Alex Banayan: Author, The Third Door

Suiting Up with Paul Rabil

Paul Rabil

Sports, Business

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Alex Banayan is the youngest author to ever sign with Penguin Random House. His book, The Third Door, was a 7-year project to uncover the how the most successful people in the world got to where they are today. His road to The Third Door was unique, too. He funded his quest by hacking his way into a winning methodology on famous gameshow, The Price Is Right. Alex is a critical thinker, challenger, innovator, and introspective entrepreneur. His path to authorship required him to drop out of college, self-fund his quest around the world, with an insatiable level of persistence in securing meetings and interviews of each of his subjects: Bill Gates Steven Spielberg Jessica Alba Pitbull Larry King Tim Ferriss Maya Angelo Steve Wozniack ...and many more In addition to discussing the core tenets of his book, we lean into how he and the world's most successful people enhance their states of courage, confidence, humility, and vulnerability -- each are critical attributes to personal and professional success. Suiting Up is a show that explores the psychology, playbook of tools, and strategies of the most influential people in sports, entrepreneurship, and entertainment.

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0:00.0	Because every business book, in all of human history says persistence is the key to success.
0:10.0	So I thought I'm just going to keep pounding.
0:13.0	After eight months of being rejected,
0:17.8	it feels like you're coughing up blood.
0:21.0	And I actually ended up getting an interview with Bill Gates separately and Bill Gates loved the interview so much that his office said how can we help and I'm like well
0:30.0	No, I'm having some trouble with Warren Buffett and they're like, oh, Warren and Bill are best friends, that's a no-brainer.
0:37.0	I got an email from Bill Gates to Chief of Staff saying, please, no more messages to Warren's office.
0:45.0	Thanks.
0:47.0	Alex Benign and I share a passion.
0:50.0	It's figuring out how top achievers in the world perform on a daily basis.
0:55.0	It's essentially why I started this podcast.
0:57.6	But while Alex was a freshman at USC, he was originally scheduled to pursue a medical degree, but decided that wasn't for him. He felt compelled to succeed
1:05.2	as a business person. And wanting to reach such high levels, he wanted to study and learn
1:10.9	about Bill Gates. Warren Buffett, Maya Angelo, and how they reached those levels.
1:15.8	He thought surely there was a book about their origin stories and how they got to those levels of success,
1:20.4	but there wasn't.
1:22.3	So he began to embark on his next journey, which was to author a book detailing the lives of those successful people and how they started their careers.
1:30.0	And then he dropped out of school to do so and begin that quest.
1:34.0	And on the podcast him and I relive the lessons he learned on the journey from
1:38.0	anchoring those interviews, the more inspiring moments from those interviews and his early
1:42.0	success even as a 19 year old venture
1:44.7	capitalist which also came from some of those interviews. Oh and Alex is also the
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