Jacob proves that the earliest influences play the vital part of how children grow up and to a great degree how they end up, so to speak. He had the wonderfully positive influence of his mother. How fortunate for the world. ❤
I've never, and probably never will again, been so moved by a podcast. Any podcast. Truly an amazing meeting of similar minds, a meeting with both unity and differences abound! And holy hell, that ending. I'll be replaying that ending for years to come, not to mention the rest of this.
Jacob teaches a universal reality: we are far, far more than we know. If only we dared to shed the original, limited, self to know the already existing, real Self
Simon trying to get concretion out of Jacob, and him kind of yielding but also kind of rebelling silently against that is THE most fun thing in the world to witness (at least that's what it looked like to me).Thrilling session to watch!
This conversation is among the most inspiring things that I have ever listened to. Suddenly at 25, I feel strangely empowered with a newfound understanding of how to be myself and serve the world. I have been a dormant artist operating under the rules of artless society and I need to start breaking things. Thank you both.
One of your best, Simon. Such a beautiful image of a 2 year old seeing his mother’s arms conducting and experiencing the sound of music- that made me cry- how fortunate he was for that moment. My earliest memory is sitting on my mother’s lap during her lunch hour from working in the factory and smelling metal from her. That was one of my first sensory experiences. my mother smelling of metal. I was about 3 years old. What an amazing person that he has been able to unlock his creative force in his young life. I am 70 and want to have that experience before I make my departure- i believe that creative force is within all of us but it’s taken me so many years to awaken it. Thank you, Simon for all you do.
Two of my favourite stars: one in philosophy & motivational and the other one in music, Simon Sinek and Jacob Collier. This 1h interview is worth every second!
My first time encountering your podcast because I had been searching Jacob Collier's Grammy 2025 experiences. I am hooked and will be back for more. Regarding Jacob, I have listened to other "interviews" that turn into conversations, the questions flowing in both directions. He is always curious, always thoughtful and his play on Bartok was magical and an inspiration on your part. Thank you.
Jacob is smart enough, or curious enough, or playful enough to turn the megaphone around in order to collect input from his audience then disseminate back to them. He just might as easily put his ear to the megaphone as his mouth. That's brilliant! Thanks Simon.
Really moved by this conversation. The search for metaphors to give meaning to the wondrous life and our role in it can be so beautiful. With a small demonstration at the end. THANK YOU.
"Working with what people don't know that they know, but they actually know it." Spot on. I feel like there's so much more innate intelligence in all of us than we can possibly grasp, and we just need to keep finding ways to open and let it through. I feel this intelligence often gets bottlenecked in "knowing," the thinking mind, and inhibition, but sometimes we surprise ourselves. Here's to using our unique gifts to help allow more of our intrinsic collective brilliance spring to life!
On "classically trained" studying classical repertoire doesn't enable a musician to do what Jacob, or other Jazz and pop musicians do. It gives a pianist the ability to execute and interpret the classical repertoire (music which I personally love), essentially recitation. His work is very Jazz-centric. The thousands of hours spent learning tunes, re-harmonizing, composing, improvising, etc. are part of what enables him to play and write like he does. Just a point of clarification from someone who was "classically trained." Despite absolutely adoring the classical repertoire, I regret not taking a more active and collaborative approach to music making like Jacob earlier in life. Loved the interview!
@@zitronekoma30 Jacob says he wasn't classically trained. I was, including conservatory. My main point is classical training should not put one on a pedestal. Generally speaking, it's simply a different style of music.
I personally didn't have the luck of getting formal classical training because I didn't have the discipline for it as a kid. But I did take a classical piece every few months to study. I, too, regret that. Over time, it became clearer and clearer how limited I am in self-expression. The ultimate form of self-expression is improvisation and composition. Sometimes we need to understand, especially coming from classical, that we don't need to be beethoven or jacob collier. The mere expression of ourselves benefits us immensly. Working on ear training for now, we'll see what happens...
Two months ago I was uncredibly happy to see Jacob live at his concert in Düsseldorf Germany🎉❤ He is a fastinating person, inspirating creator, unbeleavable musician and a great Showmaster. Everybody in the Hall enjoyed this event and the choir of thousends of people is still in my ears❤
This was soooo good!!! I loved how balanced the conversation was, questions both ways with fascinating illumination answers! Two brilliant talents!! My heart is doing cartwheels!🤸🏽♀️❤🤸🏽♀️💙🤸🏽♀️🩵
What is said here enters my mind, heart, emotions, world view. Deep and simple, complicated and understandable. I just want to express appreciation and thanks and enormous love to Jacob and you!!!
