The Holy Fire of Ambition Inside Winston Churchill of Napoleon — Andrew Roberts
A roughly four-minute clip from The Tim Ferriss Show in which historian Andrew Roberts, author of Napoleon: A Life and Churchill: Walking with Destiny, compares Napoleon and Churchill. He says both attended military colleges, thought a lot about war and figures such as Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, and combined egotism with self-confidence that let them take shattering decisions. He calls this a kind of holy fire, a belief that what they were doing had to be done, and says he sees it as more nurture than nature. He then says Churchill was a massive autodidact who read philosophers and historians such as Gibbon and Macaulay in India, which shaped his writing and outlook, and that Napoleon was also very literary. Sponsors named in the description: Our Place and Shopify. PARTIAL COVERAGE: this is a clip of about four minutes and the notes cover the whole available caption, but not the longer interview it came from. Historical claims are the guest's own and not independently checked.
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A roughly four-minute clip from The Tim Ferriss Show in which historian Andrew Roberts, author of Napoleon: A Life and Churchill: Walking with Destiny, compares Napoleon and Churchill. He says both attended military colleges, thought a lot about war and figures such as Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, and combined egotism with self-confidence that let them take shattering decisions. He calls this a kind of holy fire, a belief that what they were doing had to be done, and says he sees it as more nurture than nature. He then says Churchill was a massive autodidact who read philosophers and historians such as Gibbon and Macaulay in India, which shaped his writing and outlook, and that Napoleon was also very literary. Sponsors named in the description: Our Place and Shopify. PARTIAL COVERAGE: this is a clip of about four minutes and the notes cover the whole available caption, but not the longer interview it came from. Historical claims are the guest's own and not independently checked.