Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Why is the underdog that succeeds so universally enjoyable?

I'd love you to evaluate my distillation of great story.

Ask you what's missing in the elements that, as I thought, I know you were coming to see me.

So I was thinking about this a lot and I was trying to give myself only three common traits or something just to keep it simple.

And the things I came up with were originality, which we talked a little bit about in terms of dominant worldview versus how you think the world should be, hardship, and ultimately transformation.

As I think about my favorite stories, or if I think about the own best versions of my story that I've lived because I know it intimately,

Those three elements have been present and or dominant in what I view as great stories.

Where do you agree and disagree with those elements?

I'm curious.

Maybe to redefine originality, then maybe originality is the wrong word.

And instead, it's like a novel revelation of some constant truth or something like that, like a new way to show people an old thing.

And so what about transformation?

What have you learned about status and the role that status plays in human behavior?

And yeah, just more broadly, I know this is a topic that you've thought a lot about.

Teach us about status a bit.

How do you define it?

What is it?

What about just on like the very basic level of the thing you're doing and why?

What have you learned from each of those guys?

Both very talented.