Energy, people, millions | Serge Faguet on what matters most in business
No Bullsh!t, February 24, 2025, 32 min, 250 views. The guest is Serge Faguet, entrepreneur, philosopher, investor, mentor and biohacker, who had his first business successes and his first years in Silicon Valley by the age of twenty-two.
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| Length | 32 min |
| Views on YouTube | 250 |
| Language of the episode | Russian |
| Where to watch and listen | YouTube, Spotify, Telegram |
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In short
In conversation with Sergey Kuznetsov he names five principles he considers critical in business: choose people who give you energy, trust your intuition, judge people by how they behave with others, look for work that holds your interest for a long time, and take care of your own inner state. Serge speaks openly about the personal crisis of recent years, a difficult episode at a border, depression and disappointment in people who turned out to be there only for his energy and money, and how that changed his understanding of friendship. He also shares the practices that helped him recover.
Key ideas
- Five principles: choose people who give you energy, trust your intuition, judge people by how they treat others, find work that holds you for the long run, and tend to your own state.
- The personal crisis of recent years began with an episode at a border and the legal consequences that followed, which cost him months and a great deal of health.
- The crisis showed him that some of the people he considered friends were there only for his energy and resources and disappeared when the energy ran out.
- What carried him through were bodily and spiritual practices: meditation, morning movement work to wake the muscles, time in nature and partnered practices.
- He warns against universal methods: anyone selling the one true working method is being dishonest, because what worked for one person need not work for another.
- His book recommendations lean on classical wisdom literature rather than business manuals.
The full transcript
The episode is recorded in Russian, and the full transcript of the conversation is on the Russian page of this episode. English and Spanish subtitles for the strongest episodes are rolling out on YouTube in waves.
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