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Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat

Adam Ashton - How to Maximize Your Life and ROI through the Power of Books

Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat

Mo Gawdat

Business, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Relationships, Society & Culture, Change, Google, Slo Mo, Anxiety, Meditation, Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy, Happiness, Education, Scary Smart, Self-improvement, Depression, Self Improvement

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I speak with Adam Ashton, a man whose mind has absorbed an extraordinary amount of knowledge through the power of books. Millions of people have listened to Adam and his co-host Adam Jones on the What You Will Learn podcast, where they have spent tens of thousands of hours studying the best ideas from the greatest minds on the planet and putting the best ideas within your reach, for a fraction of the time it would take to read the full book.Their latest book is titled The Sh*...

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0:00.0

I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

0:16.3

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

0:20.3

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

0:25.7

Welcome to slow more. Today's guest is Adam Ashton.

0:37.0

Millions of people have listened to Adam and his co-host Adam Jones on the What You Will Learn podcast where they have spent tens of

0:46.0

thousands of hours studying the best ideas from the greatest minds on the

0:50.1

planet and just simply putting them, taking the best of them within your reach for a

0:56.4

fraction of the time.

0:57.7

So you would listen to one of their podcasts and you would get a summary of a complex book that may have taken you days to read

1:05.0

within just the time that it takes to listen to the podcast. Very clever idea

1:09.3

then they put that in their latest book which is title The shit they never taught you, which will basically

1:16.8

take you on a journey through the takeaways from over a hundred of the world's greatest

1:22.0

thinkers capturing lessons in personal development,

1:25.2

in career, in business, in personal finance, in human nature, history, philosophy, and every

1:31.5

other lesson that could be useful and change your life.

1:36.0

It's an exciting conversation for someone like me who is a true learner who loves to learn everything

1:42.0

to be talking to Adam today and maybe to capture

1:45.7

from him what his best learnings through this journey have been.

1:50.3

Oh by the way as you now hear you may hear a little bit of noise in the

1:56.5

background. There is this beautiful church that's just outside the place I

2:00.8

rented in Amsterdam. The Airbnb rented in Amsterdam and

2:04.9

instead of doing engineering miracles to try to hide the bells.

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