507: How to Get Exceptional Mentors and Opportunities with Alex Banayan
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 28 October 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Alex Banayan shares unconventional approaches to creating new opportunities.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) The ultimate cold email template to recruit mentor.
2) Creative “third door” approaches that nobody takes.
3) Communication secrets from Maya Angelou and Larry King.
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— ABOUT ALEX —
Alex Banayan is the author of The Third Door, the result of an unprecedented seven-year journey interviewing the most innovative leaders of the past half-century, including Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, Larry King, Maya Angelou, Steve Wozniak, Jane Goodall, Quincy Jones, and more. He has presented the Third Door framework to business conferences and corporate leadership teams around the world, including Apple, Google, Nike, IBM, Snapchat, Salesforce, and Disney. When he was 18, Alex hacked The Price is Right, won a sailboat, and sold it to fund his adventure. He was then named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list.
• Alex’s book: The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World’s Most Successful People Launched Their Careers
• Alex’s LinkedIn: Alex Banayan
• Alex’s Twitter: @AlexBanayan
• Alex's website: The Third Door
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh
• Book: Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built A Company One Cup at a Time by Howard Schultz
• Book: The Alchemist by Paolo Coehlo
• Book: The Magic of Thinking Big by David J, Schwartz
• Meditation technique: Transcendental Meditation
• Website: Google.com
• YouTube Channel: GaryVee.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, |
| 0:04.0 | the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills |
| 0:08.0 | required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McChitis. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello, and thanks for joining us here for episode 507 |
| 0:21.9 | with Alex Benayon. |
| 0:23.1 | Alex has some really fun stories he shares |
| 0:25.4 | about opening up new opportunities. |
| 0:27.2 | So you'll learn one, the ultimate cold email template |
| 0:29.7 | to recruit mentors. |
| 0:30.9 | Two, creative third door approaches that nobody takes and three communication |
| 0:35.3 | secrets from Maya Angelou and Larry King. So if you want to check out the show |
| 0:38.9 | notes or the transcript or the links to Allen's we've referenced it's on over |
| 0:41.7 | at awesome at your job. com slash Epp 507. Now here's Alex's story. Alex Benayan is the author of the |
| 0:47.6 | third door the result of an unprecedented seven-year journey interviewing the |
| 0:51.2 | most innovative leaders of the past half century |
| 0:53.4 | including Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, Larry King, Maya Angelou, Steve Wozniac, |
| 0:57.3 | and Jane Goodall, Quincy Jones, and more. |
| 0:59.4 | He's presented the third door framework to business conferences and corporate leadership teams around the world |
| 1:04.1 | including Apple, Google, Nike, IBM, Snapchat, Sales Force, and Disney. |
| 1:08.5 | When he was 18, Alex hacked the price is right, what a sailboat and sold it to fund his adventure. |
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