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What Diary of a CEO says about focus & dopamine

Everything Diary of a CEO and guests said about focus & dopamine across 22 episodes — each point linked to the exact second on YouTube. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

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A new paper links non-nutritive (diet) sweetener consumption to dementia via reactive oxygen species.
00:15:36Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Lustig debuts his theory that Alzheimer's stems from a mitochondrial ATP energy crisis, not just genetics - 95% of risk is environmental.
00:16:41Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Reveals he secretly re-engineered 18 products for a Kuwaiti food company (Gratus/KDD) to be metabolically healthy without hurting sales or profits.
00:35:38Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Discloses a private half-hour December 2024 phone call with RFK Jr. that was supposed to be about food but was entirely about vaccines.
00:46:33Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Says he was asked to serve in the administration four times and declined each time because his views clash with RFK Jr.'s.
00:39:51Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Claims only one-third of people respond to GLP-1 drugs and that the weight lost is half muscle, half fat - essentially induced starvation.
01:14:13Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Testified before Congress to get soda removed from SNAP/food stamps.
01:25:36Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Names ketchup, white rice and orange juice as foods he wrongly believed were healthy until using a glucose monitor.
01:41:42Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
There are 262 different names for sugar, and the food industry uses all of them.
00:00:31Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
About 73% of items in the American grocery store are effectively poison.
00:00:31Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Caffeine works by blocking the adenosine receptor, preventing the sleep signal.
00:17:45Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Only about 5% of Alzheimer's is genetic; 95% of the risk is environmental.
00:26:43Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Pipedrive claims teams using it close on average three times more deals.
00:55:27Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Serotonin is made from tryptophan, the rarest amino acid, found in eggs, chicken and fish - not ultra-processed food.
01:06:26Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
About 90% of the body's serotonin is made in the gut and travels to the brain via the vagus nerve.
01:07:58Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
A can of Coca-Cola contains about 39 grams of sugar - roughly 40% sugar.
01:21:57Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Heinz ketchup is about half high-fructose corn syrup.
01:41:12Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Psychedelics act as serotonin mimics that can 'fill in the ruts' and rewire belief systems on MRI.
01:42:12Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Labrinth says everything is an instrument to him and he hears music constantly, which led him to get tested for ADHD.
00:21:50Labrinth · The Diary of a CEO · Nov 2022
He reveals the turning-point moment of smashing and throwing a guitar on stage, which nearly hit a camerawoman.
00:36:52Labrinth · The Diary of a CEO · Nov 2022
He describes a dependency on his manager as a father figure whose validation he needed to feel his music was good.
00:43:35Labrinth · The Diary of a CEO · Nov 2022
Scoring Euphoria was the first time he felt people actually heard the full range of what was on his hard drive.
00:46:42Labrinth · The Diary of a CEO · Nov 2022
His wife became a protective force the team treated as a 'monster,' and he admits he wasn't strong enough to support her at the time.
00:49:46Labrinth · The Diary of a CEO · Nov 2022
He explains his philosophy of singing from the 'center' or soul, treating frequency and vibration as a language.
01:01:42Labrinth · The Diary of a CEO · Nov 2022
His new album is dedicated to his wife, conceived as 'Natural Born Killers in space,' a Bonnie-and-Clyde love story.
01:05:22Labrinth · The Diary of a CEO · Nov 2022
He admits workaholism is the imbalance in his life and defines fulfillment as 'desiring nothing, contributing everything.'
01:23:37Labrinth · The Diary of a CEO · Nov 2022
Growing up he stood in the middle of his house hearing sisters singing R&B, one brother playing jazz, and another rapping over an MPC.
00:03:39Labrinth · The Diary of a CEO · Nov 2022
His grandfather was a reverend and both sides of his family were deeply involved in church music.
00:05:44Labrinth · The Diary of a CEO · Nov 2022
His childhood was so sheltered the TV was turned off during kissing scenes, treated as 'of the devil.'
00:06:16Labrinth · The Diary of a CEO · Nov 2022
He signed to Simon Cowell's label on his manager's advice because it was a bigger check, not his own choice.
