José Andrés
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first heard May 2025
last heard 11 Feb
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So it's good that you're not a good businessman and that you surround yourself with good businessmen because that's all you need. Good businessmen that you can trust and then you concentrate on what you do best. That's the perfect marriage. You know that...
I'm 55. I'm about to become 56 in July, July 13th. I was born in 69. And I realized, not only as a chef, but as a person, as a man, as a father, as a husband, all the different labels we all have. It's always that the more you know, the more you realize you know nothing. Right. In the old days, I would be 23. Yeah, I know, I know, I know, I know. Now it's like, I don't know, tell me.
And even if I know something in a conversation, I used to tell, do you know about this? I don't. Why? Because... I want to listen because I want to learn. I realized that me living home fairly early and not going to university and not even beginning first year of high school, I was out. I didn't even graduate on the first year. That one of the things I needed was...
receive education, but not in the traditional way. The traditional way was not for me. Just being there eight hours a day listening to All the hundred kings we have in Spain growing up, you know, like, why I need to know? And listen, and I respect kings, and I love the king of Spain. I think he's a great man, a great human being. It has nothing to do with that.
It's only I didn't want to know about the other 200 kings we had in Spain in this history. It's not what I was interested. I was interested in knowing what they did that was amazing, but not knowing about their names and their last names. I didn't care about that. So I needed to find ways for me to. Just to learn. So that's why for me, I realized the more I know, the more I know nothing.
And I'm in this moment, I'm 55, that I'm just eager to learn. I want to know more. I want to learn more. I'm talking now, but I want to listen more. I only want to be a better person by learning.
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And when you're young, you think you know everything. And as you get older, there's a quote by I think it's Dennis McKenna said this, that as this as the bonfire of enlightenment grows, the surface area of ignorance is exposed. So the more you learn, the more you realize there's so much you don't know. Whereas as you're young, you think, ah, fucking, I figured it all out.
And then as you get older, you're like, there's so much I don't know. Not only that, there's no way I can know everything. It's not possible. That's why fools argue about things that they don't know. Instead of just going, what is that? How does that work? Instead of actually being genuinely curious, fools like to try to pretend that they know more than they know.
It's not possible to breathe underwater. Don't pretend you can. It's not possible to know everything. You just can't. There's going to be people that know things that you don't know. Celebrate that. Enjoy it.
I think that's one of the best things that's ever happened to me through this podcast is I get to talk to so many different people that have lived so many different lives and have so many different passions and so many different interests and so many different things that they've studied. It's an amazing education. But I was a lot like you. I did not want to sit in school.
Whatever ADHD is, I have it. You know, whatever the fuck it is. I'm raising my hand. I got it.
I mean, like sometimes when I have people, oh, my son has this. I'm like, what? Your son is an amazing human, smart individual. Yeah. And I feel like I connect with him because I think we are alike. So I raise my hand.
I am that too. I subscribe to the idea that ADHD is a superpower. I really do. Because I think the people that can't focus on nonsense, generally speaking, they can focus on things they love. Really focus. They get really excited about certain things. But everything else they can't be bothered with. Like when I was a kid, I remember being in math class and checking out.
Because I said, wait a minute, can I do this on a calculator? Yes. There are calculators, right? And there's an unlimited supply of batteries, right? They said yes. I'm like, I'm out. I'm out. I'm not going to think about math now because this is not something I'm interested in. If I can do all this math on a calculator, why do I need to learn how to do it? Obviously, that's a dumb way to think.
I was 13. But I remember thinking that at 13 years old. I'm out. I'm not going to think about this anymore. I'm just going to use a calculator. This is so stupid. Just give me the result. Yeah. I don't need to know how you made all those numbers work. I know it's real. Okay, that's great. I'm interested in other things. But the thing is... School was designed to make good factory workers.
That's what school was designed for. The American school system, at least, was designed by the Rockefellers. And what they're essentially doing is preparing people to be cogs in a wheel.
They're preparing people to just show up and do what you're told and live this life of quiet desperation and just sit there and absorb whatever they tell you to because you're gonna have to go and work and do something you don't wanna do all day long and show up and do it again until your body stops working and you die.
I don't know if I will 100% agree with that statement in the sense of this was created by design.
I think... Well, the school system in America, it certainly was created by design. Yeah, but... The idea of sitting people down, especially young kids, for eight hours a day is a ridiculous idea.
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