I think that many who attend Jacob’s events…possibly have a knowing and tend to be more musically inclined. They would willingly be “conducted” making it all that much more beautiful! He’s so complex he draws in those that are too 😊
Jacob has such an ability to draw deep wisdom from the introspection he did throughout his childhood. His relationship with feelings and emotions is so fascinating.
Seeing these two in the same room together is literally like three Christmases at the same time for me. (I LITERALLY screamed when I got the notification about the episode.) SO HAPPY for this interview!!! ❤❤❤
This conversation has just hit a chord that I didn’t realize needed to be played. It has opened ideas and feelings that have wanted to be let out! I feel more alive than I have for a while. 🤩🤩🥳
If you've never seen Jacob live and experienced the audience choir from the inside, it's hard to convey just how little preparation there is. When you see a video online, there hasn't been five minutes of audience training earlier, he really does throw us in at the deep end and tell us which note to play by pointing in the air. And I was fairly confident I wasn't singing bang on the way Jacob would have done if he stood in my place, but here's the thing - everyone was singing something slightly different, but the average sound we all made *was* in tune. Together, all those imperfections made a beautiful thick chord and whilst we didn't sing the same notes, we all (in my section) moved in the same direction. So in the end, it was still coherent - and beautiful.
"The joy is the figuring it out" @40:55 Absolutely! I talk with friends on this all the time as a 50 year old man now. Also how as you age and your breadth of knowledge expands the wonderment in things gets smaller and smaller and then trying to find new and interesting things becomes tougher and tougher even though access to new knowledge has never been greater - which is probably due to option paralysis! What shall I learn today? .. erm I have access to ANYTHING.... its too much to choose from so I choose ... nothing. This conversation is so great and relevant. Thank you
Your last few sentences resonate strongly with me. I studied jazz piano at college, left a few years ago. I loved the course, but I really struggled with the fact that I have instant access to millions of recordings to transcribe and learn from. I found that in my own playing and that of my peers, our knowledge of jazz and music in general was broad but not deep. I think this is a symptom of the fact that everyone in the world now has Spotify, TH-cam, etc. People rarely sit down and listen to an album once, let alone multiple times. A few of my teachers have told me how when they were young they would be so excited to purchase an album on vinyl or CD, and they would play it to death until the language of the music became ingrained in them. The Internet truly is a blessing and a curse when it comes to inspiration for musicians and artists. I wonder how I would've fared before the Internet
Absolutely incredible episode. I’ve been convinced for some time that Jacob is this generation’s Mozart and his music will pass through future generations. This could have been 10 hours long and I would have watched every second of it!
I loved this entire hour. Any artist could easily appreciate and apply the conversation to their own experience. Thank you both PS That was a delightful way to end by suggesting Jacob play with Bartok.
That last piece of music based off of Bela Bartok is amazing… I’ve listened to it over and over… it’s beautiful and makes me tear up or cry every time.. ❤ wow.
What a perfect guest to have on your podcast, someone who embodies creativity. This taught me so much! Simon, since you have such wonderful guests on your podcast, I urge you to do an afterthoughts episode. Your reflective take on the insightful conversations you have with your guests. 💭
When Simon and Jacob start at the piano 22:37 it makes me think of how wonderful the interaction would be with Mister Rogers if Fred Rogers was still with us today 😊
This was and is absolutely amazing. I really needed this. I found out yesterday that my wife and I are having our first child, and that is after a year of fertility problems, which created so much tention and argunemt between us. The fact that i through this can find my piece within the chaos, gives me so much hope for my future child. I am a pianist myself, and the idea of play, was also very prevalent for me as a child, with my grandmother beeing a pianoteacher for 50 years now. After this interview i feel so much more ready for the future, so much better prepared and selfunderstood by the calm within the chaos. Thank you from the bottom of my heart and my future childs, which is going to be named Harmon for harmony. Much love from Denmark
If you ever get the slightest chance to see Jacob perform you owe it to yourself to make it happen. His and the band’s art, the audiences that they draw, the scintillating atmosphere… I appreciate his recognition of Lynch. They are both truly transcendent
Listening to Jacob talk about Da Vinci -- yes, of the many great people of our time, Jacob is one of the few who is actually there, at the same level with Da Vinci. Goosebumps.