00:30:37Labrinth · The Diary of a CEO · Nov 2022
Steven Bartlett says he asked Crafted to sponsor the podcast because he was already a fan of the brand.
00:48:43Labrinth · The Diary of a CEO · Nov 2022
Labrinth describes losing clumps of hair due to stress and panic attacks during the difficult period of his career.
00:49:14Labrinth · The Diary of a CEO · Nov 2022
He is in a band called LSD with Sia and Diplo, which taught him how to let go creatively.
01:03:50Labrinth · The Diary of a CEO · Nov 2022
He worked with Kanye West and called the creative environment one of the most inspiring he's experienced.
01:17:24Labrinth · The Diary of a CEO · Nov 2022
His current goal is to write a 'cosmic opera' doing things with choirs nobody has done before.
01:10:34Labrinth · The Diary of a CEO · Nov 2022
He defines fulfillment as desiring nothing and contributing everything while staying present enough to receive it.
01:24:37Labrinth · The Diary of a CEO · Nov 2022
Epstein read the original 10,000-hour study and concluded the most popular finding in his field 'is not right.'
00:14:59David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
Andre Ericsson refused to share the variance data; a later paper showed the original 'complete correspondence' conclusion was wrong.
00:20:13David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
Average age of a founder of a top fast-growing tech startup is 45, and a 50-year-old beats a 30-year-old's odds.
00:22:46David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
Bartlett hired a dedicated 'head of failure' whose sole job is to increase the rate of experimentation and failure across his 40-person team.
00:27:23David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
Daniel Kahneman personally sought out Epstein and over lunch pointed him to the 'kind vs wicked learning environments' research.
00:48:36David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
Serena Williams told Epstein her father had her do ballet, track, gymnastics and taekwondo before tennis - not the assumed Tiger path.
01:08:14David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
Two Harvard-led studies found cardiac patients are less likely to die when top specialists are away at a cardiology convention.
01:56:09David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
Epstein admits his impulse to 'burn things down' damaged personal relationships he regrets, and names forgiveness as his growth project.
02:00:45David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
Reaching International Master in chess takes ~11,053 hours on average, but some did it in 3,000 and others never made it past 20,000.
00:16:30David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
In the violinist study the top group slept ~60 hours a week - Epstein jokes it could be the '625,000 hours of sleep study.'
00:21:14David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
An office worker checks email an average of 77 times a day, each switch carrying a cognitive cost.
00:34:07David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
At the US Air Force Academy, teachers whose students scored highest in intro classes produced students who underperformed later.
00:45:27David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
The main predictor of childhood overuse sports injuries is playing one sport nine-plus months a year.
01:12:21David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
Despite high grit scores, nearly half of West Point cadets quit at the first chance - it was a 'match quality' problem, not a grit problem.
01:18:29David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
When ATMs arrived around 1970, the number of bank tellers grew, not shrank, as the job shifted to strategic and customer roles.
01:35:37David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
In freestyle chess, two amateurs with three laptops beat both grandmasters and supercomputers.
01:38:11David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
The 'einstellung effect' makes experts keep applying a familiar solution even after it stops being the right one.
01:57:11David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
Across 980,000 procedures, patients operated on during the surgeon's birthday were more likely to die within 30 days.
01:58:12David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
Hormozi admits that at 22, in a paid-for condo with a great consulting job, he hoped he wouldn't wake up the next day because he was so afraid and unhappy.
00:06:14Alex Hormozi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
He drove across the country and was already gone before calling his father to say he'd quit, fearing his father's judgment that much.
00:07:49Alex Hormozi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Reveals his Gym Launch CFO had taken four companies from 0 to $100M and done over 40 M&A deals, the largest a $5 billion transaction.
01:37:30Alex Hormozi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Says 2024 was the first year of his life he experienced no FOMO, after a career of attention-splitting across multiple businesses.
01:38:32Alex Hormozi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Discloses he took roughly $40M in distributions from Gym Launch before the company was even sold.
02:49:31Alex Hormozi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Admits he was very depressed from ages 18-22 and adopted the mantra 'f*** happiness' as a release from chasing it.
02:56:23Alex Hormozi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
A friend who sold his company for hundreds of millions shook him by asking, 'Why do you think that life needs to be meaningful?'
