3 Unconventional Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read

My First Million

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Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Episode 478: Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) shares 3 non-obvious books that have helped him become a better entrepreneur and the major takeaways from each that anyone can implement today. Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here. Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Try Shepherd • Shaan's Personal Assistant System • Power Writing Course • Daily Newsletter • Small Boy Newsletter Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton • Ideation Bootcamp • Copy That ----- Show Notes: (00:00) Intro (1:30) Book #1 - Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose (8:30) Book #2 - The Operator by Robert O'Neill (12:05) Book #3 - Titan by Ron Chernow ------ Links: • Undaunted Courage - https://shorturl.at/hBO24 • The Operator - https://shorturl.at/noB14 • Titan - https://shorturl.at/fltCS Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. ------ Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. ----- Additional episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto • #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

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0:00.0	All right, what's happened in a lot of people have been asking me about what I've been reading lately because I've read a lot of amazing books
0:06.3	And I want to do a quick pod a quick episode that explains what I'm reading and how it relates to business
0:13.2	Most of these books we're only going to go through three or four of them most of these books are not business related
0:18.5	But there's a lot of learnings for business people. I actually don't read business books. I haven't read a business book in like
0:25.1	five years they bore me and
0:27.7	And lately I've been reading a ton of like adventure stuff. So things about like
0:33.1	Oh, when Americans expanded west or about people
0:37.7	discovering North America or
0:41.5	Ship stories and pirates. I love that type of stuff the reason I love that type of stuff is because it basically makes my daily life
0:48.6	It turns the volume down. It's kind of like I like to box and I like to like get into adventures and things like that
0:54.4	Because it makes my day to day, which is mostly work and business stuff and makes it way easier because I'm like
1:01.5	Damn, I just read the story about Shackleton and how I
1:05.5	Got deserted on Antarctica for two years this business stuff is easy
1:09.6	So I like things like that. And so here are three or four books that I've read lately that I've had
1:15.6	Huge impacts on my day to day with business and I'm gonna explain how and why they did that
1:21.3	Yeah
1:23.3	I feel like I could rule the world. I know I could be what I want to
1:30.9	So the first one is called on
1:33.5	Undaunted courage. It's the story of a Lewis and Clark
1:36.9	If you're an American if you're not American, I actually don't know what you know about Lewis and Clark
1:41.7	If you're an American you've heard that term Lewis and Clark and you know that they were people
1:45.6	Two guys that kind of like were sent to discover the West well this story kind of dives deep on it
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