Hey everyone and welcome back to the Ground Up Show.

I'm your host Matt Diavella and this is a podcast about starting something from nothing.

This week I'm joined by Alex Benayan, an entrepreneur and author of The Third Door, the Wild Quest to uncover how the world's most successful people launch their careers.

On the podcast, we talk about overcoming fear the dangers of being overly persistent

and what he's learned about finding success.

And if there's one thing that I am certain of is that there's no, like you said,

exact blueprint to success.

Anyone who's trying to sell you that is, you know, to get rich, crickskin.

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To start things out, let's, can you give me an introduction? Basically, what is it that you've been doing over the past five years? You don't have to go into crazy granular detail because

I know you've been busy. And

what's your work life look like these days? So for the past, it's been almost seven years now.

I've been going on a journey, tracking down some of the world's most successful people and figuring

out when they were just starting how they launched their careers.

And the interviews and the stories of the journey are now in the book, The Third Door, which just came out a few months ago and I couldn't be happier about it.

In your opinion, does success often lead to happiness?

Where does that correlation look? And I imagine it's kind of difficult because a lot of the times you're interviewing these people, you're not really

understanding. You can't really tell if somebody's truly happy. It's something that people

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