What I learned from reading What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir by Haruki Murakami.
The episode you're about to hear is about obsession.
It takes Haruki Murakami over 30 years to find his two obsessions, which is writing novels and running.
But once he finds them and dedicates his life to them, he discovers a lot of useful ideas that you and I can use in our work.
And that is what his autobiography, that is what this book is about.
One of my obsessions has been making this podcast so I can collect and distill the knowledge of history's greatest entrepreneurs.
And I made a tool to make sure that I never forget these lessons and I can pull them up on demand when I need them.
That tool is founders notes, and you can now get access to the same tool that I use.
Founders notes lets you tap into the collective knowledge of history's greatest entrepreneurs on demand when you need them.
Since 2018, I've been putting all of my notes and highlights for all the books that I've read for the podcast into this giant searchable database that you can now use.
So anytime you hear me, you're going to hear me reference a bunch of past founders on this episode and on all the episodes I make for founders.
When I talk about an idea from Jeff Bezos, or Walt Disney, or Sam Walton, or Charlie Munger, or Warren Buffett, or J.
Paul Getty, or Gordon Moore and Bob Noyce, that ability to pull up their thoughts and ideas, that's just me searching through founders notes and pulling up their ideas.
This is really important to get across.
When you subscribe to Founder's notes, what you see in Founders notes, that's the tool I use.
I don't have a different version.
You see the exact same thing that I use.
So many subscribers of founders notes are using it to help them think through issues that they're having in their company.
From hiring and recruiting to marketing to leadership, to preparing for board meetings to preparing sales presentations.
If you're already running a successful company, I think it's a no brainer to invest in this tool.
And I just added a new feature that's also going to show you how I use it, and it's going to push ideas from history's greatest entrepreneurs directly into your brain quickly.