Awesome episode! So the reason we like lists are they are easy to scan, predictability, reduced cognitive load, sense of progress and decision making ease.
I am in love with that mind and that brain and every single word that he is saying, it all feels so true, coming right from first hand experience. That man has my respect and love too 🙌🏽❤️
Neil's Startalk episode about music and the origins of language will give you a full circle to this. All these itchy thoughts about music being innate and how we all resemble more to Jacob than we can imagine, it's all there, all the answers are there. It'll blow your mind!!! I really loved this episode!!!!
Creativity is a simply complex beast. I've recently been writing the first song I've written in quite some time. One needs enough resistance to have it ( creativity), but not so much that you can't lift it, and thus not have it ( creativity).
I love how jacob says he’s trying to become a master of “containers.” It’s like if you can get really good at defining the sandbox you get to play in (the album or song or whatever you’re creating) then you have that freedom to just be creative
Whoah - Sinek interviewing Jacob AND reading Silvertein? My business’s name is a play on The Giving Tree. This is one of the most awesome things I’ve ever experienced. I MUST make it to one of Jacob’s concerts.
I was a kid, 6 yo. I came home from scool, bored, angry, frustrated, anoyed. Sat at the piano and it was my relief. Today I am almost 60. Today I had to stand up earlier than I would have liked. I woke up kind of dead. Started wandering around my flat. Eventuelly passed by my piano, sat down and let my fingers wake me up lovingly.
You both brought up some genuinely interesting concepts! But hey boys!, relax! Don’t forget to exhale every now and then! Listening to you guys feels like standing on a platform at the train station, trying to read the labels on carriages of a bullet train that is racing past me at 200mph.
the only artist i see at such a zenith in the music industry who speaks so freely and hits upon universal, fundamental, shared spiritual truths that can be accessed through a pure-hearted connection to the craft and oneself. it’s an honor and a privilege to be alive at the same time and to hear his perspective.
What a fascinating interview. Great questions by both participants and deep insights on the edge of abstract and comprehensible. Thanks for sharing this!
Two of my favorite people. Thank you for the insight and inspiration. I am retired now and am having so much fun writing and playing music. Simon, I found my WHY😄🎶
Thank you for these insights! I feel very touched by this image of meeting your family for dinner in the evening and then opening up about your feelings and not being *judged*. I believe this could make the world a better place! 💛
Wow! Amazing episode! First Jon Batista on Tim Ferriss and now Jacob Collier on Bit of Optimism. Thank you Can't wait to see which musician will be on next.
Thank you for authentic expressions. That was a joy to watch. The oder in chaos, is the rythem of flow to me. And creativity is the release of energy in a harmonious state. Like I just watched🌻
I cannot fully describe what and how I felt at the end. Didn't quite catch the name of the composer of the song when Simon played it on the phone, I just know it has to be hungarian after a few bars. Obviously when they moved over to the piano I did get the name, but I digress. All I want to say is thank you for that magical couple of minutes at the end, for some reason it meant to world to me.
What a stunningly beautiful conversation - and how powerful and world changing is holding g space for people’s emotions … exactly what we need more of in the world …
Jacob is such a sweet and humble human being on top of being a genius. That ending was beautiful, playful, poignant, sad and happy all at the same time. What a beautiful human all around. Thank you for the inspiring conversation.
Jacob is talking about metaphor...relating things to one another that are novel when he talks about experiencing words as a child and creating little explosions.
For me, creativity first needs a basic understanding of what has gone before, then a rebellion against it, then the motivation to replace it with something (better?). In physics, the replacement must achieve more than what it replaces.
Jacob proves that the earliest influences play the vital part of how children grow up and to a great degree how they end up, so to speak. He had the wonderfully positive influence of his mother. How fortunate for the world. ❤
So true. His mother sounds wonderful. Imagine all the Jacob Colliers of their fields who didn’t grow up in such optimal environments.
Not having a Dad around can also be an 'influence'. But, despite that, his Mum has done a truly wonderful job of encouragement.
I'm thrilled to see two of my favorite humans talking it out together.
Exactly!
