#693: In Case You Missed It: August 2023 Recap of "The Tim Ferriss Show"

Tim Ferriss (0:00)

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Hello, boys and girls, this is Tim Ferris. Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, where it is my job to deconstruct world-class performers of all different types, to tease out the routines, habits and so on that you can apply to your own life. This is a special in-between episode, which serves as a recap of the episodes from the last month. Features a short clip from each conversation in one place, so you can jump around, get a feel for both the episode and the guest, and then you can always dig deeper by going to one of those episodes. View this episode as a buffet to whet your appetite. It's a lot of fun, we had fun putting it together, and for the full list of the guests featured today, see the episode's description, probably right below wherever you press play in your podcast app, or as usual, you can head to tim.blog slash podcast and find all the details there. Please enjoy.

SPEAKER_3 (2:57)

First up, Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder and CEO of Asana and co-founder of Facebook.

Tim Ferriss (3:08)

How have you worked with Diana who's great, spent a decent amount, not as much as you have, but a decent amount of time with her. She is one of a kind and very, very good at what she does.

How have you worked with her, if you're open to discussing it to whatever extent, one-on-one, what does the format look like or what were you hoping to accomplish in working with her? Were you working with her mostly because you were basically test driving language and shared concepts that you hoped to put into Asana? Was it mostly individual in the beginning and out of personal interest?

Dustin Moskovitz (3:42)

Yeah, it's interesting. It's changed over time. I don't have a one-on-one coaching relationship with her at the moment, but a lot of it, when I first started, I was a total novice on the commitments and I had a lot of stories I was holding tightly and they were impacting my energy because I believed them.

And she really helped me a lot with that. Part of the reason I don't work with her anymore is like, I kind of know what she's going to say every time. And so I'll do the back and forth on my own.

Tim Ferriss (4:10)

Are you open to, and if not, that's okay, and it could be a hypothetical, but sharing a story that you held tightly?

Dustin Moskovitz (4:16)

Sure.

Tim Ferriss (4:17)

And I think that would be useful.

Dustin Moskovitz (4:19)

Yeah, I mean, I think the one that has been most difficult for me and I think is maybe universal for entrepreneurs in general is just this sense of huge responsibility to keep going and endure and persevere and do well by your employees and this sort of thing.