Robert Greene
speaker
1,078 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 26 May
Robert Greene’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Things on the margins, stories, everything broken up, images, quotes here and there.
It's kind of how my brain is, a hodgepodge, kind of a mess, really.
And the publishers, they bought the book, but then they came back to us and they said, Robert, can you kind of maybe make this more like other books?
Can you get rid of all those sections and everything?
And I said, no, take it or leave it.
This is the book as it is.
It's odd.
It's strange.
They didn't like that because if it doesn't fit into all the other books that have had successful, it's too big of a risk.
If this movie isn't like the movies that were made last year, who knows we'll go see it.
People are so conservative.
But because it was odd, it stood out and it was successful.
If I had succumbed and I compromised and made it more like other books, I wouldn't be here talking to you.
So sometimes you need a little bit of cojones, you need a little bit of courage, you need to stand up and say, I'm okay being different.
You know, you have to get out of this way of thinking that so many people have, which everything has to be simple and linear, and I'm headed in this direction, there's got to be a solution, like I'm hacking my way to the truth.
Life doesn't work that way.
Life is very complex.
So 50...
he um he did his first album called power of the dollar and it's absolutely fantastic but right before it was to be launched he got shot and the producers dropped him on the prod dropped his the album they didn't release it and they dropped him from columbia records it's too dangerous
And so he was thinking, you know, that failure, instead of it had been a big hit, would have gone to his head.
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