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My First Million

A Guide to Asking Better Questions - From the Archive

My First Million

Hubspot

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Episode 480: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) has a motto — "Ask a better question, get a better answer". In this episode, he shares the most valuable questions he’s collected over the years that provide outsized returns in business and life. If you want a worksheet with all the questions from this episode, you can download it here: https://tinyurl.com/4mr262f7 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 (2:00) Small Talk Questions (4:15) Work-Related Questions (7:45) Self-Talk Questions — Links: • Download Shaan’s Guide here - https://tinyurl.com/4mr262f7 • 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. — Other 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

I feel like I could rule the world, I know I could be what I want to, I put my all in it like no days old.

0:13.0

On a road, let's travel, never looking back.

0:19.0

Hey, this is interim producer, Bar Shop.

0:23.0

And I'm going to be playing y'all an episode from the archives.

0:26.0

This one is one of my all-time favorites.

0:29.0

It's Sean's guide to asking better questions.

0:32.0

Just tons of gyms in this one, so I'll go ahead and play it.

0:35.0

But just to note, I've included a worksheet in the show notes with all the questions Sean lays out.

0:40.0

So feel free to grab that below.

0:42.0

All right, enjoy the episode.

0:45.0

All right, I sat down to record this and I asked myself, what would be amazing?

0:51.0

What would be awesome if I was going to share it with you?

0:54.0

And I decided to pull something out of my secret stash.

0:58.0

So, you know, if you go to someone's house, imagine, if you go to some billionaire's house,

1:03.0

you walk through the front door, the gates open, the butler takes your coat,

1:06.0

you walk through, you know, somebody walks by with an hors d'oeuvres platter,

1:10.0

you grab it, you like the tuna, you keep walking forward and he says,

1:14.0

oh, would you like to see my collection?

1:16.0

He said, my collection, you don't know what it's going to be.

1:18.0

Shoes, watches, cars, he takes you down into the cellar and he shows you the wine collection.

1:23.0

He starts talking to you about it.

1:25.0

That's what I'm going to do right now. I'm going to take you to my collection.

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