#74 The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

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David Senra

History, Entrepreneurship, Business, Technology

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🗓️ 2 June 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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0:00.0	Nothing stranger ever came out of the story of this poor Scotch boy who came to America and step by step through many trials and triumphs became the great steel master, built up a colossal industry, amassed an enormous fortune, and then deliberately and
0:15.6	systematically gave away the whole of it for the enlightenment and betterment of
0:20.0	mankind. Not only that he established a gospel of wealth that can be neither ignored nor forgotten, and set a pace and distribution that succeeding millionaires have followed as a precedent.
0:31.0	Okay, so that's from the introduction of the book
0:33.7	that I'm gonna talk to you about today,
0:35.4	which is the autobiography of Andrew Carnegie.
0:39.6	And for today, I'm gonna try not to duplicate
0:42.4	and cover things I covered in last week's
0:44.0	podcast because last week we got an introduction to both Andrew Carnegie and
0:48.6	Henry Firk. So the focus of today is going to be things that are actually unique to this book.
0:54.6	I'm just going to jump right into his early childhood. Oh, by the way, if I sound a little funny,
0:59.0	I'm a little under the weather, but as with all things in life I'm going to adopt
1:03.2	a positive mental attitude and persevere and make sure I don't miss any weeks so
1:07.0	apologies if you find my voice distracting hopefully that's not the case
1:12.3	okay so I want to start with hopefully that's not the case.
1:13.0	Okay, so I want to start with one of the traits
1:16.4	that I've definitely learned from
1:18.6	from Andrew Carnegie and other founders
1:21.1	that we've put on the podcast so far
1:22.8	is this default level of optimism.
1:25.3	That's basically like your default way of approaching life.
1:29.2	So we're gonna get into that.
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