03:04:11Alex Hormozi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Business ideas come from one of three Ps: pain, past profession, or passion, and you only need one of them.
00:23:49Alex Hormozi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Most of the richest people own small slices of their companies, e.g. Jensen Huang ~4% of Nvidia, Bezos ~7-9% of Amazon, Musk ~20% of Tesla.
00:51:24Alex Hormozi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Keith Rabois's 'barrels and ammunition' analogy: most hires are ammunition, but throughput is limited by the few 'barrels' who can fire shots.
00:52:27Alex Hormozi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Hormozi's training method is the 3 Ds: document, demonstrate, duplicate.
00:57:42Alex Hormozi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
His culture rule 'kind, not nice': you're being unkind by not maximizing someone's chance to succeed in their role.
01:01:21Alex Hormozi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
He uses the Four Rs for customer success: retain, review, refer, resell.
01:31:19Alex Hormozi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Facebook cracked retention by setting a goal of getting users to 10 friends in 14 days.
01:53:37Alex Hormozi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Calling leads within 60 seconds of opt-in can 4-5x conversion; a restoration company's only-job lead-caller earns $60K and drives millions.
02:00:54Alex Hormozi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Google's resource split is 70% core / 20% adjacent / 10% moonshots ('more, better, new').
02:16:57Alex Hormozi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Hormozi's YouTube formula evolved into proof, promise, plan, picture, pain in the first 30 seconds.
02:41:13Alex Hormozi · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Lembke reveals she became addicted to erotic romance novels in her early 40s, hiding books and chain-reading until 3-4am.
00:01:21Dr. Anna Lembke · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2025
Describes a patient who, after quitting alcohol, became addicted to drinking water to induce delirium and ultimately took her own life.
00:31:50Dr. Anna Lembke · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2025
Reveals about 1 in 4 Parkinson's patients given dopamine-precursor L-Dopa develop a brand-new addiction (shopping, sex, gambling).
01:00:29Dr. Anna Lembke · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2025
Lembke shares the loss of her own child and how accepting permanent pain, rather than escaping it, brought relief.
01:10:53Dr. Anna Lembke · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2025
Argues society has 'gone soft,' resetting our pain threshold so minor discomfort now feels like trauma.
01:05:41Dr. Anna Lembke · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2025
Claims by one accounting, one hit of a meth pipe equals 10 orgasms in dopamine release.
00:54:11Dr. Anna Lembke · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2025
Calls the smartphone 'a masturbation machine' and warns porn is replacing real-life intimacy, especially for men.
01:50:58Dr. Anna Lembke · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2025
Rats engineered without dopamine will starve even with food a body-length away because they lack the motivation to reach it.
00:00:00Dr. Anna Lembke · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2025
The genetic risk of addiction is roughly 50-60%; a parent or grandparent with addiction raises your risk.
00:00:31Dr. Anna Lembke · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2025
Brain scans show people addicted to cocaine, meth, alcohol, and heroin remain in a dopamine deficit state two weeks after quitting.
00:56:50Dr. Anna Lembke · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2025
Acute withdrawal typically eases after 10-14 days; around 30 days most people start to feel genuinely better.
00:58:22Dr. Anna Lembke · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2025
Exercise raises dopamine gradually and keeps it elevated for hours afterward without a 'come down,' unlike drugs.
01:02:03Dr. Anna Lembke · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2025
The universal symptoms of withdrawal from any addiction are anxiety, irritability, insomnia, depression, and craving.
01:30:40Dr. Anna Lembke · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2025
Rats given cocaine then abstinent for a year were instantly plunged back into a 'running frenzy' after a single dose, showing a permanent latent 'echo' of addiction.
02:00:50Dr. Anna Lembke · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2025
At age five the brain has about 50% more neuronal connections than in adulthood; pruning continues to about age 25.
02:02:57Dr. Anna Lembke · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2025
Lembke recommends a 30-day 'dopamine fast' because two weeks isn't enough to exit the dopamine deficit state.
