Why Madonna Never Celebrates Her Wins — Her Manager Explains

Tim Ferriss · · 11 min

Guy Oseary, Madonna's longtime manager, joins Tim Ferriss to discuss how refusing to celebrate past wins and ignoring industry categories drove decades of reinvention.

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The gist

  1. Madonna treats each project as a blank slate and never dwells on past wins, which Oseary says is the core of her lasting relevance.
  2. Oseary avoided being bucketed into one category, letting ideas flow between music, film, and tech before the industry saw those as connected.

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