Jacob's mother should publish a book on parenting.
Do you know when ?
I've never, and probably never will again, been so moved by a podcast. Any podcast. Truly an amazing meeting of similar minds, a meeting with both unity and differences abound!
And holy hell, that ending. I'll be replaying that ending for years to come, not to mention the rest of this.
I have been replaying Jacob's play on Bartok as well and will again and again. An inspiration on Simon's part.
Wow
Agree with every word
I cried at the end - simply the most incredible and beautiful wonder’ - a fabulous podcast
Try the other big podcasty one thats 2 Hours and is called the mozart of the gen z. Personally my favourite :D
@MrApetape That one's a strong contender! I personally prefer the podcast style of Simon's, but Jacob is magnificent in both!
"Negativity is the enemy of creativity", that's so true.😮
After a few decades of being broke, trolled, cajoled, ignored, mocked, blocked, and invisibilized by society... *you might be negative too.* 😂
Jacob teaches a universal reality: we are far, far more than we know. If only we dared to shed the original, limited, self to know the already existing, real Self
What you waiting for?
Simon trying to get concretion out of Jacob, and him kind of yielding but also kind of rebelling silently against that is THE most fun thing in the world to witness (at least that's what it looked like to me).Thrilling session to watch!
The improvisation at the end is pure joyful perfection
I've watched it several times over already 😅. Absolutely brilliant 👌🏾😊
This conversation is among the most inspiring things that I have ever listened to. Suddenly at 25, I feel strangely empowered with a newfound understanding of how to be myself and serve the world. I have been a dormant artist operating under the rules of artless society and I need to start breaking things. Thank you both.
Go rock 'em!!!!!!!
I truly believe that Jacob will be discussed like Bach and Mozart in the centuries to come. His approach to music is absolutely brilliant and new.
100%, no other way
One of your best, Simon. Such a beautiful image of a 2 year old seeing his mother’s arms conducting and experiencing the sound of music- that made me cry- how fortunate he was for that moment. My earliest memory is sitting on my mother’s lap during her lunch hour from working in the factory and smelling metal from her. That was one of my first sensory experiences. my mother smelling of metal. I was about 3 years old. What an amazing person that he has been able to unlock his creative force in his young life. I am 70 and want to have that experience before I make my departure- i believe that creative force is within all of us but it’s taken me so many years to awaken it. Thank you, Simon for all you do.
This is the deep level conversation I’ve longed to hear Jacob have! I’d love you both to do this again - podcast series maybe?👀
Wow
That's will be So fascinating and educational and touching.
Can recommend The episode of Colin & Samir with him, it's also excellent in my opinion!
This conversation is a whole book on creativity. “I am the violin” made me sob here. Thank you, Simon and Jacob. 🎉
Two of my favourite stars: one in philosophy & motivational and the other one in music, Simon Sinek and Jacob Collier. This 1h interview is worth every second!
My first time encountering your podcast because I had been searching Jacob Collier's Grammy 2025 experiences. I am hooked and will be back for more. Regarding Jacob, I have listened to other "interviews" that turn into conversations, the questions flowing in both directions. He is always curious, always thoughtful and his play on Bartok was magical and an inspiration on your part. Thank you.
Jacob is smart enough, or curious enough, or playful enough to turn the megaphone around in order to collect input from his audience then disseminate back to them. He just might as easily put his ear to the megaphone as his mouth. That's brilliant! Thanks Simon.
Really moved by this conversation. The search for metaphors to give meaning to the wondrous life and our role in it can be so beautiful. With a small demonstration at the end. THANK YOU.
Brilliant. The best interview I have ever experienced. Magic!! Fuel for the soul. Thank you!
"Working with what people don't know that they know, but they actually know it." Spot on.
I feel like there's so much more innate intelligence in all of us than we can possibly grasp, and we just need to keep finding ways to open and let it through. I feel this intelligence often gets bottlenecked in "knowing," the thinking mind, and inhibition, but sometimes we surprise ourselves. Here's to using our unique gifts to help allow more of our intrinsic collective brilliance spring to life!
