197: There is always a way in through the third door | Alex Banayan
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
To hear "Come on down!" on the Price is Right isn't just about luck or persistence, it's also about a secret. That secret is the third door. When Alex took a hard left turn in life, leaving the path through medical school that his family had anticipated since his birth and started working on a book about the underpinnings of success, he found that door. He set out to write the book he needed to read. The irony is that he figured out as much on his JOURNEY to interview successful people as he did from the luminaries themselves. Though there is no substitute for first-hand experience, Banayan has a lot of wisdom to share about hacking success.
This is a great story and features a guest appearance from our friend Cal Fussman.
Lessons:
1. The writing's on the wall; you just don't think it's for you.
2. Go knock on people's doors. Literally.
3. There are three doors in life: the one you wait in line for hoping to get in, the VIP entrance for the privileged, and the third door. There's always a way in if you look for it.
Links:
More about Alex Banayan and "The Third Door" http://www.alexbanayan.com/
Alex on Twitter https://twitter.com/AlexBanayan
Alex on Instagram instagram.com/alexbanayan/
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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, and Col. Tim Nye.
Synopsis – Matt Baatz
© 2018 Spartan
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, Joe DeSenna here for Spartan Up Podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | I am with my team, Colonel Nye, |
| 0:05.2 | Cephra, the Farager. |
| 0:07.0 | We got Dr. Johnny Waite, we got Marion on the camera. |
| 0:10.0 | Cal Fussman, an old buddy, you guys probably have watched that podcast or listen to it and if you haven't check him out he was a writer for Esquire magazine |
| 0:18.8 | interviewed amazing people he introduced me to this young kid Alex Benaion who I interviewed in California |
| 0:25.0 | ends up on the prices right and I'm not going to tell you anymore. His whole life |
| 0:30.8 | transforms in a way that's incomprehensible. |
| 0:34.2 | A good way. So I'm looking at my phone and it's come on down is what was that TV show come on down price is right |
| 0:54.8 | price is right used to be Bob Barker come on down so so um yeah |
| 1:01.1 | I remember that show. |
| 1:02.8 | It's not still on TV, isn't? |
| 1:03.8 | I think it still is. |
| 1:04.8 | And I know a friend of mine went on this show. |
| 1:09.2 | On prices right. |
| 1:10.2 | On prices right. |
| 1:10.8 | On the current show. |
| 1:11.6 | Drew Carey was the guy in charge. |
| 1:15.3 | And it's an amazing story. |
| 1:17.1 | In fact, I got to get his name's Alex Benai and I got to get him here |
| 1:22.2 | to tell you the kid that was on price. |
| 1:24.0 | That's right. He's 20 years old. |
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