My guest today Arnold Schwarzenegger has achieved astonishing successes.

He's one of the greatest bodybuilders of all time, a seven-time Mr. Olympia winner,

as an actor he's headlined a stream of blockbuster movies,

including his iconic roles, the Terminator.

And in politics, he served two terms

as a governor of California.

How in the world does somebody pull off that trifecta?

I visualize coming to America. I visualize to be a body building champion.

I visualize very clearly to be a leading man in the movies.

For me the first most important thing always was a vision.

Welcome to people I mostly admire with Steve Levitt.

Would you take life advice from Arnold Schwarzenegger?

Whatever he did? Wow, it sure worked for him.

But on the other hand, he's such a special case,

so different from the typical person.

I wonder if the things that worked for him would work for you and me.

I've been so looking forward to this and in your new book you talk about shutting your mouth and

opening your mind and that's exactly what I'm going to do today. So you've had such

incredible success and I know you've always believed even from a very early age that you would do big things, but I'm curious

growing up in your little village in Austria, do you think other people there also sense that

you had a big future? Was it obvious to everyone that you were different somehow?

No of course not. I think that if you have a big dream like I had with the age of 15 to be the world champion in bodybuilding and I wanted to be like

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