On "classically trained" studying classical repertoire doesn't enable a musician to do what Jacob, or other Jazz and pop musicians do. It gives a pianist the ability to execute and interpret the classical repertoire (music which I personally love), essentially recitation. His work is very Jazz-centric. The thousands of hours spent learning tunes, re-harmonizing, composing, improvising, etc. are part of what enables him to play and write like he does. Just a point of clarification from someone who was "classically trained." Despite absolutely adoring the classical repertoire, I regret not taking a more active and collaborative approach to music making like Jacob earlier in life. Loved the interview!
@@ffsrsw I don't really think that constitutes classical training tbh, it's definitely insanely valuable though
@@zitronekoma30 Jacob says he wasn't classically trained. I was, including conservatory. My main point is classical training should not put one on a pedestal. Generally speaking, it's simply a different style of music.
@ oh I was replying to the other guy, youtube comments are broken tho haha
I personally didn't have the luck of getting formal classical training because I didn't have the discipline for it as a kid. But I did take a classical piece every few months to study. I, too, regret that. Over time, it became clearer and clearer how limited I am in self-expression. The ultimate form of self-expression is improvisation and composition. Sometimes we need to understand, especially coming from classical, that we don't need to be beethoven or jacob collier. The mere expression of ourselves benefits us immensly. Working on ear training for now, we'll see what happens...
Two months ago I was uncredibly happy to see Jacob live at his concert in Düsseldorf Germany🎉❤ He is a fastinating person, inspirating creator, unbeleavable musician and a great Showmaster. Everybody in the Hall enjoyed this event and the choir of thousends of people is still in my ears❤
This was soooo good!!! I loved how balanced the conversation was, questions both ways with fascinating illumination answers! Two brilliant talents!! My heart is doing cartwheels!🤸🏽♀️❤🤸🏽♀️💙🤸🏽♀️🩵
What is said here enters my mind, heart, emotions, world view. Deep and simple, complicated and understandable. I just want to express appreciation and thanks and enormous love to Jacob and you!!!
I can't waitttttt to get home from work to listen to this! What a perfect venndiagram of awesome people!
I think that many who attend Jacob’s events…possibly have a knowing and tend to be more musically inclined. They would willingly be “conducted” making it all that much more beautiful! He’s so complex he draws in those that are too 😊
Jacob has such an ability to draw deep wisdom from the introspection he did throughout his childhood. His relationship with feelings and emotions is so fascinating.
Seeing these two in the same room together is literally like three Christmases at the same time for me. (I LITERALLY screamed when I got the notification about the episode.) SO HAPPY for this interview!!! ❤❤❤
So GOOD! Thank you both. Love Jacob. This conversation came at a needed time for me.
This conversation has just hit a chord that I didn’t realize needed to be played. It has opened ideas and feelings that have wanted to be let out! I feel more alive than I have for a while. 🤩🤩🥳
More of Jacob’s angry side pls! Love this conversation so much, thanks for this to the both of you.
If you've never seen Jacob live and experienced the audience choir from the inside, it's hard to convey just how little preparation there is. When you see a video online, there hasn't been five minutes of audience training earlier, he really does throw us in at the deep end and tell us which note to play by pointing in the air. And I was fairly confident I wasn't singing bang on the way Jacob would have done if he stood in my place, but here's the thing - everyone was singing something slightly different, but the average sound we all made *was* in tune. Together, all those imperfections made a beautiful thick chord and whilst we didn't sing the same notes, we all (in my section) moved in the same direction. So in the end, it was still coherent - and beautiful.
"The joy is the figuring it out" @40:55 Absolutely! I talk with friends on this all the time as a 50 year old man now. Also how as you age and your breadth of knowledge expands the wonderment in things gets smaller and smaller and then trying to find new and interesting things becomes tougher and tougher even though access to new knowledge has never been greater - which is probably due to option paralysis! What shall I learn today? .. erm I have access to ANYTHING.... its too much to choose from so I choose ... nothing. This conversation is so great and relevant. Thank you
Your last few sentences resonate strongly with me. I studied jazz piano at college, left a few years ago. I loved the course, but I really struggled with the fact that I have instant access to millions of recordings to transcribe and learn from. I found that in my own playing and that of my peers, our knowledge of jazz and music in general was broad but not deep. I think this is a symptom of the fact that everyone in the world now has Spotify, TH-cam, etc. People rarely sit down and listen to an album once, let alone multiple times. A few of my teachers have told me how when they were young they would be so excited to purchase an album on vinyl or CD, and they would play it to death until the language of the music became ingrained in them. The Internet truly is a blessing and a curse when it comes to inspiration for musicians and artists. I wonder how I would've fared before the Internet
One of the most inspiring conversations I have ever listened to. Thank you for making it happen.
