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I really struggle to listen to Tim Ferriss's podcast. He has amazing guests, but he'll routinely spend 2-3 full minutes asking a single question. After the fif
by AlchemistCamp 7y ago
I really struggle to listen to Tim Ferriss's podcast.
He has amazing guests, but he'll routinely spend 2-3 full minutes asking a single question. After the fifth or sixth clause in a single (question) sentence, I just want to shake him and yell "shut up and let your guest answer!!!"
The interviewing style feels as if he weren't expecting a conversation, as if he had one and only one shot to fully qualify and give context to every single question before mailing them to a person in a far-away place.
Aside from the interviewing style, the breath-taking amount of ads generally keep me away from his podcast except for a few guests I simply must hear.
- a-saleh 7y agoI can listen to Tim just fine, but I had similar problem with Andrew Warner of Mixergy. If you'd like a cliffs-notes version of the podcast, that is what most of Tim's books. I.e. Tools of Titans are very much this and I heard Tribe of Mentors is similar in this regard.
- sauravt 7y agoThis is a major pet peeve of mine. I use the breaker app to cut through the umm and hmmms but I wish there was a way to summarize what the speaker is saying as well, and cut away the part when they are just overiterating the obvious. (by comparing the transcribed audio to the footnotes perhaps)