A 2019 Interview with Seth Bond
Who is your favorite Disney character?
Pocahontas.
What is your favorite Disney movie?
Wall-E.
What is your favorite food?
Eggs.
What is your favorite animal?
Humans (potentially).
What is your favorite color?
Maple leaves changing colors.
What is your favorite drink?
Whiskeys, Sparkling Water.
What is your favorite tv show?
“The Patriot”
What’s your top three favorite places you’ve ever traveled?
Iceland, Redwood Forests, NYC.
If you could live anywhere, where would it be?
Washington DC
What does your average day look like?
PT-Work-Home to chat w/ Sam, workout, read, sleep.
What do you spend a ridiculous amount of money on?
Travel.
If you only had two extra hours per day outside of work, what would you spend it on?
Learning.
What has become more important for you in the last few years?
Minimizing media, sleep, sauna, meditating.
What has become less important for you in the last few years?
Partying.
What would you do/have/be if you had $10 million dollars?
Start a business, nonprofit.
What can you do that will be remembered in 200-400 years?
Become president, colonize Mars.
What assets do you have (not financial)?
Family, Friends.
When you think of the word successful, who comes to mind?
Musk, Nietzsche.
What is something you believe that other people think is insane?
Universal conscisouness.
What is the book (or books) that you’ve gifted and/or discussed/referenced the most?
“Zorba the Greek”
What is your favorite documentary or movie?
“Human”
What purchase of $100 or less has most positively impacted your life in the last couple years?
Notebooks.
What are your morning rituals? What do the first 60minutes of your day look like?
Wake-snooze-snooze again-brush teeth-comb hair-shave face-drive to PT while listening to the daily.
What obsessions do you explore on the evenings or weekends?
Knowledge-read/podcast/audiobook.
What topic would you speak about if you were asked to give a ted talk on something outside your main area of expertise?
Delusion.
Do you have a quote you live your life by or think about often?
“How things withstand the gaze…”
What is the worst advice you see or hear being dispensed in the world?
Accepting status quo as "the way things are."
If you could have one gigantic billboard anywhere with anything on it, what would it say?
“Are you making this beautiful?”
What is something weird or unsettling that happens to you on a regular basis?
Insomnia.
What have you changed your mind about in the last few years, why?
Human objectivity is objective only for humans-applying outside its utility in a certain circumstance as a blanket understanding is utterly futile and confused.
What do you believe is true, even though you can’t prove it?
Universal consciousness.
How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? or, do you have a favorite failure of yours?
Failure to not graduate west point-see paragraph 2, page 26 of the brothers karamazov.
What advice would you give to your 20-, 25-, or 30-year-old self? and please place where you were at the time, and what you were doing?
But it is a characteristic of wisdom, not to do desperate things- from henry to me in a CA blood bank.
What is the best or most worthwhile investment you’ve made? could be an investment of money, time, energy, or other resource. How did you decide to make the investment?
Love, Instinct.
If you were teaching a ninth grade class, what would you teach?
Philosophy.
What do you think financially successful people who are generally unhappy in common?
Desire for more.
If you had to choose three herbs or spices to cook with for the next year, what would they be?
Salt, Pepper, Cilantro.
Do you meditate?
Often, but not often enough.
What is the best or most worthwhile investment you’ve made?
Learning.
Who are three people or sources you’ve learned from- or followed closely- in the last year?
Steven West, Dan Carlin, Sam Harris.
What is the worst advice you see or hear given in your tradE?
“Tradition supersedes sense.”
If you were a billionaire and you could give 2-3 books to every graduating high schooler, what would they be?
“Zorba the Greek”, “Why We Sleep”, “Waking Up”
What are some of the choices you’ve made that made you who you are?
Traveling broadly, loving deeply, exploring varying viewpoints and taking a stand.
What’s the best lessons your father ever taught you?
It’s going to be okay.
What’s the best lessons your mother ever taught you?
To whom much is given, much is required.
What are you waiting for?
The man, Courage to transition.
If you were fired from your job today, what would you do to get things together financially?
Sell all things, move, learn something new.
What do you owe your community?
Everything.
Is there anything you would die for?
Family, friends, principles.
What is your idea of happiness?
Being with loved ones.
What is your idea of wealthy?
Being with loved ones.
How do you ideally see yourself at the age of 75?
Tired and with loved ones.
What do you always have with you when you leave the house?
Notebook.
If you could automatically learn another language or two, what would they be?
Relearn Chinese, Spanish.