Nick HutchisonFounder and CEO, BookThinkers

“Nobody ever wants to see you happen.” - Fahim Anwar

28 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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In a brief interview segment, Speaker A poses a hypothetical final‑advice question: if all knowledge vanished, what single sentence would you leave behind? Speaker B recounts the most striking response from Fahim Anwar during an interview, highlighting the phrase “Nobody ever wants to see you happen” as the core piece of advice. The remainder of Anwar’s answer is described as background murmur, with a promise to revisit the full conversation when the episode releases on December 5. The clip serves both as a teaser for the upcoming episode and as a spotlight on Anwar’s provocative insight about societal indifference to personal success.

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I've got one question. You cease to exist suddenly. All your knowledge, all the books, everything that you know and are is just gone, but you're allowed to leave one final, one sentence, one piece of advice. What would you leave?
I don't know if this is the right sentence, but it hit me really hard when I was interviewing Fahim Anwar at the very end, when I was asking him what he did, excuse me, what advice he could give people or what advice he wished he knew when he first started. There was a lot that he said, but the one thing that hit me was Nobody ever wants to see you happen. And the rest of it, it's just kind of like murmur, murmur, murmur, murmur in the background. Like, I don't even remember the rest of it. I will when I re-listen to the episode, which is dropping December 5th. But I was speechless. I was like, oh my gosh, this is great.