent against them. In Judo, if someone punches you, you pull their arm and allow the energy to keep flowing. In Aikido, the concept is you go toward the punch. You go toward the energy. If someone punches you, if someone asks you a question, if someone objects, the Aikido method is to go toward them and see the world from their view." For the harder personal moments: "'You're always late!' → 'I understand you feel frustrated.' 'I understand you feel let down.' You'll have to work on this quite a few times over the next 10 years to find the set of words that captures what the other person feels, what's behind it. Then ask: 'What can we do now?' 'What happened during the day?' 'What would you like to talk about?'" By defending, you go blind: "When a client says 'You're too expensive' and you say 'No, we're not!' you learn nothing about who else they're considering, what other criteria are important, what process they've gone through, who else is involved in the decision." Neill's guarantee: "By giving the answer, we shut down the possibility of hearing what's really going on in the other person's mind. But if you say 'I understand,' accept the energy coming from the other person, and give back an open question, I guarantee that if you do it 4 times, the answer to your 4th open question begins to be the real underlying need, issue, or interest of the person you're listening to."

GeniusThinking

320,307 просмотров • 15 дней назад

WOW: Fox's Martha MacCallum absolutely destroyed Democrat Ro Khanna over the left's new talking point that Donald Trump is a war criminal and thus no worse than Iran "I would ask you aware of the war crime is and whether or not you think that Iran has been guilty of war crimes killing almost 40,000 of their own people and gunning them down in the street?" "We've all been watching president trump for a long time. Is that really what you see here or do you see this as a way to get Iran to open up the Strait, come to negotiations and hopefully to have new leadership that won't oppress its people, new leadership that will make children and women line up around energy sites which is a Geneva convention violation? You know, I think we need to look at the history of the way that President Trump negotiates these things and to see that, you know, unless you are very clear and you have a serious, you know, stick that you are holding over this situation, you're not likely to get anywhere." "What do we have to do? What do you recommend?" "I've spoken with a lot of Iranian activists who want this. I think they understand what -- they want -- I think understand what -- I don't anyone's talking about [killing] 91 million people" "What do you suggest?" "This is a leadership that has killed 1,500 American soldiers, maimed 4,500. They have through proxy, carried off October 7, the Beirut Marine barracks bombings. At what point --- so, you really think they will suddenly decide to give these things up if they are not threatened with actual consequences?" "It's been four weeks. It's been four weeks." "So, don't ever stand up and -- and fight against what you just called an evil regime? What --- what do you suggest? Because we've had 47 years of weakness on this front. 47 years of weakness." "How has [diplomacy] worked so far? How has that worked so far? How was it working?" "I'll tell you what I believe. I believe they are already killed 1,500 of our American soldiers. They maimed 4,500. They killed 200 in a Marine barracks in Lebanon. I don't need any more evidence that they want to threaten. They also march in the streets and say death to America. What more evidence do you need?" "I -- I can answer your question. I can easily answer your question. We know who tried to actually wipe out entire populations in World War II. We know the kind of backbone and spine that it took on the part of the United States of America to and that tyranny, but what I'm seeing is someone standing up. I am kind of surprised actually that people -- that you don't get how the language works with the President." "But -- but you're more concerned about language than the outcome?" "You like the language of President Biden on this, of President Obama who tried to make deals, who had negotiations and nothing changed. Nothing changed as a result and you talk to Iranian people in this country who want to thave the regime overthrown." "And gave $30 million that went into the weapons chest of Iran. 30 billion. 30 billion, excuse me...and that worked out well, right?" "Do you care about the 40,000 killed in the street by this regime? What does calling it out do?" "They did all that [diplomacy] and then they killed 40,000." "We've had four weeks of this versus 47 years of what has not worked so far and I appreciate the fact that you don't like the language around it. We're going to watch actual action and see what happens -- see what the outcome is."

Curtis Houck

151,573 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад