Title: Tim Ferriss’s Advice on Starting a Business or Podcast

The Lesson: Have you been thinking about creating your own podcast so you can share your best qualities with the world? Well, here is a quick and comprehensive set of rules on how to get yourself started. From maneuvering the demands of an audience, to keeping your own creative needs at the forefront; these are the most basic rules on working in a career you love.

Notable Excerpt: “Firstly, it is easiest – and in my mind, much more fun – to create a category and own it, as opposed to trying to dominate an existing category with something that is incrementally better.”

The Host: Over the course of his career, Ferriss has become a one-time national Chinese kickboxing champion, a lecturer at Princeton University, a professional breakdancer on MTV, a horseback archer, and a multimillionaire author, motivational speaker, and investor. If that isn’t impressive enough, his critically-acclaimed podcast, the Tim Ferriss Show, was also voted #1 in its category on iTunes.

Podcast: The Tim Ferriss Show is available for free on Overcast, Stitcher, and iTunes.

(LISTEN to the talk below) – Photo credit: Patrick Breitenbach, CC

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