They have found each other❤the language they talk belongs to Creators.I am happy to catch the Vibe of it.Those guys are real source of inspiration🎉
Absolutely incredible episode. I’ve been convinced for some time that Jacob is this generation’s Mozart and his music will pass through future generations. This could have been 10 hours long and I would have watched every second of it!
I loved this entire hour. Any artist could easily appreciate and apply the conversation to their own experience. Thank you both
PS That was a delightful way to end by suggesting Jacob play with Bartok.
Aside from his astonishing talent, what an incredible human Jacob is.
When two of your favorite people from different industries come together, like flint creating that spark. YES
A bit of optimism is genuinely one of my most listened to podcasts. I have such a deep appreciation for Simon Sinek and his work.
Love You ❤ Jacob, finding our voice, being One with music, through music as One ❤ great interview and conversation to both ⭐️🎶
That last piece of music based off of Bela Bartok is amazing… I’ve listened to it over and over… it’s beautiful and makes me tear up or cry every time.. ❤ wow.
What a perfect guest to have on your podcast, someone who embodies creativity. This taught me so much! Simon, since you have such wonderful guests on your podcast, I urge you to do an afterthoughts episode. Your reflective take on the insightful conversations you have with your guests. 💭
Simon, Jacob, you both have been my sources of inspiration. Thank you so much for making my 2 worlds collide 🤍 I love the era we live in!
When Simon and Jacob start at the piano 22:37 it makes me think of how wonderful the interaction would be with Mister Rogers if Fred Rogers was still with us today 😊
That piece ať the end was absolutely epic. He could make like 3 albums a day just by improvising on simple melodies.
Jacob and Simon both inspire me to be a better human. Thank you for sharing this conversation.
Thank you both. Thank you.
1 genius interviewing another.........sparks flying!
What a feast to our souls and minds!!! So greatfull of listening to this fantastic interview! A flowing brainstorming and thought process 💫💡🙌🏽
Utterly stunning conversation, and the performance at the end was divine. Thank you both ❤
This was and is absolutely amazing. I really needed this. I found out yesterday that my wife and I are having our first child, and that is after a year of fertility problems, which created so much tention and argunemt between us. The fact that i through this can find my piece within the chaos, gives me so much hope for my future child. I am a pianist myself, and the idea of play, was also very prevalent for me as a child, with my grandmother beeing a pianoteacher for 50 years now. After this interview i feel so much more ready for the future, so much better prepared and selfunderstood by the calm within the chaos. Thank you from the bottom of my heart and my future childs, which is going to be named Harmon for harmony. Much love from Denmark
What an interesting time to be Jacob. What a beautiful statement and mindset. I loved it.
The colourful socks are adorable.
If you ever get the slightest chance to see Jacob perform you owe it to yourself to make it happen.
His and the band’s art, the audiences that they draw, the scintillating atmosphere…
I appreciate his recognition of Lynch. They are both truly transcendent
I love that he said that “there’s no such thing, somebody made that up”
Listening to Jacob talk about Da Vinci -- yes, of the many great people of our time, Jacob is one of the few who is actually there, at the same level with Da Vinci. Goosebumps.
What an episode! It is always philosophical with Simon. Jacobs is just out of thos world.
Such a wonderful interview. And Jacob's improv at the end was so beautiful, it gave me tears of joy.
fave parts of this in the first 3 min in: Simon's heart eyes 😍 and colourful socks + Jacob's relaxed body language
Awesome episode! So the reason we like lists are they are easy to scan, predictability, reduced cognitive load, sense of progress and decision making ease.
that's a lot of genius to fit in just one room
I am in love with that mind and that brain and every single word that he is saying, it all feels so true, coming right from first hand experience. That man has my respect and love too 🙌🏽❤️
Neil's Startalk episode about music and the origins of language will give you a full circle to this. All these itchy thoughts about music being innate and how we all resemble more to Jacob than we can imagine, it's all there, all the answers are there. It'll blow your mind!!!
I really loved this episode!!!!
Creativity is a simply complex beast. I've recently been writing the first song I've written in quite some time. One needs enough resistance to have it ( creativity), but not so much that you can't lift it, and thus not have it ( creativity).
