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

And to go back, you have to start trusting yourself over trusting the system.

You have to stop looking at what you're being told and instead be like, no, but actually based on my own primary experience, this is how my brain works.

It's interesting that the government is teaching people that.

Yes.

Well, the paradox of our government and the paradox of the United States Army is it's going in both directions at the same time.

I mean, it's incredibly systems driven, but at the core of both the army and I think the US government is the realization that we can only survive with the individual.

And so almost out of self-preservation, they're constantly going back and recycling that.

Because war to win requires you to unleash ingenuity.

So as much as the army always wants to program soldiers, it has to create space for individuals.

When people read the book, they'll see Vincent van Gogh and Einstein and Clausewitz and all these kinds of things are in there.

Those are actually not the evidence for any of the claims that I'm making.

I mean, the evidence- They're examples.

They're examples, yeah.

Well, that's what I hope, yeah.

But I don't want people to think that I'm an expert in Einstein or an expert in Marie Curie or anything like that.

All these theories are basically built out of my understanding of the brain and special forces.

But what I started to do is I started to say to myself, I got into this project because I realized that Shakespeare was really powerful.

I bet if I start paying close attention

to other folks who have really read Shakespeare, that I'm going to start to find all these really interesting examples.

And it turned out, in fact, that was what happened, is that all these folks had read Shakespeare, they'd had their intuition and imagination strengthened.

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