01:55:09Dr. Anna Lembke · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2025
Lembke calls romance novels 'socially sanctioned pornography for women' with a formulaic climax two-thirds through.
00:46:28Dr. Anna Lembke · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2025
Haidt reads leaked internal Meta documents where an employee says 'Instagram is a drug. We're basically pushers,' citing 31 internal studies finding harm.
00:31:25Jonathan Haidt and Aditi Nerurkar · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
Claims Chinese TikTok (Douyin) gives kids healthy, time-limited, patriotic content while the US version is designed to make American kids 'rot in hell.'
00:38:06Jonathan Haidt and Aditi Nerurkar · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
Says Silicon Valley executives ban their own kids from the tech and make nannies sign no-phone contracts.
00:38:37Jonathan Haidt and Aditi Nerurkar · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
A live demo of an AI companion app ('Annie') that a child could download, with only an unverified birth-year prompt as an age gate.
00:50:34Jonathan Haidt and Aditi Nerurkar · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
Haidt calls December 10th, 2025 (Australia's law going into effect) 'the global turning point in the battle to reclaim childhood.'
01:35:04Jonathan Haidt and Aditi Nerurkar · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
Haidt argues the AI-driven UBI future is 'hell on earth' that will leave young men with only 'video games, porn, and gambling.'
02:04:04Jonathan Haidt and Aditi Nerurkar · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
Bartlett recounts his ChatGPT saying Messi was the best footballer while his friend's said Ronaldo, revealing AI sycophancy and tailored 'curated reality.'
01:55:48Jonathan Haidt and Aditi Nerurkar · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
People spend roughly 6.5 hours a day on their phones; 80% check within minutes of waking.
00:00:00Jonathan Haidt and Aditi Nerurkar · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
A 2025 meta-analysis of 71 studies linked heavy short-form video use to reduced thinking ability, shorter attention spans, and weaker impulse control.
00:16:26Jonathan Haidt and Aditi Nerurkar · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
A Munich study found the TikTok group's memory accuracy dropped from 80% to 49% after just a 10-minute break - a nearly 40% decline.
01:16:30Jonathan Haidt and Aditi Nerurkar · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
91% of people improved in attention, well-being or mental health after two weeks of using their devices with no internet access.
00:27:51Jonathan Haidt and Aditi Nerurkar · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
Harvard Business Review found the number one use case for AI chatbots is mental health therapy and companionship, not productivity.
00:40:43Jonathan Haidt and Aditi Nerurkar · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
Snapchat received about 10,000 sextortion reports from users every month in 2022, per internal lawsuit documents.
00:37:04Jonathan Haidt and Aditi Nerurkar · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
US test scores rose from the 1970s to 2012, then declined - with the drop concentrated in the bottom 50% after laptops hit classroom desks.
01:14:27Jonathan Haidt and Aditi Nerurkar · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
A lifespan study of ~1,000 people found 'adolescence' (brain-wise) runs from age 9 to 32, crushing the 33-year-old host.
01:30:27Jonathan Haidt and Aditi Nerurkar · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
The brain has a 'hedonic treadmill' for pleasure that always wants more, but no treadmill for eudaimonic (meaning-based) happiness.
02:11:19Jonathan Haidt and Aditi Nerurkar · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
Claims envy and always wanting to be superior is the most motivating factor of 90% of human behavior.
00:00:31Robert Greene · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Admits he personally feels envy of Ryan Holiday, who is 30 years younger and has written more books.
00:51:10Robert Greene · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Recounts how a chance meeting in Italy at his lowest, suicidal point led him to write The 48 Laws of Power.
01:04:46Robert Greene · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Bluntly attacks pornography and social media as disembodying and manipulative, saying users are 'being played.'
01:19:27Robert Greene · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Calls his own side, the Democratic left, 'buffoons' and 'fools' who 'blew this election.'
01:54:55Robert Greene · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Reveals the new book has taken about six years because, post-stroke, he must handwrite everything and dictate it.
02:17:50Robert Greene · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Admits he had a stroke and isn't sure his body can take another two years of writing.
