Alex Banayan: ...how fun the storm can be

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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What do Bill Gates, Steven Spielberg, Pitbull, Maya Angelou, and Mark Zuckerberg have in common? Bestselling author and "Forbes 30 Under 30" Alex Banayan spent seven years tracking down dozens of the world’s most successful people to learn the secrets of how they carved their own paths in life and business. He found they all made their own way by using what he calls, “The Third Door”. It’s not the front door or the VIP door, but there’s always a way in -- it just takes grit, persistence, and creativity! His book, The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World’s Most Successful People Launched their Careers, was named the Top Career Book to Read in 2018 by Forbes Magazine.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:14.7	And I'm Laura Owens.
0:16.5	One of our goals on Nobody Told Me is to learn life lessons from others.
0:20.4	And that goal is shared by our
0:22.4	guest on this episode, Alex Benayan, the author of the book, The Third Door, The Wild Quest to
0:29.1	to uncover how the world's most successful people launched their careers. Alex, welcome to the show.
0:34.8	We are so excited to have you here. Thank you so, so, so much for having me. I couldn't be more excited.
0:40.2	Talk to us about the seven-year adventure that inspired the third door.
0:45.3	So the whole journey started when I was 18 years old, a freshman in college, and I was spending every day lying on my dorm room bed sharing up at the ceiling.
0:56.3	And I don't know if either of you have been through the what I want to do with my life crisis.
1:00.7	Yes, we're familiar with it.
1:03.9	Right. So, you know, you know better than anyone then that it's just all-consuming thing.
1:08.5	It's what you think about in bed, where you think about in the shower,
1:11.4	and to understand why I was going through it,
1:14.1	you have to understand that I'm the son of Jewish immigrants,
1:17.8	which pretty much means I came out of the womb,
1:21.6	my mom cradlingered in her arms,
1:24.0	and then she stamped MD on my behind and sent me on my way.
1:28.2	You know, you think it's funny, but in third grade, I wore scrubs to school for Halloween and thought I was cool.
1:33.0	Oh, my gosh.
1:34.2	That was my childhood growing up.
1:36.0	And, you know, in high school, I checked on the boxes.
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