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okay so i love that idea of growing younger as you age there is no reason that we have to give up on innovation on learning on self-belief and naive belief that you can bring new things into the world he was doing that into his 50s 60s he was even doing original research into his 70s until the day he died when he was 81 years old so um I really like that.

okay so i love that idea of growing younger as you age there is no reason that we have to give up on innovation on learning on self-belief and naive belief that you can bring new things into the world he was doing that into his 50s 60s he was even doing original research into his 70s until the day he died when he was 81 years old so um I really like that.

I'm getting older every year biologically, but I hope that every year I'm getting younger in terms of my belief in the possibility of creating something new. And then number 10, my last takeaway, create something beautiful. You know, again, the pole vision is seen as a disaster because financially it was. But you know, more than anything, he just wanted to create beautiful things.

I'm getting older every year biologically, but I hope that every year I'm getting younger in terms of my belief in the possibility of creating something new. And then number 10, my last takeaway, create something beautiful. You know, again, the pole vision is seen as a disaster because financially it was. But you know, more than anything, he just wanted to create beautiful things.

He's got this great quote. I do not understand the divine source, but I know in a way I cannot understand that out of chaos, I can make order. Out of loneliness, I can make friendship. Out of ugliness, I can make beauty. And I think that's what his life was all about, was creating new connections, new products, new discoveries, but creating beauty in one way or another. One more thing.

He's got this great quote. I do not understand the divine source, but I know in a way I cannot understand that out of chaos, I can make order. Out of loneliness, I can make friendship. Out of ugliness, I can make beauty. And I think that's what his life was all about, was creating new connections, new products, new discoveries, but creating beauty in one way or another. One more thing.

I want to close with this quote. I think it's a great way to sum up what he was all about. All of our confidence has to come from making things. Let us not make more of something there is too much of. Let us find out what is desperately needed, although people may not know it. Let us find out what will beautify the world, although people may not know it.

I want to close with this quote. I think it's a great way to sum up what he was all about. All of our confidence has to come from making things. Let us not make more of something there is too much of. Let us find out what is desperately needed, although people may not know it. Let us find out what will beautify the world, although people may not know it.

Then let's learn and learn and teach ourselves and support each other in doing that until we lose ourselves in those tasks. Okay. Edwin Land, great man, great example, and just, he lived a beautiful life. And I'm so grateful to have been able to study him. Okay. I actually have a ton more takeaways and truly great quotes. He's a very quotable man.

Then let's learn and learn and teach ourselves and support each other in doing that until we lose ourselves in those tasks. Okay. Edwin Land, great man, great example, and just, he lived a beautiful life. And I'm so grateful to have been able to study him. Okay. I actually have a ton more takeaways and truly great quotes. He's a very quotable man.

There's some great stuff about his approach to innovation and experimentation. whether everyone is capable of genius or not, why passion leads to better science than cold rationality and more. I really love these takeaways. So I hope you will go to takeoverpod.supercast.com and sign up for the premium subscription. But if not, until next time, thank you for listening to How to Take Over the World.

There's some great stuff about his approach to innovation and experimentation. whether everyone is capable of genius or not, why passion leads to better science than cold rationality and more. I really love these takeaways. So I hope you will go to takeoverpod.supercast.com and sign up for the premium subscription. But if not, until next time, thank you for listening to How to Take Over the World.

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Hello and welcome to How to Take Over the World. This is Ben Wilson. Today we are talking about the great British captain and explorer James Cook. I think if I could trade places with anyone in history, James Cook is on the shortlist of people whose life that I most envy. What he was able to do just sounds so unbelievably fun and adventurous and exciting.

Hello and welcome to How to Take Over the World. This is Ben Wilson. Today we are talking about the great British captain and explorer James Cook. I think if I could trade places with anyone in history, James Cook is on the shortlist of people whose life that I most envy. What he was able to do just sounds so unbelievably fun and adventurous and exciting.

He's widely considered the greatest sea explorer of all time. He mapped the Pacific Ocean from Australia, New Zealand, up through the Polynesian Islands, all the way up to the west coast of the United States, Canada, and Alaska. Many of these islands were already known to Europeans, although many of them were not mapped. But even so, many others... were completely unknown to Europeans.

He's widely considered the greatest sea explorer of all time. He mapped the Pacific Ocean from Australia, New Zealand, up through the Polynesian Islands, all the way up to the west coast of the United States, Canada, and Alaska. Many of these islands were already known to Europeans, although many of them were not mapped. But even so, many others... were completely unknown to Europeans.