Angus Fletcher

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2,582 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard 8 Jul

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Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin · Angus Fletcher · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

We've got to figure out a school in which the purpose of the school is for you to figure out how to break the rules.

And so they created this entire school that does that and is amazing at it.

So it started in the 70s?

Yeah, Robin Sage started in the 70s.

I think technically Special Forces, I think it might have started in the 60s or maybe even the 50s.

But basically, it really starts to get going in terms of Robin Sage and all these special training programs.

Yeah.

And so they pulled me in.

And so what we started to do is we started to figure out how can we develop new training that...

uses all the wisdom and exactly the same structure in these schools where the instructors are reacting to the students and figuring out how to encourage the students to solve things their own way.

How can we start to take that and branch it and build more of it?

And we had a bunch of breakthroughs in which we realized that you could take that and not only use it for special forces, but take it into actual schools.

And so one of the first things we did after the Army gave me clearance is we went into a group of third graders, because third grade, it turns out, is where creativity starts to die.

We went in and we started training all those third graders to act like special operators and helping them activate their intuition, helping them activate their imagination.

One of the simple things is that every person that you encounter is unique, but all of us are in a rush to judge that person and put them in a category.

And so we want to kind of assign a label to them.

This is how computers think, this is how demographics works.

And as soon as you put a label on something, you limit all the other possibilities.

That's right.

You've really replaced possibilities with a probability because you're basically saying, well, this person is probably going to act like all the other people who fit in this label, who are like this type.

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