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My First Million

#199 - The Secret to Being Great

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode Sam (@TheSamParr) and Shaan (@ShaanVP) talk about recent content they've consumed. They break down Naval's tweetstorm on How to Get Rich Without Getting Lucky and discuss their appreciation for greatness. There is a unique example at the end of the episode. --------- * Want to be featured in a future episode? Drop your question/comment/criticism/love here: https://www.mfmpod.com/p/hotline/ * Support the pod by spreading the word, become a referrer here: https://refer.fm/million * Have you joined our private Facebook group yet? Go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion and join thousands of other entrepreneurs and founders scheming up ideas. --------- Show notes: * (1:07) 1. How to Take Over the World (Podcast) * (9:17) 2. The Almanac of Naval Ravikant (book) * (17:59) Sam's friend and their big bet on Bitcoin * (20:32) On greatness * (27:19) 3. Nonviolent Communication (book) * (29:26) 4. The Courage to be Disliked (book) * (30:05) 5. Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny (article) * (34:23) An example of greatness (NSFW)

Transcript

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0:00.0

I had to start oh this is what it would have been like to talk to Bill Gates at 21

0:16.4

So this episode is gonna be it might be shorter than normal right yeah, I think so okay

0:22.8

I want to I just drove

0:24.5

Like like 30 hours and I listened to a ton of content. I want to tell you Sean about some of the stuff that I listened to and why it's interesting

0:32.3

Is that what you want to do business entire episode? Yeah, let's do it. And I'm sure you'll have some stuff

0:38.4

That you consume okay the first one I found this podcast that has like actually let's see how many reviews?

0:44.1

I think like no reviews. I think I emailed the guy he's amazing, but it's called how to take over the world

0:50.3

Is that we should just have this guy we should just absorb this guy's

0:54.9

Podcast we needed to acquire this guy's podcast. This should just be on our feed

0:58.5

Wait, did you did you

1:00.5

Listen to it. No, I'm just looking at the description of it and then the gems that you just told me and I'm like this should be part of

1:06.6

Mfm. This is great. It's amazing this guy. He he it's like his hobby and he really he they're so in depth

1:13.7

So it's called how to take over the world what I think he's doing is you know a lot of biographies of great people like Napoleon

1:20.9

Julius Caesar the raw child. They're like 800 to a thousand pages. So it's like a real commitment to read it

1:26.9

So he just reads it and he takes notes in one episode

1:29.5

He did one on Napoleon he goes I have 60 paid or Thomas Edison

1:32.4

He goes I have 60 pages of notes and he just reads the book and takes notes and then just explains and tell stories from the book

1:38.3

And doesn't cry on a lot of chronological order and it's basically turns if you listen to a thousand page book on audio unaudible

1:45.1

It's something like 40 or 50 hours

1:47.3

But with him I just listened to this two hour podcast and I feel like I've just read most of the book

1:51.5

It's pretty amazing, but he also gives his analysis about it

1:54.4

And so I listened to a few of them I listened to one on Edison one on Napoleon and one on the Rothschild Rothschilds

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