59 Minutes of Joy & Sense
I just love how Jacob blinks when he listens to music or someone talking and starts thinking about it😂
Jacob Collier's music allows me rêver the inner chaos of my mind through beautiful chords and melodies. Thank you Simon 🎉😊
I love how jacob says he’s trying to become a master of “containers.” It’s like if you can get really good at defining the sandbox you get to play in (the album or song or whatever you’re creating) then you have that freedom to just be creative
This conversation revives my creative soul
Whoah - Sinek interviewing Jacob AND reading Silvertein? My business’s name is a play on The Giving Tree. This is one of the most awesome things I’ve ever experienced. I MUST make it to one of Jacob’s concerts.
I was a kid, 6 yo. I came home from scool, bored, angry, frustrated, anoyed. Sat at the piano and it was my relief. Today I am almost 60. Today I had to stand up earlier than I would have liked. I woke up kind of dead. Started wandering around my flat. Eventuelly passed by my piano, sat down and let my fingers wake me up lovingly.
You both brought up some genuinely interesting concepts! But hey boys!, relax! Don’t forget to exhale every now and then! Listening to you guys feels like standing on a platform at the train station, trying to read the labels on carriages of a bullet train that is racing past me at 200mph.
Great to see both of you guys together 🙌
the only artist i see at such a zenith in the music industry who speaks so freely and hits upon universal, fundamental, shared spiritual truths that can be accessed through a pure-hearted connection to the craft and oneself. it’s an honor and a privilege to be alive at the same time and to hear his perspective.
Jacob turned an interview into a duet.
This is a wonderful duo! I didn't expected to see it, but it's so good! Thanks to both of you!
What a fascinating interview. Great questions by both participants and deep insights on the edge of abstract and comprehensible. Thanks for sharing this!
Simon, this was pure inspiration! Thank you.
Two of my favorite people. Thank you for the insight and inspiration. I am retired now and am having so much fun writing and playing music. Simon, I found my WHY😄🎶
Thank you for these insights! I feel very touched by this image of meeting your family for dinner in the evening and then opening up about your feelings and not being *judged*. I believe this could make the world a better place! 💛
Wow! Amazing episode! First Jon Batista on Tim Ferriss and now Jacob Collier on Bit of Optimism. Thank you
Can't wait to see which musician will be on next.
One of the best conversations ever.
WHAT A COLLAB!
I love Jacob's ability to be a good listener on a podcast that is really about him.
Thank you for authentic expressions. That was a joy to watch. The oder in chaos, is the rythem of flow to me. And creativity is the release of energy in a harmonious state.
Like I just watched🌻
I cannot fully describe what and how I felt at the end. Didn't quite catch the name of the composer of the song when Simon played it on the phone, I just know it has to be hungarian after a few bars. Obviously when they moved over to the piano I did get the name, but I digress.
All I want to say is thank you for that magical couple of minutes at the end, for some reason it meant to world to me.
Would love to see Jacob and Jon Batiste.
I’ve thought that too. I think they were together with Joni Mi😂to hell at the Hollywood Bowl
I loved this thought prompt of "building & breaking" and this creative boost to my day!
4:56 "how can we untangle this together". What a pure gift.
I could listen to this conversation extend endlessly, it's fascinating!
What a stunningly beautiful conversation - and how powerful and world changing is holding g space for people’s emotions … exactly what we need more of in the world …
Wonderful conversation. Thoroughly enjoyed the intricacy of the concepts you discussed.
What a great interview ! Truly so inspiring to listen to your dialogues
What a sweet and fascinating conversation
Jacob is such a sweet and humble human being on top of being a genius. That ending was beautiful, playful, poignant, sad and happy all at the same time. What a beautiful human all around. Thank you for the inspiring conversation.
7:01 I died a little inside when Simon redirected Jacob's point about music, but alas, great interview!!!
Jacob is talking about metaphor...relating things to one another that are novel when he talks about experiencing words as a child and creating little explosions.
Everybody has inspiration, but not everybody is capturing.
For me, creativity first needs a basic understanding of what has gone before, then a rebellion against it, then the motivation to replace it with something (better?). In physics, the replacement must achieve more than what it replaces.
No, Jacob is the violin because his consciousness is what his world is made of. But he knew that aged 2
Im down with this pairing 👌