Hello everyone good morning good afternoon good day good evening where you are and it's

just me it's just me on the show today podcast episode 232 now why am I doing a show all on my own again? Well I've been doing a lot of

seminars around the UK just been touring with my latest nutrition seminar,

how to build a diet and how to be awesome.

And it's been incredible meeting people,

getting on the road, hearing success stories,

being asked questions.

And it's been interesting talking to a lot of personal trainers and people that are basically

to just trying to progress themselves on a personal level, trying to move forward, trying

to better themselves. An obvious question is, Ben, like what books have you read

for this, for that, and essentially people trying to get advice for greater guidance in where they're moving.

So I thought I would do an episode on all the things that I've learned from, who I've learned

from, books I've learned from, resources I've learned from in the last 10 years. Now I'm going to have missed stuff out. So apologies if you

happen to listen to this and you actually think you might have been important on my journey

and I've forgotten then I will completely apologize but I'm going

off where my head's out in this moment in time and looking through my bookshelf and

having the thinking stuff and what also got me thinking about this is the environment of

progress and how the mind needs to be in a place in terms of its character traits

to actually truly progress itself.

And I say this because I've seen an awful lot of people who have had help in their career and superficially kind of credit their immediate

environment to that success and they never really credit all the people down the line that have

helped them and that you know that to be honest that starts with like your parents your

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