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Luck is like a bus. If you're not prepared, the next one's going to show up if you're standing at the right bus stop. But, you know, your preparation is your fee to get onto that bus.

If you don't have it, no matter how many times you wait at that bus stop, you won't be able to get on.

Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with my producer, Jason DeFilippo. On this episode, we're talking with Alex Benayan, author of the third door, which chronicles Alex larger than life journey, tracking down Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, Steven Spielberg, Maya Angelou, Steve Wozniak, and dozens more of the world's most successful people to essentially uncover how they broke through and launched their careers.

This is a kid who just went after it and got in touch with these amazing folks. We'll talk about the role of luck in success. It's probably not what you think. We'll also discuss the role of mentors, why they're important, how to get one, mistakes people make when they try to make that happen, which also includes some cold outreach scripts to help you with that here.

And we'll wrap without Alex hacked the game show, the price is right in order to fund this whole book venture, which has since launched his speaking career. This is a really unique way of making things happen for himself here. Of course, we have worksheets just like we do for every episode.

Those are Jordan Harbinger.com slash podcast and the fee, of course, for this show, and every show is that you share it with friends when you find something useful, which is hopefully every episode when the worksheets are how we make sure that.

Alright, here's Alex Benayin. I think it just takes like the previous generation does not do what we do, Alex, where we're like, I want to start a business. Let me call Bill Gates. They're like, oh, I have to research it and think about it.

And like, you know, do all this. I have to plan for it and you're younger than me, probably even previous generation. You're probably Gen Z, you know, you guys eating frickin tide pods and stuff.

Oh, God. I hope not. But like our generation and yours, we maybe it's just the entrepreneur people that I'm surrounded by, but I feel like people go, you know, it'd be pretty cool if I got into wilderness photography.

And then a week later, they're in an article with a DSLR. Right. In an Instagram account, you know, they've updated their bio and their website. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And then you're like, oh, you just went ahead and did that.

And that has its, that has its pluses and minuses. But it's a good segue into the show because it sounds like you kind of have a little bit of that as well. Tell us how you got into what you got into. You decided to just call Bill Gates, Lady Gaga Steven Spielberg, Maya Angelou and Waz and go, I have a question.

Call me back when you get a chance.

Well, to my surprise, you know, Bill Gates doesn't normally call back 18 year olds. So that was a very crushing realization.

Well, you know, she went on a tide pod waiting for the call. Where is he? It's been like an hour.

So the very basic idea in the beginning was very naive, which was I was going through this life crisis. I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life. And I had no idea how all these people who I looked up to how they did it.

You know, how did Bill Gates, all this first piece of software out of his dorm room when nobody knew his name or how did Spielberg become the youngest director in Hollywood history without a single hit under his belt.

These are the things that they don't normally teach you in school. So I just went through a bunch of books looking for answers.

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