02:18:52Robert Greene · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Says his dream in 10 years is simply to walk up a hill again, and he would cry with joy to do it.
02:35:38Robert Greene · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Advises taking a $30,000 startup job over a $150,000 Goldman Sachs role in your 20s because you'll learn far more.
00:21:28Robert Greene · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Chimpanzees display envy, giving the 'stink eye' when one gets a grape and another doesn't.
00:48:01Robert Greene · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
In ancient hunter-gatherer tribes, gift-givers had to share with everyone to avoid being murdered out of envy.
00:49:04Robert Greene · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Cites the stat that loneliness has a health impact equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes a day.
00:55:18Robert Greene · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Describes how William James's 'as if' strategy can manufacture confidence by acting confident.
01:41:56Robert Greene · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Says Trump is the master of Law 27, courting attention at all costs, with a cult-like following.
02:07:27Robert Greene · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Tells the story of Christopher Columbus conning Spanish royalty by carrying himself like nobility.
02:25:07Robert Greene · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Argues 'the world moves out of the way of boldness,' citing Elon Musk as bold even when he doesn't admire him.
02:31:59Robert Greene · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Distinguishes loneliness (painful disconnection) from solitude (a relief and a source of skills).
01:00:30Robert Greene · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Uses Howard Gardner's five intelligences to argue Kobe Bryant is as intelligent as Einstein, differently.
00:43:18Robert Greene · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2025
Trevor's mother was shot point blank in the head by his stepfather Abel; Trevor grieved her as dead before learning she survived.
00:23:58Trevor Noah · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
The bullet entered the back of her skull, missed the brain and spinal cord, deflected off her cheekbone and exited her nose; the doctor called it a miracle.
00:36:30Trevor Noah · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
Abel did not go to prison; Trevor blames a justice system that doesn't treat violence against a partner the same as against a stranger.
00:40:41Trevor Noah · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
By the 100th episode The Daily Show had lost 37% of its viewers and Trevor told a writer he wanted to quit.
01:30:19Trevor Noah · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
He left The Daily Show at its peak simply because 'it was time,' realizing he had made work everything and connection secondary.
01:41:08Trevor Noah · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
Diagnosed with ADHD only two years ago after a friend's diagnosis; as a child he was flagged as 'hyperactive' but his religious mother said 'we'll pray for him.'
01:59:46Trevor Noah · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
Contrarian take on the 'Eraser Test': he WOULD erase his trauma, rejecting the idea that suffering should be celebrated for making you who you are.
02:33:39Trevor Noah · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
Says he genuinely enjoys waiting in line and being anonymous; calls fame the curse that comes with his gift.
02:18:34Trevor Noah · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
Apartheid's architects studied the worst racial policies worldwide, including Australia's treatment of Aboriginal people, Nazi Germany, and the US.
00:09:21Trevor Noah · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
His mother dressed as a maid in public so she could move through the streets with him without police suspicion.
00:10:23Trevor Noah · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
In Trinidad they have a word, 'liming,' for spending time together with no purpose whatsoever, just being.
00:55:38Trevor Noah · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
Men always need a 'third thing' (fishing, a game) to hang out, while women can connect directly without an activity.
00:56:08Trevor Noah · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
A VIP theme-park visit with skip-the-line access felt depressing; they realized the hour-long queues were what bonded them as friends.
01:21:35Trevor Noah · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
Cites Daniel Kahneman: the pain of losing a dollar equals the joy of finding three, explaining loss aversion that traps people.
01:46:21Trevor Noah · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
Argues reading the news once a week leaves you as informed as reading daily, minus the anxious cycle of developing stories.
01:50:27Trevor Noah · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
Trevor doesn't take ADHD medication; he says he needs to be erratic and unfocused for his comedy.
02:08:09Trevor Noah · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
His grounding rule: before pontificating on the meaning of life, ask if you've slept, eaten well, moved your body, and breathed.
02:10:11Trevor Noah · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024
Inspired by kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing pottery with gold so the cracks make the object more beautiful than before.
02:29:32Trevor Noah · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2024

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